Michelle Cen

Sports facilities and fields will begin undergoing renovations starting June 8, adding FieldTurf to the upper field and softball field. A bank of lights will also be installed on the upper field to allow for night practices.

Uunior Connor Buss, along with his friends juniors Romteen Masoumi, Jacob Randall and Albe Tremblay launched a nonprofit on April 22 called Gear It Up Foundation. Gear It Up works to provide free sports equipment to children who cannot afford it otherwise.

Due to the drought that California is currently facing, SHS conserved over 1 million gallons water last year, and stands to save more this year through new projects. California as a whole has also taken steps to save.

Veggie Grill, which opened up a few months ago in Westgate Center, is a vegan restaurant chain with 28 outlets located in California, Washington and Oregon. The diversity of the menu, which is laden with gluten-free and soy-free choices, impressed me. Veggie Grill offers salads, snacks, sandwiches and desserts with intriguing names such as “Buffalo Bomber” and “Bali Bliss.” Priding itself upon health, Veggie Grill also only uses oil with monounsaturated fat.

Dartmouth College President Philip Hanlon announced a ban on hard alcohol for all students on campus in January. His decision, made in light of recent sexual assaults at college campuses, mirrors other recent Prohibition-esque bans begun by Brown University, Swarthmore College and the University of Virginia. 

Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old Nobel Prize laureate and women’s rights advocate, will be speaking at a lecture series event hosted by best-selling novelist Khaled Hosseini at the San Jose State Event Center on June 26.

After watching the January release “American Sniper,” media users shared their discriminatory views of Arabs and Muslims. Twitter user @harshnewyorker stated the conviction of many: “Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are — vermin scum intent on destroying us.” The Academy Award-winning Iraq war movie, adapted from the autobiography of now-deceased Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, merely reinforced the American public’s bigoted perception of Muslims.

The boys’ golf team is currently 6-2 and, despite recent victories, is experiencing a minor slump. Everyone from last year’s team, except for No. 1 player senior Arman Vaziri, has been averaging worse scores than last year. Though the team is not performing at its best, the Falcons remain second in the De Anza League and have continued to win matches. The Falcons beat Monta Vista by 20 points on March 23, achieving redemption after losing to Monta Vista on Feb. 24 by one stroke, which broke the Falcons’ two-year league winning streak.

The boys' golf team prepares for the upcoming season.

Class of 2013 valedictorian Edward Dong journeyed to the Pyrenees last summer to study travel writing. Now, he is a sophomore at Yale University who is majoring in Literature.  

People must learn to set aside their differences, recognize the threat of global warming and pass laws that mitigate the issue.

Rising application fees are a detriment to students. They are creating a gap for some studnets during the application process. 

Today, junior Ruby MacRae, who is bisexual, is proud of her sexuality and wants to bring awareness to the bisexual community, but it was not always this way. 

Senior Irene Chen takes a keen interest in ceramics and intends to pursue it in the future. 

In her English 11 Honors classes, English teacher Suzanne Herzman is conducting the second annual mandatory Emersonian gift exchange, a form of Secret Santa in which students give gifts that reflect transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s beliefs.

 Unlike previous years, this year’s fall semester final will have periods 3 and 4 on Monday and periods 1 and 2 on Tuesday. Period 5 and 6 finals are on Wednesday and period 7 finals are on Thursday

Arguments of global warming deniers melt upon close examination.

Freshman Stephen Ding started playing badminton when he was 10 after trying swimming, basketball, soccer, fencing and tennis. He trains at Bintang Badminton in Campbell on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 4-7 p.m.

Over the past month of the new school year, students have been adjusting to the new Canvas learning management system, the first of several improvements by the school in response to the results of its Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) report.

Dress codes are insulting to both genders. Girls are burdened to cover themselves up to avoid distracting their classmates, and guys are essentially told they are unable to control themselves.