DRESS UP: Theme day for sophomores and juniors
Dodgeball prelims Eagle painting judging
DRESS UP: Class colors Advisory parade
Tug of War prelims
DRESS UP: Theme day for frosh and seniors
Dodgeball finals
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Upper school students engage in class competitions, such as tug-of-war and lip sync battles, during homecoming spirit week, which started yesterday and continues into the weekend.
Student council and Student Activi ty Board (SAB) representatives from each class selected a theme, which guided the more creativity-based contests. The frosh chose fantasy movie “Harry Potter,” the sophomores chose action movie “Justice League,” the juniors chose animated mov ie “Minions,” and the seniors chose horror movie “It.”
“The theme of Harry Potter is pretty exciting for our class,” Student Activities Board representative Janam Chahal (9) said. “It’s something a lot of us enjoy.”
The frosh class faced off against the juniors in dodgeball on Monday, while the sophomores battled the seniors. Up per school faculty members then gathered outside of Manzanita to judge the eagles, which were painted by students to fit each class’s theme.
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When she hears the words Hispan ic Heritage Month, upper school math teacher Jeanette Fernandez thinks of bringing awareness to those who aren’t as knowledgeable of Hispanic culture.
“We don’t read about [this] a lot in history books, so this is our way of [edu cating others],” Fernandez said. “We have a lot of [Hispanic] people here, and it’s im portant to recognize [them].”
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Representatives of each advisory dresssed in their class colors and paraded through campus in the advisory parade on Tuesday, and frosh and sophomore tugof-war teams challenged the junior and senior classes respectively on Davis Field.
The winners of each dodgeball game will compete in the finals today, deter mining the ultimate victor of dodgeball.
On Thursday, the spirit rally will take place in the Athletic Center, with events such as the lip sync competition and performanc es from Kinetic Krew and the cheerlead ing team. The Hoco court winners will compete in a relay race at the rally as well.
“I’m excited for the rally,” Janam said. “I think the class of 2026 will bring their best spirit to the rally, and it will be a lot of fun for everyone.”
Students will be dismissed early on Friday in preparation for Harker Day and the homecoming game on Saturday. At Harker Day, families and community members from all three Harker campuses will gather at the upper school to engage in activities organized by the school and student-run organizations and to watch a variety of student performances and ath letic events.
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Students rise to their feet in applause, all facing the three journalists on stage, from the staff of Daniel Pearl Magnet School in Los Angeles. The school’s jour nalism adviser Adriana Chavira along with former editors delivered a presentation to student journalists at the Journalism Ed ucation Association (JEA) NorCal Media Day on Sept. 24 following attention sur rounding censorship of their paper.
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Members of Honor Council host ed a variety of events that encapsulated the community’s core values throughout Honor Week last week.
Activities in clude a bulletin board in Manzani ta, and lunch-time interactions where students can write down answers to a variety of top ics. On Tuesday, for the first day’s tenet of honesty, students answered prompts such as “how do you help someone be hon est?” The respons es were meant to spark discussion.
On Wednes day, English teacher Jennifer Siraganian recited a poem that she wrote about honor at the school meeting.
Respect and accountability were ad dressed by having members of the com munity interact with each other and the campus. For Thursday, students cultivated
their sense of respect by finding similari ties with people from other grades, appre ciating the unifying bonds that connect us despite grade differences. On Friday, advi sories signed honor posters.
“Honor goes beyond just not cheat ing on a test,” honor council member Nai ya Daswani (10) said. “It really refers back to our three tenets that we have here at Harker and being able to recognize when you are crossing a boundary.”
This week aims to teach students and faculty about what it means to be honor able, and break down the subject so oth ers can digest it in their own way. Honor allows students to not only respect their peers and teachers, but also themselves and the environment.
“I hope that students understand honor is part of our mission,” faculty chair of Honor Council Anthony Silk said. “We are trying to educate students to take their part in society so that when [they] go out into the world, [they] are all doing the best that [they] can do.”
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“Our goal is to inspire creativity and collaboration among the students of Harker. We hope to have students teaching their own choreography and [performing] for the joy of dance”
- Nupur Gupta (12)
“We all share a passion for LEGOs, and we want to spread that passion. Our main goal is to design the RPAC using online software and then build a model that can be displayed inside the building”
- Luke Mehta
(11)
“We are a leadership and community service oriented club, and we partner with high schools throughout the Bay Area. [Joining the club] is a great way to build up service hours and have fun”
- Kris Estrada (12)
“Our goals are to win a regional and go to Worlds. Right now, we’re trying to build up our subteams and our skills. We have organized subteams and leadership roles, so everyone can participate”
- Laurie Jin (12)
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The upper school campus activated lockdown protocol on Sept. 13 from approximately 5 p.m. to 6:10 p.m., and police cleared the campus of a potential threat.
At approximately 5 p.m., the barking dog alarm sounded through campus, signaling a potential unknown intruder on school grounds. Teachers and staff ushered students into buildings and into their rooms, where they built barricades and followed lockdown protocol.
Head of School Brian Yager updated staff approximately every ten minutes about the situation. According to the emergency texting system, police arrived by 5:25 p.m. They individually cleared each of the campus buildings before Upper School Division Head Paul Barsky and Yager officially ended the lockdown.
“There was a sense of unity throughout the entire process,” Kris Estrada (12) said. “And this afternoon has definitely been unexpected, so I will definitely remember how it was handled well by not only administration and faculty and police, but also our students.”
Additional reporting by Olivia Xu and Jonny Xue.
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Students visited different booths set up by clubs and organizations at this year’s Club Fair, which took place in front of the Rothschild Performing Arts Center (RPAC) during lunch on Sept. 15.
The event featured over 70 clubs, al lowing students to learn about various student-run organizations at the upper school. Club officers stood next to poster boards and described their plans for the year while students circulated around the booths. Many officers expressed a desire to reach a larger part of the community through their clubs.
“The main goal [of Art Club] is to get art out into the Harker community,” Art Club officer Laurel Davies (11) said. “We [as a community] are really interested in STEM, so [Art Club is] trying to get peo ple who don’t think that they have artistic ability to get out, try it, enjoy it.”
Club Fair also offered an opportuni ty for new clubs to showcase their initia
tives to the student body for the first time. One of these new clubs was Cooking Club, founded by Ian Gerstner (10).
“The point of Cooking Club is to pro
LAUREL DAVIES (11) ART CLUB OFFICER PROVIDED BY LAUREL DAVIESmote a stress free environment and to allow students . . . to either further their skills or learn a little bit,” Ian said. “We’re going to be offering three lessons for ba sic [techniques], like knife skills, pan skills and prep skills.”
The frosh class experienced both new
and returning clubs for the first time at Club Fair. While many clubs used inter active activities and prizes to entice new members, Ryder Hewitt (9) noted how the officers by the booths determined his in terest in the clubs.
“The personalities of the people run ning the stands [were what drew me in],” Ryder said. “I got the vibe of the whole club. When I saw very invested, excited club officers, it made me more invested in their clubs.”
Many teachers also visited to see the different opportunities and booths being organized by students this year. Upper school business, economics and physics teacher Patrick Kelly talked about his in terest in the different opportunities pro vided.
“I had seen a few of the clubs through my experience in business and entrepre neurship, mostly DECA, Career Connect and TEDx,” Kelly said. “I just wanted to see the breadth of what we offer the Hark er community.”
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Around 100 juniors and senior stu dents attended Challenge Day in the Zhang gymnasium to engage in commu nity bonding activities and learn the im portance of empathy and acceptance on Sept. 12.
Challenge Day is an event held by Harker twice a year, once for upperclass men and once for lowerclassmen. Accord ing to the Challenge Day website, Chal lenge Day is designed to create “a school where everyone feels safe, loved and cel ebrated… a school where everyone is in cluded and thrives.”
At the beginning of Challenge Day, students participated in icebreaker activ ities, such as pairing up with a random other student and dancing with them. Fol lowing opening activities, students broke into smaller groups comprising a teach er and several students. In small groups, students and teachers conversed about struggles and issues while eating lunch together.
“[Getting to know my small group] was probably my favorite [part of Chal lenge Day],” Vasudha Subramanian (12) said. “We spent two hours together, just doing small activities, and we ate lunch together. It was just a good opportunity just to get to know them as people.”
Returning from small groups, par ticipants began to discuss more serious issues such as gang violence, suicide and discrimination through activities such as
“crossing the line,” where students crossed a line if certain statements applied to them.
“[Crossing the line] was a really pow erful activity,” Student Diversity Coalition (SDC) Senior Leader KJ Williams (12) said. “It showed all the different things that people in our community have to go through. Often times you’ll look at some one and make judgments, and you don’t really realize what they’re going through. This activity visualized that: these people that you may not know have different lives and different experiences and have to go
through different things.”
Then, students returned to their small groups to reflect about the day, cre ate goals and listen to what others had learned or wanted to say. After students and faculty members bid farewell to each other, Challenge Day closed.
“[Challenge Day showed me that] everyone has stuff going on in their life,” Maryam Zehra (11) said. “As a Harker community, we should do our best to support each other, even if we don’t know each other [personally].”
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“[Art Club is] trying to get people who don’t think that they have artistic ability to get out, try it, enjoy it”COMING TOGETHER Students and staff sit in a circle while listening to instructions from a Challenge Day facilitator during the event held in the Zhang Gymnasium on Sept. 12. SHOUT OUT Alicia Ran (10) gestures while describing the goals of Psychology Club.
clear”SALLY ZHU JOIN ME Paulina Gicqueau (12) speaks about the initiatives of Thread and Yarn Club in the lobby of the Rothschild Performing Arts Center (RPAC) during Club Fair on Sept. 15. SIDAK SANGHARI
Voters will decide on seven proposi tions, including one on codifying abor tion rights in the state Constitution, in California’s midterm elections on Nov. 8.
“Recognize that those local ballots are what hits your pocketbook,” upper school Civics teacher Carol Green said. “People vote based on what they see in their local community. If you don’t like the local policies, you have to go turnout for those small elections.”
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The frosh and juniors attended Living with Intent, Focus, and Enthusiasm (LIFE) sessions while the sophomores and se niors met their Eagle Buddies on Friday.
The ninth graders participated in a LIFE session, where upper school speech and debate department chair Jenny Acht en discussed the importance of sleep, us ing calendars to plan schedules and the ineffectiveness of multitasking. Students then played a Kahoot about the handbook.
The sophomores participated in var ious activities with their buddies, ranging from arts and crafts to physical games.
“I’m feeling really excited. I remem ber just hanging out with seniors when I was in elementary school, and that was re ally fun,” Yinan Zhou (10) said.
As sophomores interacted with their Eagle Buddies throughout the day, some were surprised at the depth of their con versations with their Eagle Buddies.
“Connecting with a younger kid, just seeing how they think,” Stefan Maxim (10)
said. “Everything was really interesting and mind opening for me because their lives are very leisurely and cool. Just be ing able to speak with them makes me re member how I was when I was younger.”
While the sophomores spent time
“I remembered the times when I was in the lower school and how I thought of the upperclassmen as really fun. I enjoyed now having the experience of being the senior and talking to my buddies”
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with their eagle buddies, the juniors at tended the LIFE meeting in the RPAC with speaker Dr. Mary Graham from Preven tion Solutions.
Graham talked about her experience with substance abuse, discussing factors on what exactly makes a person more sus ceptible to an overuse of substances. She
also described the connection between dopamine and substance use, and how there are alternatives to increase dopa mine levels, such as exercise.
The seniors also met their eagle bud dies for the first time. They engaged in pastimes such as karaoke, hula hooping, chaos tag and a variety of arts and crafts.
