Meaningful Protesting
September 25, 2019
still remember the day I apprehensively walked out of freshman biology. I hadn’t ever done anything like this before — left a classroom without a teacher’s approval. I reminded myself why I was doing this: for the innocent students who had lost their lives in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootin...
Positivity Podcast Ep. 1: Democratic debates
Lakshanyaa Ganesh and Oishee Misra
September 22, 2019
t’s easy to resign to dismay while attempting to stay informed about the latest news around the globe. That’s why opinion editors Lakshanyaa Ganesh and Oishee Misra discuss the silver linings that emerge from the seemingly limitless “bad news” shared daily. On episode one, they discuss the...
What’s the news?
Shuvi Jha, Ishaani Dayal, Michelle Chen, Jayanti Jha, and Sarah Young
August 25, 2019
Exploring students’ reactions to summer news events
Congressman Ro Khanna discusses his policies
Hannah Lee, Shuvi Jha, and Swara Tewari
May 23, 2019
Khanna sits down with student journalists to explain his stances
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...
Fighting fire in the digital age
Swara Tewari and Shivani Gupta
January 2, 2019
On Mon., Oct. 29, senior Aditya Shah participated in a panel at the Google Event Center in Sunnyvale to launch Google’s Artificial Intelligence Impact Challenge and was interviewed by Chief Operating Officer for AI Irina Kofman. Shah was invited to participate in the panel because of th...
A fight for nature
October 19, 2018
LIFESTYLE hen junior Trudie Ngo first stumbled upon environmental activist and entrepreneur Lauren Singer’s videos in early 2018, her reaction was one of disbelief. Through her blog and YouTube channel “Trash is for Tossers,” Singer — who Ngo now calls “the guru of zero waste living” — advocates for environmental...
The worst of 2017
Ananya Bhat
December 12, 2017
We hoped it would be better. As we watched the ball drop 12 months ago, we wished with crossed fingers that this year would be better than 2016. But let’s be honest — it wasn’t. From sexual assault accusations to violent protests, 2017 has taken a turn for the worse. In June, Trump de...
California heat wave: The growing flame
September 8, 2017
On the first weekend of September, the Bay Area fell under a cloud of windy heat. Temperatures rose to a record high of 106℉ on Friday, Sept. 1 shattering the previous record of 103°F from June 14, 2000. Throughout the weekend, the temperatures had dwindled to 102°F on Saturday and 100°F on Sunday. In s...
Problems for Oroville Dam
Karen Sanchez
February 26, 2017
alif. has been experiencing a heavy amount of rain in the past couple of weeks, and the empty, cracked and dried reservoirs are filling up just as they had shriveled up when the drought first occurred. The same can be said for the Oroville reservoir, located in the city of Oroville, situated on the fo...
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