Author: Nikita Prokhorov

  • The NPBA season begins

    “Are you ready to get destroyed tonight, son?” Yaser Khokhar, senior, taunted one of his friends. The subject of his banter is the popular and ever-growing sports group nicknamed NPBA, the Newbury Park Basketball Association.   Newbury Park Basketball Association is a recreational league that gives all high school students a chance to play…

  • Senioritis bites the dust

    High School seems to be all about deadlines, but certain students at NPHS have decided to push the most important deadline just a few month before its due – graduation. Graduating early can help students that wish to pursue goals outside of high school or those that have a desire to take a break…

  • Out with the Philosopher, In with the Plumber

    Starting with the end of the 1950s, the amount of young Americans going to college has skyrocketed; this has been facilitated by teachers pressuring students, universities advertising themselves, and a growing sense of entitlement that sprung up thanks to the growing “give me that” mentality of the post World War II era. The current…

  • Teachers remember Halloweens past

    Fall is a season of change, a precursor to the rebirth of spring. One of America’s greatest fall traditions, Halloween, has also seen many changes throughout the years. In order to better understand these changes, we have decided to investigate how the teachers of Newbury Park celebrated the spooky jamboree as children, compared with…

  • Planned Parenthood: to defund or not to defund

    For defunding – Nikita Prokhorov In a series of videos produced and released by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) various Planned Parenthood officials and affiliates are shown discussing legal loopholes, cover ups, and illegal partial-birth abortions. In the fifth video released by CMP on July 30, 2015 a doctor from a Planned Parenthood affiliate…

  • Wakie Wakie

    The new 2015 to 2016 school year has just begun and nearly every student faces the same problem, waking up on time for class. Fortunately, for those of us who are tired of using the boring and antiquated alarm clock or the slightly less humdrum radio alarm, an exciting new way of waking up…

  • Brash and Bern: The Presidential Election of 2016

    This election seems to have no room for conventional politicians. Watching the race has been exciting thus far, with bombastic and fiery statements from unconventional candidates, but things are just heating up. Republican hopeful Donald Trump has been rooted in newspaper headlines for several months now and his support from the Republican party appears…