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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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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On August 26, 2015, the new website of NPHS was released. The website, which was designed by Richard Kick, computer science teacher and website designer, was created under the watch of principal Joshua Eby and the approval of the district. “It’s a template from the district and Mr.Kick is working with that. He’s been…
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The Ventura County Courthouse was stuffed full of high school kids, rushing and yelling in every direction, flying around in high heels or a suit and tie. But despite all the commotion and noise, under the surface, there is a method to the madness of the crowd. And this is true for the mock…
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A packed room and a table full of food marked the beginning of a debate about one of the country’s most serious controversial topics – the death penalty. On Feb. 26, Steve Johnson, adviser for Amnesty International Club and history teacher, and Nikita Prokhorov, senior, discussed the issue in a debate hosted by the…
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From behind the curtains, fifteen NPHS boys anxiously awaited their entrance onto the stage, where they would showcase their talents and studliness in competition for the title of best stud at Newbury Park High School. Though junior Anthony Cancasci would eventually claim that honor, the biggest winner in last Friday’s Stud Pageant may have…