October 2017 Issue by The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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Protests erupt over Coldwater By KAITLIN MUSANTE

“Hey hey, ho ho, this bad project’s got to go,” neighbors chanted during one of the two protests held this month against the school’s proposed parking structure. This recent uptick in opposition follows the City Planning Committee’s delay of the parking discussion, which has been moved from Sept. 28 to an unknown date in the future. President of Save Coldwater Canyon Sarah Boyd said that the organization aims to highlight their many concerns about the proposal, such as its effects on traffic, the environment and public health. The organization has also reached out to political officials, such as City Council member Paul Kerkorian. “We wanted to raise awareness about the project to all the commuters already stuck in such horrible traffic,” Boyd said. During the protests, attendees stood on Coldwater Canyon Avenue holding up handmade signs reading slogans such as “Kerkorian: Ask Harvard-Westlake to increase carpooling!” and “Keep Harvard-Westlake on the East Side of Coldwater.” Students said that they felt overwhelmed by protestors on their way to school. “A guy came up really close

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Farewell to Formalities By KITTY LUO AND NICOLE KIM When Marc Novicoff ’18 walked onto the quad after his eighth period class, he was immediately led to a chair in the middle of a crowd on the quad. Awaiting his arrival in the center of all the commotion was Nicole Bahar ’18, prepped with a sign, ﬂowers and backup dancers

Students have noticed more girls asking boys to Homecoming Formal and an increase in same-sex asks.

ready to spring into a choreographed dance to the tune of Justin Bieber’s “One Less Lonely Girl.” “I was definitely a little caught off guard when I first sat down,” Novicoff said. “Halfway through [the dance] I tried to get up because I was kind of thinking I could participate, but instead I was supposed to sit. I was definitely a little nervous in the

chair. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do with my hands and my eyes and anything.” Bahar felt conﬁdent in asking Novicoff because of her status as a senior , she said. “Being a senior kind of gives you the conﬁdence and lets you get away with certain things because people respect you more,” Bahar said. “So

even if you’re doing something crazy on the quad, people won’t judge as much because they’ll respect that it’s something a senior is doing.” Bahar said she has noticed that signiﬁcantly more girls have asked their dates to formal this year, especially among the senior class. “I feel like our grade has a really big, conﬁdent group of • Continued on B8

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Högsta ’05 wins Nobel Peace Prize By ELI ADLER

During his time at HarvardWestlake, Högsta took signiﬁDaniel Högsta ’05 won the cantly more history courses Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for than required, including AP his work with the International United States Government Campaign to Abolish Nuclear and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Weapons. Along with with the group’s U.S. History and AP Human Executive Director Beatrice Geography and International Fihn, Högsta won the award Relations, according to history teacher Larry Klein. as a result of the “I don’t think any campaign’s work to teacher expects to implement the 2017 ﬁnd a Mother TheUnited Nations Treaty resa, a Martin Luon the Prohibition of ther King or a Barack Nuclear Weapons. Obama in a classThe Nobel Peace room, but I guess Prize is one of the that’s the company world’s most prestiDaniel now keeps in gious awards, cele’ winning the Nobel brating individuals or Ed Hu Peace Prize,” Klein groups who have prosaid. “That being said, moted peace around the world. Previous winners I have written before about include Malala Yousafzai, Daniel that he was extremely engaged, super analytical and Barack Obama and Al Gore. Högsta serves as Network the consummate gentleman, Coordinator for the Geneva- so it doesn’t surprise me that based ICAN. ICAN is a coali- he has done truly meaningtion of 468 non-governmental ful work in his time following organizations from over 100 Harvard-Westlake.” Högsta attended the Unidifferent countries that works toward a ban on all nuclear versity of Michigan, majoring in Political Science and Govweapons. WHITE S

ernment before moving to Eu- countries required to ratify the rope to attend the University of treaty in order to make it leEdinburgh Law School and his gally binding have done so. Even so, the prize commitjob at ICAN. In an interview with the tee awarded the prize to the Pressenza International Press group, which consists almost Agency, Högsta spoke about exclusively of young activists. how critical it is for nations to The prize committee cited its compromise on issues of nu- “work to draw attention to the catastrophic clear disarmahumanitarian ment. “We were It doesn’t surprise consequences of any use of hoping that me that he has done nuclear weapthere’s goons and for ing to be some truly meaningful work its groundconvergence in his time following breaking efof views from Harvard-Westlake.” forts to achieve governments about what the —Larry Klein a treaty-based prohibition of treaty should History teacher such weapons” contain and in granting the what the eleaward to the young group. ments should be,” he said. Head of External Relations Ultimately, more than 120 countries supported Högsta Ed Hu knew Högsta during his and ICAN’s United Nations time at the school. “We are incredibly proud of resolution. However, major nuclear powers, including the Daniel,” he said. “It is indeed United States and the United an incredible honor to have a Kingdom, did not support it, member of the Harvard-Westarguing a limited number of lake community recognized countries with nuclear weap- for his passionate work that is ons keeps the world safe. Fur- having a signiﬁcant global imthermore, only three of the 50 pact.”

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INSIDE

FIELD HOCKEY: The undefeated girls’ team continues to dominate the season and play strong.

ONLINE

QUAD TALK: Talking to students about the increase of formal asks that break gender norms.