Anant Rajeev

In the middle of January of 2016, senior Allen Li felt as if he needed to give back to the school in some way. He didn’t join new clubs or pick up extracurricular activities around campus but instead chose to dive into a more powerful path: photography and videography.  

Dear freshman Anant,  

The new AMC show “Better Call Saul” is a spin-off/prequel to “Breaking Bad and follows the life of Saul Goodman, one of the main characters in the original series.

The TSA is just as responsible for keeping itself in check as it is for keeping airline passengers in check. If passengers are to respect the TSA’s wishes as they go through security to board their flights, the TSA personnel must be ready to demonstrate respect for the cultural values of every passenger in return.

For many seniors, second semester is  a time of pure bliss. Free time abounds, pressure dissolves and college applications are a distant memory. However, some seniors continue to make a productive use of their time by seeking outside opportunities  before heading off to college in the  fall.  

Boys tennis season preview.

The boys have led a strong campaign this season, but with the loss to Los Altos, the team is unlikely to gain enough playoff points in their upcoming games.

Right now the Grand Old Party (GOP) is a party comprised of candidates  who are instilling fear rather than inspiring Americans.  

The boys’ soccer season is under way, and the team is being revamped with several younger players after the loss of key seniors from last year.

More than  60 vendors from shops in Saratoga, Los Gatos and Cupertino came to sell various items, including clothes, chachkis, flowers and food during the annual Holiday Boutique held last Saturday in the Small Gym.

Rajeev attempts to apply soccer training to a football.

Elasticity. Market Price. Scarcity. Seniors read these words over and over, memorizing their definitions for the next Economics test. The current curriculum for the required class explores the basic principles of the subject: supply and demand, advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of businesses, and the price system. But in this class and perhaps in others, seniors should be learning something even more basic — personal finance.

Senior Michelle Wang aims for the famed Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I., to be immersed in a curriculum rich in figure drawing, abstract art and ceramics and photography at the famed Rhode Island School of Design.

Freshmen were organized and put on a Quad Day they could be proud of.

If Safeway and other grocery stores ran low on ice cream on Friday, Oct. 2, it most likely occurred because the school's Link Crew had purchased their supplies in an effort to feed ice cream to the 300-member Freshmen class and their Link leaders during tutorial that day.

The season-opening 22-7 victory inspired optimism for the Falcon football team, but that optimism has been challenged after two straight lopsided defeats. The Falcons stand at 1-2 record going into next Friday’s key league road opener against the Palo Alto Vikings.

After the freshman class officers were elected in early September, they met with the current senior class officers on Sept. 14 to discuss the duties of being an officer and managing the ups and downs of the Homecoming process.

Late last June, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of gay marriage. It was a momentous day for the LGBT communities, and it took only two days for John Oliver, the host of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, to produce a 14-minute segment that broke down the ruling and dissected the truths about LGBT rights.  

This past month, junior Saro Acharya spent 20 sleepless hours on a weekend, eyes glued to his Macbook screen attempting to finish editing his Media Arts Project (MAP) short film: “Mishaps and Misdeeds.”  

Three hundred guests dressed to the nines and attended Junior Prom at Silver Creek Country Club on the night of April 18. Following the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” guests sipped on mocktails and danced the night away.

Club Rush, a closed-campus event designed to help groups on campus to fundraise and gain new members, is scheduled to take place today at lunch in the Quad. The event is the second one of its type; it debuted in spring 2013.

Reporter recounts a near-death experience on his bike.

After a rocky start to the season, the boys’ soccer team now holds a 1-3-2 record in the El Camino Division. The team will get ready to go on the road to face the Gunn Titans for a second time on Feb. 5.

Reporters discuss their Indian culture and its place in Saratoga.

It takes a lot to answer that question. It’s been part of my life since I was 5.

It was the middle of school one day when our Lifestyle section editors came and started chatting with us. Nothing unusual — just a regular conversation among friends. At the end of the conversation, though, we’d been convinced to take part in the Chubby Bunny challenge.

ASB meetings, which are open to all students, are held every other Monday from 6-7 p.m. According to ASB president senior Adrienne Kim, the meetings are more relaxed, now that the urgency that comes with Homecoming is gone. Lately, meetings mostly consist of discussing fundraisers, dances and school policies.

Students are gearing up to win the school-wide best asking competition annually hosted by the ASB. The couple with the most creative asking receives free tickets to the dance.

After a disappointing 2013 campaign, the boys’ varsity soccer team is preparing for a comeback under new head coach Chris Stott.  

Reporter discusses experience following college football.

