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A performer since age eight, Jack Maier fell in love with dance on the first day of his first class that his mom made him take. Now a senior, Maier has been a member of the NPHS dance team since freshman year, and considers his teammates to be his family. He also dances competitively…
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It was a night of song, dance, rap, comedy and more, but Selena Gomez and Drake were not the performers; students were the stars of the night. On Feb. 23, the annual Talent Show featured a variety of student performers and drew in a full house. According to Nicole Katz, senior and organizer, the…
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With social movements such as #NeverAgain and #MarchforOurLives making headlines, student activism is being emphasized as an important component of social change. Students are taking to the streets in marches, speaking at town hall meetings and using social media to advocate for more strict gun control legislation. Now more than ever, the significance of…
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Drawing by Emily Augustine This cartoon needs a caption – by you! Each month, the Prowler will present a new cartoon on our website where you can submit your most clever caption ideas. The winning caption will be presented in the following issue of the Panther Prowler. Any person of any age is welcome to…
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Noah Varav, senior and student director, reads over the script home to wildly imaginative characters like Victor Frankenstein, Victoria Frankenstein, Nora Desdemona, Marcel Marcelle and many others while visualizing the set of the theater program’s annual Mystery Dinner Theatre. The theater program invited students and the community to join them in investigating and solving…
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After months of working and campaigning at different conferences and delegations, Scott Nagatoshi, junior, was elected as the 71st Youth Governor of California. Nagatoshi was one of three people left in the running for the position after the first two Youth and Government conferences in Fresno. Youth and Government is a club that focuses…
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It was crowded in the gym on Feb. 7, with over 20 athletes sitting at long tables and over a hundred people surrounding them. That afternoon however, there were no basketball, volleyball or wrestling matches– this was a celebration of the culmination of years of athletic struggle. These athletes no longer were just NPHS…
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In October, we wrote an editorial demanding that the United States government take action on gun control to prevent another tragedy like the Las Vegas shooting. We are writing another editorial because the Feb. 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School made it clear that action is still needed. In a neighborhood…
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Starting next year, the clubs Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) will no longer be clubs tied to their affiliated national organizations on campus. Both HOSA and FBLA are career and technical service organizations (CTSO). The state of California has made it a requirement that all…
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The room was packed as the school board meeting commenced. Concerned citizens carried signs, wore purple t-shirts and lined up in front of the district office three hours before the meeting even began. To avoid an overcrowded meeting room that could pose a safety hazard, the district office handed out tickets to the first…