free speech

  • Leave us alone, Westboro Baptists

    The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is coming to town. The easiest way to summarize the WBC is simply by attempting to visit their website under the CVUSD firewall. Type in “Westboro Baptist Church” and click the first link you see — the organization’s official homepage. The site, which you will notice has the url…

  • Hello Big Brother: CDC restricts seven words

    Under the Trump Administration, the words:  “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based,” are strongly advised not to be used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for 2019 budget documents. CDC director Brenda Fitzgerald assures that these words are not banned from use. However, budget analysts were reportedly given…

  • Teachers should bring their personal opinions into the classroom

    The classroom hears it all: from nonessential gossip to controversial topics, it is a place where thought and discussion can proliferate– until a teacher has to promptly exclude him or herself from the conversation. Some teachers have built a wall around their personal political beliefs for one reason or another: they do not want…

  • Remembering Our Rights: Rights and Responsibilities of Student Journalist and Why We Report

    Before the three bullets pierced his chest and killed him, before he walked almost 400 kilometers and fasted for days, before he was the leader of the nonviolent protests against British imperialization in India, Mahatma Gandhi was a journalist. After more than forty years of working to express the voice of his fellow countrymen…