“It was really amazing to meet my eagle buddies for the first time,” Samvita Gautham (12) said. “I remembered the times when I was in the lower school and how I thought of the upperclassmen as re ally fun. I enjoyed now having the experi ence of being the senior.”
Lower school dean of students Walid Fahmy comments on his appreciation for the Eagle Buddy Program.
“It benefits both sides tremendously,” Fahmy said. “The third graders get to see what they’re going to look like, and what things are going to be like as they get old er. When you’re a kid, everybody always wishes they were older. And then when you get to that point with the 10th graders, they’re like, ‘Oh my god, I miss this.’”
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Upper school debate students re ceived several bids while attending the National Speech and Debate opener in Lexington, Kentucky from Sept. 9 to Sept. 12.
The tournament took place at the Uni versity of Kentucky (UKY), where Harker students participated in Lincoln-Douglas events, debating the topic of whether “the United States ought to implement a sin gle-payer universal healthcare system.”
“I had a lot of fun because it was in-person, and it was also just nice spending time with the rest of the team”
BY ANANYA PRADHAN (9) TOURNAMENT ATTENDEE
The students who attended were Ro shan Amurthur (9), Angelina Antony (9), Kabir Buch (11), Panav Gogte (11), Nyssa Kansal (8), Valerie Li (10), Ananya Prad han (9), Sofia Shah (9), Aarush Vailaya
(10) and Sahngwie Yim (10), with Lin coln-Douglas and Public Forum debate teacher Greg Achten as chaperone. Of the 10 students who participated, eight ad vanced to the elimination rounds after six preliminary rounds, with Ananya reach ing the final round and ultimately winning second place.
Harker students received seven out of the nine bids, or qualifying awards, given at the tournament. If a student re ceives two bids during the debate season, it would allow them to attend the Tourna ment of Champions, which will occur at UKY in April of next year.
“The Tournament of Champions is the most prestigious national [Lincoln Douglas] tournament that we attend,” Achten said. “In order to qualify for the Tournament of Champions, students need to earn two bids to the Tournament of Champions, and so all of those students are halfway [to qualifying] after the first tournament, which is pretty incredible.”
The UKY National Speech and De bate opener was the first in-person de bate tournament Harker students at tended since the COVID-19 pandemic. Ananya enjoyed the opportunity to travel and communicate in person with team mates, connecting with them and national
debate students.
“I had a lot of fun because it was in-person, and it was also nice spending time with the team,” Ananya said.
At the tournament, students prac ticed arguments by debating each other and practiced speed reading, a crucial el ement of Lincoln Douglas debating. Sev eral college debate students joined Harker to help coach the high school competitors and prepare their cases.
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PROVIDED BY VALERIE LIwould codify the right to an abor tion and contraceptives in California’s Constitution. Currently, the state’s Con stitution protects reproductive freedom by stating a right to privacy, which the state Supreme Court has ruled encom passes a woman’s choice to an abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court over turned Roe v. Wade in June, advocates for abortion rights rushed to promote a measure that would more explicity guar antee reproductive freedoms.
As of Sept. 23, 14 states have in stituted restrictions on abortion, with about half expected to adopt a ban even tually. Besides California, Vermont and Michigan also have propositions that would seek to protect abortion rights in their state constitutions.
would allocate money for arts and music education in public schools, which are particularly vulnerable to budget cuts. The state would set aside an estimated $1 billion to maintain music and arts education programs; 80% of that money would be spent on hiring teachers.
Proposition 1 Proposition 28 Proposition 30
would raise money to address cli mate change issues by instating a 1.75% personal income tax on individuals earning more than $2 million. A majority of the money would go toward expand ing electrical vehicle use and increasing the number of trained firefighters.
• Every registered voter will begin receiving mail-in-ballots after Oct. 10
• The official voter guide will be mailed out between Sept. 29 and Oct. 18.
• Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 8.
• Anyone 18 years old by Election Day, Nov. 8, can visit a polling station from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. to cast a ballot.
• Learn about propositions and state offices up for the vote this election cycle from sites such as calmatters.org.
1926
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is born in London.
Her father becomes King George VI after her uncle abdicates the throne.
Elizabeth marries Prince Philip Mountbatten of Greece and Denmark.
The Biden Administration passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August and re stricted American companies from selling computer chips to China and Russia to maintain the U.S.’s “scientific and techno logical edge.”
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reign ing monarch in English history, died at 96 years old in Scotland this morning, ac cording to a statement from Buckingham Palace.
The palace released an update on the queen’s health on Wednesday evening, confirming her medical supervision in Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands. Shortly after, the palace released their statement about the queen’s death.
Born in 1926, Elizabeth assumed the throne in 1952 and reigned for 70 years, serving her country through critical events in British and world history including the period of decolonization after World War II, the formation of the European Union and Brexit. Fifteen different prime minis ters served during the queen’s rule, rang ing from Winston Churchill to the recently elected Liz Truss, whom the queen met on Tuesday.
“I kind of expected [the queen] to out live me because she’s always been there,” Phoebe Castle (11), who previously lived in London from 2011 to 2013, said. “When I was a kid, and when we first moved to Britain, she was there. When we moved away, she was still there. It’s going to be weird having all this change because she’s literally been there [for my and my friends’ in Britain] entire lives.”
According to a statement from Pres ident Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, the queen had met with a total of 14 American presidents and had commemo rated major American events including the bicentennial of the United States’ in dependence.
“Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswom an of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance be
tween the United Kingdom and the Unit ed States,” President Biden’s statement said. “Today, the thoughts and prayers of people all across the United States are with the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in their grief.”
President Biden’s statement also touched upon how his administration aims to maintain a close relationship with the royal family moving forward.
Upper school U.S. History teacher James Tate lived in London during the 60th year of the queen’s reign, known as her Diamond Jubilee, in 2012. While Tate does not feel that her passing will directly affect the U.S. politically, he emphasizes the significance of the queen’s prior role as a symbol of stability to the U.K., whom Tate deems America’s “closest ally.”
She ascends to the throne after her father passes away.
JAMES TATE UPPER SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER“In the United States, we have so many political and cultural changes all the time,” Tate said. “But when [the queen] died, the British and the world lost this cul tural fixture. She took the throne in 1952. Think about how much the United States has changed since 1952. That’s pre-Viet nam War. That’s the middle of the Korean
Elizabeth becomes the longest reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria.
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Elizabeth becomes the first British monarch to visit Ireland after its independence.
All chips under 14 nanometers are now banned, extending a previous 2020 restriction on chips smaller than 10 nano meters. Silicon Valley companies Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) re ported that several of their Graphical Pro cessing Unit (GPU) models were affected by this restriction. The Biden Administra tion hopes that this ban will hamper Chi na’s GPU making ability as China tries to produce these chips independently.
“[The Biden Administration] is do ing this to buy time for the U.S. to get a large enough advance [so] that they can accomplish their strategic objectives,” up per school Modern International Affairs teacher Matt McCorkle said.
In the last decade, Graphical Pro cessing Units have become popular in ar tificial intelligence due to their computing speed and power. However, some GPUs have been used for other more concern ing purposes. A recent report by George town University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology reveals that China has been buying GPUs from companies to use them in the military.
“The military started computers in general [because] they wanted to be able to calculate missile trajectories,” upper school Computer Architecture teacher Marina Peregrino said.
Elizabeth dies at age 96 surrounded at Balmoral Castle.
War. That’s the middle of the Red Scare. That’s before the United States desegre gated schools. The world has changed so much since then.”
In addition to providing stability for her nation, the queen’s influence reached other countries as well, including the U.S. Upper school European History teacher Byron Stevens believes her international impact, stretching beyond her reign, will impact the futures of many nations.
“[During her reign, England has] be come more democratized,” Stevens said. “It’s become more diverse. And I think it has adjusted quite admirably to a smaller but still impactful role in world affairs. I think it’s something that a country like the United States could actually learn from and model.”
Operation London Bridge, the pro tocol planned by the U.K. government, media and the queen herself, coordinates nation- and world-wide mourning of the queen’s death.
The phrase “London Bridge is down” initiated the operation and signified the official passing of the queen. In accor dance with the procedure, the country lowered its flags to half-mast and revert ed the national anthem to “God Save the King.”
Elizabeth’s first son, the new ly-crowned King Charles III, is the next in line to succession of the British royal throne. King Charles III now assumes the queen’s previous role as head of the Com monwealth.
“We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother,” King Charles said in a statement. “During this period of mourning and change, my family and I will be comfort ed and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which The Queen was so widely held.”
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In addition, a recent UN report, which suggests Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang province are victims of crimes against humanity, found that China is us ing surveillance to monitor these minori ties.
“[The Biden Administration] is doing this to buy time for the U.S. to get a large enough advance [so]
MATT MCCORKLE MODERN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS TEACHER OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONCurrently, another source of tension is Taiwan, which produces a majority of the semiconductors that Nvidia and AMD purchase to make their chips. Mainland China designs chips on their own, but re lies heavily on Taiwanese factories to pro duce semiconductors. However, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit has brought up fears of a Chinese block ade, which would prevent Taiwan from exporting its chips. If put in place, this blockade could disrupt supply lines for chips, worsening an already severe short age of them.
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that they can accomplish their strategic objectives”
“In the U.S., we have so many political and cultural changes all the time. But when [the queen] died, Britain and the world lost this cultural fixture. She took the throne in 1952. Think about how much the United States has changed since 1952”
“Being in the affinity group is one way I really connected to my culture. My brother went to Harker, and there wasn’t an affinity group yet, and he felt isolated during school. But I think [being] Latinx really brings us together, and we can come together and work on educating people on Spanish holidays and culture”
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Hispanic Heritage Month first start ed out as a commemorative week, intro duced in 1968. As time passed, the week was expanded by President George H.W. Bush to be a 31-day commemoration, now known as National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated across America. Now, it is an observance that celebrates people who identify as a part of the Hispanic com munity from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. At Harker, the Latinx affinity group aims to bring the Harker community an understanding of the Latin culture through various events and activities.
Jacob Fernandez (12), a member of the Latinx affinity group, will create bul letin boards with books and music by fa mous Hispanic artists, an initiative that started last year to share Hispanic culture with students during Hispanic Heritage month. This year, Latinx affinity group is also curating stories about Hispanic cul ture from the Latinx faculty, students and
kitchen staff to be shared on these bulletin boards.
“Come see our bulletin board be cause we do put work into it,” Jacob said.
”I know last year, a couple students saw the board and either read one of the books or listened to some of the music in it. We
ways: whether it be at home, where she and her Hispanic friends complain to fam ily tendencies, or at school through Latinx.
“I think being in the affinity group is one way I really connected to my culture,” Makayla said. “My brother went to Harker, and there wasn’t an affinity group yet, and he felt isolated during school. But I think [being] Latinx really brings us together, and we can come together and work on educating people on Spanish holidays and culture.”
“Every weekend, my brother, dad and I rewatch Spanish Soccer. We watch our favorite team, Real Madrid, because that’s where my dad is from. So, watching that, I feel like that does connect to my Spanish culture — watching soccer. All my family in Spain also watches soccer, so it’s really rooted in our family”
really appreciate that — giving your atten tion to what we are trying to do — because it shows that the students are caring about one of the minority [groups] at Harker.”
Makayla Aguilar (12), another mem ber of the Latinx affinity group, finds com fort in her heritage, and appreciates the closeness it brings to her. Connecting to her El Salvadoran heritage is important to Makayla, which she does through many
With all the different Hispanic cul tures across the world, this month ac knowledges all who identify as Hispanic. Spreading awareness about what exactly being Hispanic means is important, and what the heritage month and Latinx seek out to do.
“The Latinx affinity group would like to educate the community here,” Fernan dez said. “Hopefully we can showcase [the Latinx community] even though it’s small here. We have a lot of different Latino cul tures within here, so we’d like to showcase that as well. We want to show that we are proud and love to be in the Harker com munity.”
