Archive for category: From the magazine

/ May 7, 2012 10:16 pm

Baseball: Matadors rally with two runs in seventh to edge Cupertino 5-4

Senior Joey Shepard hits go-ahead two RBI single to overcome four-run deficit

/ April 11, 2012 1:35 pm

Sexual discourse

Sex education unit sparks conversation about sexuality; however, students question the unit’s effectiveness

/ April 11, 2012 1:31 pm

Grandma is watching you

Freaking not only traumatized me, but it provided me with essential life lessons

/ April 11, 2012 1:23 pm

Grandma’s day out

Columnist goes to the Big Apple, eats two apples and comes back home

/ April 9, 2012 6:09 pm

Connecting the dots

English and Art teachers Mikki McMillion and Brian Chow are in the process of creating an interdisciplinary class model with their World Literature and Art 2 classes to push left and right brain learning

/ April 9, 2012 3:04 pm

Two paths, one destination

Parents of different ethnicity, and how their children must balance the two

/ March 26, 2012 3:38 pm

Olympic discus gold medalist speaks to track team

Beijing Olympics champion Stephanie Trafton encourages team to ‘fake it ‘til you make it’

/ March 21, 2012 2:11 pm

Status at stake

  When senior Nick Kau’s grade suddenly dropped from an A to a C in a class he took last year, he checked School Loop and was shocked to discover that he had been given a zero on the final exam for the first semester as well as the previous test. Kau was concerned that if he talked to the [...]

/ March 21, 2012 1:48 pm

Reputation on the line

We couldn’t possibly jeopardize our reputation with a teacher — the adult that holds power over our grades, our letters of recommendation, our futures. But when we go home, we sit our butts down and complain with our friends about every teacher we despise, turning our social networking highways into private diaries. A month ago, when reporter senior Aafreen Mahmood and [...]

/ March 15, 2012 2:12 pm

Building a better conversation

No matter what you may have heard, your teachers are not your friends. Sure, you give them Christmas gifts and sometimes even ask them about their plans for the break, but make no mistake — there is a rather clear and distinct line between teacher and friend. And in light of recent events, this has proven to be a serious issue. [...]