Opinion

This winter, California has experienced weeks of heavy rain and high winds. Students carried umbrellas around school, and those who didn’t walked into class sopping wet.  In fact, the storm on March 29 marks the 13th atmospheric river of the season, a record high number. Trees collapsed across Saratoga and road conditions worsened in these […]

This year, the walls of the school’s former community room were plastered with posters of several colleges, following the area’s rebrand to the College and Career Center (CCC). The CCC started as a new initiative to help seniors through the increasingly challenging college application process and to introduce high schoolers to new potential careers.  However, […]

At one point, Facebook was so confident their Metaverse would become the next big thing that they changed their name to Meta. Since then, the stock has seen a revolutionary drop from about $350 per share to $200 per share. Across the past 1.5 years of work, Meta’s Reality Labs has seen great financial losses, […]

When I step into a classroom, my eyes often land on a dark blue calculator caddy with pockets that fit our cellphones perfectly — I become overwhelmed with a sense of dread. Though phones can make some students less productive, students should be allowed to take more responsibility for their own learning.  For a school […]

In 2018, court documents filed in the case Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard alleged that Harvard University officials lowered their internal personality scores for Asian American applicants in an effort to reduce Asian American enrollment in its undergraduate class. The court case, filed in an attempt to combat race-based affirmative action, will be […]

On March 14, more than a third of Wellesley College students, traditionally all-female school, voted on the Gender Inclusivity Ballot Question. It asked whether students supported decreasing the school’s use of gendered language and opening admissions up to transgender men.  Ninety of students voted in favor, but the results were nothing more than a symbolic […]

s the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world in the last three years, many people looked to medical professionals to answer numerous questions. Who does the pandemic affect most? What is my chance of getting COVID-19? And most of all — are vaccines safe, and do they work? Though there has been an influx of answers […]

Want to practice puzzles on minesweeper.online or play games during tutorials or between classes? If you’re using the school’s WiFi, you’re increasingly out of luck. Since 2002, the school has been filtering access to non-educational websites. This year, these filters blocking gaming sites have been further tightened, according to District Director of Technology Julie Grenier. […]

Lying on the right side of my bed, I hold my bright phone a foot in front of my face, scrolling through Reddit or Instagram reels because I haven’t devolved to the point of downloading TikTok — I refuse to believe I’ve downgraded to using the most notoriously addictive app in the world, even if […]

In an ideal world, tuition should not be a factor that affects students’ choice of college. Sadly, though, many lower- to middle-class families save up for years, only to find college costs simply out of reach.  The cost of tuition for Ivy League schools range from $57,410 to $65,146, without even taking into account the […]