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  • Lies and Truths of High School

    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…

  • 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…

  • Wasteful runs in the concrete jungle: Why marathons don’t belong in the city

    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…

  • March Madness in Music

    Launch into springtime and help assuage your fears for upcoming AP and IB tests with some new music. “I Wanna Be Sedated” by Ramones – If you live under a rock or are one of those hipster kids who just wear old band shirts to look cool, now is your chance to experience the Ramones.…

  • My Phone, My Rules: Why Spying Isn’t Cool

    It’s common practice for parents to go through their child’s technology. I mean, my mom follows me on Instagram, but there’s nothing there that I want to hide. In fact, I consider myself a pretty good kid. But there’s one thing I’m extremely grateful for: privacy. It’s not like I keep many secrets from…

  • Dodge to make a difference: LLS hosts dodgeball tournament

    Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) Club hosted a dodgeball tournament at the Borchard Community Center on March 12 to raise money and support a cure for leukemia and lymphomas, types of blood cancers. By the end of the tournament, LLS had raised $300. The idea was introduced before winter break by club member Brayden Tokuyama,…

  • Murder mystery dinner combines spaghetti and acting

    “I’ve been stabbed!” Craig Hastings yelled out, as he wobbled across the room in character. The murder mystery had just begun, and the audience was hungry for more. The theater department hosted a fundraising dinner Friday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, Feb. 27, starting at six pm, featuring an interactive play revolving around the untimely…

  • 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…