NEWS

Annual earthquake drill includes new addition of post-tremor simulations

March 18, 2024 — by Nika Svizhenko
Prior to this year, the school’s yearly earthquake drills only simulated “duck and cover” before all classes evacuated to the upper or lower fields; however, an all-school drill during tutorial on March 14 simulated the other effects of an...

‘Bruce Almighty’: 2015 alum runs for Congress against former speaker Nancy Pelosi

March 16, 2024 — by Anthony Luo

Speech and debate wraps up qualifications for Tournament of Champions

March 15, 2024 — by Bryan Zhao and Alan Cai

Music groups kick off season with competitions, concerts and preview performances

March 15, 2024 — by Saachi Jain and Sanjoli Gupta

Soundings exhibition fails to raise enough funds for print issue

March 14, 2024 — by Florence Wei

OPINION

Staff editorial: The unintended (and unfortunate) consequences P.E. policy change on sports and athletes

March 15, 2024 — by Bill Huang
For many student athletes, P.E. exercises like squats, push-ups and running laps are relatively simple and good to do. In the past, these exercises have kept them in shape for their sport’s season, during which their P.E. class is replaced with...

AP testing stifles creativity and produces few valuable results

March 15, 2024 — by Alan Cai

Students should be required to submit AP exam scores when applying to colleges

March 14, 2024 — by Nika Svizhenko

Sephora: Store shows what happens when 10-year-olds run amok under social media spotlight

March 14, 2024 — by Jessica Li

A guide to navigating the countless ‘toga’ and ‘shs’ Instagram accounts

March 14, 2024 — by Grace Lin

SPORTS

As swimming numbers dip, team struggles in meets

March 18, 2024 — by Mitchell Chen and Florence Hu

Badminton coach implements stricter practices to hone skills

March 18, 2024 — by Sunny Cao and Nika Svizhenko

FEATURES

COLUMNS

Are we truly living in a simulation?

March 15, 2024 — by Victoria Lin

Fighting the birthday blues and losing

March 14, 2024 — by Shirina Cao

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