Tyre Nichols video: The terror-spreading camera footage of the incident shouldn’t be publicized April 3, 2023 — by Zack Zhang While numerous news reports and media feeds containing the eye-catching video tape of the Tyre Nichols incident — in which Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was pulled over by police officers and eventually beaten to death — went viral in early January, I was among those who purposefully avoided watching the horrific video. Despite the […] read more » To maintain teacher quality, board should allow voters the chance to renew and raise current parcel tax April 3, 2023 — by William Norwood Teaching is one of the most important of all professions, providing key developmental factors to society and underpinning the future of future generations. But the career path, especially in a high cost-of-living place like the Bay Area, is falling behind current economic standards and living requirements. The average starting teacher salary in the U.S. is […] read more » 100-word rant: Students who write 27’ instead of ‘27 should be rescinded April 1, 2023 — by Allison Tan If you commit to a university, surely you would be intelligent enough to know that the apostrophe when addressing a year comes before the year, not after — right? Wrong. As senior class president (they made me put this), I have been burdened with the agony that comes alongside scrolling past one of my peer’s […] read more » CollegeBoard’s recent actions prove it cares more about money than education April 1, 2023 — by William Norwood and Sarah Thomas In the recently released new course framework of AP African American Studies, topics about the queer Black experience and radical Black activists were removed largely because of right-wing political pressure. Removing aspects of history to appeal to the political interests of others is a form of historical revisionism, which is sadly becoming more common within […] read more » Opinion: School should enhance its storm response in preparation for the future March 30, 2023 — by Skyler Mao 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 […] read more » Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
To maintain teacher quality, board should allow voters the chance to renew and raise current parcel tax April 3, 2023 — by William Norwood Teaching is one of the most important of all professions, providing key developmental factors to society and underpinning the future of future generations. But the career path, especially in a high cost-of-living place like the Bay Area, is falling behind current economic standards and living requirements. The average starting teacher salary in the U.S. is […] read more » 100-word rant: Students who write 27’ instead of ‘27 should be rescinded April 1, 2023 — by Allison Tan If you commit to a university, surely you would be intelligent enough to know that the apostrophe when addressing a year comes before the year, not after — right? Wrong. As senior class president (they made me put this), I have been burdened with the agony that comes alongside scrolling past one of my peer’s […] read more » CollegeBoard’s recent actions prove it cares more about money than education April 1, 2023 — by William Norwood and Sarah Thomas In the recently released new course framework of AP African American Studies, topics about the queer Black experience and radical Black activists were removed largely because of right-wing political pressure. Removing aspects of history to appeal to the political interests of others is a form of historical revisionism, which is sadly becoming more common within […] read more » Opinion: School should enhance its storm response in preparation for the future March 30, 2023 — by Skyler Mao 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 […] read more » Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
100-word rant: Students who write 27’ instead of ‘27 should be rescinded April 1, 2023 — by Allison Tan If you commit to a university, surely you would be intelligent enough to know that the apostrophe when addressing a year comes before the year, not after — right? Wrong. As senior class president (they made me put this), I have been burdened with the agony that comes alongside scrolling past one of my peer’s […] read more » CollegeBoard’s recent actions prove it cares more about money than education April 1, 2023 — by William Norwood and Sarah Thomas In the recently released new course framework of AP African American Studies, topics about the queer Black experience and radical Black activists were removed largely because of right-wing political pressure. Removing aspects of history to appeal to the political interests of others is a form of historical revisionism, which is sadly becoming more common within […] read more » Opinion: School should enhance its storm response in preparation for the future March 30, 2023 — by Skyler Mao 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 […] read more » Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
CollegeBoard’s recent actions prove it cares more about money than education April 1, 2023 — by William Norwood and Sarah Thomas In the recently released new course framework of AP African American Studies, topics about the queer Black experience and radical Black activists were removed largely because of right-wing political pressure. Removing aspects of history to appeal to the political interests of others is a form of historical revisionism, which is sadly becoming more common within […] read more » Opinion: School should enhance its storm response in preparation for the future March 30, 2023 — by Skyler Mao 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 […] read more » Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
Opinion: School should enhance its storm response in preparation for the future March 30, 2023 — by Skyler Mao 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 […] read more » Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
Staff editorial: Reject private counselors for free school resources March 30, 2023 — by Nilay Mishra 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, […] read more » Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
Meta’s Metaverse so far a financial flop March 30, 2023 — by Aiden Ye 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, […] read more » 100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
100-word rant: Sequestering phones in class is pointless March 30, 2023 — by Divya Vadlakonda 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 […] read more » Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
Affirmative action’s role is fundamentally misunderstood March 30, 2023 — by Anthony Wang 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 […] read more » Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast
Wellesley College officials should listen to students and staff and change their gender policy March 30, 2023 — by Beverly Xu 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 […] read more » firstprevious...1112131415...2030405060...nextlast