Leo Club volunteers at 36th annual Cherry Blossom Festival
April 29, 2019
n Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28, Cupertino residents enjoyed a weekend of festivities at the 36th annual Cherry Blossom Festival, which honors the friendly relationship between Cupertino and its sister city, Toyokawa, located in Japan. Running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, the event was host...
The Foundation
April 12, 2019
The Foundation t the dawn of senior year and constantly throughout the college application process, many seniors use Naviance to estimate their chances of getting into a college. This scavenging often consists of zooming in on scatter plots that show results of decisions from previous years. But th...
Q&A: Interact’s Paw-llywood Annual Benefit Dinner
Shivani Gupta, Staff Writer
April 12, 2019
Interact’s Area 12 held its annual benefit dinner to raise funds for its latest international project, the economic crisis in Venezuela on Saturday, March 6. What is international night? MVHS Interact International Project Committee co-chair and junior David Hui: International night is a benef...
Warming Up: Examining the Consequences of Climate Change
Lakshanyaa Ganesh, Oishee Misra, and Laasya Koduru
March 13, 2019
ilicon Valley is a community that seems to share little in common with other parts of the country and world. Yet when it comes to climate change, it is not exempt from its reaches. The multi-year drought plaguing California is a prime example, with the reduction in crop production, increase in water b...
As the smoke settles
December 17, 2018
n Nov. 8, chemistry and AVID teacher Elizabeth McCracken’s daughter Samara McCracken and her boyfriend were two of thousands of people affected by one of the deadliest wildfires in American history: Camp Fire. While Samara and her boyfriend Kevin live in Quincy, Calif., and weren’t in severe dan...
City of Cupertino holds 2018 tree lighting ceremony
December 5, 2018
n Friday, Nov. 30, the City of Cupertino held the 2018 tree lighting ceremony at the Quinlan Community Center. At 6 p.m., the a cappella group Business Casual, national champions of the 2018 Harmony Sweepstakes, began their performance. As community members started to gather around the unlit Christmas tree...
End of an Era
October 26, 2018
On Sept. 19, the Cupertino City Council voted 3-2 to approve Sand Hill Property Co. (SHPC)’s Tier 2 Specific Plan to renovate the now-dead Vallco Mall. It will include 1,750,000 square feet of office space, as well as over 2,500 apartments and less than four percent retail space. The mockups displayed...
End of Summer celebration
Gauri Kaushik and Ayah Ali-Ahmad
October 1, 2018
amilies and friends lounged in the sun at Jollyman Park on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 29 for the End of Summer celebration hosted by the City of Cupertino. According to Christina Hastings, one of the event coordinators for the city, this was the finale of a long list of summer activities ...
Congressman Ro Khanna speaks at San Jose town hall
July 22, 2018
Congressman Ro Khanna addressed a gymnasium full of his constituents at Joaquin Miller Middle School. He answered questions from Sunnyvale, San Jose, Milpitas and Cupertino residents about a wide range of topics, including gun control, policy regarding the Middle East and the Immigration and Customs...
Cultural exchange: Hsinchu and Cupertino
May 3, 2018
Mayor and exchange students reflect on the relationship between Hsinchu and Cupertino
Breaking convention
April 11, 2018
ommunity members mill about the bus circle, which will soon be filled with food trucks. Prominent local politicians speak in the Student Union. And the main attraction, a voter registration drive for students, takes center stage in the rally court. This is how seniors Samantha Millar, Santosh Sivak...
Corking the bottle: discussing the new Cupertino social host ordinance
April 11, 2018
The Cupertino City Council voted unanimously on March 6 to approve the first draft of the social host ordinance, a new law that strives to reduce the amount of underage drinking and drug use in the city by increasing the consequences for the adults that the city deems responsible. The social host ordi...
