Written by Mikaela Wayne
Published in the September 11, 2015 issue
With the start of the 2015-2016 school year came a new bell schedule. Not only do classes now vary in time depending on the day of the week, they also now end at different times and meet fewer times per week. While fewer...
Published in the May 22, 2015 issue
The recent zero period decision has sparked outrage in the Gunn community; students have emphasized repeatedly that the decision was made without student input, that there was a lack of data supporting claims against zero period and that reducing students’...
Written by Shannon Yang
Published in the April 17, 2015 issue
After the recent student suicide cluster, community members and parents have attacked Gunn High School for inducing too much stress and not providing adequate support for students’ social and emotional well-being. However,...
Written by Ryeri Lim
Occasionally, I’ll wistfully wonder why my parents uprooted our family from my hometown of San Francisco to, of all places, Palo Alto. I did not understand why they insisted I attend Gunn, as opposed to attending Monta Vista or Cu- pertino High School. Both...
Written by Esther Kozakevich
Published in the April 17, 2015 Issue
Everyone is told in high school that good grades and test scores will get you into a good college, presum- ing you are also unique, well rounded and have good college essays. And for most people, that tends to be the case....
Written By Shagun Khare
Published in the April 17, 2015 Issue
From the moment we enter high school, we are told that the following four years are ours to grasp—to grow as individuals, to learn and, most importantly, to prepare ourselves for college. However, being a subject of such...
The media perpetues
Written by Katie Russell
Over the last few years, as stories about sexual assault hit the headlines, the term “rape culture” has become commonplace. Rape culture refers to the normalization of rape that cultural and societal attitudes. It is in the media that rape culture does...
Written by Shagun Khare
From the moment we enter high school, we are told that the following four years are ours to grasp—to grow as individuals, to learn and, most importantly, to prepare ourselves for college. However, being a subject of such high regard in the Palo Alto community, “college”—a...
Written by Esther Kozakevich
Everyone is told in high school that good grades and test scores will get you into a good college, presuming you are also unique, well rounded and have good college essays. And for most people, that tends to be the case. But why is it, then, that certain applicants who are...
Written by Katie Russell
As the Palo Alto community has experienced firsthand recently, we have a problem with mental health. We have lost friends, and, in the aftermath, both alumni and current students have come forward to open up about their own struggles with mental health. In some cases, school...
Written by Kathleen Xue
In the 2012 elections, California cast a Democratic ballot, voting in favor of Barack Obama’s reelection. Palo Alto was filled with fliers promoting the Democratic party, with few to no promotions of the Republican party. It is strange, however, given the views of a majority...
Written by Esther Kozakevich
Recently, a movement called Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) has been circulating on college campuses such as UC Davis and Stanford. BDS is a movement whose mission is to “increase economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement:...