“Come see our bulletin board because we do put work into it. I know last year, a couple students saw the board and either read one of the books or listened to some of the music in it. We really appreciate that — giving your attention to what we are trying to do — because it shows that the students are caring about one of the minority [groups] at Harker”
This school year marks the establish ment of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with Brian Davis joining Harker as the Director of DEI.
Having held a similar position at his previous school, Davis hopes to facilitate the creation of a more inclusive environ ment at Harker by educating faculty and students and implementing necessary changes.
“Having an Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here at the Harker School
really speaks volumes to where we are as an institution and where we are mov ing forward,” Davis said. “Everyone has a unique experience and perspective, and that all creates a community that’s loving and engaging, where everyone feels like they belong, where they feel heard, where they feel valued and where they feel re spected.”
“We really hope that students can come to us if they feel any sort of pressure, if they feel like they’re not feeling included in Harker,” junior SDC representative Iris Fu said. “[We’re also here] to make sure we really serve as the student perspective to what’s going on in the DEI office. Other than communication to the greater stu dent body, it’s important to have actual kids in these situations and policies that impact the greater community of Harker students.”
Clubs and organizations such as the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and the DEI Book Club provide a community and a safe space for students to engage in discussions about their experiences.
BRIANAs part of these goals, Davis aims to support the creation of more affinity groups by introducing a more formal pro cess for approving new ones.
Beyond the administration’s role in fostering a more welcoming atmosphere at Harker, many student-led initiatives work toward this goal. The Student Diver sity Coalition (SDC) promotes DEI at Har ker through various events and initiatives.
“I think it’s important to have a safe queer space at school so that people are able to express what they feel and have support and connections and a com munity, even if they might not be able to have these things outside of school,” GSA member Lindsey Tuckey (10) said. “I look forward to seeing new freshmen and stu dents be able to join and feel welcomed and feel that sense of community and fun.”
These student-run groups also pro mote also promote underepresented per spectives in popular culture.
“It’s really important to read books from underrepresented authors because their voices are often not heard,” senior and DEI Book Club president Ananya Bammi said.
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“We want to show that we are proud and love to be in the Harker community”
JEANETTE FERNANDEZ LATINX AFFINITY GROUP FACULTY LEADER
“Where we are, and where we are moving forward”
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts expand with new Director of DEI Brian Davis
“Having an Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here at the Harker School really speaks volumes to where we are as an institution and where we are moving forward”
DAVIS DEI DIRECTORSAFE SPACE Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) members exchange ideas during their first club meeting of the year. “I was really awkward at first [when I joined GSA], but it was a pretty fun atmosphere, and I started getting more comfortable,” Lindsey Tuckey (10) said.
claire zhao & michelle weiCLAIRE ZHAO TAKING CHARGE Upper school Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Brian Davis speaks during the matriculation ceremony.
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Upper school’s journalism teacher and cross country coach, Kevin Oliver, faces the challenges of becoming a first year teacher at Harker while maintaining his interests in running and chess.
Oliver, a graduate from law school, was attracted to Harker after learning about it online and was drawn to its genuity. The people that he spoke to who were involved with the school also noted that the greatest aspect of it were the interactions with stu dents, which he found very compelling and later applied to become both a journalism
“I think I have the ability to take in a lot of complex information, analyze it, synthesize it and present it in a digestible way to an audience that may not have expertise in that particular area”
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teacher and an athletic coach.
As an experienced writer, he is con fident with assisting staff and students in improving their writer skills during jour nalism class as he has expertise in terms of working on academic publications. He was an executive editor for the Chicago journal of international law during law school, so he
understands how to pull written material to gether, edit pieces and work with a publisher to achieve a final version, which is pertinent to what he’s currently doing.
Although Oliver is still learning about the ins and outs of design and photography, he is eager to lead the yearbook team. As he previously worked at a law firm, he has nev er had to develop engaging lesson plans and balance his student’s learning needs. How ever, he truly enjoys the process of learning and becoming a part of a new environment, so he is optimistic about familiarizing him self with this new position.
He enjoys seeing his students engaged and interested in what he is teaching and hopes that this feeling will continue.
“He engages us each class with creative lessons and a strong presence,” sophomore Gemma Chan, a current yearbook student of his said. “You can tell he’s passionate about what he’s teaching, which creates a very encouraging and positive atmosphere for learning.”
Oliver has enjoyed running for years, and he used to race competitively in high school. He enjoys pushing his limits and getting the most out of himself, marking progress as he improves. After becoming more comfortable with the sport, he partici pated in Chicago marathons while studying in law school.
“In these big city marathons, there’s people lining the streets, the noise is deaf ening, and you really get that energy boost, which you need in a 26.2 mile race,” Oliver said.
In his cross country sessions, he joins the students or runs alone on weekends and plans to participate in events again, whether
it’s marathons or shorter races.
Since he has firsthand experience with running himself, he understands what it takes to train young athletes. He hopes to gain experience in both aspects of teaching
“[Eagle painting is] a good way for artists to show off their talents while other members of the class can also get involved in helping out”
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“It’s Time to BeReal.”
The notification appears on millions of phones once a day. Whether walking around the hallways, waiting in the lunch line or sitting on their couch at home, stu dents flock to their phones to post their daily photo. A scroll through one’s feed re veals mundane snippets of people’s lives — an unmade bed, a laptop keyboard and a window.
BeReal promotes people sharing their most authentic selves rather than a filtered version of their lives. By notifying all users at a randomized time, it encour ages individuals to post exactly what they are doing at that moment, capturing both the person taking the picture and what they are seeing or doing. Users can post late but cannot see other people’s photos until they post their own. The app strives for a more down-to-earth feel compared to other social media apps, with less pres sure to look like your best self.
BeReal user Charlotte Ludlow (9) downloaded the app over the summer, cu rious as to what it entailed. She especially enjoys using RealMojis, a feature of BeRe al that allows users to react to photos with real-life emojis.
“It’s a good social media platform to connect with your friends, but it’s not as addicting as many others,” Charlotte said. “I like being able to respond using my face: you can see more [and] interact with your friends.”
BeReal is just one part of the Gen-Z shift towards casual social media, with Instagram “photo dumps” and TikTok videos filmed on iPhones replacing the heavily-edited, oversaturated and staged media of the past. Social media platforms are notorious for causing mental health and self-image issues in growing teenag ers, with individuals reporting a 70% in
crease in depressive symptoms due to an increase in social media usage, according
MEHTA STUDENTto a study published on Cureus. Apps such as BeReal have become highly regarde by Gen-Z for focusing on the normalcy in
people’s lives. Luke Mehta (11) finds this new form of social media meaningful be cause it reduces the pressure to post per fectly curated highlight reels.
“I like the idea of authentic posting much more because it doesn’t push the high standard that Instagram and current social media platforms have enforced on people for a while,” Luke said.
As Gen-Z trends towards normaliz ing casual and authentic posting on social media, apps such as BeReal gain traction, fostering a more intimate view into peo ple’s lives. Whether the app will continue its success or fade away remains unclear, but sustaining the app’s mission could be a step towards a healthier approach to so cial media.
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“Looking at my cookie, do you ever smell it different? What’s with a bite, isn’t enough?” These lyrics, recently prompting backlash in the K-pop industry, is one of the instances of controversial lyrics pro vided to underage groups in the business. Given the explosive popularity of K-pop worldwide, how will inappropriately ma ture concepts assigned to teenage idols affect the future of the industry?
NewJeans, a rookie girl group that de buted in August, broke multiple sales re cords and won music show awards within days of the release of their first EP “New Jeans.” The five members dazzled K-pop fans worldwide with their catchy music and choreography, currently trending on social media platforms like TikTok.
Yet along with the group’s exponen tial path to stardom, some fans expressed concern at the age of the members (14 to 18 years old), especially after their hit song “Cookie.” Many traced the NewJeans con cept issue to Creative Director of Ador Min Hee-jin, who is in charge of the cohesive image of the group’s albums.
Min Hee-jin’s recent controversy with NewJeans is one of multiple past incidents for which she encountered retaliation. Be fore joining Ador as Creative Director, Min Hee-jin worked with multiple second and third-generation idol groups under SM Entertainment such as SHINee and f(x). She received extensive backlash due to her treatment of younger idols — some 13 at the time of their debut.
K-pop fan Meishin Yen (11) keeps up
with recent idol comebacks and follows both old and new generations. In regards to Min Hee-jin, she recognizes her impact on the younger idols of many groups.
“In Second [Generation K-pop], there was a girl group where they were all mi nors and put into music videos to film scenes where they were in provocative settings and positions,” Meishin said. “It wasn’t until later when they fully regis tered what they were doing. They disband ed and have a lot of trauma from that, so I think that’s proof that companies should really be careful about this.”
In some cases, rather than attending to the situation at hand and apologiz ing for miscommunication, the agencies behind certain idol groups evade facing the backlash from fans. In the controver sy around NewJeans’ “Cookie,” Ador re sponded by claiming that the team “didn’t
take any issue with the lyrics,” as the orig inal intent was for the lyrics to be whole some and youthful.
“It seemed like they were pushing the blame of misunderstanding the lyrics onto the viewers, but really, you can’t ig nore the double meanings behind the lyr ics,” Meishin said.
The over-sexualization of minors in the K-pop industry impacts not only the mental health and the futures of the idols involved, but also the fans of the groups, a majority young enough to be easily influ enced by what they see on social media. The future of K-pop is bright, and idols themselves, alongside their praiseworthy performance, are central to companies’ successes. Agencies should bear account ability and respect for their idols, regard less of their age or gender.
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Don’t bite the cookie: Over-sexualization of minors in K-pop
“I like authentic posting more because it doesn’t push the high standard that Instagram and current social media platforms enforce”LUKE PROVIDED BY LUKE MEHTA ANIKA MANTRIPRAGADA SEASONAL SONGS Downbeat per forms during Harker Day last year. DOWNBEAT JESSICA TANG TAKING A LEAP Harker Dance Company members leap into the air. ANIKA
Popular artist Taylor Swift announced her tenth studio album “Midnights,” set to release on Oct. 21, at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Aug. 28.
Swift won the VMAs’ prestigious award, Video of the Year for her “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” self-directed music video, which she released on Nov. 12, with her re-recording of her “Red” album. In her acceptance speech, she surprised fans in the audience and at home with her new album announcement.
“I know with every second of this mo ment that we wouldn’t have been able to make this short film if it weren’t for you, the fans,” Swift said in her award acceptance speech. “I had sort of made up my mind that if you were going to be this generous and give us this, I thought it might be a fun mo ment to tell you that my brand new album comes out October 21. And I will tell you more at midnight.”
True to her claim, Swift’s album title and cover became public at midnight East ern time, with posts on her Instagram, Twit ter and YouTube accounts announcing the release of “Midnights.”
When Ta-coumba Aiken got the phone call announcing his Guggenheim Fellowship Award, he didn’t believe it at first. Aiken had applied for the award eight times previously, but in April 2022 he re ceived the prestigious prize, in the Fine Arts category.
The Guggenheim Memorial Foun dation recognizes artists and scientists throughout the nation, and 180 fellow ships were awarded in April of this year. The foundation selected Aiken out of 2500 other applicants in the Fine Arts category, recognizing him for his work in dynamic art, specifically spirit writing and rhythm patterns.
Aiken described finding beats in art, similar to the beats in music and jazz, building together to form a rhythmic pat tern. Aiken found these styles in indige nous culture, with spirits of different types of music, and used these abstract dances of beats and flows to create art. His work often involves bright colors and dancing lines, filling space and color.
