Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas and Caroline Ro
On May 24, Principal Dr. Denise Herrmann announced her resignation from Gunn to take a position as Associate Superintendent for Instructional Services in the Fremont Unified School District.
Herrmann announced her resignation to students in a Schoology...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
People strapping skis to their feet and flying across the water may not be a very common sport, but it has been in junior Mollie Sampson’s family for generations.
For Sampson, water skiing became somewhat of a tradition and she skied for the first time when she...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
QuestBar: S’mores
This bar is a great option if you hate yourself. I have no idea who thought that this tastes like s’mores, but it definitely doesn’t. The texture and the taste resemble mass-manufactured, compressed baby food. The taste just gets worse as time...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Junior Advait Arun began his online blog “Fruminous” in November 2016, and it has since gained popularity in the local community.
Arun chose the word “Fruminous” from the nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. On the website, it is described...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
On Friday, Jan. 6, senior Kevin Ji went to Washington D.C. to partake in a meeting with other members of Michelle Obama’s Better Make Room Student Advisory Board.
Better Make Room is an organization connected to the White House’s Reach Higher initiative. Its...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, the Palo Alto Unified School District Board decided to report weighted grade point averages (GPAs) on mid-year transcripts for current seniors.
Over the past few weeks, there have been heated debates over the positives and negative effects...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Psychology teacher Warren Collier has taken part in NaNoWriMo for the past three years. This year, however, Collier will focus on editing one of his previous novels rather than writing a new one.
Collier often thought about writing a novel, but never had the motivation...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Todd Collins has served as Secretary of Treasury on the Parent-Teacher Association at both Terman Middle School and Gunn. He also spent four years on the Strong Schools Bond Citizens’ Oversight Committee.
With many years of experience on committees, Collins...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Asking someone where they’re from, which used to be a simple, commonly-asked question, is now considered offensive by many people. Microaggressions—casual degradations of any socially marginalized group—have been blown out of proportion in the last...
Written by Akansha Gupta, Clara Kieschnick-Llamas, Amanda Lee
NorCal Media Day is an annual event hosted at Palo Alto High School, where journalism students are able to visit a variety of sessions discussing journalistic topics. Speakers range from professional journalists to editors of high...
Written by Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Not so much an instructional session, freelance journalist Rebecca Byerly mainly discussed her career as an international crisis correspondent.
Byerly grew up in a town in North Carolina. She was inspired to become an international crisis journalist after 9/11: she...
By Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Due to the increase of lines of work involving computer science, there has been a recent movement to make computer science a graduation requirement at Gunn. Last year, eight administrators and teachers met regularly and had a meeting with the district office about the...
