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  • March Madness in Music

    Launch into springtime and help assuage your fears for upcoming AP and IB tests with some new music. “I Wanna Be Sedated” by Ramones – If you live under a rock or are one of those hipster kids who just wear old band shirts to look cool, now is your chance to experience the Ramones.…

  • My Phone, My Rules: Why Spying Isn’t Cool

    It’s common practice for parents to go through their child’s technology. I mean, my mom follows me on Instagram, but there’s nothing there that I want to hide. In fact, I consider myself a pretty good kid. But there’s one thing I’m extremely grateful for: privacy. It’s not like I keep many secrets from…

  • Dodge to make a difference: LLS hosts dodgeball tournament

    Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS) Club hosted a dodgeball tournament at the Borchard Community Center on March 12 to raise money and support a cure for leukemia and lymphomas, types of blood cancers. By the end of the tournament, LLS had raised $300. The idea was introduced before winter break by club member Brayden Tokuyama,…

  • Murder mystery dinner combines spaghetti and acting

    “I’ve been stabbed!” Craig Hastings yelled out, as he wobbled across the room in character. The murder mystery had just begun, and the audience was hungry for more. The theater department hosted a fundraising dinner Friday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, Feb. 27, starting at six pm, featuring an interactive play revolving around the untimely…

  • Reactions on Facebook bring new meaning to a “like”

    The simple “like” button has been used to pay acknowledgement to millions of Facebook posts on the internet. As the popularity of emojis increased, people began to feel restricted by a single option for response. Facebook recently decided to turn to the animated faces and released a set of “reactions” to posts, rather than…

  • Solo artists win big at talent show

    Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes past 6 o’clock and people were still filing into Newbury Park’s Performing Arts Center. At twenty minutes past the scheduled start time, the lights dimmed, quieting the crowd of excited students and anxious parents. ASG’s NPHS Talent Show was under way. The spotlight first shown on Masters of…

  • Dzieciol and Lu break two records at first meet of the season

    In their first league meet against Camarillo on Mar. 3, the swim team broke two school records: girls’ 100 yard butterfly and boys’ 100 yard backstroke. Victoria Dzieciol, freshman, broke the girls’ 100 fly by .02 seconds at her first ever high school meet, while Jason Lu, sophomore, rebroke the boys’ 100 back record…

  • Whitewashing and brainwashing of the film industry

    Recently, my friend invited me to see Gods of Egypt, a historical fiction movie about Egyptian gods which stars Gerard Butler. However I immediately declined, telling her that there was no way I would give money to a movie that used a white actor to play an Egyptian role. Whenever I turn on a…

  • Online Activism: with the rise of the internet, fighting for a cause takes on a new form

    Growing internet movements change the world Internet movements are the modern picket line for the average American. With the implementation and extremely rapid growth of new social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, millions of people now have the ability to share their voices with the rest of the world. According to statista.com,…

  • Political correctness: you’re probably doing it wrong

    Freshman year was the first time I was exposed to the idea of political correctness in the public school setting. Before we began our first discussion about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” my English class was given a disclaimer about a certain recurring word that, if we felt comfortable doing so, we could say, but…