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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

Fourteen faculty and staff members compete for the fantasy football championship golden belt each football season. History teacher Jonathan Rim founded the fantasy league last year.

Drafting teams, drafting friendships

by Gabe Sachse and Tiffany Zhu October 13, 2024

For most people, weekends are a time to recover from busy school days and prepare for the week ahead. But for some avid sports fans, weekends bring more stress in their busy schedule. Why? Their fantasy...

Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.

Music Monday: Adventure into fantastical worlds with Aquila

by Sally Zhu and Lavanya Subramanian January 10, 2022

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week.  What’s the best way to step outside...

Harker alumnus and bestselling author Andrew Shvarts (‘03) poses with his most recent fiction publication, “It Ends in Fire,” a featured Recreate Reading book for the 2022 school year. Shvarts has had a fascination with storytelling from a young age, eventually leading to his current career as an author.

So you wanna be a fantasy author?

by Sarah Mohammed and Lavanya Subramanian August 29, 2021

“Being a hero doesn't mean getting rewards or praise. Being a hero means suffering so other people don't have to. Being a hero means pain,” Andrew Shvarts (‘03) writes in the final book of his fantasy...

Swift’s career over the past decade or so has been defined by bright, showy music videos and star-studded live performances complete with pyrotechnics and magnificent displays. Current pandemic limitations have obviously altered the entertainment landscape, but Swift’s latest albums are proof that her genius lies not with the flamboyance of Hollywood but with the heart of her success: songwriting.

The mastermind of Taylor Swift, ever more a transcendent musician

by Varsha Rammohan, Editor-in-chief December 14, 2020

She’s done it again. In the last sixteen months, singer-songwriter and all-around musical vanguard Taylor Swift has released 56 new songs, six music videos, three feature-length films and two albums....

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