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  • Yaks: A Blessing or a Curse?

    Yik Yak has become the most popular app used for all the wrong reasons. Useful for cyber bullying, one cannot scroll down more than four anonymous “yaks,” without seeing a nasty comment posted towards another. Yik Yak was first released in November of 2013 and quickly became one of the most downloaded apps in the…

  • Planned Parenthood

    Under fire for issues regarding abortion services, Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health organization, is facing a demand for defunding.  For some, Planned Parenthood is a retroactive solution associated with shame and regret. However, for Rory Smith, sophomore, Planned Parenthood provides easily accessible and necessary care. Until about a month ago, Smith suffered from severe menstrual cramps.…

  • Local teens keep rocking on

    From commercially successful bands such as The Neighbourhood and AWOLNATION, to popular local bands Full Measure, Paper, and Static, Newbury Park has been a place for rock bands to get their start. The alternative rock band Static, which was formed at Rock Nation School in Agoura, consists of singer/guitarist Mikey Netka, guitarist Zane Vandevort,…

  • Gun Control: Targeting the issue

    A virus is spreading through our nation, infecting our schools, and killing America’s youth. Its name is gun violence. On Oct. 1, a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. left ten dead and nine injured. “Somehow, this has become routine,” President Barack Obama said in a national address later that day. “We’ve…

  • Rising to the Challenge: Sophomore steps up as starter

    After only seven games as a starting quarterback on the varsity football team, sophomore Cameron Rising has made his name one to remember. In the football game against Dos Pueblos High School on Sept. 18, Rising made seven touchdown passes, tying the Ventura County record for the most touchdown passes in a single game.…

  • Portrait delays create YB challenges

    Visual Photography’s first deadline to submit the portraits disc for the yearbook was Oct. 7, which should have contained all underclassmen and faculty pictures. The yearbook staff did not receive it until Oct. 9, at which point they found a number of issues on the disc. The disc Visual Photography submitted to the yearbook…

  • Celebrate Survival: October Music Shenanigans

    October is a time of celebration, not only due to the beautiful holiday of Halloween but for being able to survive a month of school. So in order to commemorate this joyous month, I recommend finding some new songs to listen to, these below in particular. “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” by Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu…

  • Planned fire attack against Planned Parenthood

    On Sept. 30, yet another attack occurred on the Planned Parenthood health institute, this time in Thousand Oaks on Hillcrest. According to a Ventura County police report, “investigators determined an unknown suspect wearing clothing to protect his identity crudely threw a large piece of masonry through a window on the south side of the…

  • Local pizza hut suffers from robbery

    An armed robbery occurred at Pizza Hut on Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Newbury Park Place shopping center on South Reino Road, only about a mile from campus. The police response included a helicopter to search for the suspect. The crime played out even closer to junior Conrad Jones’s house than to the school.…

  • Snapchat Travels

    Over the summer many students traveled around the world, waking up in Newbury Park and falling asleep in a hotel bed in Manhattan or on a hammock in Indonesia. To let their friends know about the unique and exciting places they were en route to or already exploring, they posted an avalanche of photos…