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When Chinese teacher Mariam Fan left the language department to become a Teacher On Special Assignment (TOSA) for the district in September, the school scrambled to find someone to fill in her shoes.  Recently, a new face appeared in Room 403 with short hair and round glasses: Chenhui Wu, the new part-time Chinese 3, 4 […]

Juniors in the Media Arts Program were scheduled to attend a performance of “Hamilton” at Broadway San Jose on Oct. 26.  It takes the place of the normal trip to the Angel Island Immigration Station Museum in San Francisco due to the latter’s closure during the pandemic. After studying important elements of U.S. History during […]

This season, the football team had three Thursday games on its schedule, which were played against Willow Glen, Westmont and Los Altos, the last of which took place on Oct. 14. The reason for Thursday games is a nationwide lack of available referees that has trickled down to impact local Bay Area teams. According to […]

In early October, various spots around campus were bedecked with propaganda flyers featuring Photoshopped images of students, original logos and attention-grabbing slogans like “Be your own ruler” and “Canahuati for conservatism.”  Less visible to the public eye was the excitement in the Media Arts Program Annex on Oct. 7 as students donning regalia such as […]

An NPR news broadcast featuring current events played when freshman Aakanksh Gurnani walked into room 703 for 5th-period Ethnic Studies on Sep. 24. When the bell rang for the start of fifth period, social studies teacher Mike Davey enthusiastically greeted the students and then launched into the fast-paced lesson on the recent history of Afghanistan. […]

Senior speech and debate president Harshini Velchamy walked into English teacher Erick Rector’s room in early September for the first practice of the year. As she scanned the room, she saw some familiar faces, a few completely new ones and many she vaguely recalled from the year on Zoom. Velchamy is one of four officers […]

A crowd of anti-vaccination protestors lined the streets near the Saratoga Farmers Market at West Valley College on Sept. 18. They held signs with slogans reading “Prove There Is A Sars2 Covid Virus,” “You’re Not Your Lab Rats” and “Make Choice Free Again.”  “They marched up and down the street next to the farmers market […]

After senior Vignav Ramesh presented his research, “COVID-19 Lung Lesion Segmentation Using a Sparsely Supervised Mask R-CNN on Chest X-rays Automatically Computed from Volumetric CTs,” at the Society for Imaging Informatics in  Medicine 2021 (SIIM21) Annual Meeting in May, he prepared for the questioning round from scientists attending the Zoom conference.  To his surprise, many […]

The Professional Development Day on Oct. 5 sought to get advisory lessons back on track after a month-long pause caused by teachers’ objections and concerns about teaching some of the content. The lessons, which resumed Oct. 13, will be similar in format to the Title IX presentations given earlier in the year.  The revised 40-minute […]