Written by Kush Dubey
Published in the November 6, 2015 issue
Students who find themselves transitioning between cultures—whether it’s from Kenya to America or from Hong Kong to Australia—often find themselves in positions of uncertainty when adapting to new atmospheres and lifestyles. For...
Written by Kush Dubey
The Gunn administration and Palo Alto Unified School District Office (PAUSD) have scheduled inspections and modifications of fire alarm sensors over winter break after being notified that the school could face fines from the Palo Alto Fire Department (PAFD) due to the...
Written by Kush Dubey
Published in the September 11, 2015 issue
Included in the new bell schedule are additional, mandatory periods called Flex Time and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), which takes place every Tuesday. According to Assistant Principal Jack Ballard, students and teachers...
Written by Kush Dubey
President Obama’s free community college proposal seems like a silver bullet solution to the intractable problem that is the United States’ higher education system. The plan has a noble intention; it allows citizens to acquire a degree after two free years of community college...
Written by Kush Dubey
Literary magazine Pandora’s Box—which publishes student-produced creative writing pieces, photography and art—sold out their winter issue last Dec. and hopes to attain similar success with their spring 2015 issue in May.
According to junior club president Elise Most, the...
By Kush Dubey
Set in an English countryside mansion during 1924, playwright Noël Coward’s “Hay Fever” depicts the comical romp that ensues when the eccentric Bliss family invites guests who happen to be the polar opposite in both class and personality. Junior Alan Hanson—who plays David Bliss—believes...
Written by Kush Dubey
In fourth grade, sophomore Henry Tschudy stepped into the world of physical fictional storytelling that has recently gained popularity in the Bay Area. Live action role-play (LARP) is an activity involving people of all ages representing characters that carry out actions as part...
Elections will be held Nov. 4th for the two available school board positions.
Jay Cabrera
School board candidate Jay Cabrera has several major priorities he wants to bring to Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD). One is to teach students real life-skills. Cabrera believes education should prepare...
Written by Kush Dubey
The second semester of Advanced Placement Environmental Science features the documentary “Tapped,” in which an investigative team analyzes the climate, economy and health roles of the American bottled water industry. The documentary inspired seniors Aitan Grossman and Josh...
Every day at 6:15 a.m. sharp, data processor Martha Cartwright would arrive at Gunn in her trademark car, a white 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. “It was like clockwork,” Guidance Technician Assistant Robin Francesconi said. “Even the janitors had to make sure they would come before her.” Francesconi...