 The world has yet again been taken aback by the widely popular and highly addictive FIFA 15, the latest of Electronic Arts (EA) Sports’ annual FIFA video games, released on Sept. 23.   

Reporter recounts his experience with fantasy football.

After a much awaited season premier, the second season of the FOX TV series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is ready to air after a six-month hiatus. 

After a successful sophomore Quad Day last fall, the class of 2016 plans to repeat the feat in this year’s performance on Oct. 23. 

With upwards of eight hours of dance practices per week, the senior class has been putting their full efforts behind preparations for their final Quad Day on Oct. 24.

The world has yet again been taken aback by the widely popular and highly addictive FIFA 15, the latest of Electronic Arts (EA) Sports’ annual FIFA video games, released on Sept. 23.   

Reporter describes following the World Cup during the past summer.

Do you know what Lou Gehrig’s disease is? Neither did most people until recently, but the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been changing that.

Gone this year are the journalism room’s now ancient 2007 model iMacs. In their place are sleek, new 2014 iMacs available for all students to use.

Members of the senior class will end their final year of high school with a bang.

Sophomore Alice He, eyes glued to a computer screen and ears encased in a set of cheap headphones, was shaking with nervousness as she clicked the button to launch her AP Chinese Language and Culture test at the AP test date this year.  

Down a set two games to three, senior Kial Kaiser focused his eyes on the ball as he prepared to serve. Time seemed to freeze as he threw the ball in the air, his eyebrows frowned in intense concentration.

“These two objects are the same size and the same weight,” physics teacher Kirk Davis tells his AP physics class. “With that information, which do you think travels faster?”

Junior Olympics: April Schindler Name/Grade: April Schindler/9th grade Sport: Track Years playing the sport: 4 years Hours of training each week: 13 hours

More than 800 high school students, most of them from the Bay Area, went to the campus of PayPal with one goal in mind on March 7-8: win one of the handful of prizes in the High School Hacks Hackathon.

It’s that time of the year: Colleges are accepting or rejecting seniors, leading to joy for some and disappointment for others. 

The current SAT is execrable. No idea what “execrable” means? You’re not alone because a vast majority of the population is similarly clueless. You’ll probably never see the word again unless you teach English at Harvard.  That’s why College Board’s decision to revise the SAT for 2016 is a positive one. Among other changes, the new SAT will  test more common vocabulary, make the writing section optional and be more accessible for low-income students. They hope to increase the popularity of the SAT compared to the ACT.

Recently, Tim Draper, a well-known venture capitalist who helped fund Tesla and Yahoo, proposed a plan to split California into six states. The six new states would be called Jefferson, North California, Central California, Silicon Valley, West California and South California. According to Draper, this division would be more beneficial to the government because it would be dealing with smaller states. 

This semester, several teachers are beginning to use “Schoology,” a website that organizes all their class’s information into one place for free. 

On Jan. 5, 2013, then-senior Rohil Taggarsi woke up groggy, rubbing his eyes, reluctant to go back to school after winter break, only to remember something very important. 

For current sophomore Meera Rachamallu, the co-president of the Environmental Club, starting a club her freshman year was a huge ordeal. She had to prove to the ASB that her club was a good idea and would be successful, find an adviser, convince people to come to the meetings, choose officers and more. 

Every year during the holiday season, downtown Saratoga is filled with the bright spirit with the resurrecting of the annual Christmas tree and the bright and colorful lights that deck out the streets. 

This school year, the Glendale School District, located in suburban Los Angeles, hired a firm to monitor middle and high school students’ public postings on social media. The firm was hired to search for possible bullying, drug use, violence and suicidal threats. 

The ASB will host the annual Winter Formal on Saturday, Dec. 7. The theme is “Let it Snow,” appropriately chosen because it is “a simple and sweet theme to celebrate winter,” according to ASB Board Representative and senior Manini Desai.

After all the class Quad Day performances on the first week of October, rumors circulated around school about the many reasons regarding the possible disqualifications of the freshman, sophomore and the junior class. 

It was our first time grilling hamburgers. A pair of sophomore boys might not be ready to take on chef Gordon Ramsay, but we weren’t going to let our lacking of cooking experience stop us —  we had a mission. A mission to make the most delicious, mouth-watering holy hamburgers known to mankind for the judges in order to win the newspaper cooking competition.

School-themed T-shirts, sweatshirts and lanyards will be among the items soon to be available on the school’s online ASB student store.

Most students who enroll in Spanish 2 their freshman year usually end up taking Spanish 5 AP their senior year. Some students, however, make the choice to enroll in an obscure alternative, Spanish 6 AP Literature.