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Fan reactions to Swift’s announcement quickly exploded all over social media. For many Swifties — the endearing name for her fans — this announcement was especially exciting because of how long-awaited it has been. Since her last two albums, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Ver sion)” were both re-recordings of previous albums, fans were expecting her next re lease to be the same, making the promise of new songs all the sweeter.
Upper school computer science teach er Swati Mittal has been a fan of Swift since college, when she discovered the “Fearless” album. For her, Swift’s simple but catchy style became a way for her to relate to hard ships Swift wrote about in her music.
“I grew up in India,” Mittal said. “Her language and accent are so easy to under stand, and that’s how [my love for her music] started. It’s not rapping. It’s easy lyrics [that are] easy to understand, and I enjoyed it.”
Along with Mittal, Keira Chang (9) has also been a fan of Swift for many years; in fact, her love for the artist began with her parents, who were already fans before she was born. Keira heard about the upcoming “Midnights” album through Swift’s Insta gram post and is eagerly anticipating its re lease in October.
“I feel like whatever she makes, it’s gon na be good,” Keira said. “Her lyrics [are] al ways really well put together.”
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“I just started trying to figure out why certain things were popular and why oth er things weren’t,” Aiken said. “So I based on music, and cultural music from differ ent places, and then noticed that there was this constant regular beat, and that became the rhythm pattern. That was the spirit of it.”
Aiken started creating art at three years old, in his Illinois home in the 1950s, and he presented his first art exhibit in the house’s basement at age six. Pricing his art and inviting neighbors to come, Aiken ended up gathering $657.36 from that first exposition.
Aiken’s passion for visual art con tinued, and he attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, residing in that city for many years since. Aiken started doing illustrations such as for set designs and posters for shows, to make a living, be fore making a name for himself and start
after receiving the Guggenheim award, he still is grateful for just being alive and the success of his art.
“People say, ‘Oh, you deserve this, blah, blah, blah,’” Aiken said. “I’m like, I work every day, I paint and draw and do whatever I can do for our community ev
for Largest Lite Brite Picture, and was de signed by Aiken with funding from the Forever Saint Paul Challenge and St. Paul Foundation.
“I had something like 600 volunteers, some were homeless, and some were dis trict court judges and senators, and I got all these different people from all different walks of life working on it,” Aiken said. “So I guess I’ve been just mimicking my life through my art all this time.”
Other examples of Aiken’s public art include a mural etched in glass in St. Paul and various sculptures in cast bronze at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden or a 76-foot wide mural painted on cover coat ed steel.
ery single day. So what I deserve is to be able to breathe and be thankful for breath ing, and anything after that is icing on the cake. But I was exceedingly grateful to be recognized.”
One such example of Aiken’s public art was his Guinness World Record-win ning Lite-Brite mural, in which he assem bled 596,000 Lite-Brite pegs that light up in bright colors. The mural won the record
Aiken’s current studio is decorat ed with various finished and unfinished pieces of artwork of different colors and sizes, as he continues his journey through art. He reminds aspiring artists of the pos sibilities in new art and curiosity.
“Don’t just wait for what’s happening in there, but ask how it was done,” Aiken said. “Literally have the conversation with the piece, then go and study that.”
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in their bread. Commercial yeast was not available for a few hundred years. Instead, they used the bacteria created by the fermentation of flour, much like how modern sour dough is made, with a live starter.
In honor of the international holi day Sourdough September, I, someone with absolutely zero baking experience, set myself the goal of baking at least one (1) successful loaf from scratch. It didn’t need to be stellar, it didn’t need to even be good. Factoring in what I know about myself, my work ethic, and my attention span, it was already a challenge to bake a whole loaf of bread that even rose in the oven. I would be happy if the starter even survived for the week it would take it to mature fully.
Originating in Egypt in the 1500s, sourdough was the first form of leavened bread since Egyptians did not use yeast
The September of 2013 was the original Sour dough September, and the holiday has carried on ever since. Created by the Real Bread Campaign in an effort to spread knowledge about bread-making, the holiday has been immensely popular throughout its still-short history.
Sourdough trended across social me dia during the COVID-19 quarantine, as everyone, stuck in their houses, decided to all make an attempt at raising sour dough starters of their own. At this time, I too wanted to make sourdough. In fact, it’s my favorite type of bread (it is also the only bread that has a flavor other than bread).
But I didn’t end up making any, be cause my mother decided that I was al ready doing a bad enough job of taking care of myself, and that bringing to life a small mason jar full of bacterial growth would not be conducive to my studying.
The first day was uneventful. This was because the starter needed at least two days to come to life. I mixed 60 grams of unbleached, all-purpose flour with 61 grams of filtered water. I ended up spilling part of the flour onto the countertop, so it was possibly closer to 59 grams of flour and 61 grams of water. The room was kept at a steady 76 degrees fahrenheit, simply because that was the temperature my mother preferred. Not exactly rocket sci ence.
The second day was somehow argu ably more uneventful. The recipe I fol lowed told me to not feed it on this day, and instead to start the feedings on the third. I felt slightly bad for my poor dough son, as he oozed hooch, a sign that he was hungry. The same day I realized that I for got to name him, something the recipe ex plicitly told me to do. I brainstormed for a few minutes, but could come up with nothing better than Brea, short for Bread.
After taking a moment to step back, I was able to recognize how far I’ve come. Sure, I did not end up making any sour dough for my Journalism class despite promising them, and sure, I did not end up making any sourdough, period, but I was able to learn from the process none theless.
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“I based on music, and cultural music from different places, and then noticed that there was this constant regular beat”
Aiken draws inspiration from rhythms
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“[Her] lyrics [are] easy to understand”
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Creation of the three- fifths compromise: slaves affect House of Representatives seats but cannot vote
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isabella loAmerica has achieved a variety of technical and political accomplishments in its short history, such as spearheading the modern democratization movement and landing the first man on the moon. But we shouldn’t let ourselves be blinded by success stories; this oversimplification of our history could have the deep, re sounding consequence of creating a gen eration without a complete picture of the past. It’s easy to overlook the bleaker parts of American history, such as the 1932 Tus kegee syphilis experiment or the 1921 Tul sa race massacre. Unfortunately, we need to accept and address our ugly past.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a government funded study lasting from 1932 to 1972, took advantage of the lack of medical understanding of Black men to intentionally leave them untreated for syphilis in order to study the full progres sion of the disease, even when a cure be came widely recommended. Scientists told hundreds of men, mostly uneducated
sharecroppers, that they were being pro vided with medical treatment for “bad blood.” In reality, they were only given placebos.
In total, before the study was shut down, 128 men had died from syphilis-re lated causes and the disease had further spread among the community. This study caused a deep-rooted mistrust of govern
The overall sensitivity of the Tuske gee syphilis experiment due to the breach in human ethics, often leads us as a soci ety to be unwilling to discuss it. Our own reluctance only exacerbates this issue by creating a stigma around sensitive racial topics, labeling them as taboo or forbid den. Glossing over events with such deep repercussions will only create a society where discussing and debating these top ics is discouraged.
In the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, after a white woman accused Dick Row land, a Black teenager, of assaulting her, racial tensions culminated in a mas sive riot where thousands of white men stormed the predominantly Black Green wood neighborhood in Oklahoma. The mob burned down thousands of homes and churches, shattering the prospering Black community.
ment institutions in the Black communi ty and discouraged many of them from seeking medical care, according to a study conducted by Stanford University.
When I was a child, I wanted nothing more than to save lives — to be the one that restored a person’s well-being. As I strolled through hospital floors, I stared in awe at the doctors in emergency care and
Two years after launching its health care subsidiary, Amazon Care, the com pany announced its shut down, which will take place in December, ending its first primary care subsidiary.
An official count in 2001 cited the death toll as 36. A 2021 study revealed that 83% of Oklahomans had never been taught about the Tulsa race massacre.
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Slavery abolished by the 13th Amendment; racism remains 1921 White mob kills dozens of innocent African-Americans in the Tulsa race massacre
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Government-funded study tricked Black victims, left their syphilis ultimatelyuntreated; killed 128 men
the nurses that would measure my height and weight with a gentle demeanor. They were heroes and the figures that inspired my future. What I didn’t realize as a child was the way large corporations would capitalize the medical field; nor did I un derstand how Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, would sell and crush a false pharmaceutical fantasy.
Amazon first launched its healthcare sector by acquiring PillPack in 2018, later relaunching it as Amazon Pharmacy in 2020. This subsidiary offers discounts on prescription drugs and sells organized personalized medicine to customers. It works with the majority of insurance plans in coalition with other third party medical groups. In 2019, Amazon also acquired Health Navigator, a digital health start-up. To spur its efforts, Amazon made Amazon Care public later that year, combining the practices of virtual and in-person health care to create a hybrid system.
Amazon Care’s services extended to 20 cities in-person in the summer of 2022, following the COVID-19 pandemic during which telemedicine gained prev alence. Excitement followed the launch, and hopes for the success of Care sky rocketed. Amazon reported that the sub sidiary would be “free from profit-making
incentives and constraints,” and health care companies such as Livongo, which specializes in diabetes treatment, compli mented Amazon for its efforts and called the initiative “one to watch.”
Amazon also acquired OneMedical, a primary care startup, for $3.9 billion in July 2022. OneMedical has more than 500,000 members across the U.S. The acquisition opened up opportunities for Amazon to gain more customers for Care, develop its presence in healthcare and integrate its pharmaceutical and care delivery systems. Amazon Care’s system showed promise: it
sought to eliminate the painstaking travel and wait that accompanies doctor’s visits while providing a COVID-safe virtual op tion for families to meet physicians. It also provided benefits for its employees, from health, vision and dental check ups to adoption assistance, fertility support and more. To combat concerns regarding pri vacy and patient safety on its telemedicine platform, Amazon contracted a third-par ty legal subsidiary called Oasis Medical to ensure that Amazon could not access pa tient information.
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“The oversimplification of our history could have the deep consequence of creating a generation without a complete picture of the past”
An image of a dissected human body with red, flowing blood vessels and ivory-colored bones is displayed on a large table, about six feet long and two feet wide. Upper school science department chair and biology teacher Anita Chetty uses a cushioned stylus to manipulate the body, rotating it and pointing at various bones and organs. Then, with just a click of a button, the entire screen switches to a separate dis sected layer in the body.
The upper school, with the help of multiple parent donations, purchased the $60,000 Anatomage virtual cadaver dissection table in 2014, and Chetty has been using it to aid in her instruction of the Human Anatomy and Physiology (HAPy) classes ever since. With the ta ble, students can study the internal and external anatomies of four human bod ies and can perform various cuts, dissec tions and rotations.
“I think students really enjoy the interactive nature [of the Anatomage table],” Chetty said. “I think that this generation learns very well through vi sual cues, through digital formats. So a tool like [the table] really is aligned with the way they receive and process and communicate information.”
The table’s four pre-loaded human cadavers include a young female with cancer; a young male with cancer; a male with a brain tumor, who was ex ecuted by lethal injection; and an older female.
In order for their bodies to be used in Anatomage tables, each cadaver was scanned with X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomogra phy (CT) technology. Afterwards, they were frozen and sliced into transverse sections with the thickness of a dime. Finally, each section was photographed, and all images and scans were loaded onto the table.
In addition to the four cadavers, the table contains other medical case studies, including patients with stab wounds, gunshot injuries, aneurysms and ectopic pregnancies, where the fe tus does not lie in the uterus.
“The [case study] that I enjoyed the most was an ectopic pregnancy,” former HAPy student Spencer Cha (‘22) said. “It’s just cool to see and realize that ‘Oh, there’s a spine that’s not in the uterus and very much out of the abdominal cavity.’”
The HAPy course, only offered to seniors, allows students to pursue a deeper learning and more interactive exploration of the human body and health.
