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With their first play of the year, the theater department brought High Noonish, an original melodrama spinoff of the 1950’s western film High Noon, to the stage of the Performing Arts Center. “Because it’s an original we can kind of cater it towards our school,” Allison Martinez, freshman, said. “It’s super quirky and very…
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The Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education passed an amendment that will give transgender students the ability to play on the sports team of the gender they identify with on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Administrative regulation 6145.2, which had previously received a 2-2 vote from the board, also ensures students the right…
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Receiving an off-campus pass is a benefit for upperclassmen that must be earned. This year, however, a handful of students who didn’t qualify for an off-campus pass have tried to circumvent the rules and take advantage of this privilege. According to the CVUSD Policy and Procedures manual, the criteria for receiving an off-campus pass…
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Students who have not passed the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) since 2006 will now be able to receive their high school diplomas after Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill No. 172 on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The exam will also be suspended until the 2017-2018 school year. According to the California Department of…
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This school year, the College Board changed the date of the PSAT from its usual time on a Saturday to Wednesday, Oct. 14. The school district was notified about the date change last spring. “It was without any given reason and (we were) not given an option to change,” said Bennett Wutkee, vice principal.…
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This October, The Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club is conducting a drive called H2 Outreach to gather toiletries for LGBTQ youth who have been kicked out of their homes by their unsupportive families. All proceeds are donated to LGBTQ teens currently living in a housing facility of LifeWorks, a non-profit organization aimed at helping…
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Visual Photography’s first deadline to submit the portraits disc for the yearbook was Oct. 7, which should have contained all underclassmen and faculty pictures. The yearbook staff did not receive it until Oct. 9, at which point they found a number of issues on the disc. The disc Visual Photography submitted to the yearbook…
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On Sept. 30, yet another attack occurred on the Planned Parenthood health institute, this time in Thousand Oaks on Hillcrest. According to a Ventura County police report, “investigators determined an unknown suspect wearing clothing to protect his identity crudely threw a large piece of masonry through a window on the south side of the…
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An armed robbery occurred at Pizza Hut on Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Newbury Park Place shopping center on South Reino Road, only about a mile from campus. The police response included a helicopter to search for the suspect. The crime played out even closer to junior Conrad Jones’s house than to the school.…