Katherine Sun

Benny Pierce was nothing short of a legend during his three decades coaching football and teaching at the school — and 22 years after his retirement, he remains an honored part of program.  

Caroline Oliver anticipates freshman year at Barnard. Saro Acharya sets up future in film with Emerson.

As a young feminist, I sometimes wonder: First, what do I owe to myself? And second, what do I owe to Hillary Clinton and her campaign?  

In theory, Facebook rearranges our news feeds based on our “likes” and clicks to prioritize content that interests us. That’s fine. But the beauty of sorting posts by likes is that anything we feel strongly enough to react to — whether with laughter, sadness or frustration — stays high on our feed.

Out of the colleges that have accepted him, Acharya said he is leaning toward Emerson, since it is one of the top 10 film schools in the country and offers a “great” liberal arts education. The main campus is located in Boston, but the school also has a campus right on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.  

Under the control of freshman Daniel Bessonov, the quadcopter drone hovered, facing the club members as they posed for a picture on the bench of the math quad. With the tap of a finger on a smartphone, the phone-controlled camera attached to the drone captured the group photo.

Kendrick Lamar walked out on stage in chains, one man in a line of limping inmates. The metal links rattled as he wrapped his hands around the microphone, his brow furrowed in concentration.

How the community fractured over what is best for students

Seventy students took the American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 10/12 earlier this month, a contest that could eventually land some of them a spot in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).  

In order for his own voice to be heard, Moghadam has continued to stay involved in the election process. Just one of the millennials “feeling the Bern,” Moghadam supports a system of European-style socialism, believing there is a stigma against the idea in the United States even though it is only an economic system.  

Parent looks back on his four years at SHS, all filled with memorable experiences.

As a former basketball player himself, Class of 1971 alumnus Brian Moran, who now works as the plant manager overseeing construction and maintenance at the school, witnessed high-spirited basketball games.  

Stories of SHS’s past through different angles: art and ceramics teacher Leah Aguayo.

Story of SHS’s past through different angles: Spanish teacher Arnaldo Rodriguex.

Senior Saro Acharya completes his early applications.

Freshman Simran Mallik is an active member of the Make-A-Wish Young Professionals Advisory Council Jr. Team. She has teamed up with Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) Club this holiday season to host a Letters to Santa fundraiser.  

Saturday Night Live’s Nov. 7 showing, hosted by Donald Trump, fell far short of the program’s usual high standards.

Saro Acharya works on early apps and continues his journey towards a film and television major.

Three sophomore friends, united by their interest in music, have re-established Glee Club with the mission to share music beyond the school’s realm.

SCOPE meets each Friday at lunch with adviser Ken Nguyen in room 001 and is the latest to join the ranks of the school’s volunteering clubs.

Club members learn hard lessons in long process.

Like so many other young women, I follow British actor Benedict Cumberbatch obsessively. Let me put it this way: If BuzzFeed ever made a quiz on the most obscure of his interviews, videos and photos, I would ace that quiz.

Brown and her husband Daniel Handler, who is more commonly known as Lemony Snicket and the author of the popular "A Series of Unfortunate Events" novels, announced last month that they will donate $1 million to the embattled organization.

On Oct. 10, Women in STEM (WiSTEM) Club’s four officers held a 5-hour application development workshop for RMS girls in Saratoga High’s Engineering Room.

As harsh as Amazon’s white-collar work environment may be, many aspects of its tech culture are still admirable. The company simply needs to correct certain precepts gone wrong.

Junior Katherine Sun describes her experience a five-week summer research program Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) at the University of Iowa.

This year, the Falcon will be following the trials and tribulations of the college application process. Saro Acharya is one of two seniors who will be profiled in this series.

From being scheduled to meet twice a week to never formally meeting during the school year at all, the school’s DECA club sputtered last year and was rescinded by ASB during second semester.

Self-described as "The Media Company for the Social Age,” BuzzFeed has attained success from the enduring appeal of its articles, quizzes, videos and social media savvy. BuzzFeed has mastered the art of garnering more clicks.

The Helping Hands Club was founded by senior Rohit Rao and 2014 graduate Eric Taw in 2013 to provide students with assistance in any subject. Tutors meet every other Wednesday in room 410. The club uses an online form that allows students to request help, and from there, Rao assigns tutors.

Psychology and AP Government/Economics teacher Hana Chen is one of three currently pregnant teachers; the other two are English teachers Susanna Ryan and Kelly Wissolik. All are due in the summer and will go on maternity leave next year.  

As they now transition to the next segment of their lives, the seniors Sophia Ajanee, Caitriona Costello, Puck de Roos, Amanda Moriarty and Anna Sabel will travel together for the first time, spending part of their summer in Europe before heading off to college. In the span of two weeks they will tour Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Amsterdam.  

