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  • Friday Brief: April 15, 2016

    ASG Elections Elections for Associated Student Government president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and parliamentarian were held on Friday, April 15 from the start of nutrition at 9:50 until the end of lunch at 12:30. Ballots were submitted electronically for the first time through a survey for students’ learn accounts. Boys’ Tennis Boys lost to…

  • Create and Compete: Jazz bands take music to a new level of creativity

    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.…

  • Friday Brief 4/9/2016

    California Mathematics League Panthers earned a season total of 157 points out of 180 in the California Mathematics League Competition, beating Oaks Christian by three points to clinch the title of first place team in Ventura County for the third year in a row. The six-problem competitions were hosted throughout the year by Math…

  • Students display creative works at art show

    The art show took place on the week of March 14-17 and featured a number of independent artists and the works from art classes on campus. The show was held in the cafeteria and showcased artists, photographers, and poets. One artist that showcased his work was Spencer Cabello, junior, who has taken Art Media…

  • Friday Brief: April 1, 2016

    Boys’ Baseball Panthers played in the Bishop Gorman Desert Classic this week in Las Vegas, NV and won 4-0 in their first game versus Desert Hills (UT) on Wednesday, March 30. They further went on to win games against Tucson (AZ) and Galena (NV) in their pool on Thursday and Friday, and will advance…

  • Reactions on Facebook bring new meaning to a “like”

    The simple “like” button has been used to pay acknowledgement to millions of Facebook posts on the internet. As the popularity of emojis increased, people began to feel restricted by a single option for response. Facebook recently decided to turn to the animated faces and released a set of “reactions” to posts, rather than…

  • Solo artists win big at talent show

    Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes past 6 o’clock and people were still filing into Newbury Park’s Performing Arts Center. At twenty minutes past the scheduled start time, the lights dimmed, quieting the crowd of excited students and anxious parents. ASG’s NPHS Talent Show was under way. The spotlight first shown on Masters of…

  • Dzieciol and Lu break two records at first meet of the season

    In their first league meet against Camarillo on Mar. 3, the swim team broke two school records: girls’ 100 yard butterfly and boys’ 100 yard backstroke. Victoria Dzieciol, freshman, broke the girls’ 100 fly by .02 seconds at her first ever high school meet, while Jason Lu, sophomore, rebroke the boys’ 100 back record…

  • TEDx Tackles World Wide Problems

    Sixteen speakers took the stage of the Performing Arts Center on March 6 to give their TED talks about “lenses” at the second annual TEDxYouth@Conejo Conference, an independently organized TED event for high school students in the community. TED is an organization in which speakers from various ethnicities, backgrounds and fields share their takes…

  • Short-take: Club vs. Interest Group transition unfolds

    The revisions to the labeling of student organizations is important to students who worry that this change in title might not benefit their college applications. Although in the past, all student organizations have been blanket labelled as “clubs”, many are transitioning their titles to “interest groups” for financial reasons. Carly Adams, Dean of Activities,…