Due to its quiz, annotation and split-screen features, Chetty has found that the table is a helpful teaching tool for the class, and throughout the school year, Chetty brings her HAPy classes to the table’s room.
Community members outside of the HAPy class have also interacted with the table. At the annual Research Symposium, organized by Women in STEM (WiSTEM) club members, HAPy students give live demonstrations of the table to attendees. The STEM Buddies program, directed towards young stu dents in elementary and middle school, hopes the table sparks more interest in medicine.
“We really liked the idea of the kids getting to see a much more comprehen sive and in-depth view of the human body,” WiSTEM Co-President and STEM Buddies Coordinator Eileen Ma (12) said. “It’s just a really good experience for the little kids to get excited about high school and all the opportunities it has to offer.”
Spencer was one of the HAPY stu dents who helped to demonstrate the table at Symposium this year. He notes that attendees were “quite impressed” by the table’s features and capabilities.
“A lot of [the attendees] were ask ing us interesting questions,” Spencer said. “They were like, ‘Oh, what about here? What if you did this?’ I think the curiosities of the kids, in all the audi ences, made it quite interactive.”
In recent years, the school has shown significant support for science and research programs, according to Chetty.
“We’re very fortunate to have an administration that is so supportive of novel ideas,” Chetty said. “I feel as though one of the reasons why we seem to progress as a school is because new ideas and unique ideas for exploration are encouraged and supported.”
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Tucked away behind a set of doors on the second floor of Nichols Hall, the Hark er Eagle Store overlooks the rotunda study area. Warm natural light pours in through the many windows, adding a golden hue throughout the loft. Open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every school day, the store sells Hark er-branded merchandise from schoolwear such as hoodies and T-shirts to accessories such as water bottles, pencil pouches and key chains.
Some of the most popular items in clude a Harker-branded pajama set, an ea gle stuffed animal and various beanies, ac cording to Vanessa Rios, who manages the store. The store also sells Harker-branded athletic wear from brands like Nike and Under Armour and PE gear for the Harker lower and middle school, including grey Harker hoodies, sweatpants, black track pants and green Athletic shorts.
“What you guys like and buy from us is how we make our decisions on what we’ll order next,” Rios said. “Mostly we or der from Proforma, but we do use other vendors.”
Cindy Su (12), who bought a pair of Harker pajama pants from the store, en joys sporting the white-and-green plaid pants together with her friends.
“They’re really comfy and cute,” Cin dy said. “It’s fun when other people wear them, like when I go to my friend’s house and we’re all wearing them.”
When Cindy visited the store with friends, she noticed the variety of different items available at the store and its organi zation.
“There are a lot of items I didn’t real
ize they had,” Cindy said. “I friends, and it was fun to look nice that they go through all make all that stuff available to Additionally, the Eagle clubs with manufacturing club dise. After students create sign for a hoodie or T-shirt, the works with vendors to select turn the students’ visions into
“It’s a great way to lower for individual members and through the creative process,” er, upper school spirit advisor tor of Student Organizations.
Kallbrier looks to the Eagle place that can bring students together by enabling all members Harker community to display pride.
“When you have people around with Harker sweatshirts or even maybe a mug that has it, it shows the pride that we place we have come to love, Harker,” Kallbrier said.
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It’s just a really good experience for the little kids to get excited about high school and all the opportunities it has to offer”
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Permeating throughout the halls of Main, the warm inviting smell of freshly baked cookies lightens the day for stu dents at the Upper School. This is one of the many legacies Howard Nichols, the former head of school, left behind.
Georgie Maddams, the administra tive services assistant, is currently the keeper of the cookie jar here at the Harker Upper School. She worked for Nichols back in 1991 when he was well known as a kind hearted division head, always will ing to start a conversation and get to know students.
“This was his way of making students at ease and sharing a little story or chuck le,” Maddams said. “He was a wonderful man, and this was a tradition that we kept going.”
His legacy as a passionate leader who led his school by example and the memo ry of his kind hearted soul is encompassed in the heart of the cookie jar.
While the cookie jar serves as a way to commemorate Nichols, it also sits there to put a smile on the faces of both students and staff.
“For some reason they always leave one, nobody wants to take that last cook ie,” said Maddams. “But believe me it is taken soon. All of a sudden [I’ll] turn around there will be one cookie, and a half an hour will go by before the last cookie goes.”
As a freshman on the high school campus, Sofie Marino (10) was initially nervous about approaching authority fig ures. However, after several visits to the cookie jar she felt more comfortable chat ting with them. Now as a sophomore, So fie believes that implementing the cookie jar in the honor of Nichols is not only a way to commemorate him but also a com ponent of facilitating a more connected school environment.
went with my look around. It’s all the effort to to us.” Store assists club merchan an initial de the Eagle Store materials and into a reality. lower the costs to help them process,” Eric Kallbri advisor and Direc Organizations. Eagle Store as a students and faculty members of the display their school people walking sweatshirts or T-shirts, has Harker on we have for the love, and that’s for full article.
They are watching. Students might spare them a glance on the way to class or tap on the glass to watch them scatter or stare at them during a class break.
The tide of students will come and go. Students might one day walk past that tank one final time and let life’s tide carry them away. But the fish remain, eyes per petually blown wide-open, watching the flow of new students trickle in and out.
Ten years ago, upper school science department head Anita Chetty stood in Nichols Atrium, watching the stream of students drift in and out of the building, the ephemeral bursts of life that only last ed as long as the passing periods did.
“I was looking for something that I could install into the atrium that would give the atrium some life,” Chetty said.
“It was this hollow cavern, cold [and] uninviting. When we first opened the building in 2008, there’d be no students in the building and I didn’t like that. They only came to their classes and left and I thought, ‘how can I make it more invit ing?’ I wanted students to come to Nich ols Hall during lunch [and] after school.”
Plants were soon installed, but the few that were interspersed between the two floors did little to satisfy the demand
for life. Students still didn’t stay. Chetty was on the search for animals to house in Nichols, but nothing stuck. Ultimately, a junior biology course and a fortuitous encounter with a neighbor paved the way for the school’s aquatic residents.
“I lived down the street from [Jeff Jacinto], who maintains our aquarium… I walked by his truck all the time, and it said Sea Life Aquarium,” Chetty said. “One day I just stopped him on the street. He was playing with his little boy and I said, ‘can you tell me more about what you do?’ and he said, ‘I have like 90 dif ferent aquariums that I service through out the Bay Area.’”
The tank’s current fish residents are a series of African Blue Spotted Rabbit fish, Blue Tang, Flame Angel, Atlantic Blue Tang and Yellow Damsels among many other living creatures such as sea urchins and a red and green brittle star fish.
“During the [summer Advanced Programming] course, I’d come over [to the tank] all the time during breaks,” Sam Parupudi (10) said. “Once I actu ally started watching, it was positively exhilarating— the [Blue Tang], the Dory one, that’s my bias. The tank’s also where I met Jessica Wang (10). We bonded a lot over trying and failing to communicate with the fish.”
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“It definitely connects authority fig ures with the students and I think that it is a really good way to open up communica tion” Sofie said “Because if you are scared to talk to someone in administration, go ing to get a cookie is a good segue to talk about more important topics.”
As a new administrator, Head of Up per School Paul Barsky has a lot to say about the cookie jar.
“I believe that all types of food make the community, so I believe that for me especially being that I am new, it is a great way for me to meet new students and to meet new faculty so that they can just drop in and ask for a cookie and we have some thing to bond over.”
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“Going to get a cookie is a good segue to talk about more important topics”MICHELLE WEI DORY FISHES A Blue Tang swims in the fish tank. The tank houses other fish as well, including Flame Angels and Yellow Damsels. YIFAN LI ILLUSTRATION BY ALENA SU
French food is considered to be the most respectable cuisine in the world: af ter all, who wouldn’t want their food to be equally venerable and delicious?
One of the main aspects of French cuisine is its delicately magnificent plat ing of each and every dish. We eat with our eyes before our mouths, and there is nothing more tear-jerking (eye-water ing) than a beautifully set plate of croque au vin. Something about that glistening red-brown sauce, with small lumps soon to be revealed as juicy lardons, gorgeous brown-gold shallots and of course per fectly braised chicken, is the perfect com fort food: extravagant yet homely.
But my personal favorite French dish is not even a main course. The French have perfected the delicate art of soup-making, understanding the need for richness with out overpowering the individual flavors of the broth in heavy fats. Though some think french onion soup to be a prime ex ample of soup being too heavy, I believe it employs the perfect ratio. American ized french onion soup tends to be heavy on the cheese topping. Though it is a crowd-pleaser, it has the same problem as does Chicago deep dish pizza: the ratios simply aren’t correct. A good French on ion soup displays the mastery of the chef to control the cheese-to-broth-to-crouton ratio. And a good French onion soup sur passes just good. It is fantastic.
The history of French food dates back to the medieval times, when the nobility would feast upon many-course meals full of wild game, fruit, and grains, not all too dissimilar to French food nowadays. Eat ing French food is the closest many of us will get to experiencing the life of royalty.
France is also the country with the most Michelin stars, ranking #1 at 628 stars total in 2020, beating out Japan at second place with 413, proving it to be the most high-class cuisine in the world.
But one cannot discuss French food without discussing their pastries. France and baguettes are undoubtedly connect ed in the general public’s mind, and for good reason. Nothing beats a good 1-Euro baguette from the bakery down the road before a day walking the streets of the ‘City
of Love.’ I know I fell in love with that de licious golden, crunchy outside but soft and supple cream within. Perhaps that was the true love all along.
There is nothing quite like one’s first visit to France. Sitting on the side of a busy road, merchants shouting about their hand-made necklaces and bracelets to one side, fellow restaurant goers to the other, I will never forget the first night I tried fresh French oysters. The ambiance set the mood perfectly, fairy lights strung across the outside seating area, potted plants dotting the floor deftly avoided by
French food is considered to be the most respectable cuisine in the world: after all, who wouldn’t want their food to be equally as venerable as delicious?
the wait staff. The night my family wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower, we stopped by a restaurant for dinner. That raspberry souf fle tasted all the better mixing with the ris ing excitement in my stomach.
French bakeries also house a pleth ora of sweet goods. From macarons to eclairs to buns of brioche, the variety is stunning. But all of them pale in compari son to the ultimate dessert: crème brûlée. Silky smooth melt-in-your-mouth cream dressed with a crunchy caramel sugar topping is the best way to end any meal, and it could be a meal in its own right. There is nothing in the world more satisfy ing than that first strike of the spoon onto that bubbly brown surface, watching the sugar crack into shards.
I believe that Italian food has none of this variety; it being simply variations upon different ratios of carbohydrates, cheeses, meats and sauces. Pizza and pas ta are essentially the same dish, though one is boiled in water and the other is baked.
Therefore, French food is truly the crème (brûlée) of the crop.
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Italian cuisine is quite literally a bil lion dollar industry. The modern-day pizza, which originated from southwest ern Italy’s Campania region, generated over 45.59 billion dollars in 2021, and for good reason. One reason why pizza is so popular is that the variety of toppings and condiments that one can use on pizza are endless. The beautiful yet complex blend of the sweet and savory flavor of pizza is truly the crux of Italian cuisine.
