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The Chronicle Harvard-Westlake School âą North Hollywood, CA âą Volume XVIII âą Issue 6 âą March 25, 2009 âą chronicle.hw.com
X-Factor Nicole Nesbit â10 and two other winter sports stars talk about their playoff successes. A35
Kicking the habit
Track Meet
Quitting smoking is not so easy, some teachers and students find.
The track draws strangers from around the city to campus.
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Seniors to retreat in Big Bear By Faire Davidson Assuming a final meeting to discuss the proposal tomorrow goes as planned, the senior class will head to Big Bear in June for a year-end retreat, Head of Upper School Harry Salamandra said. Salamandra will meet with Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts and retreat point person Kate Liebman â09 to discuss the duration of the trip, as well as transportation and financial logistics and student interest before giving final approval to the proposal. The proposal has already been approved by the planning committee and meetings with Salamandra and Huybrechts have occurred regularly for the past month. As it currently stands, seniors will leave for one or two days after the history final on June 2 and skip the next day of finals, as no seniors take a non-AP English course. The Prefect Council began intensely working on the retreat a few weeks before winter break, and although it tried to create a retreat for earlier in the year, AP classes created too many conflicts. Senior Prefect Liebman took charge of planning the senior retreat. âI think there is a certain nostalgia for the carefree and fun retreats we all participated in at the Middle School,â Liebman said.
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RISING TO THE OCCASION: Nate Bulluck â10 fights his way through a flurry of Ocean View defenders in the teamâs state semifinal loss (top). Leah Merkle â10 eludes a Louisville defender during a rainy league game. The team went on to
unexpected success: a state championship after falling short of league and CIF titles (at left). Sydney Haydel â10 charges through Kingsburg High defenders and shoots a floater into the hoop during the first round of state competition (right).
IN DEPTH
Three teams snag CIF, state titles
By Ben Goldstein March madness arrived earlier for the school than the rest of the country, as the athletic program wrapped up one of its most successful seasons of all time. To commemorate the wins, an award assembly will be held today in the Quad, and Jamba Juice and Diddy Reese cookies will be served to students The girlsâ soccer squad captured the Southern California regional championship March 14, and both the boysâ and girlsâ basketball teams came home with CIF titles a week earlier. The two basketball teams continued their post-
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SAT vs. ACT Every year, juniors and seniors face the choice between the SAT and the ACT. Over the past few years, an increasing percentage have opted for the ACT. A11
season runs deep into the state playoffs, with the girls eventually losing to Mater Dei Catholic 66-61 in the quarterfinals March 12 and the boys falling to Ocean View 79-63 in the semifinals March 14 in front of a disheartened Fanatics crowd at Pauley Pavillion. Though the soccer team missed out on winning a CIF title in its 2-1 loss to Saugus in the fiwnals March 6, it still garnered the top seed in the Division II regional playoffs. The Wolverines strung together an impressive series of victories, crushing Hollywood 8-0 in the first round, and beating South Torrance 3-1 in the semifinals before shutting out La Jolla 1-0 for the championship. There are no official state
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playoffs for girlsâ soccer, and the regional finals are the furthest a team can advance in the sport. All three teams are distinguished for their youth. There is not a single senior on the girlsâ basketball roster, and the class of â09 is absent from the boysâ teamâs starting lineup. Though there were five seniors on the girlsâ soccer squad, the majority of the team is made up of freshmen, sophomores and juniors.
Related playoff coverage see CHAMPIONS, A28-29
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Military Men
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Flaunting it
From boot camp to combat, teachers who served recall experiences.
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School acts to limit deficit By Shayna Freisleben and Allegra Tepper Harvard-Westlake faces a $2 million deficit for the next fiscal year, but has averted a deficit of an additional $1 million by increasing the annual tuition hike from five percent to six percent and lowering faculty and staff salary raises from an average of five percent to an average of three percent. All departments have been asked to find ways to cut costs. Chief Financial Officer Rob Levin credits the financial conservativeness of the Board of Trustees and a sense of economic pessimism in keeping the schoolâs budget afloat in the worst recession since the Great Depression. âItâs given us the biggest challenge in my 24 years here,â he said. âThis is a deep well, and we canât see the other side right now.â There has been little leeway for the administration and the trustees to limit discretionary spending. In a $60 million budget, Levin approximates that only $1-2 million is malleable. see BUDGET, A10