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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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Preteens’ use of social media promotes unhealthy behaviors, damages interpersonal development

Preteens’ use of social media promotes unhealthy behaviors, damages interpersonal development

Bryan Xiao, Lifestyle Editor, Assistant Business Manager March 12, 2024

When TikTok videos of preteens showcasing their product hauls from beauty store Sephora went viral in January, the tweens were met with widespread criticism. Sephora employees flocked to social media to share their experiences with young customers, recounting encounters with rude children and jumbled...

Specialized sports technologies improve safety, performance

Specialized sports technologies improve safety, performance

Vivian Studdert, Sports Editor February 13, 2024

Prevent’s head-impact monitoring mouthguard Concussions, ever plaguing athletes in contact sports, are especially dangerous because it is unclear precisely which types of impacts cause them. For professional athletes, concussion-prevention solutions mostly involve being sidelined for extended periods....

Finding the Middle Ground:  Rethinking family technology policies

Finding the Middle Ground: Rethinking family technology policies

Ya-An Xue, Social Media Editor September 23, 2023

Growing up in the digital age, Gunn students are constantly surrounded by technology — it opens up a seemingly infinite world of entertainment, information and opportunities. For many parents, however, the online world adds another dimension of worry to the already arduous process of raising children....

The Jacobsen Family

The Jacobsen Family

Amann Mahajan, Editor-in-Chief April 15, 2022

As the youngest sibling of four Gunn graduates, sophomore Robin Jacobsen’s high school experience has been shaped by her predecessors. Robin Jacobsen’s eldest sister, Nicole Jacobsen, graduated from Gunn in 2013, and Robin Jacobsen is currently in the middle of her sophomore year, marking a 13-year...

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Video chatting soars in popularity: Intro

Jessica Wang, Editor-in-Chief May 23, 2020

Digital etiquette and technical difficulties dominate our new social lives. We strive to glimpse our friends’ faces or our teacher’s new pet through tiny windows on our screens. Video calls, it seems, have provided the perfect remedy for our social isolation. In reality, video call services...

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Seasoned teachers reflect on their changes, experiences throughout time spent at Gunn: Paul Dunlap

Angela Wong, News Editor March 5, 2020

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...

Decade in Review: Technology

Charlie Bush, Lifestyle Editor December 6, 2019

Motion-sensored consoles (2010): The XBox Kinect and the PlayStation Move were two of the biggest gaming consoles of the decade, both released worldwide in late 2010. Following suit of the Wii in 2006, motion-sensored consoles have become a house-hold item. Countless of games have swept the nation,...

Artists share Creations through online platforms: Junior Kara Jacobsen, @nesbocajarak

Artists share Creations through online platforms: Junior Kara Jacobsen, @nesbocajarak

lizakolbasov March 30, 2018

Written by Liza Kolbasov For most people, Instagram is simply a social media platform meant for enjoying lighthearted entertainment and sharing photos with friends. For junior Kara Jacobsen, however, it is also a platform to share art with people around the world. Jacobsen is part of an ever-growing...

Senior turns inspirations into mobile applications

Senior turns inspirations into mobile applications

kristenyee00 March 6, 2018

Written by Kristen Yee Applications are the lifeblood of phones. Silly selfies, frustratingly hard games, text messages and all other everyday functions people use phones for exist in apps. Beyond just a mere consumer of these apps, senior Anand Chandra is also an app programmer. His decision came...

Ghosting surfaces as avenue for disappointment

Ghosting surfaces as avenue for disappointment

gtramack February 2, 2018

Written by Grace Tramack Urban Dictionary defines ghosting as “the act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date.” In today’s standards of dating, ghosting is sadly a new norm for breakups. Due to the rise of social media and texting,...

Senior Kevin Frans pursues opportunities in artificial intelligence

andrewz8642 December 8, 2017

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...

Industrial nations should take responsibility for carbon emissions

andrewz8642 October 13, 2017

Written by Andrew Zhao The world faces an impending crisis. With greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a maximum for the last four hundred thousand years, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, humanity's industrialization has led to dark con- sequences for Earth. According to the NASA Goddard...

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