However, only mentioning pizza when talking about Italian cuisine is a hor rific insult to Italian cuisine itself. Italian food goes far beyond just pizza; there’s gn occhi, risotto, lasagne, pasta and so much more. Personally, pasta reigns as one of my favorite dishes; the flavor of the sauce combined with the richness and savori ness of the actual pasta sets up an intricate
Italian cuisine will always be the true representation of what cuisine should be. The flavors, the meaning behind their cooking and the creativity of their dishes will never fail to astound me.
display for my tastebuds to enjoy. The dif ferent shapes of pasta, like rigatoni, orzo and fileja, bring happiness to my inner child who remembers making macaroni turkeys in kindergarten. It’s also tremen dously easy to make at home and requires little to no effort other than boiling water and making sure the pasta doesn’t burn. Pasta is experienced and enjoyed by ev eryone and everybody, while French food requires meticulous time and planning. The whole point of food to be appreciated from the most talented of chefs to even a random person who decided to cook for the first time, and French cuisine fails this
criterion. Such dishes like consommé and soufflé require the perfect amount of skill and luck, as it’s extremely difficult to mas ter the art of French cooking as a whole.
Italian cuisine isn’t simply savory dishes, it also contains sweet desserts like gelato, cannoli and tiramisu. Gelato, with its smooth texture and vivid flavors, is the ultimate snack when you just want to un wind and recline into your senses. Tira misu, with its unique, sharp, espresso-like flavor, uses ingredients such as mascar pone, cocoa powder and sometimes wine to create an intense yet refined cake.
Italians emphasize flavor over any thing else, and it’s evident when taking a bite into any of these desserts or dishes. However, the French pride themselves on formal techniques, which completely misses the point of what cuisine is about. Cuisine isn’t about who can make a dish fancier; it’s about who can make the dish that can really speak to one’s soul. It’s about who can make the flavors sing to one’s taste buds. Sure, French cuisine may have been invented by the nobility, but eating ‘royal’ food prepared with the most obscure cooking techniques doesn’t matter. What does matter is how much ful fillment you get while eating and whether or not the dish brings you comfort. Italian cuisine is better at that and always will be.
I vividly remember one day coming home from school, worn out from the co pious amounts of homework and quizzes I had been receiving that week. Sensing my exhaustion, my mom took it upon herself to prepare me a hot, steaming bowl of pas ta, topped with tomato sauce and basil. Picking up the fork and taking one bite, I instantly felt at peace and at comfort. The soft, inviting taste of the pasta combined with rich flavor of the sauce will always be an experience I will never forget. Ever since then, Italian cuisine has always been a sort of safe haven for me; something I can rely on to make me feel at home.
Italian cuisine will always be the true representation of what cuisine should be. The flavors, the meaning behind their cooking and the creativity of their dishes will never fail to astound me. While French food falls flat in all of these categories, Ital ian cuisine will forever be the number one cuisine in my heart.
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An app that calls itself authentic, original and unique. An app that captures the happenings of everyday life. An app that has no likes or filters. This is BeReal, an app that has skyrocketed in popularity with its promise to show you “your friends for real.”
Yet, BeReal still brings with it the dilemma of “being real” while simultaneously conveying the best version of yourself. Though the app strives to be a “unique way to dis cover who your friends really are,” the common pressure across all social media sites of portraying only the perfect moments of your life is still tangible. Giving into social media’s demand that our lives be flawless and filtered is im possible since the reality is that our lives will never be that way. Whether they aim to or not, BeReal and social media sites as a whole still perpetuate the sense of competition for who can have the most photo-worthy, picturesque life.
Our phones act as ‘safety blankets’ for us, but how can we grow if we use our phones to shy away from awkward situations?
The facade of the perfect life on social media has never been more common or easier to create. Although we’re all aware of these unrealistic stan dards, seeing other peoples’ ‘perfect’ lives play out on our feeds with every scroll still takes a toll on our mental health regardless of the platform. Apps such as TikTok and Ins tagram only worsen the problem with filters and growing concerns over likes and followers.
The pressure of being available digitally for others is also nerve-wracking but unavoidable. We often feel the urge to check our phone for new messages or scroll through our social media feeds because of the fear of missing a text
or a conversation in a group chat. Phones have become an extension of ourselves — the impulse to constantly check our phones in order to be able to respond to others quickly combined with the intentionally addictive design of social media drives a psychological dependence on the device. We also rely on our phones to escape from reality. With 95% of U.S. teenagers having access to a smartphone, our phones have become ingrained in our daily lives, now more than ever after quarantine. During that time, we strength ened our unhealthy reliance on social media and tech nology; after all, it was the only way to connect with others. Consequently, in uncomfortable situations, our phones act as ‘safety blankets’ for us and offer respite from awkward or boring con versations which plague our day-to-day lives. How can we grow if we keep using our phones to shy away from awkward situations?
Though communication and forms of technology like Schoology are still essential to our lives as students, we can still challenge ourselves to limit our so cial media usage, clicks, taps and scrolls. Instead of retreat ing to our phones in the presence of a classmate, we can try starting a discussion with them or try using our phones to further social interaction.
As a result of quarantine, we became accustomed to using social media to connect online, but in person, es caping to our phones through social media only drives us apart.
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FRONT PAGE 1: Photo for the class trips article is miscaptioned
• Brian Larsen misspelled as “Brain Larsen” in Senior Sunrise brief
A&E 7: Cantilena misspelled as “Cantliena” in Agata Sorotokin’s infographic
We’re so excited to share our second issue of the Winged Post with you! Thanks to the incredible efforts of our sophomore reporters, we’ll be sending 20-page issues just like this one for the rest of this year. They put a ton of hard work into writ ing in-depth articles, and we couldn’t be more proud of what they’ve accomplished in just a few short weeks. So if someone you know wrote an article for this issue, congratulate them!
We’ve seen so much life in our com munity recently; from the efforts of doz ens of students who helped craft intricate painted eagles at Spirit Week to the bubbly excitement for Homecoming, the Harker campus seems more vibrant than ever. The start of fall has brought more change than crunchy, brown leaves: the members of our frosh class have become a bit more
comfortable in their new upper-schoolsized shoes, and our returning students are juggling their new responsibilities with even greater opportunities.
Our coverage in this issue focuses on both the big and the small. As you read, you’ll discover everything from the origins of the universe to sourdough parenting techniques. And you’ll have a chance to explore the many nooks and crannies our community has to offer.
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DOUBLETRUCK 8: Upper school head Paul Barsky worked as a paralegal, not as an attorney Johann Bach misspelled as “Johannes Bach” Sapiens should be classified as a book, not a movie
STEM 13: Digital security misspelled as “digial security” in subheadline of cybersecurity piece
Also misspelled as “also” in Global Reset article
BACK PAGE 16: Your misspelled as “you” on snacks post-it note
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ILLUSTRATION BY ARIANA GOETTINGNASA’s three big questions uncover details about the vast space we inhabit
13.8 billion years ago, the universe started as nothing but an infinitely small, infinitely dense ball of matter. It’s hard to imagine that every object in our universe emerged from this tiny point, or that it would expand to a size so immeasurably large. Despite our constantly improving space technology and countless research efforts, scientists can only speculate at best on how we got here.
“In the earliest moments, the uni verse expanded outwards way faster than you would think in just tiny fractions of a second,” upper school physics teacher Chris Spenner said.
Of all the techniques used to peel back the curtain of time on our universe,
“After the Big Bang, the universe is dominated by theories that we’re pretty confident in, like general relativity and quantum mechanics,” Spenner said.
However, despite all of our knowl edge, we still lie on the Earth’s surface, gazing up into the infinite abyss of space, pondering the question — might there be another us?
conditions for producing life. Yet each planet we’ve examined has come up emp ty. Perhaps, however, we are looking for the wrong signs.
For the last few decades, research has primarily focused on searching for other planets’ technosignatures, chemi cal and electromagnetic signals caused by our technological activity. However, this strategy assumes that all life will be like us, with its sprawling cities and bustling ma chinery. Such may not be the case.
Since its inception in 2018, this year’s Girl’s Programming League (GPL) event once again took place virtually on Zoom, as it has been since the pandemic started in 2020.
With two separate divisions made for both novice and advanced coders, the event featured a two-hour coding compe tition, where students competed for gift cards awarded to the top three teams of each division. The contest, held on Co deforces, required coders to apply their knowledge of algorithms to efficiently solve word problems and to write pro grams that respond with the correct out put given certain inputs.
“My favorite part was actually af ter the competition was over,” said Tani sha Singh (11), who competed in the advanced division. “Because then, my friends and I were able to relax, discuss solutions or what we had overlooked in the competition, or potential practice strategies for the future.”
After the main event, competitors lis tened to a keynote speech, which was fol lowed by a panel discussion and finally an award ceremony, all in the same format as the Harker Programming Invitational (HPI) slated to take place in March.
DR. ERIC NELSON UPPER SCHOOL“Intelligent life is infrequent,” Dr. Nel son said. “If you look at the history of the Earth, life has been evolving for about four billion years, and the dinosaurs dominat ed for 250 million years. Dinosaurs would not have gotten anybody’s attention un less you did a fly by. Nobody would have known they were here because they did not become technologically advanced.”
We have only explored but a small fraction of the known universe, searching on the slight off-chance that we may find something. But according to NASA, de spite the improbable odds to find life, how could we possibly not search? Our desire for understanding is too strong, the poten tial for impact is too great. Entranced by the siren song of the universe, we cannot help but wonder at the enigmatic nature of life. It is what makes us human.
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TANISHA SINGH (11) GPL CHALLENGE PARTICIPANT
“It was fun,” said Aashvi Ravi (9). “Each one spoke about their experiences and everyone got to ask some questions.”
In the afternoon, students listened to renowned speakers Dr. Natalie Pagel er, Clinical Professor of Pediatric Critical Care at Stanford University; Aleks Goeva, a researcher at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University; Johanna Kim, Executive Director of the Center for Artifical Intelligence in Medicine and Im aging at Stanford University; and Harker’s own Anita Chetty discuss women in com puter science and medicine and the tech nical details of their respective fields.
“The keynote speakers changed my view on computer science,” said Tiffany Zhu (9) after listening to Dr. Pageler speak about her career path in biology and CS. “I thought that was inspiring, that even though it took her a while to find it, in the end, she got to find her passion.”
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“After the contest, my friends and I were able to discuss solutions and potential practice strategies for the future”
“Nature never does anything one off, so I would expect life to not be a oneof-a-kind event on Earth”
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Scorching temperatures and raging wildfires in California. Severe droughts in the U.S. and Europe. Catastrophic flood ing in Pakistan and Italy.
Extreme weather is producing more and more unprecedented consequences with increasingly larger populations at risk from climate hazards. The number of weather disasters has increased by a fac tor of five just over the past 50 years, with human activity at the vanguard of causes.
“I think we are learning from our lessons, we’re learning and we’re taking preventative measures — the issue is, is it enough?” Rohan Bhowmik (12) said.
of organisms will change their behavior.”
In the heat wave, blackouts occurred state-wide and while blackouts function to decrease electrical use, energy consump tion still soars. Since climate change fuels heat waves, the process creates a feedback loop. The loop’s impacts don’t just stop at fires — heat waves also create wildfires.
Although authorities are taking steps to prevent wildfires with initiatives such as prescribed burning, these solutions are not a panacea and will take time. Mean while, Rohan advises people to stay safe by checking the news and wearing masks.
Aside from wildfires, heat waves in crease the risk of droughts. California ex perienced an eight-year drought ending in 2019, the longest drought in state history. Drought is also striking Europe with 47% of the country receiving drought warnings.
While climate change exacerbates heat and fires, it also intensifies floods in other areas such as Pakistan where floods submerged a third of the country and killed 1,580. In an unprecedented season of weather, California, is at risk of flooding.
To combat the climate change-driv en weather, Green Team member Sophie Grace Degoricija (10) recommends that more people reform their everyday activ ities to lessen environmental harm.
“Since it’s due to global warming, [you] could do the basic things like try
ing to use [less] energy,” Sophie said.
