Skip to Main Content
Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

The Oracle

Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

The Oracle

Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

The Oracle

Uncategorized

Courtesy of Victoria Segal

Generation Z revisits nostalgic 2000s trends, expresses identity with fashion

Melody Na, Reporter June 9, 2025

Today, digital and Polaroid cameras can be spotted from miles away, becoming tools to recreate the retro vibes of the Y2K era, which refers to the late 1990s and early 2000s. Fashion items — like small shoulder bags, low-rise jeans and velour tracksuits — have also made a comeback. Despite the...

One van, no plan: anatomy of senior trips

One van, no plan: anatomy of senior trips

Ya-An Xue, Features & Online Editor June 9, 2025

Plans in the group chat Every senior trip starts in the same sacred place: a group chat with 27 people, 400 unread messages and zero decisions. It begins with big dreams: “Let’s go to the beach,” “No, the mountains” and “Wait, what about a cabin with a beach on a mountain?” Somewhere...

Drive in: Movies, television shows slated for the summer

Drive in: Movies, television shows slated for the summer

Vaani Saxena and Gwendolyn Domine June 9, 2025

The love triangle of the summer is back for another season. Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad? The tense debate continues as the popular Amazon Prime show, “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” will begin streaming its third season on July 16. The question is: who will Belly choose? The show starts off by...

Greatest player of all time: LeBron vs MJ?

Greatest player of all time: LeBron vs MJ?

Roy Lao and Yu-Ming Liu June 9, 2025

Standing three inches taller and weighing nearly 30 pounds more than Michael Jordan, LeBron James is clearly a monster on the court. While Jordan dominated the ‘90s, the title “Greatest of All Time” shouldn’t be determined based on rings or points. It requires a lens that considers adaptability,...

Puzzle pieces are often used as symbols to represent unity within a diverse spectrum.

Autism Awareness Month: Student Volunteers, Special Education Staff support Neurodiverse community

Lena Duggan, Vaani Saxena and Sylvie Nguyen May 30, 2025

When she’s teaching a nonverbal student to spell out his thoughts by pointing to letters, instructional aide Tatum Angotti embodies a guiding hand. Last year, Angotti helped the student use the letter board to write a 1.5-page letter that explained his needs and experiences at school. “It’s...

Universities push back on Trump administration initiatives, policies geared against higher education

Universities push back on Trump administration initiatives, policies geared against higher education

May 30, 2025

On April 15, Stanford University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors wrote a letter to University President Jonathan Levin and Provost Jenny Martinez urging for a stronger condemnation of the Trump administration’s directives on higher education, which includes threats...

Sophie Kou and The Oracle archive

Coach Vin’s playbook of bizarre sports brilliance

Vin Bhat, Graphics Artist, Photographer May 30, 2025

Sock it to superstition Coach Vin advises: Not washing your lucky sock isn’t bad unless you consider fungal kingdoms and romantic breakups “bad.” That crusty tube of nostalgia might smell like regret, but if your team hasn’t lost since you were born in ‘09, who are we to argue? Just store...

Awareness trends must have clear purpose, avoid performative media-centric advocacy

Awareness trends must have clear purpose, avoid performative media-centric advocacy

Ezra Rosenberg, Reporter May 30, 2025

This April, posts online showed participants of the University of South Carolina’s Speak Your Mind Ice Bucket Challenge being hit with a wave of shock as they were doused with ice-cold water. The challenge — thanking nominators, pouring ice on one’s head and nominating friends to do the same —...

Excessive parent interference inhibits student development, independence

Excessive parent interference inhibits student development, independence

Vaani Saxena, Reporter May 30, 2025

Hovering, bulldozing or nagging? Take your parenting pick. Every student knows the anxiety of opening their to-do list and seeing the assignments pile up one after another. Imagine having a parent who organizes all of them for you, completes part of your assignment or constantly reminds you of all the...

Sylvie Nguyen and The Oracle archive

Sport popularity relies on media coverage

Olivia Lee, Reporter May 30, 2025

Basketball, soccer and football are extremely popular sports, with massive fan bases that fill stadiums to the brim. However, equally demanding sports such as water polo, fencing or rowing struggle for even a fraction of the exposure and visibility mainstream sports receive, often going unnoticed. This...

Board conflicts hinder learning environment, downplay student value

Vin Bhat, Graphics Artist, Photographer May 30, 2025

Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m not here to paint this district as bad — in fact, I’d argue it’s one of the best out there. However, being the best doesn’t preclude us from missteps. As someone who regularly tunes into PAUSD School Board meeting livestreams, I’ve grown accustomed to watching...

Load More Stories
Donate to The Oracle
$0
$1000
Contributed
Our Goal