On Friday, Sept 4, MVHS student run publication, Verdadera, released its first magazine of the year titled, Competition Culture.
Verdadera is a magazine produced by MVHS students off campus. It originally started as a parent newsletter, but evolved into a magazine made for topics personal to students. Students, parents and alumni can submit anonymous regarding their opinions about a certain topic. In the case of the first issue, Competition Culture, students submitted a wide range of opinions about the competitive atmosphere of MVHS.
According to co-editor in-chief, Gloria Zhao, the idea for Competition Culture was to bring a wide range of perspectives on competition to students, and tell the students that school is not survival of the fittest.
The magazine focuses on the competitive atmosphere in MVHS and provides a collection of personal anecdotes sent in by anonymous students. The magazine also contains alumni interviews and a Q&A with MVHS counselors.
“Everybody can say what they feel,” staff member senior Vidhi Tibrewala said. “[Verdadera] is very unbiased and has a 360 degree view of everything. No one’s opinion is, ‘No, you’re wrong,’ or, ‘We can’t take your opinion’…We like to get the whole view of things and what the student body thinks and represent them.”
According to sophomore Cheri Zhou, what sets Verdadera apart from other school magazines is its focus on more controversial topics.
“The topics that we publish on [in Verdadera], they’re really unspoken topics and not topics that people would say casually to each other,” Zhou said. “[Verdadera] is different and it’s really thought provoking.
Competition Culture is just one way of how Verdadera reaches out to the student body’s opinion on controversial topics. Verdadera hopes to continue raising more awareness about the club’s existence and issues on campus and gain more admissions as the year progresses.
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