Not every high school student gets to explore the mechanics of fire trucks, go on 911 calls, and experience life in a fire station. However, for students enrolled in the Fire Cadet program, these experiences are just an ordinary part of the job. The Fire Cadet program allows high school seniors to work in…
Popular among the LGBTQ community and its supporters, the new web series “Carmilla,” found on YouTube, is based off of the gothic novel of the same name written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Taking place in Silas University, this light dramedy involves the mystery of missing students and gay vampires. The story begins with…
In response to offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, two gunmen attacked the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” on the morning of Jan. 7, killing 12 people, including the editor of the magazine. This attack has brought to light the controversy surrounding free speech and respect for religion. “Charlie Hebdo” has come to stand for…
On Jan. 27, the App Club officially released an app called ‘Newbury Park High’ for Apple products. Junior Harsh Karia, president of the App Club, wanted to create the app in order to allow clubs to more easily communicate with their members and the student body as a whole. The goal of the app…
Rob Marshall’s “Into the Woods” is a musical turned movie that combines the fairy tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and an original tale of a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child. However, what makes this movie different from other Disney fairy tale adaptations…
When the United Blood Services came to campus to collect blood, students who identify as homosexual or bisexual were not allowed to donate because of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies that state that no homosexual person can donate blood – policies that are based on an antiquated stigma surrounding gays and HIV/AIDs. These…
The epic stories of Middle Earth have come to an end with “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” a decently spectacular but slightly controversial installment. To continue Smaug’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) furiosity after the confrontation by Thorin’s company in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the film begins with the dragon Smaug destroying…
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…
If you’re anything like me, the buildup to finals is matched in terribleness only by the crushing, empty feeling afterwards. You know, the limbo between Friday and whenever grades are due (even though you can’t see them on Zangle Q) when, without anything to study for, you are waiting anxiously to be informed about…
Richard Kick, computer science and math teacher vs. Allison Nguyen, senior 1. Who created an average of one patent every 3 weeks of his life? Kick: Henry Ford Nguyen: … I don’t even know Answer: Thomas Edison Even though Henry Ford had a multitude of patents on automotive parts, it was nowhere near…