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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Students begin to leave the football field after the Thursday, August 22 evacuation.

Series of fire alarms disrupt campus activity, prompt additional investigation

Kaylee Cheng, Anne Dong, Sylvie Nguyen and Ya-An Xue August 23, 2024

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, fire alarms caused campus-wide evacuations and interrupted class schedules. The first two alarms were set off by some kind of smoke — potentially from foods like popcorn that have activated the sensors in the past — while the cause of the third alarm...

Asian American Lit, AP Physics 2 courses planned for 2024-25

Asian American Lit, AP Physics 2 courses planned for 2024-25

Fiona Xiong, Online Editor February 10, 2024

Two new courses are being added to the course catalog for the 2024-25 school year: Asian American Literature, in which students will analyze Asian American experiences through novels, biographies and more, and Advanced Placement Physics 2, in which students will learn algebra- based physics focused on...

Final school-board meeting of the year sees discussion of PAUSD Promise, new high school courses, ethnic studies curriculum

Final school-board meeting of the year sees discussion of PAUSD Promise, new high school courses, ethnic studies curriculum

Lise Desveaux, Centerfold Editor December 21, 2023

At their Dec. 12 meeting, school-board members elected next year’s president and vice president, reviewed progress on the PAUSD Promise, approved new high school courses, and listened to community concerns about antisemitism and the ethnic studies curriculum during Open Forum.  The Board elected...

Phillip Lyons and Diane Ichikawa

Phillip Lyons and Diane Ichikawa

Maddie Cheung, Centerfold Editor April 17, 2023

English teacher Diane Ichikawa and social studies teacher Phillip Lyons have both taught at Gunn for almost two decades, with a friendship stretching just as long. Their commonalities have brought them together, and what they value about their friendship keeps it going strong. The year she was hired,...

ChatGPT raises academic dishonesty concerns, prompts responses, guidelines from teachers

ChatGPT raises academic dishonesty concerns, prompts responses, guidelines from teachers

Victor Dang, News Editor March 19, 2023

ChatGPT and its ability to generate original text from almost any user-provided prompt has cast some uncertainties about the future of technology use in and out of the classroom at Gunn. The artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the startup OpenAI was originally launched as a prototype in November...

Molding new narratives: How inclusivity in Gunn's humanities curricula has evolved to meet the politics of the present

Molding new narratives: How inclusivity in Gunn’s humanities curricula has evolved to meet the politics of the present

Amann Mahajan, Editor-in-Chief February 7, 2023

“My child will not read this garbage racist book and I would like you to immediately assign an alternate curriculum for the month that you will be spending on reading and disseminating this garbage book!”  So wrote school board election candidate Ingrid Campos of  “Stamped, Antiracism and...

Public school enrollment declines as students move out of state, opt for other mediums of learning

Public school enrollment declines as students move out of state, opt for other mediums of learning

Chris Lee, Managing Editor May 23, 2022

Since California’s admittance as the 31st state, it has served as a progressive model for public education. Schools became free for all students in 1867, California was one of the first states to pass a compulsory attendance law in 1874 and the Golden State enacted the Class Size Reduction Program...

Reading between the lines: Nuances in language alter our perception of everyday life, with meaningful consequences

Reading between the lines: Nuances in language alter our perception of everyday life, with meaningful consequences

Julianna Chang, Managing Editor April 18, 2021

“You guys!” Almost everyone—male-identifying or not—has been called “a guy” at least once in their life, whether it’s through the welcoming words of a teacher, an enthusiastic text or an obnoxious shout across the hall. To most, this word is just that: a common greeting. It’s become...

Teachers prom stories: English teacher Diane Ichikawa

jennygaoo May 12, 2017

Written by Jennifer Gao Prom askings don’t always go according to plan, and English teacher Diane Ichikawa’s was no exception. For Ichikawa, having a date was mandatory to attend Prom. “I did not get asked my junior year and I did not know anybody to ask, so one of my good friends and I went to...

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