Although it will take longer for peo ple to take such steps, Sutton and Rohan
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As of this year, carbon dioxide levels have increased by over 50% since the In dustrial Revolution, exacerbating climate change issues. Although global warm ing influences extreme fluctuations in weather, upper school environmental sci ence teacher Jeff Sutton emphasizes that weather is daily temperature while cli mate is long-term weather patterns.
According to Sutton, climate change affects weather long-term with high and low-pressure cells. High-pressure ones cause events like the California heat wave. Heat waves drastically impact the environ ment such as for animals, who experience thermoregulation issues. Such anomalies also occur in the botanical world.
“All my trees are starting to lose their leaves early this year, and they’re not brown — they’re green,” Sutton said. “That’s from the heat last week, so in order to try to conserve water and energy, a lot
JEFF SUTTON UPPER SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEACHER OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONbelieve researchers will find a pervasive solution. So, Sutton advocates for opti mism and education even when the future seems bleak.
“If you don’t know anything about [climate change], and you hear the news, people undergo a thing called learned helplessness where they just totally feel defeated,” Sutton said. “They think there’s nothing they can do, so why bother? Knowing what the systems are, what’s happening and that there are things you can do, — that’s pretty powerful.”
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A total of 18 students, including Green Team members, and three teachers attended the California Coastal Cleanup Day event on Sept. 17 in Campbell to clean up trash near the creek in an effort to de crease water contamination.
Coastal Cleanup Day, which hap pens on the third Saturday of September, has taken place for 38 years. South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition (SBCCC), who organized the creek cleanup, hosted mul tiple other cleanups on Saturday as well. SBCCC also collaborates with organiza tions such as Google to help improve sus tainability.
“It really opened my eyes to the intersectionality of littering and climate issues and also homelessness and climate justice problems”
“It’s really nice to see such a grass roots effort with the South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition and see that there are citizen efforts going on,” Green Team Vice President Siddhi Jain (11) said.
During Green Team’s first meet ing on Sept. 19, SBCCC Director Steve Holmes presented on wildlife such as beavers and salmon at the creek as well as various creek projects the coalition is working on such as creating murals.
At the event, SBCCC provided materi als such as trash grabbers, bags, vests and gloves for participants and led the team along the Los Gatos Creek Trail for around two miles. Stopping at heavily-littered spots along the trail and areas closer to the creek, the attendees collected half a ton of trash primarily consisting of bottle caps, cigarettes and plastic wrappers. Accord ing to the California Coastal Commission, creek cleaners collected over seven and a half million cigarettes just on the annual cleanup days from 1988 to 2017.
BY KINNERA MULAM“I expected to pick up trash but I was still surprised that there was so much trash because in California, or at least where we live, there isn’t that much of a littering is sue,” Siddhi said. “It really opened my eyes to the intersectionality of littering and cli mate issues and also homelessness and climate justice problems.”
After the cleanup ended at 12 p.m., students headed to Campbell Park, to Breaktime Tea with glass jars and metal straws from their Buy Better Boba sale, a project they plan to continue at Harker Day on Oct. 8.
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“Will we fall victim to the same problems we have in the past?”
The Davidson Institute held its annu al Davidson Fellows ceremony at the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus on Sept. 9 and 10. The scholarship program awarded $10k, $25k and $50k prizes to high-achieving students who have completed a significant piece of work in categories ranging from STEM to litera ture or music.
Davidson Fellows and Laureates have frequently included Harker students, with alumni winners such as Cynthia Chen (‘20), Natasha Maniar (’19), Amy Jin (’18), Rajiv Movva (’18), Rishab Gargeya (’17), Vineet Kosaraju (’16) and Yi Sun (’06).
This year, senior Arjun Barrett was named a Davidson Fellow and was award ed a $10k scholarship for his project FFlate, an open-source software package that en ables websites to process and manipulate ZIP archives, PDFs and other compressed file formats faster than ever before.
“I initially created this project to add support for a level format within Geom etry Dash,” Arjun said. “I needed a library that would decompress data, but the exist ing alternatives were not very useful. So I just created my own. And when I realized it was useful for more than just Geometry
Dash, I made it open source.”
FFlate has been downloaded over 70 million times on GitHub as an open source project and has been used by large companies such as NASA, Microsoft and Google. The software has also been used by hospitals and educational sites to ac cess medical data and provide tutorials, making the internet significantly quicker and more accessible to those who are liv
Q: What initially inspired you to create this project?
A: “I was trying to add support within the game Geometry Dash, but all the software alternatives for decompressing data were very slow. So I just created my own.”
Q: Looking back, are you happy with how the project ended up?
A: “There’s really no complaints. I was able to kind of get a lot of recognition for my work, and I’m happy that it’s being used in so many places.”
ing in developing regions.
“It’s less about the fact that it’s an award and more about the validation that [my project] is actually meaningful and has contributed in some small way to some field of technology,” Arjun said. “And that’s something that I really strive to do just in general. So that’s kind of why I find it super rewarding.”
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Q: What would you say to others trying to earn a scholarship?
A: “Seek a problem you really want to solve. Along the way, you will find that you’ve done some thing bigger than you could ever have imagined.”
Although there is a lot of prepara tion that goes into competing in NACLO and IOL, like how languages are typically structured and knowing different ques tion types, in the end, Rishab believes his success is more due to intuition.
“When you go into competitions, you’re going to get some extinct language or some language that has one native speaker,” Rishab said. “It’s very standard ized in how you [prepare].”
Rishab learned how to find patterns in his head during his participation in linguistics, which was applicable beyond linguistics. He also got to solve problems that are framed as a puzzle that a linguist would be doing: recreating languages from scratch with a very limited amount of information.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of galaxies, star formations and distant exoplanets since January 2022. On Sept. 2, JWST snapped its first direct image of an alien exoplanet roughly 385 light years away. Scientists hope that the telescope will shed light on the atmospheres of exoplanets and possibly discover other habitable worlds in our solar system.
Apple released new iPhone 14 and smartwatch models
Apple launched their brand-new products at their headquarters in Cupertino, California earlier this month, which include the iPhone 14, the iPhone 14 Plus, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max and the Apple Watch Series 8. The new phones feature enhanced battery life, camera upgrades, higher screen quality and Crash Detection.
FDA approved the Moderna and Pfizer omicron boosters
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer and Moderna omicron boosters on Aug. 31. These vaccines are bivalent in nature including COVID-19 and omicron mRNA components. Ages 12 or older with primary vaccination are eligible to receive the Pfizer dose while those 18 up are eligible for Moderna.
How do you conjugate the verb “to give” in Ubykh, a Circassian language that had died over 30 years ago with the passing of its last native speaker? How do you translate a sentence from English to N|uuki, a South African language with just one remaining speaker, and back again? How do you match 22 family members to their position on a family tree, given their relationships written in Arabana, a South Australian language with less than 20 speakers today?
Tucked in between England and Ire land, the Isle of Man welcomed 184 con testants from 50 teams across 36 countries for the 19th annual International Linguis tics Olympiad (IOL), where competitors
pondered and debated problems con cerning languages from Ubykh to Ara bana. Among the eight students repre senting the United States was Harker alum Rishab Parthasarathy (‘22).
Parthasarathy received a silver medal at the IOL, and the U.S. brought home the IOL Team Trophy with the highest average individual score and a bronze medal in the team competition.
“Every day is a new experience: meet ing new people and being exposed to a re ally new culture,” Parthasarathy said. “I never knew that the Isle of Man had such a specific and vibrant culture, including multiple dialects of the same language within 20 miles of each other. It was re ally cool to be exposed to a culture that I hadn’t learned about before [and] see people who think about language.”
“I was also able to not just stagnate as a person,” Parthasarathy said. “That’s how I’ve always done things: if something is fun to me, I’ll do it. Learning science and solv ing puzzles has always been fun, so you put it together and get a perfect storm.”
Unlike math and science olympiads, linguistics olympiads offer a unique view into their field; solving these language puzzles closely resembles the real work and research of linguists. Rishab reflects on the crucial differences between linguis tics and other more typical STEM fields.
“A lot of [linguistics olympiads] is be ing able to see these patterns easily and learning how to identify patterns,” Par thasarathy said. “That’s applicable beyond just linguistics, but it’s cool to see a com petition where they’re actually teaching you what a linguist will be doing in the field which is exactly trying to recreate languages from scratch with this very lim ited range of information.”
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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) experienced ransomware attacks by a group known as Vice Society on the Sept. 3 weekend that greatly disrupted their framework, raising serious concerns over if any files were stolen. The district confirmed that the attack would not impact the opening of their schools.
California plans to ban gas-powered vehicles by 2035
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The Equality Act is meant to guarantee men and women equal representation and treatment inside public facilities of recreation, exercise and others, alongside equivalent federal funding, education, employment, housing and more. However, today’s reality is far from it. Women’s sports teams still face discrimination in funding, opportunities, media coverage and even public respect.
According to Forbes’ ranking of 50 of the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2022, tennis stars Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams were the only two female athletes to make the list, with Osaka in 19th place and Williams in 31st. Osaka’s total earnings of $59.2 million and Williams’ $45.3 million place them far behind Lionel Messi’s $130 million and Lebron James’ $121.2 million in earnings.
Sportrac’s Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) salary ranking list shows that players Jackie Young and Jewell Lloyd earn an average salary between $230,000 and $250,000. In comparison, National Basketball Association (NBA) player Stephen Curry and Bradley Beal earn over $50 million.
In soccer, the U.S. women’s national team (USWNT) has been actively fighting for equal pay for years. Even though they have had more success worldwide than their male counterparts, the team remains severely under-compensated. The USWNT has won four Women’s World Cup titles and seven Olympic medals, four
“Whatever we offer for the girls, we offer for the boys. If there’s [an exception], we then allow the girl to play on the male team, so they’re not [excluded]”
THERESA “SMITTY” SMITH VARSITY GIRLS VOLLEYBALL COACHgold, two silver and one bronze, whereas the U.S. men’s national team (USMNT) has not won a single World Cup title and only one Olympic bronze medal.
Alumni and varsity girls soccer team member Joelle Anderson (‘17) cites a lack of media coverage of women’s sports as one of the most prominent reasons
behind the stark pay gap.
“I think one of the main reasons why there’s such a huge gap is because [in] men’s sports there’s a lot more people watching it [and] there’s a lot more revenue cutting for that,” Joelle said.
As a member of the National Women’s Soccer League, she observes that even though her team is part of a professional league, the games are not broadcasted to the public and therefore lead to a lack of interest and funding in the sport.
“It’s very [rare] that they put our games on TV,” Joelle said. “If we were able to take that next step, then we would get more interest.”
Alongside the pay gap, women oftentimes feel unfair physical treatment compared to men within the sport that they play and are critiqued on their skills and abilities based on their gender.
Theresa “Smitty” Smith, upper school girls varsity volleyball coach, director of the upper school volleyball program and director of after-school sports for lower and middle school departments, comments on Harker’s variety of sports per gender.
“Whatever we offer for the girls, we offer for the boys.Whatever we offer for the boys, we offer for the girls,” Smith said.
athletes in their respective sports. These can start as early as an athlete’s sophomore year, which happened with tennis player Emily Novikov (12), who committed to Georgetown University earlier this year, and is a five-star recruit according to Tennis Recruiting Network.
“I think [recruiting] started in June of my sophomore summer,” Emily said. “That’s when schools really began talking to me, and going to my tournaments.”
When a college scouts an athlete they would want on their team, they begin reaching out, aiming to recruit as many of the best players as possible. Eventually, athletes who receive scholarship or prioritized entry offers consider visits to schools, and they ultimately pick between their offers to find the best fit.
Andrew’s, and in that case, teams will fly athletes out and pay for their stay. During unofficial visits, athletes can still visit the campus, but nothing can be paid for by the university.
