Author: John MacMillen

  • News Briefs

    Heritage Festival From April 14 to April 17, the Newbury Park Choir competed in the annual Heritage Festival in San Francisco. Women’s Ensemble won second place gold, Advanced Women’s Ensemble won second place gold, Concert Choir won first place gold, Men’s Choir won first place gold, and Chamber Singers won second place gold. The…

  • Soundcloud: Making music on campus

    Soundcloud is a large, international library of music. Whether it’s rock, rap, or electronic, people from all over the world have produced and contributed to it, including several students. “I make music during my free time,” said senior Kevin Norgaard, who regularly contributes to Soundcloud. “I usually post just random tracks, remixes that I…

  • The Top 4%: Student photographers become finalists

    Four NPHS students have succeeded in becoming finalists in the nationwide Photographer’s Forum Magazine Student Photo Contest: seniors Andy Cho, Madison Hutchison, Brandon Chen, and Monetha Raghani. “Photographer’s Forum is a big magazine in the photography industry. It’s a really prestigious magazine as well,” Chen said. Of the 14,000 contestants that had competed to…

  • There’s no trumping Trump

    Donald Trump truly appears to be “unstumpable” as the number of his supporters continues to increase within the Republican party, following two very strong showings in the Iowa and New Hampshire Republican primaries. While a candidate succeeding is not necessarily surprising, the fact that Trump has been able to survive, plan, and use negative…

  • Road to Election 2016

    Caucuses: Do they matter? For students who spend time on any media outlet, it’s impossible to scroll through Twitter or switch to a news channel without hearing something about the 2016 candidates and their fight to the primaries. In between hearing angry remarks about Donald Trump and statements about why we shouldn’t trust Hillary…

  • Taekwondo black belts become teachers

    To some, a black belt is a chic fashion accessory, but to others, it represents years of hard work and dedication to martial arts. Andy Cho, senior, and Anna Cismaru, junior, are black belts in the field of taekwondo and their passion for the art has led them to instructing positions for their studio.…