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NP ideals: Students bring nobility, potential, humanity and scholarship to nation’s top service academies For applicants, choosing a future at one of the five Federal Service Academies is a unique choice to make, and although the select few students who decide to follow this path are free from tuition induced debt, they must serve…
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The big one is coming. At least that’s what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory has predicted. In an article published in September 2015, the organization forecasted a 99.9% chance that the LA region will experience an earthquake of a 5.0 magnitude or above within the next few years. NASA’s…
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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…
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Of all the things this school offers to its students, block schedule is one of the best. It’s something that helps set this school apart from many others. Block schedule allows students to take just three one and a half hour classes a day (excluding early morning and after school opportunities) instead of the…
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“The risk is worth the reward,” said Tyler Weyman, Junior, after describing how he has broken multiple bones during his motocross career. Weyman has been doing Motocross, an intense sport that involves motorcycle riders driving on a dirt track and fighting to be the first to complete a certain number of laps since a…
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We like to think that we are head and shoulders above the rest. By “the rest,” we tall people are of course referring to the general masses, henceforth to be referred to as “shorties.” We ignore the constant inquiries about the weather up here by simply explaining that our brains are literally at a…
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Everyone has their own opinion about Newbury Park High School from admiring the IB program to criticising us. Here’s what some students from other schools in our area are saying about us. “I think they are always very smart and social. We hear about their football games a lot and how they are always…
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Prequels The fourth installment in the Star Wars series took the audience back to the beginning and began a new prequel trilogy. “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” follows the story of a 9-year-old boy, Anakin Skywalker, after he is rescued from slavery by Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. New characters were…
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Due to a recent athletic amendment, transgender students in all CVUSD schools are now allowed to compete on the sports team of the gender which they identify with. “If somebody feels comfortable with who they are, and can go out for the team of a (sport) they love, and they can make friends with…