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A competitive adult bagpipe band is the last thing you’d expect to find in a high school cafeteria in the middle of the night. But if you came to campus at the right time, that’s exactly what you’d see. 20 members of the Pacific Coast Highlanders get together every Thursday night in the NPHS…
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NPHS alumni joined protests at the University of California, Berkeley in response to the recent wave of police brutality starting with a string of fatal police shootings over the summer. According to 2013 alumna Sravya Singampalli, protesters have organized marches from Berkeley to Oakland with crowds of about 1,000 students and residents. “You feel…
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Do it for Jakeb: The struggle to unite and fight against bullying “I think about Jakeb every day. That’s why I’m wearing this bracelet. It says ‘do it for Jakeb’. But every day, I think about his mom, I think about his dad, and I think about his baby sister, and his two brothers.…
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“We were sitting in class and there was a knock on the door,” said Mariana de Maillé, senior. “And in walks some strangers I didn’t recognize, along with our principal and some of our other administrators, my mom, and a lady dressed up like Wendy (from the fast food chain).” De Maillé was chosen…
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An accomplished pianist and violinist, senior Taylor Hertz both plays music and writes it. Over the duration of his musical career, Hertz has composed both piano and orchestral music. Hertz began his musical journey at a very young age. When Hertz was two, his older sister took piano lessons and would often play Beethoven’s…
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With over 232 million users, Twitter has emerged as a popular social networking site for teens to talk about what they just ate, when they last pooped on the field, or to let the world know when it’s raining. However, with the increased reach of such technology, Twitter has begun to appeal to a…
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Despite the ceasefire that ended Operation Protective Edge in late August, violence between Israel and Palestine has persisted. In the past week, several people were killed, including two minors with American citizenship, a fourteen-year-old Palestinian boy, and a three-month-old Jewish girl. For students who have family in Israel and Palestine, the struggles abroad have…
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Traveling to a foreign country for a year, attending a new school, and living with a family you have never met can be daunting. But every year, students all over the world, like juniors Louise Lisra and Darleen Hunziker, take on this challenge. This year, Lisra and Hunziker joined the EF (Education First) foreign…
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In the past few months, the world has been struck with an ebola panic, stemming from the outbreak of cases in Western Africa. Stories and and photographs have gone viral, ranging from a woman dressed in hazmat suit in the terminal of a Dallas airport to schools being shut down due to the chance…
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Clairvoyance: ten years of spirit sensing Taryn Schweissinger, junior, claims that she can tell where there is a spirit around her. “It’s hard to explain, but it’s a sense that you would know is real,” she says. According to Schweissinger, some people in her family also have the same ability to experience the presence…