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On April 27, junior Jessica Han missed a call from Congresswoman Julia Brownley. So, instead of finding out that she had won the District-wide U.S. Congress High School Visual Arts Competition from the Congresswoman herself, she found out from a voicemail. Han’s piece, a portrait she titled “Auburn”, was chosen to represent California’s 26th…
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BREAKING, March 12 9:43PM—Students participating in the school-wide game of “Water Assassins” have been looking over their shoulders, behind their cars, and outside their bedroom windows constantly since the game started on March 10. On the afternoon of March 12, the situation escalated when two cars full of students were involved in an accident…
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The response to our special edition magazine has been unprecedented. While we have heard a lot of positive feedback from students and parents alike, we have also received criticism from a handful of community members who are concerned about the publication of our magazine – in particular, our cover story on teenage sex as…
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As if running the first eight wasn’t enough, senior Elizabeth Ging ran her ninth 50 kilometer race “ultramarathon” on Feb. 7, the latest stride in her running career. Elizabeth grew up watching her father, Roger Ging, run ultramarathons (races that are over 26.2 miles). When she was 12 years old, they started training together.…
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When we decided to change things up last year with our first special edition magazine, we didn’t know exactly what we were getting ourselves into. Even though it required an incredible amount of work to produce a 32-page magazine, the reception we received validated all of our efforts: the late nights we spent in…
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Girls’ Tennis Coach Harvey Mardyks has adapted a unique method of team tryouts from those used at country clubs that he feels eliminates unfairness and subjectivity on our tennis courts. Mardyks’ method is called the ladder: a spreadsheet containing every prospective player’s name and their relative ranking, as determined through a challenge system. An…
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To the disgruntled students who wanted to take AP English or AP Spanish, you are not alone in your annoyance at this year’s changed schedule. Both of these classes were cancelled and are no longer offered, and students wishing to take either class were enrolled in IB English or IB Spanish in a schoolwide…
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Walking into Teresa Hoff’s house is like looking into a lost memory. Boxes of photographs are stacked in the corners of the hallways. A girl looks out across the house from every wall, moments of her life immortalized inside countless picture frames with permanent smiles. The girl is Aimee Hoff, Teresa’s only daughter and…
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Sitting outside Starbucks on a lazy Friday afternoon, Allison Paulson is the perfect picture of a So-Cal high school junior. Sporting a navy blue Aeropostale sweatshirt and jeans, coupled with blond hair pulled up into a nonchalant bun, Paulson leans forward in her chair, laughing and illustrating her stories with wide sweeps of her…