Opinion

Hundreds of students decked out in their class colors walked to the football field to spend 40 minutes sitting on the bleachers for the first rally of the year during a tutorial on Sept. 17. To me, it was 40 minutes too long, mostly spent listening to my fellow juniors yell “Go home, freshmen!” Although […]

TW: The following content includes subjects on sexual violence, rape, and assault. For decades, media and pop culture have consistently portrayed men and women through strict stereotypes: men dominant and powerful and women as passive and powerless objects of male sexual desires.  In pop culture, women rarely see their intelligence or other less-sexualized attributes praised. […]

With candy canes’ festive red and white stripes and hook shape, it’s become a Christmas tradition to hang them as ornaments on trees. They look cute and you can eat them: The perfect duo, right? Wrong. Trying to cram a candy cane into my mouth is one of my top 10 most frustrating experiences. Starting […]

Tech funding is a challenge that schools across the nation have wrestled with for years and SHS is no exception. Even the funds raised from the district, the SHS Foundation and other sources haven’t been enough to meet the growing needs. Students have returned to campus with aging desktops and Chromebooks ranging from 2 to […]

A bill passed in October requires California schools to offer an Ethnic Studies course by 2025 and makes taking a one-semester Ethnic Studies course a graduation requirement starting in 2029. While legislators had good intentions, this course may prove divisive and ineffective. In its current form in its first year at SHS, the ethnic studies […]

I got my first Instagram account in seventh grade. Excited, I curated my profile carefully, posting every two weeks while aiming to get as many followers as possible. Scrolling through my feed, I constantly saw girls wearing heavy makeup and sharing their best moments, and I wanted to be like them. This constant desire to […]

It may sound suspicious, but every once in a while I send a message with my iPhone that I want to delete. It’s usually a joke I’ve sent to my friend that I want to take back. Or a misspelled word I want to correct. Or an accidental message I’d prefer to unsend instead of […]

Saratoga is a relatively progressive school; students advocate for political issues such as women’s abortion rights and the #MeToo Movement, and participation is prevalent in movements like Culture of Consent. But while all of these are worth supporting, universal health care — in its currently proposed form in the U.S. — is not. Simply put, […]

It’s the best time of year again.  No, not Christmas. Not summer, either. It’s Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season. Strategically placed near the end of November, it’s a perfect transition into winter while simultaneously celebrating the final days of sunshine. From a holiday standpoint, Thanksgiving, as its name suggests, gives thanks […]

If you’ve ever walked past a group of students nervously ranting about an upcoming difficult math test, you’ve probably heard this phrase of reassurance uttered a million times: “You’re smart. You’ll do fine.” The term smart is often put on a pedestal. Being smart is equated to excelling academically and obtaining high grades without much […]