Editorial: Response to outbreak calls for corroboration
March 7, 2020
With over 75,000 cases across 26 countries, as of Feb. 19 according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has raised health concerns, caused city-wide shutdowns and made headlines around the world. On Jan. 31 just as the outbreak was escalating, the panic hit home, with two confirmed case...
Editorial: Challenge Day serves as first step
March 7, 2020
A hundred students and 20 to 30 members of faculty met in the auxiliary gym to participate in community developing activities on Feb. 6. The program, Challenge Day, focused on mindfulness, to address racist epithets and racially-charged comments made by Harker students. And while Challenge Day may have served as a...
News briefs: National Merit, biscuits and NSPA Photo Exchange
by Nicholas Wei, Alysa Suleiman, and Arushi Saxena
March 5, 2020
62 Harker seniors named National Merit Scholarship finalists 62 seniors were named National Merit Scholarship finalists. Students entered the contest by taking the PSAT/NMSQT® in October 2018 and received their scores in mid-December of the same year. Those who met the National Merit Scholarship Corporat...
8 sports spring into action
by Aditya Singhvi and Lauren Liu
February 28, 2020
Eight spring sports — boys golf, girls lacrosse, baseball, softball, swimming, boys tennis, track and field and boys volleyball — began their regular season practices on Feb. 4, with most teams beginning competitive play next week. Boys Golf The boys golf team, head coached by Ie-Chen Cheng and...
Heart of Harker: Prioritizing ourselves
by Amla Rashingkar, Guest Writer
December 28, 2019
Like most of you, I grew up thinking school was my priority. I walked into high school yearning for a high GPA. I wanted to be the poster child for everything I did. The word “stop” didn’t exist in my vocabulary. I always wanted more. The desire to impress my parents and my peers lurked behind me l...
It wasn’t just a sport: wrestling was a family
by Eric Fang, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief
December 21, 2019
Kobe Howard (‘19) lay face down on the wrestling mat, his arm trapped behind his back by his opponent’s knee. I hovered above my seat, praying that he wouldn’t give up. “Throw him off your back,” I shouted. I knew how vulnerable Kobe felt. I remembered breaking my ankle in the middle of a mat...
Dance teams combine into Harker Dance Company
by Esha Gohil, Humans of Harker
December 20, 2019
The junior varsity and varsity dance teams merged together for the first time ever to form the Harker Dance Company at the start of this school year. The choreographers, Karl Kuehn, who previously coached varsity, and Rachelle Haun, who coached junior varsity, decided that the timing was right to proceed...
Skating the curves
by Nicole Tian, Co-Lifestyle Editor
December 7, 2019
High schooler Esteban Rodriguez leans against the rails of the Lake Cunningham Actions Sports Park in San Jose, nonchalantly flipping his black board emblazoned with a painted white skull, its bare teeth and exposed gums clenching onto the scales of a red-eyed viper. The azure edges of the board have b...
HarkerDev heads towards future
by Emily Tan, Assistant Features Editor
December 7, 2019
Standing behind the microphone in front of the student body and faculty, Bennett Liu (12), John Lynch (11), Gloria Zhu (10) and Chirag Kaushik (10), the four admins of the upper school’s software development organization HarkerDev, preview applications coming soon to the upper school, like an app ...
Changes on the horizon: As Sonoma County recovers from Kincade fire, Bay Area considers lessons learned from PG&E shutoffs
November 20, 2019
Bay Area energy faces an uncertain future after controversial planned power outages Following Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) mass power shutoffs last month, the Bay Area is evaluating potential changes to utility delivery and emergency response in the region. In four rounds of shutoffs ...
Safe at home?
by Kathy Fang and Eric Fang
November 20, 2019
As the upper school moves forward from a threatening graffiti message that disrupted school two weeks ago, administrators will maintain a heightened police presence on campus and continue discussing changes to the security system. According to Facilities Director Mike Bassoni, the school plans ...
Left in the dark
by Arushi Saxena, News Editor
November 19, 2019
It was a chilly Saturday evening, punctuated only by the shrill cheers of children playing in the yard next door. It was the night before Diwali, and we had just concluded a day of re-organizing the house, embellishing our corners with traditional Indian decorations and placing diyas, mini oil lamps, ...