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Swim Although Westlake High School has historically dominated the Marmonte League swim teams, this year’s NPHS team is looking forward to upsetting their throne after several close races last year. “The goal this year is to rile everyone up, get them all excited for swim team, and hopefully maybe beat Westlake,” Sandy Nguyen, senior…
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Think of any typical science fiction film and images of aggressive extraterrestrials, militaristic flying spacecrafts and advanced laser guns immediately come to mind. This is not so for “Arrival”: focusing on the philosophy rather than the action of sci-fi, its aliens are peaceful elephant-like heptapods, the spacecraft is an inactive oblong block, and the…
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Imagine life without leather belts, juicy steaks, drugstore foundation and weekend trips to Seaworld. This may sound like a distant dream, but for vegans, it’s a very real, daily lifestyle. Vegans avoid all products and events which use or exploit animals, including food, clothing, makeup, and entertainment choices. Many vegans choose this lifestyle due…
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The health department and CVUSD School Board have begun the process of revising the health class curriculum in order to align with Assembly Bill No. 329, which was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in early October 2015 and took effect at the start of 2016. The law mandates sexual education along with…
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As the cymbals tap away consistently like the sound of quivering glass, saxophones, trombones and trumpets blare in syncopation with a rhythm of long-short notes. The notes climb higher and higher, swirling as they reach the climax, then drop to silence as the piano rings bright against the light backdrop of cymbals and toms.…
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As young and naive children who watched Disney Channel and read Harry Potter, we dreamed about high school. We dreamed about tall swanky lockers that we’d decorate with posters and pictures, close friend groups that clashed against other groups, and bubbled-in scantrons of standardized tests that held the key to our success (well, maybe…
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Downtown LA traffic. No other words even need to be spoken for this phrase to immediately conjure an image of a long, solid mass of red tail lights and white front lights crammed into thin, 3-lane strips of highway. Even in the local streets, cars and buses meander through Los Angeles’s awkward curvy streets…
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President Barack Obama has proposed a “CS For All” initiative to promote computer science in K-12 schools and in communities across the nation. In an address on Jan. 30, he revealed details of his plan, which include a $4 billion budget for states and school districts to expand their computer science classes, $135 million…
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Newbury Park High School hosted the Tri-County Forensic League’s Individual State Events Qualifier on March 4-5. With 26 schools in attendance, this was the largest speech tournament of the league and the biggest event ever hosted by NPHS’s speech and debate branch, which is relatively new and small compared to other branches. “We were…
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Janet Conner, I.B. English teacher and Extended Essay coordinator, was awarded on Jan. 28 with the Exemplary I.B. Educator Award by the California Association of World Schools (CAWS) for her representation and dedication to the program. Specifically, CAWS states that the award “is offered in recognition of an outstanding educator at your school who…