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  • Column: Privacy and Technology

    Today, technology companies such as Google and Facebook monitor every single action made on their services. Your emails, your photos, your Google searches, and the record of any websites you visit are stored somewhere inside these technology companies’ servers. Given the billion plus users these respective companies have on services, it may not seem…

  • School Board Accounts for Transgender Students in New Athletic Amendment

    The Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education passed an amendment that will give transgender students the ability to play on the sports team of the gender they identify with on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Administrative regulation 6145.2, which had previously received a 2-2 vote from the board, also ensures students the right…

  • Stuck on the Sideline: Injured Players Wait to Recover

    This season, the varsity football team motto “We Are One” has been pushed to the limits as key players are forced to the sidelines due to injuries. Players such as Marques Evans, Andrew Noble, Erich Wuesthoff, Luke Wuesthoff, and Dawson Schmidt have missed action during Friday nights due to a variety of injuries. “Obviously…

  • You Could Be Living Alone On Mars: The Martian Review

    “The Martian,” a movie based on the novel by Andy Weir, has taken the U.S., and the world, by storm, still captivating audiences more than a month after its release on Oct. 2. Directed by Ridley Scott, the film surrounds the incredible, yet risky, journey of space travel. When astronaut Matt Watney (Matt Damon)…

  • New Kid on the Block: Broad Museum Review

    When we think of art in Los Angeles, two images come to mind: glitzy Hollywood movies and vibrant murals in hip districts like downtown, Santa Monica and Venice. Lesser known even to locals is Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles: It’s L.A.’s heart of art and culture. With institutions including the Music Center, the…

  • Out with the Philosopher, In with the Plumber

    Starting with the end of the 1950s, the amount of young Americans going to college has skyrocketed; this has been facilitated by teachers pressuring students, universities advertising themselves, and a growing sense of entitlement that sprung up thanks to the growing “give me that” mentality of the post World War II era. The current…

  • Required Book Review

    It’s a familiar feeling in English class: that wary feeling of being assigned novels and plays. Students’ natural instinct tells them to rebel against this forced reading and resort to Sparknotes, but it turns out that some books are worth the attention after all, while others only deserve the dark home of the bottom of…

  • Extended Essays: 4000 Words of Punk Rock, Porn and Art Therapy

    Every year, full International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma candidates lament the arrival of their looming Extended Essay (EE) deadline. With an upper limit of 4000 words, the Extended Essay is a significant part of the 150 volunteer hours, many internal assessments, and minimum 6 IB tests and studying that is standard for full IB diploma…

  • WishFALL Thinking

    October has come and the weather has chilled. Leaves have begun their descent from the trees, and the scent of cinnamon is scattered in the air. Oh wait, none of this ever happens, we live in southern California. Now, why is it that every year when “fall arrives” we continue to get excited over…

  • Accepting Our Religions

    As it is reflective of the larger world around it, Newbury Park is home to people with diverse religious perspectives. Faatimah Syed, junior, has been raised to be a part of the Muslim faith since she was born. “Islam has two major sects, I am Sunni and the other is Shiite,” Syed said.  …