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An unprecedented policy procedure at the Oct. 2 CVUSD school board meeting left both board members and community members perplexed. Vice President Sandee Everett had previously proposed an action item to censure Trustee Betsy Connolly under the premise of social media misconduct. Yet in the third hour of the meeting, when President John Andersen…
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A lockdown was initiated on Sept. 17 after an attempted break-in to the cafeteria and a threatening social media post occured over the previous weekend. A police investigation was carried out over the course of third period that day, although both the administration and sheriff’s department believed that the search was more of a…
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In 1991, during his confirmation, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received accusations of sexual harassment from professor Anita Hill. Over 25 years later, the American public is faced with an uncanningly similar situation. On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, as a replacement for retiring Justice…
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Within the first hours of the trailer’s release, the new Netflix original show, Insatiable, was denounced as a fat-shaming and harmful attempt at comedy. People even went as far as starting a petition, that eventually garnered over 230,000 signatures, to get the show cancelled. At this point I was left wondering, who in the…
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Scouting the globe As the summer temperatures started to rise, many students looked to gain new experiences across the world. Whether it was biking across the narrow streets of Copenhagen, venturing up Mt. Whitney to look across the rocky skyline or sitting in the back of a lake house, students learned about the various…
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First Amendment rights do not stop at the schoolhouse gate. This was a common mantra among student protesters during the 1960s as the Vietnam War prompted conflicts between school publications and administration. Articles containing anti-war sentiments were censored, so teachers and advisers worked to find a way to allow students to express their opinions…
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When people talk about getting played, they are usually referring to a former significant other or internet scammers from Nigeria. But there’s another equally horrendous player out there: college counseling services. College counseling services prey on vulnerable students hoping to achieve admittance to their dream school. “College acceptance rates drop every year,” says one…
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Around 60 percent of the global population lives in an Asian country, which accounts for approximately 4.4 billion people according to the United Nations. In the United States alone, the Census Bureau reported that in May of 2018 the Asian population totaled 21.4 million people. At Newbury Park High School, US News and World…
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Two years in the making, the Panthers have finally emerged from the shrouds, ready to take on the upcoming Boys Cross Country season with a new vigor and high prospects. The Panthers, now seeded fifth in the state and twentieth in the nation, have put a lot of focus into their preparations for this…
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3D printed guns are a paradox for freedom of speech and the general safety of the public. In 2013 Defense Distributed, an online organization that creates digital firearm models, created the first 3D printed gun. Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, named the gun the Liberator. It is made of primarily ABS plastic…