Escaping behind my steering wheel
September 12, 2020
How being able to drive has helped me cope with shelter-in-place
Dangers of Driving
Collin Qian and Shreshta Ranganathan
December 15, 2019
MVHS students and administration reflect on some of their most dangerous moments behind the wheel
Driving to the brink
Robert Liu and Anoop Iyer
September 27, 2019
Weighing the costs of driving in high school
New rides of MVHS
Claire Wen and Helen Chao
March 13, 2019
Sushma Bana Fuel efficient and capable of gliding down the road as if in an ideal frictionless situation. As a math and physics teacher, this is Sushma Bana’s description of her dream car. However, when her 19-year-old Honda Accord broke down before she expected it to, and repairs cost more than t...
In Due Time
March 7, 2018
Senior Juliane Tsai spent countless hours of her senior year behind the wheel of her car, learning to drive. Tsai also holds two jobs — tutoring and babysitting children throughout the week. She thinks there is an inexplicable freedom in being able to transport herself and earn her own money. She va...
An Evolving Youth: A look into MVHS party culture has changed
Chetana Ramaiyer
March 10, 2017
n 1972, after Friday night football games, MVHS students would meet up at the McDonald's near highway nine, now known as De Anza Blvd. There was a Taco Bell, a Shakey's Pizza and a parking lot packed with cars. People would smoke marijuana, drink beer publicly and race their cars down the highway. This ...
#DeleteUber is trending in response to the incident at JFK airport
Chetana Ramaiyer
February 6, 2017
Recently, the #DeleteUber has been trending on Twitter. More than 200,000 Uber accounts have been deleted, according to a report from The New York Times It all started on Jan. 28. According to Forbes article titled, “Understand This Before You #DeleteUber”, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an organization consisting...
Ride Along: MVHS students discuss the year of driving rule
Chetana Ramaiyer
September 21, 2016
enior Spencer Sullivan-Hayes got into an accident while driving at night over spring break of 2016. Earlier that day, it had rained and the roads were slippery. He approached the intersection when the light was red, so Sullivan-Hayes still went for the turn, despite the oncoming traffic. His car...
Statistically driving: looking at the numbers behind student drivers
September 16, 2016
For more, see Ride Along from the Sept. issue of El Estoque hether it be through their 18th birthday, graduating high school or getting their driver’s license, there are many ways that a teenager transitions into the adult world. Driving is typically associated with coming of age and continues to be...
CAUTION: Grandma behind the wheel
Soumya Kurnool
November 19, 2012
You know you live a sad life when you have to wait in the Bus Circle until 5 p.m. for your parents to pick you up while all your friends simply zip off in their own cars to go home, to Chipotle and everywhere else it is that teens go. You also know you have a sad life when you don’t know squat about being behind the wheel (...
Teens numb to gas price increases
Shuyi Qi
August 23, 2012
These past few weeks have been a fiasco with shootings at Aurora, Colo. and a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. And just recently, on Aug. 6, an explosion at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California forced employees to evacuate. The question is, what's going to happen now? Namely, what will happen to gas prices? After the explosion, the average price of ...
