Sophia Stern, Business Manager, Social Media Editor
• May 17, 2019
Math teacher Toni Smith plans to leave Gunn next year and begin teaching in Irvine, California at Portola High School. “The school I am going to is relatively new,” she said. “They don’t even have a senior class yet, next year will be their first [senior class].”
She is looking forward to...
As the first bell of the school day rings, everyone has a different agenda: students zip up their backpacks as they head to their classes, while teachers start to decorate their whiteboards with notes. Others, like campus supervisors Travis Schollnick and Jorge Sanchez, start up their golf...
“I have too much free time,” competitive Super Smash Bros Ultimate player and junior Aron Rei De Guzman said.
Since freshman year, he and a group of friends met every Friday after school until five to practice competitive gaming for the Intersocial Gaming League (IGL) . Rei de Guzman practices...
In his free time, Gunn eSports team manager Quinn Arbolante can be found organizing and supporting Gunn students as they participate in competitive gaming tournaments. Despite not playing himself, Arbolante helped pioneer the community at Gunn, manages a recreational group of competitive players, and...
The Oracle: How did you get the idea to do themed lectures?
Bill Dunbar: I had some topics in my physics classes that I dreaded teaching. For instance, consider simple harmonic motion. Every time I taught that topic in the physics class, my students looked super bored and it was really no...
Written by Eric Epstein
Junior Meredith Yee has been fervently snapping photos since she first had access to a camera. “I started pursuing photography probably in sixth grade when I got a phone with a camera and I just started to take pictures,” she said. “But I got my first [Digital...
Take a quick look at ChronoYinger and you’ll notice two things: that most of its videos are about Counter Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO), a multiplayer first-person shooter video game, and that it is a popular YouTube channel with 77,346 subscribers. A closer look at a video reveals that it...
Written by Eric Epstein
The Stock Market Game is a new competition that pits students’ investing savvies against one another. e 84 participants will compete for a 50 dollar gi card to a store of the winner’s preference. Second and third place will also win gi cards of their choice. e game’s...
Written by Eric Epstein
The debate team continued their successful year when a large number of representatives placed highly at their last two debate tournaments. In the James Logan Invitational in Union City from Jan. 13 to 15, five of the teams of students made it to the octofinals round, and...
written by Tejpal Virdi
On Nov. 28, a group of over 30 students and alumni released a hip-hop album that now has over 12,500 total listens on SoundCloud. The album, titled “Liftoff,” was led by senior Zac Sanders, who had the idea for a school-wide album three years ago.
Sanders became interested...
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Love can come at unexpected times, as can be seen in the case of English teacher Marc Igler, who met his wife while attending college at University of Southern California (USC).
During the winter of 1984, Igler, a college senior and editor for the Daily Trojan,...
While senior Kevin Frans might seem like a typical high school stu- dent at rst glance, he’s been taking online courses at the undergraduate level, applying this knowledge to create robots that learn and publishing research papers as a lead writer. Most remarkably, Frans cultivated his in- terest...
