March 24, 2010
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Marine Bio visits harbor, aquarium
By Hank Gerba
photos courtesy of megan hilliard
ships ahoy: Billy Lourd ’10, Natalie Margolin ’10 and Ethan Kurtzman ’10 sift through mud in search of worms and other marine species. Katherine Gallagher ’11 demonstrated boat safety by wearing a life vest on her Oceanography and Marine Biology class’s trip. OMB is taught by Dr. Blaise Eitner.
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The Oceanography and Marine Biology class took a field trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific and spent time on a boat to apply the concepts learned in class. The 19-person class went on a behind-the-scenes tour at the aquarium during where they learned about the different species it houses. The class had time to visit the displays of the animals that they had learned about throughout the year. “It was a great way to see the animals and concepts that we have been learning about,” Megan Hilliard ’10 said. The trip occurs annually. The class also took a field trip on a boat in the Long Beach Harbor a week before. On March 9, the class went on a multi-story yacht that left from Rainbow Marina, which is also in Long Beach. “We stayed in the breakwater and conducted a series of little experiments,” Mattie Calvert ’10 said. These experiments included collecting plankton and fish in nets in order to study them. After separating the fish, they studied each of the species and related it to what they had learned in class. The class also collected a sample of mud which they separated and classified, putting their classroom knowledge into practice.
Alum, parent lecture at leadership summit By Catherine Wang
The third annual Student Leadership Summit featured Dr. Howard Marks (Andrew ’05), founder and chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, Saturday March 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. in Chalmers East and West. Students attending the summit included Prefect Council members, Community Council members, Student Athletic Advisory Committee members, Chronicle and Vox editors and various club leaders in grades nine through 12 grade. Head of School Dr. Jeanne Huybrechts introduced the featured speaker. Se said she heard Marks speak at UCLA in an MBA class and wanted students to have the same experience. Marks, spoke to students about his work and the role of ethics in successfully leading a business. He stressed that in leading Oaktree, he hopes to make good investments, treat employers and clients well, and avoid hierarchical internal workings. Marks attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he was taught that making a profit is the sole purpose of running a business, he said. This notion brought a question to Marks’ mind. “Every day at work, a potential conflict arises,” Marks said. “Do you care more about yourself or others?” To roughly judge how ethical his business is, Marks uses the “New York Times test.” He asks himself if he would be comfortable publishing details of his business management on the cover of the New York Times. If he feels the need to hide something that his company is doing, it should not be doing it, he said. After concluding his speech, Marks answered questions from students regarding ethics, business and investing. In the next portion of the summit, students split into three breakout groups. In one of the breakout groups, Director of Student
Affairs Jordan Church spoke to students about “paradigm shifts.” A Paradigm is what is expected of a particular situation or person. Leaders, Church emphasized, should learn to recognize negative paradigms and try to “shift away” from them. In the second breakout group, Mark Mitchell ’95 talked about his time working at a record company. During his time there, the music industry underwent a drastic change as online downloading quickly overtook CD sales. Mitchell stressed the importance of leaders being flexible and able to embrace change. In the third breakout group, students discussed a situation brought up in the New York Times Magazine’s column “The Ethicist,” which was written by Randy Cohen. A reader wrote Cohen about the private school her husband worked at, where two students who arrived at a school event with marijuana were asked to skip a day of school. Rather than call this penalty a “suspension,” the school called it a “restriction” so as not to put it on the students’ school record. The reader asked Cohen if the school’s use decision was ethical. Students gave their personal answers to this question before listening to the answer written in the column. On the one hand, the administration wanted to protect the reputation of the students, but on the other, the school has an obligation to the universities to which the students applied. Some student leaders pointed out that by calling the punishment a “restriction,” the administration wasn’t harsh enough on the students. Cohen wrote that the school’s decision was unethical. “I feel like I learned a lot from the Summit,” Community Council member Patrick Edwards ’11 said. “It was cool being around all of the other student leaders as well.”
HWPA Annual Event to feature Randy Newman By Victor Yoon
Academy and Grammy Awardwinner Randy Newman (Amos ’86, John ’96, Patrick ’10 and Alice ’11), who wrote and performed “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” for the movie “Toy Story,” will perform at the HarvardWestlake Parents’ Association Annual Event. Newman, a singer, songwriter, composer and pianist, is famous for his film scores. He has scored many movies, including “The Natural” and “Meet the Parents.” He has also scored five DisneyPixar films: “Monsters, Inc.,” “A Bug’s Life,” “The Princess and the Frog,”
“Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.” Newman has won four Grammy Awards and one Academy Award. The HWPA Annual Event, “A Special Musical Evening with Randy Newman,” will include a wine tasting at the Middle School, a performance by Randy Newman at the Bing Performing Arts Center. A buffet supper and an auction. The event will start at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 17. Tickets to the event are $150 each, and all proceeds will support financial aid. The event is being chaired by Namhee Han Gilhuly ’80 (Emma ’10 and Ty ’13) and Diana Lancs
Nathanson ’81 (Olivia ’10 and Nicholas ’13). The event will include a live auction and an “opportunity drawing.” Laker tickets and a table reading with the cast of “The Simpsons.” Prizes for the “opportunity drawing” include a three-night stay at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai in Hawaii, an Apple Macbook Pro computer, an iPod Touch with some of Randy Newman’s favorite albums and an upper school student parking space. Prizes for the live auction include Tickets and additional information are available at www.hwannualevent. com.
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pizza party: Courtney Hazy ’11 buys a slice of pepperoni pizza, sold by the prom committee in honor of March Madness.
School celebrates March Madness By Catherine Wang
In celebration of March Madness,” the annual three-week competition between the top 64 men’s college basketball teams, students took part in a game of knock-out basketball and watched the games in Taper Gymnasium last week. About 50 students took part in the knock-out game March 15 during break. Jonah Rosenbaum ’10 won the game and was awarded a minature basketball hoop. The Student Advisory Athletic Committee, the Social Committee and the Prefect Council worked together to organize these festivities. “People kept playing until the end of break, just starting up game after game and it was really fun,” SAAC member Tiana Woolridge ’11 said. “Everyone was really into it and excited, which was great.” On Thursday and Friday, pizza was served in Taper as students cheered for their favorite teams. The committees also sold pizza in the quad. On Thursday, some students came to school dressed to support their favorite team, sporting jerseys and other gear. There is currently an online bracket competition on the Yahoo! Sports website, in which students predict the outcome of the March Madness tournament. Matthew Wolfen ’12 is currently in first place. There are 88 people registered for the competition. The team that wins March Madness is the NCAA Champion.