From comedies to tragedies, over the years, the theater department has showcased student acting through a variety of theatrical work. With the help of senior Student Director Tanir Kranz, the department will perform a rendition of “Translations” written by Brian Friel this fall.
Ever since...
Lise Desveaux, Centerfold Editor
• September 25, 2022
Homecoming begins long before the week itself. My sophomore year, it started the first moment somebody asked me what I was wearing to the dance, which was in the middle of September. After that, homecoming was brought up in every conversation one way or the other. From the endless discussions on what...
Maddie Cheung, Centerfold Editor
• September 23, 2022
The moment school gets out, students stream to the parking lot or bike cages, but one other option often gets overlooked: the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus system. The VTA bus system is both convenient and accessible—any student can take the bus on any given day. Taking the bus is simply...
Imagine you’re biking, and it’s 100 degrees outside. You continue to pedal and pedal as you sweat and your face turns a brilliant tomato-red. There is one simple solution to avoid this uncomfortable situation: driving. Whether it’s pouring rain or beating down sunshine, driving will always be of...
On Friday, Sept. 10, Gunn administrators canceled the Gunn vs. Paly football game in the fourth quarter due to Paly students rushing the Gunn stands, inciting chaos on both sides of the football field. The junior varsity team played at 4:30 p.m. without any issues, losing by a score of 27-0....
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...
On April 1, Gunn’s annual Elimination came to an end with junior Kyra Xue as its winner. While Xue did not participate in Elimination in previous years, she remained competitive and enthusiastic. In the end, she survived throughout the game’s entirety and had the most eliminations: 23. “Elimination...
The echo of clambering of power tools, presence of construction workers busy at work and marked-off construction zones are all fairly normal occurrences for the Gunn community. Following the school’s establishment, construction at Gunn has become part of every student’s high school experience. The...
Along with other schools across the state of California, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) has begun to provide free meals for all students for the 2021-22 school year due to new national and state policies.
Free school lunches were initially offered by the federal government as part of...
I still remember the first time I saw a seagull. It was a rainy afternoon, and I—an exhausted sophomore—trudged past loud construction sites and whirring golf carts until a small but swift shadow sprawled on the pavement caught my eye. ‘Twas a plane! ‘Twas Superman!
No, ‘twas not. It was...
A sea of adults fresh out of college, eyes wide in anticipation of the next stage of their professional lives, swam up and down the stands of potential teaching positions at the Santa Clara job fair. One face in particular—a California Polytechnic State University San Louis Obispo graduate...
Girls varsity soccer has had a solid season so far, winning most of their games.
Coach Leo Barcellos is new to the team this year, having experience coach- ing for Los Altos’s junior varsity boys soccer. Barcellos is embracing the change of coaching a new team. “It’s different...
