By Matthew Hamilton
French teacher Anne Jensen received the Hal Wingard Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Foreign Language Teachers’ Association (CLTA) on March 6. The award is given every year to one foreign language teacher in California who has shown excellence in the classroom and...
By Prachi Kale
In February, junior Sarah Reich and senior Dylan Huang created the Tumblr page “A Titan Is…” The page features photographs of various students holding a whiteboard on which they have written what they believe a Titan is.
Reich and Huang created the page after attending a school...
By Emily Kvitko
Many consider New York a prime destination for shopping and park-walking, but juniors Maya Roy and Nina Shirole visited a different side of the city: the international headquarters of the United Nations (UN). The two women came face-to-face with the important building as leaders and...
Written by Prachi Kale
Though GunnBrand4U is a new club on campus, it already has quite a few accomplishments under its belt. The club, where students can learn and develop business skills from professional speakers, has been putting its skills to use by working with non-profit organization, Deborah’s...
Written by Aayush Dubey
The Model United Nations (MUN) club has taken recent success in attending the Stanford conference and hosting their own conference at Gunn in October.
According to club president senior Varun Narayan, the club faced delegates coming from schools around California and schools...
Written by Hayley Krolik
Kindness is natural human virtue, so seniors Jessie Lwi and Amy Chen and junior Jonathan Zhang decided to create an entire club to showcase our community’s compassion: the Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) Club. They developed the idea for club at a camp, where a speaker talked...
Written by Kush Dubey
Literary magazine Pandora’s Box—which publishes student-produced creative writing pieces, photography and art—sold out their winter issue last Dec. and hopes to attain similar success with their spring 2015 issue in May.
According to junior club president Elise Most, the...
Written by Klaire Tan and Danielle Yacobson
Looking into the mirror, junior Sophia Jackson (name has been changed) could only see flaws. The way the skin on her arms folded. Ugly. The way her thighs stood. Undesirable. The way her bones stuck through skin. Worthless. “The mirror was just made of various...
Written by Prachi Kale
Dating back to 2000 BCE, Hinduism has touched the lives of millions. It is considered more of a combination of religious, philosophical, and cultural ideas and practices rather than only a religion.
Sophomore Isha Gupta believes following this way of life has helped her strive...
Written by Stina Chang
As economics teacher Phillip Lyons has been heard to say, white collar crime pays. As a high school student with no curfew, no rules and a fake ID, he had free reign to do whatever he wanted. “I [could] come and go whenever I wanted to,” Lyons said.
Parents often set specific...
Written by Aayush Dubey
Science teacher Casey O’Connell remembers himself as a good high school student who rarely broke the rules. However, he does regret an activity that occurred in a popular party spot around a bridge spanning over the Hudson River. “I didn’t drink or do drugs, but I did do...
Written by Lisa Hao
Every Friday, English teacher Kathryn Pomilia reminds her students to “be safe, have fun and make good decisions,” because she believes that during the teenage years, rebellion is only natural. When Pomilia was a teenager, she was a bit of a rebel herself—she would often sneak...