Offers and interests are valued highly in the athletic community, but sometimes, finding the right fit in a college can be more difficult than receiving the offers themselves. Varsity girls soccer member Lexi Wong (12), who committed to Pitzer College for soccer, agrees with this sentiment.
“It was really hard for me [to settle with a school],” Lexi said. “There’s not a lot of good D-3s on the West Coast. It’s super stressful, but I’m glad that I don’t have to do applications [now].”
Upper school varsity girls basketball team member Annmaria Antony (12) similarly states how it is up to individual communities, like Harker, to start initiatives to spread awareness about the gender gap.
“I think that it all starts with the people, bringing attention to female athletes. Those kinds of grassroots efforts that expand beyond schools”
ANNMARIA ANTONY (12) VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYER OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION
“I think that it all starts with the people,” Annmaria said. “I think it’s those kinds of grassroots efforts that need to expand beyond schools and expand into communities and even when it comes to professional leagues. If we see more of that, I think it’s going to change a lot of people’s perception about seeing females playing sports.”
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Oct. 4 - Varsity Girls Golf vs Menlo at 3:30 P.M.
Oct. 4 - Varsity Tennis vs Castilleja at 4:15 P.M.
Oct. 4 - Varsity Girls Waterpolo vs Gunn at 6:30 P.M.
Oct. 7 - Freshman Girls Volleyball vs Prospect at 4 P.M.
As the upper school’s fall sports season kicks off, several athletes in the senior class, who have dedicated their high school years to their sport, push their athletic journey forward — past high school and into college. For most athletes, the multi-year commitment to transitioning to collegiate sports remains a grueling yet rewarding process.
This process begins with recruiting, in which representatives from colleges from across the country attend games and meets to scout the best high school
Track and field runner/jumper Andrew Fu (12) began thinking about college recruiting throughout his high school years, and while the pandemic caused him to miss part of his freshman and sophomore seasons, the time off allowed him to work on his game.
“I thought to myself, maybe I can grind [track and field] over quarantine,” Andrew said. “Maybe I can get recruited to a good college. After my junior season, that’s when I started contacting coaches, seeing a lot of interests, and sending transcripts. And now, schools are flying me out to see if I’d be a good fit.”
Each trip to a college campus an athlete takes is referred to as a “visit.” Some of these visits are official, like
After the process, some wish they did things differently to give themselves better opportunities. Looking back, Emily reflects on advice she has for younger athletes.
“The biggest piece of advice I’d give is to not be afraid to reach out to coaches,” Emily said. “What do you have to lose by sending an email?”
Emails, and other forms of communication to coaches are large parts of recruiting, as are long hours training for one’s sport. Emily highlights that communicating and attending large meets and tournaments can make the difference in recruiting.
“I was looking at D-3s when Georgetown started talking to me,” Emily said. “It’s just right place, right time.”
Oct. 8 - Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball vs South San Francisco at 11:30 A.M.
Oct. 8 - Varsity Football vs Delta Charter at 6 P.M.
Oct. 5 - Varsity Cross Country WBAL Meet at 3 P.M.
Oct. 13 - Varsity Girls Volleyball vs Priory at 5:30 P.M.
Oct. 18 - Varsity Boys Waterpolo vs Palo Alto at 5:45 P.M.
Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, retired at the age of 40 after playing in her last US Open womens’ singles tournament in New York earlier this month. Through Vogue, Williams announced her retirement on Aug. 9, wanting to focus on her family and interests. Williams played in her last tournament in Queens, New York, closing a legendary chapter for tennis fans around the world.
golf coach.
“Coaching is essentially teaching,” Cheng said. “We teach the same concepts, which are our life lessons. You can teach communication, commitment, teamwork, being a leader: all these characteristics and traits that will serve you well in life. Teaching a golfer how to hit a ball into a hole is just the vehicle that you use, but it’s all the other things that you learn from being a part of a team that are really important.”
publicized so much. She’s a name that comes to mind as soon as you think of tennis.”
PAVITH KHARA (9) GIRLS TENNIS
“Serena’s an icon in the business world and very big for equality in women’s sports. She’s broken a lot of barriers. Family is big for her too.”
J.P FRUTERRO TENNIS COACH“Serena revolutionized the tennis world in terms of her game. She’s worked hard from an underprivileged situation.”
RACHEL HERNANDEZ (11) GIRLS TENNISdesiree luo
It’s May. The sun blankets Davis Field, its light embracing the energy sizzling throughout the air. Swarms of green, yellow, black and white whisper to each other, their voices muffled by buzz of anticipation.
Dressed in ‘23 yellow, Director of Student Organizations Eric Kallbrier stands at the center of the field, microphone in one hand, trophy in the other. He waits for the buzz to settle before speaking.
“There is one person in our community who really stepped up to engage with you all during remote learning. That person is actually here today. It is one of our golf coaches...”
The voices dim even more.
“...Ie-Chen! Come on down, Coach Cheng!”
Applause erupts from all corners of the field as varsity girls golf coach Ie-Chen Cheng emerges from the crowd to receive the Spirit of Spirit award, given to staff members who display the most spirit.
Cheng’s beaming eyes betray a smile hidden underneath her green Harker mask. The award testifies to Cheng’s unwavering commitment to the Harker community even throughout remote learning, when she attended nearly every spirit event over Zoom, according to Kallbrier.
While Cheng may have only received one tangible reward for her [unwavering spirit], her presence extends far beyond spirit events and trophies. Not all students may recognize her face on campus, but to those who do, her energy is limitless. One might hear her voice traveling through the orchard to a golfer: “Turn in your permission slip today!” One might see her erupting into laughter at a table with two other golfers. Or, one might catch a glimpse of her in the audience at the spring musical, one attentive gaze among a sea of many trained on the stage.
For nearly a decade, Coach Ie has served as a mentor to golfers even outside the course. Her brief appearances on campus, though always welcomed, never fully convey the extent of her passion as a
Under Cheng’s guidance, both the boys and girls golf teams have set historical records and continue to improve each season. Cheng herself was recently named Central Coast Section (CCS) Coach of the Year in girls golf for the 2020-2021 school year. However, regardless of how many accolades she or her golfers accumulate, Cheng never follows a recipe to success; rather she strives to shape new teams with unique stories each year.
Cheng hardly played golf growing up. In fact, her passion lay first and foremost in basketball among other sports. Although injuries brought her basketball career to a halt, she couldn’t let go of athletics in her life.
“After five surgeries, I couldn’t run anymore,” Cheng said. “I knew as a competitive athlete, I had to channel my competitive energy to somewhere else. It was either ping pong or golf, and I picked golf. So I picked up golf late in life.”
“How do you not enjoy seeing people at the top of their game? I have so much respect for every athlete because they’ve dedicated their entire lives to their crafts”
The combination of solitary and social time on top of Cheng’s love for the outdoors drew her to golf. While younger, she would spend over five hours outside at a time golfing, admiring the “great weather”of California and meeting new people on the course.
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Many NBA fans will likely recall the 2014 - 2019 golden era of the Golden State Warriors, an exciting time for any basketball fan in the bay area like me when it seemed as if nothing could stand in the way of the Dub Nation. The Warriors were quickly taking over the scene, cementing themselves in NBA history as one of the best teams the league had ever seen in the modern era after making it to the finals five years in a row and winning three championships in that timespan. However, the Warriors dynasty was suddenly cut short due to a series of unfortunate injuries that led to their downfall. But little did I know, the resilient Warriors would recover from these struggles far faster than I had expected.
Cleveland Cavaliers, were among the top teams in the league over the course of four
continuous basketball seasons lasting from 2014 to 2018. The Warriors emerged as victors in the first of these four seasons, winning their first title in 40 years but unfortunately blew a 3-1 game lead in the following year to the vengeful Cavaliers. For context, the NBA Finals is formatted in a best-of-seven series, so the Warriors only needed to win one more game that year to finish the series but instead the Cavaliers won three straight and won the championship. This was around the time when I began following the NBA, and it was the first NBA Finals I had watched. It was a close game 7 at the Warriors’ Oracle Arena that came down to the wire, as the Warriors and Cavaliers were tied with three minutes to go in the
took place that would swing the game to the Cavaliers’ favor: Lebron’s iconic chasedown block on Iguodala’s fastbreak layup, and Kyrie’s side-stepping three point dagger over Curry. The Cavaliers ended up winning by 4 points, with Lebron becoming the 3rd player in NBA history to record a triple-double in a Finals Game 7. The end of this season has haunted the Warriors and their fans ever since and will continue to do so as the Warriors’ haters find any chance they can to bring up the Warriors blowing the 2016 Finals.
However, the Warriors did not let this humiliating incident discourage them as they bounced back the very next season to earn the 2016-2017 title with the blockbuster acquisition of Kevin Durant. At this point, the Warriors superteam
seasons prior, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and now Durant. On the contrary, the general NBA fanbase, especially jealous Oklahoma City Thunder fans, perceived Durant’s actions as selfish and a betrayal to the NBA because of his decision to join the already favored team so he could win himself a title. Durant gained a negative reputation, receiving hate and many slanderous nicknames such as “snake” and “cupcake”, and also beefed with former teammate Russell Westbrook from the OKC Thunder after being the team’s dynamic duo for the past 8 years prior. All this just further goes to show how much greater he would make this already overpowered Warriors team, which looked like a fantasy at this point. The NBA community was essentially admitting that the Warriors were unfairly
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A slice of apple pie with a crispy, golden crust and a gooey, cinnamony fill ing. A perfectly tart and rich huckleberry sauce, spread atop a piece of pumpkin bread. A juicy chicken roast, surrounded by a colorful array of freshly harvested squashes and herbs.
Fall foods are known to bring peo
ple together, and it’s no different in the Harker upper school community.
As the weather grows cooler, the upper school community members have begun cooking and baking their favor ite autumn treats. From apple hand-pies to chili soup, there is no shortage of fall foods. But if you’re unsure of where to start, take a look at some of our “pick of the patch” recipes below.
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“Gravenstein apples have a really tart smell, and they are really good in pies: I love making apple pies, apple galettes, apple hand pies, and applesauce”
~ Arthur Wu (10)
“My sister and I love the Trader Joes’ pumpkin bread, but we found a recipe online that’s even better. Pumpkin bread is one of my favorite desserts year-round and especially during the fall”
~Avery Olson (12)
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Whisk together 2 cups of flour, 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1 tea spoon of nutmeg.
Use an electric mixer to mix 1.5 sticks of room-temper ature, unsalted butter and 2 cups of white sugar until fluffy. Add in two eggs, one at a time, and then com bine in 15 ounces of pumpkin pureé.
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Combine 5 cups of diced apples, 2 tablespoons of un salted butter, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of nutmeg into a pot.
Cook over medium-heat until the butter has melted and the apples have softened. 2
Roll store-bought (or homemade) pie dough until it is about 1/8 inches thick. 3
Cut the dough into small rectangles and spread apple filling on top, leaving a bit of space around the edges. 4
Lay strips of dough on the filling in a lattice or any other fun pattern. Use a knife to cut off excess dough, and press a fork into the edges to seal. 5
Bake on parchment paper at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes and let cool. 6
Recipe adapted from “Fork, Knife, Swoon”
Gently mix in the flour and spice blend. 3
Use butter to grease two 8x4-inch loaf pans, and pour the batter into the tins. 4
Bake at 325 degrees for 70 minutes, and let cool. 5
Recipe adapted from “Once Upon A Chef”
snickerdoodles
“I’ve been eating snick erdoodle cookies ever since I was really young, so they make me feel comfortable and more at home. Cinnamon also goes with fall really well”
~ Tanvi Sivakumar (9)
“There are dozens of people that sleep in their cars, so I brought them this big pot of chili.
It was nice to provide them with one hot meal”
~ Upper school math teacher Bradley Stoll