Volume II Issue I: September 9, 2016 |
OPINION |
Next online issue: September 9 , 2016 |
Column: Welcome BackBy MAYA SANCHEZ and LAURYN BEST
Remember when school used to start the day after Labor Day? Sadly, no one does. School districts are pushing the start date early and early and while it can be seen as a negative things, it also has some positive spins to it: longer holidays, for example. Who doesn’t want a week long Thanksgiving Break? Now that school has been in session for the better part of a month, it feels like life is just starting to settle into place. There are enough items in homework assignments in the grade book that the summer homework you turned in a week later is starting to even itself out. There are tests, the dreaded tests. There are school events advertised on every available surface. There are after school activities. There are all sorts of sporting events including Friday Night Lights... |
WhiteBoard Question: If You Could Change One Thing About School, What Would It Be? |
By MIA DELMONICO
As school starts again this year, many begin a new chapter in life. Class schedules have been received, the campus has been explored, and the anticipation builds. Some completely start fresh and transfer to a new district, others continue their journey with their friends that they met in kindergarten, and some break out of their shell and see the world in a new way. We soon begin to realize that what we had imagined day after day, trying to prepare ourselves for this change has done no good at all. We have all heard the sayings that the friends you meet in high school are the friends you have for life, and that you find out who you really are in your high school years, but now we get to experience first hand the most anticipated years of our lives: high school. Starting fresh and starting over are different ways of looking at the situation . All the connections, friendships, and regularities of everyday life are in the past. Now we start from scratch once again, and try to pave the path to success. ... |
By JASMYN GONZALEZ
Learning to Grow Up Child left in the dark Listen to the monster’s growl You want to cry out She has you pinned to the ground Child faced with pain Run from the hate She is too fast Child, child say something Refuse to let her put you down ... |
By: DAVID MIKHAIL and MATTHEW MIKHAILOV
What does it mean to be alive? In his novel 1984, George Orwell simply defines existence as being conscious of one’s own identity and occupying a particular point in space. But to exist is not to live, that is not the case. Here lies the rub: while existing is easy, living life to the fullest is not. So how do you live life to the fullest? The answer is quite simple. It cannot, however, be answered as easily, because every person is different and has his or her own likes and dislikes. What I can tell you though is this: it doesn’t matter what you do... |
By LAURYN BEST
Since March 5, 2011, all eyes have been on the ongoing Syrian war and its consequential refugee crisis. According to World Vision, 13.5 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian aide, 4.8 million have become refugees, and 6.5 million have been displaced from their homes. The current poster boy of the war is Omran, a young boy who has been bloodied and disheveled from an airstrike on his home in Aleppo, Syria. Omran is not the first, and will not be the last, person whose life has been overturned by the war. With the majority of older citizens voting in favor of the Brexit due to the large influx of immigrants, and countries all over Europe slamming the door in the face of refugees, they have few places to turn.... |
By DAVID MIKHAIL
Here is the Thing Throughout last year, I have witnessed as the school alerted the students and the staff, about getting tickets from the cops standing outside. A lot of the students and the staff members seem to like the warning and appreciate the heads-up. However, I could not disagree more. Here is the thing: the state of California gives tickets to bad drivers, not to aimlessly annoy people and ruin their day. They are there to punish bad drivers and to get them to follow the traffic laws, making our roads safer... |
By SAUMYA GOYAL
At the turn of the 21st century, nearly one billion people around the world could not sign their own name. To this day, over 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 per day and almost 26 percent of the world’s adult population is illiterate. For centuries, these problems have been present in the human population—these problems collectively define aspects of the global parasite that is poverty. Poverty is cited as one of the main reasons for global illiteracy... |