The Social Justice Club, founded by junior Caroline Oliver near the beginning of this semester, meets Tuesdays with adviser Amy Keys in room 006. The 10-member club provides a place where students can discuss and learn about current social issues. Their goal is to have a place for students of all types who can discuss current issues in a safe environment.

While the school boasts an array of more than 50 clubs, ranging from American Sign Language club to Marine Biology club, most have around only 15 members. Considering this small number, it is safe to wonder: What do clubs look like at other schools, and how can we learn from them?

Even in the Silicon Valley, an area supposedly receptive to different ideas and cultures, blue-collar workers are sometimes looked down upon because of their jobs. These are the people who tend our gardens, provide us with meals or lay the foundations of our safe and comfortable home

Clustered around a kitchen counter, the 15 or so students soaked ladyfingers — long, oval sponge cakes — in coffee and watched as the pastries soften into mush. They then began to combine the ladyfingers into a single cake layer, mixing it in coffee powder to make a cream. The budding chefs were gathered in senior Kyle Yuen’s home for a culinary night and just successfully created tiramisu.

Reporter rants about students who skip math classes and then struggle in a higher level class.

On Feb. 10, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Deah Shaddy Barakat — all Muslim college students around the age of 20 — were shot by their next-door neighbor Craig Stephen Hicks in Chapel Hill, N.C. Though the Chapel Hill Police Department stated that the crime followed a dispute over a parking spot, the question as to whether it was motivated by religious bias remains open.

Senior Colleen Flemming, who changes her handwriting each month, has a passion for all things graphic design. After realizing she struggled with creating realistic portraits, she turned to art forms that include typography, logo design and line art.

Senior Aditya Aggarwal has contributed to projects that range from an app for community health checkups in Guatemala to the SHS app that many students carry on their phones.

Coexist: Gay-Straight Alliance, which has about 15 regular club members, meets every other Thursday with adviser Amy Keys in room 006. The club welcomes everyone and aims to provide a safe haven for queer people at school, raise awareness in the community and contribute to the global civil rights movement for LGBTQ+.

Juniors will take the new Smarter Balanced test during the week of April 20, completing math and English portions that together last approximately eight hours. Underclassmen will not take any state-issued standardized tests this year, but in the future, they will also be given the test.

For the record, I’m Miss Goody Two-Shoes. I still turn my phone off during class, the way everyone supposedly did in middle school, and my attendance record is spotless. The closest I’ve gotten to trouble is attending Saturday school, which I did as an experiment for newspaper.

After Edward Snowden revealed just how much the National Security Agency spies on American citizens, people have hovered around hot-topic words like “cybersecurity” and “personal privacy.” And yet, while the NSA has been labeled as the big bully, many Americans remain unaware of the hacker activists who “dox” people and pose a far more severe public threat.

In music sampling, artists take a portion, such as the bass line, of another artist’s song and use it in an “original” production. While it has been the subject of serious cases regarding copyright infringement in the music industry, music sampling is tantamount to an innocuous act: paying homage to another artist’s work.

Look around the halls a few weeks before Christmas, and you’ll see students carrying decorative bags lined with tissue paper, filled with meaningful gifts for friends. Glance at any teacher’s desk, however, and you’ll likely see a stack of Starbucks cards and chocolates.

Taylor Swift's new album “1989” is conspicuously missing from one of the most popular legal music-streaming websites, Spotify, and the third-most-visited website in the world, YouTube. So are all of her previous releases, excluding collaborations.

During Photography Club, which meets every other Wednesday in adviser Catherine Head’s room 005, members share photography techniques and discuss camera features they find useful.

After three months of hard work racing at invitationals and league meets, the cross country team is now preparing for CCS Finals, a 3-mile race at Toro Park in Salinas on Nov. 15.  

Senior Bridgette Olsen knows she will relentlessly pursue the path of theater and dreams of acting in a movie someday.

This year, the Math Club is planning to create a mural in the school’s Math Quad. 

Sophomore Alexandria Tso creates the new club, the Global Health Club. The club aims to have members learn about healthcare in different countries and help contribute to programs to better international health care. 

Fear of vaccination has gripped the United States. The fear is irrational and the problems of restraining from vaccinations is far greater than the risks vaccinations pose. 

A policy requiring clubs to keep track of minutes and have advisers present during meetings will be more strongly enforced this year.

This summer, senior captains Andrew Harter, Steven Sum and Rohith Krishna and juniors Stephen Law and Kevin Duong-Le of the boys’ varsity cross country team spent five days in Lake Tahoe, staying in Harter’s summer home and running with students from local Truckee High School. The boys completed altitude training in the mountains by running seven to eight miles in the morning and then three to four more miles in the evening.

It seems that many students don't read for pleasure anymore, and this shouldn't be the case.

Senior Robert Eng is one of a kind — and so is his hair-do.