Written by Hayley Krolik
Published in the October 8 2015 issue
Although federal law separates church and state, public schools cannot blatantly ignore over half of their student bodies: according to Gallup polling, 60 percent of Americans find religion to be very important in their lives...
Written by Stina Chang
Published in the October 8, 2015 issue
Gunn Theatre presents its annual Broadway Workshop performance on Thursday, Oct. 15 and Friday, Oct. 16. Theatre teacher Kristen Lo helped direct this performance and offered students an experience different from the typical acting...
Written by Shagun Khare and Katie Russell
Published in the October 8, 2015 issue
Senior Mara Greene was absent from school due to Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday, on Sept. 22 and Sept. 23 of this year to practice her faith. According to the California Education Code (Ed Code), the absence...
Written by Lena Ye
Since the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, Gunn has established five gender-neutral bathrooms. These bathrooms are located inside the main office, behind the physical education classroom, just right of the senior quad and inside the new building. In August 2013, California’s...
Written by Sabrina Chen
The long-awaited homecoming dance is only two weeks away. Do you have a date but no idea of where to take photos? The Elizabeth F. Gamble Gardens, which boast herb gardens, rose gardens, a carriage house, a tea- room and a historic home, provides a place for students...
Written by Sabrina Chen
Gender roles in sports have been a prevalent issue in the Gunn community for several years. Recently, students have been challenging these boundaries, but a gender gap, where a sport is either predominantly male or female, still remains due to stereotypes and stigmas.
Sports...
Written by Deiana Hristov
High school. Four years of your life filled with friends, tests, stress, pride, cheering at football games and hanging out with your friends instead of doing homework. As it comes to a close, many students can be left stranded, not knowing what to expect...
Written by Yuki Klotz-Burwell
Before I started my vegetarian diet, I was apprehensive but eager. I usually get a fair amount of meat in my diet, so I wanted to see how altering my meals would affect me. Throughout the week, I was surprised to find that I definitely did feel...
Written by Mikaela Wayne
It was October 31 of English teacher Mark Hernandez’s senior year of high school and he and his friends did not know what they wanted to do. They did not want to do the typical thing and go to a party, however. They wanted to go out with a bang....
Written by Kaya van der Horst
History teacher Chris Saunders humorously remembers his eighth grade Halloween as “more of a trick than treat.” Saunders and two other school friends decided to pull a prank on a neighborhood rival. “He didn’t actually go to my school,...
Written by Barrett Zhang
Physics teacher Bill Dunbar likes to set up new competitions for his students every Halloween to encourage creativity in students and adaptability in the future engineers.
Dunbar sets up these challenges because he believes that high school students...
Written by Shannon Yang
The California Education Code and the district’s school board have established policies to ensure that students who are legitimately absent still have an equal opportunity to catch up on any missed work without major penalties. However, several teachers have put into...
