Written by: Alex Man On Jan. 15, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) board approved the expansion of Terman Middle School onto Bowman International School’s campus, in the case that Bowman has the opportunity to relocate itself to another location. The steadily increasing enrollment in the...

Written by: Regina Tran The Palo Alto History Museum Board will open a new museum in 2014 to share the history of Palo Alto and Stanford University with the community and visitors. According to President of the Palo Alto History Museum Board Steve Staiger, many Palo Alto citizens are  unfamiliar...

Written by: Matt Niksa In January, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Calendar Committee sent out a survey asking Gunn students, parents and staff about their view of the timing of first semester finals. Members of the committee wanted to understand whether students and parents would prefer...

Written by: Ben Atlas For the 2013-14 school year, Chemistry Honors will be losing its status as a weighted class in the University of California (UC) weighted grade point average (GPA). It will contribute a 4.0 rather than a 5.0 to the UC school’s calculated GPA, but will retain its weighted standing...

This semester, Titan Broadcast Network (TBN), home of the morning video announcements, took steps towards improving the program’s visual content and accessibility by purchasing a new video switcher and releasing the TBN smartphone app. With the new video switcher called the Tricaster 300, a device...

Written by: Rebecca Alger and Klaire Tan The newly constructed world language building opened for students on Feb. 11. The 9,100 square foot building consists of two separate structures connected by a canopy and makes extensive use of glass in order to increase natural light. “The rooms overall are...

Written by: Katherine Zu Starting with the 2012-13 school year, the Palo Alto Unified School District school calendar was changed so that finals would be held before, rather than after, winter break. The recommendation of having a calendar allowing for finals to be held before winter break was made...

Written by: Mitch Donat The Palo Alto Unified School District decided in December to cancel the Gunn-Palo Alto High School (Paly) football game for the 2013 season. After the next season, the district will discuss whether to schedule the rivalry game for 2014. Although the district has mentioned a...

Written by: Ellen Lee, Zoe Weisner and Catalina Zhao Helen Jiang: On Jan. 9 senior Helen Jiang was named a semi-finalist of The Intel Science Talent Search (STS). Jiang learned about Intel STS through word of mouth and decided to compete. “One of my close friends got ninth in nationals last year...

Written by: Klaire Tan On Nov. 10, sophomore Joy Jin and her partner Thomas Luh, a junior at Leland High School, beat five other teams to be named team category National Finalists of Region One in the 2012 Siemens Competition for Math, Science and Technology. One of the most prestigious science competitions...

Written by: Regina Tran Early September of this year, the Media Center (MC) on San Antonio Road relaunched their sports program, MC Sports, with the Gunn vs. Carlmont football game. A little over four years ago, MC Sports was discontinued due to budget cuts. The relaunch of the MC Sports program was...

Written by: Lisa Hao and Rani Shiao Paly student defaces Gunn football field A Palo Alto High School (Paly) student vandalized the football field by defecating on the “G” on Dec. 26, 2012. The student then proceeded to pour water on the feces and used the waterball to smear the excrement on the...