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It’s 6:30 a.m on a Saturday and the campus is full of students ready to dedicate their day to volunteering in one of the biggest events hosted at this school. With a little help from coffee, bagels and donuts, these students have smiles on their faces as they are ready to begin their day.…
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Background High school graduation is a transitionary period for every senior. Many students continue their education at a junior college or four-year university, excited to attend their choice college; others decide to take a year off to work or set aside time for self-reflection. For some students, graduation means the beginning of a path…
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Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. These are all things that make a student one of character in the eyes of our school’s National Honors Society (NHS). The cafeteria filled with students and their proud families as the annual ceremony for Students of Character began on Feb. 1. The event took place from…
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As the famous artist Romero Britto once said, art is too important not to share. Jennifer Lee and Tracy Acosta, art teachers, took their students on a field trip to the Fowler Museum on Jan. 20. Many students from art classes varying from color and design to IB Visual Arts attended the field trip…
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The 1975 had not released new music for over a year, and their millions of fans were left wondering when they would be back with new songs for their playlists. All of their dreams would be realized when they dropped their first single “Give Yourself a Try.” I patiently waited for the full album…
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It is that time of year. It is starting to get chilly outside, students are looking forward to their much-needed break and dance students are working harder than ever. It’s winter dance concert season. This year the dance concert was titled “Newbury Heights” and had shows available from Dec. 13 to Dec 15.…
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“It’s estimated that the average individual creates around 4 pounds of trash per day, which adds up to nearly 1,500 pounds of trash per year,” according to recyclenation.com. On Oct. 20, the Hands on Earth club met at the high school in order to kick off their trash audit event. Katie Rose, senior, attended…
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Around this time of year English students are wrapping up their mandatory poetry unit, groaning about the ambiguity sonnets and the poetry terms they have to memorize for their upcoming test, meanwhile, Caitlin Meaney, junior, is busy constructing metaphors and double entendres to share her thoughts with others in her free time. Meaney began…
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Several areas in the city of Thousand Oaks were temporarily without power during the late hours of Sunday night, on Oct. 9 which left many residents searching for spare candles to illuminate their homes while waiting for their power to return. The area affected included Lynn Road to Hillcrest Drive. Additionally, many moviegoers were…
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Within the first hours of the trailer’s release, the new Netflix original show, Insatiable, was denounced as a fat-shaming and harmful attempt at comedy. People even went as far as starting a petition, that eventually garnered over 230,000 signatures, to get the show cancelled. At this point I was left wondering, who in the…