After enduring criticism from some parents, new ethnic studies class garners positive responses from freshmen October 21, 2021 — by Nidhi Mathihalli and Minsui Tang 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. […] read more » All-female speech and debate officer team works to foster inclusivity October 17, 2021 — by Nidhi Mathihalli and Kavya Patel 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 […] read more » Some residents continue to voice objections to COVID-19 vaccines October 17, 2021 — by Sara Bright and Carolyn Wang 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 […] read more » Senior becomes first high school student to receive prestigious medical AI award October 12, 2021 — by Serena Li and Daniel Wu 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 […] read more » Advisories resume; more changes still planned October 9, 2021 — by Sam Bai and Andrew Lin 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 […] read more » Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
All-female speech and debate officer team works to foster inclusivity October 17, 2021 — by Nidhi Mathihalli and Kavya Patel 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 […] read more » Some residents continue to voice objections to COVID-19 vaccines October 17, 2021 — by Sara Bright and Carolyn Wang 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 […] read more » Senior becomes first high school student to receive prestigious medical AI award October 12, 2021 — by Serena Li and Daniel Wu 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 […] read more » Advisories resume; more changes still planned October 9, 2021 — by Sam Bai and Andrew Lin 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 […] read more » Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Some residents continue to voice objections to COVID-19 vaccines October 17, 2021 — by Sara Bright and Carolyn Wang 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 […] read more » Senior becomes first high school student to receive prestigious medical AI award October 12, 2021 — by Serena Li and Daniel Wu 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 […] read more » Advisories resume; more changes still planned October 9, 2021 — by Sam Bai and Andrew Lin 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 […] read more » Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Senior becomes first high school student to receive prestigious medical AI award October 12, 2021 — by Serena Li and Daniel Wu 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 […] read more » Advisories resume; more changes still planned October 9, 2021 — by Sam Bai and Andrew Lin 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 […] read more » Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Advisories resume; more changes still planned October 9, 2021 — by Sam Bai and Andrew Lin 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 […] read more » Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Marching band retakes the field October 9, 2021 — by Shannon Ma and Brian Sheen Two weeks before school started, about 150 students entered campus for band camp. For upperclassmen, it had been a year and a half since they had practiced together in person, while both sophomores and freshmen had never marched on the field before, making the experience a refreshing step toward normalcy. The marching band has since […] read more » Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Drama program begins preparations for annual school play and student productions October 9, 2021 — by Lena Aribi, Chris Chen and Avani Kongetira Before rehearsals for the fall play, actors can be seen sitting outside the Thermond Drama Center on the green park tables or inside on seats raised in a bleacher-like semicircle, laughing, joking or tripping over the chairs. All of this activity is occurring as they rehearse for this year’s fall play: “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” […] read more » Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Newsom on a roll: vaccine mandate incites majority approval from students October 8, 2021 — by Christina Chang and Lynn Dai On Oct. 1, California became the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for K-12 students learning in-person at both public and private schools, an order that could begin next fall after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a vaccine for children 12 and under. Gov. Newsom said students with medical concerns and other exemptions […] read more » Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
Member of city Planning Commission resigns over comments widely seen as xenophobic October 8, 2021 — by Lynn Dai and Christina Chang In a public email written on Aug. 30, Cheriel Jensen, a member of the Saratoga Planning Commission, expressed opposition to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation’s (RHNA) appeal to install 1,700 plus housing units in the city by 2023. She wrote, “40.1 percent of persons (2015‐19) in Saratoga are foreign born, and 45.2 percent do not […] read more » National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast
National TikTok results in some campus vandalism; administration enforces consequences October 8, 2021 — by Lena Aribi and Meher Bhatnagar On Sept. 1, Tiktok user @jugg4elias posted a video of a box of disposable masks he supposedly stole from school, captioning the video “A month into school absolutely devious lick. Should’ve brought a mask.” According to Urban Dictionary, a “lick” is a “successful type of theft.” Since @jugg4elias’s video went viral, the act of “devious […] read more » firstprevious...10203040...4849505152...60708090100...nextlast