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Math teacher, Lisa Adams, will no longer be the only one teaching in her classroom. D22 was renovated on April 25 to host the new Math Center. Open everyday at lunch, the Math Center is a place where students having trouble with the coursework in their math class can go to receive help from…
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As IB and AP testing draws to a close while the quad is littered with Prom and Grad Nite fliers, it seems as if suddenly, out of nowhere, senior year is ending. As we all post about our future colleges and search for roommates, fantasize about summer vacations, or cry in advance about insane…
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Internal ideology is everything. A person’s beliefs and biases color the white spaces of their world. However, once something is painted and this metaphorical paint dries, it’s difficult to see the object as the plain white which it originally was. Such is the case with bathrooms in America. A bathroom is nothing more than…
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Missing the beach? Crying over final exams? Don’t worry; we’re in the same boat. Try to ease your conscience with these songs as summer is just around the corner. “Lonesome LA Cowboy” by New Riders of the Purple Sage – New Riders of the Purple Sage borders on country music, a genre which I am…
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Every fourth period, Sophie Buffo, sophomore, heads to the special education classrooms to help as a teaching assistant. “I am able to learn so many new things about the students,” Buffo said. “Just walking around school you can see fellow students smile and interact with the special ed students,” Like Buffo, many people believe…
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“I don’t think he’s very good at being a normal person,” said Joe Shimamoto, senior and varsity wrestler, about his teammate Jake Wood, senior. After winning the school’s first CIF wrestling title since 1992 on March 5, 2016, Wood rose from the mat as “all the other kids there were jumping and screaming,” Shimamoto…
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Up until now, I always believed senioritis was synonymous with exhaustion. It was a justification for slacking, because if I’ve already worked this hard and come this far, can’t I have a break? But now, in the seventh inning of my senior year, I’ve realized that senioritis is a whole different animal. Senioritis is…
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The United States prides itself on being a nation of acceptance, where people of different nationalities, backgrounds and religions can come together as one. However, this is a skewed perspective; since the 9/11 attacks, negative religious rhetoric has exponentially increased. These perceptions have sparked a new debate on whether to grant refuge to people…