Each generation is defined by the music that they listen to. Music has the power to inspire and create new ideas and thoughts. Music, as an art form, is powerful. The popular music that many high-school students listen to today, however, has become degrading to women and pushes back gender equality....

Recently, the word “feminism” has become an umbrella term for all things dealing with women’s rights. In today’s politically correct societies, everyone is supposed to identify as a feminist—a person who simply believes that men and women should be equal—no matter their backgrounds, political...

In the fight for women’s rights, the rallying cry for feminists has traditionally been: “women should be equal to men.” In the past, feminists took this phrase to mean that women should be treated equally to men and should have the same opportunities. However, lately, many feminists are taking...

Since 5 B.C., euthanasia, or intentionally ending the life of a human being to avoid pain and suffering, has been a highly contested subject. Euthanasia has been made illegal in all U.S. states, and physician-assisted death is legal in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Vermont. Euthanasia remains a point...

Imagine the perfect day at school: your schedule is light (therefore so is your backpack), you’ve just received the score on your math test necessary to pass the class and your parking spot is near perfect. You’re walking toward the quad, thinking about all these great things with which life has...

War is never at the top of anybody’s to-do list. Each year, hundreds, if not thousands, of American servicemen are wounded or impacted by the horrors of war. Drone strikes are a necessary tool in ending conflicts as soon as possible with minimal collateral damage. Though there are many doubts regarding...

There’s no way around it: every Gunn student, for better or for worse, has to take Living Skills. Although its mention in conversation is often accompanied by a resentful groan or a trite complaint, the class goes beyond the standard curriculum of any other course and can have an extremely personal...

Pro:  For decades, kids have been taught to “say no to drugs” and that drugs will “ruin your life.” Although drugs do have the potential to catastrophically affect human life, marijuana is not one of those drugs. Because voters have been told that marijuana is a hard-core drug, they’ve been...

Last year, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) hired 76 new teachers to replace 15 retirees, 20 tenured resignees who were mostly on leave and five temporary teachers who were not rehired. In addition, 43 formerly temporary teachers were tenured. According to California law, a teacher must...

I don’t care about Chris Christie, and I don’t care about Hillary Clinton—at least not right now. And unless either the governor of New Jersey or the former Secretary of State is involved in something of national relevance, political pundits shouldn’t care either. Yet for months now, cable news...

  Everyone’s seen the cringe-inducing posts from ignorant users expressing their opinion on everything from gay marriage to fiscal responsibility. In fact, insensitive bigotry, fallacious logic, poor grammar and thoughtless commentary have become the new norm on a certain medium: the Internet. In...

I cannot stand electronic music. It’s a broad statement, to be sure, but the types of music that fall under the umbrella of “electronic”—dubstep, trap, house, EDM, etc.—bear no differences. To me, they represent little to no actual musical talent, and the whole enterprise comes off as artificial. My...