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      Nicholas Melvin
      December 8, 2020
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      Valerie Chu
      December 23, 2020
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      Sasha Lehrer
      December 23, 2020
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      Shantanu Deshpande
      December 8, 2020
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    • How Prop 22 Shows Corporate Political Power

      Nicholas Melvin
      December 23, 2020
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      Nicholas Melvin
      November 13, 2020
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      Nicholas Melvin
      November 13, 2020
      Opinion
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      Nicholas Melvin
      November 13, 2020
      Opinion
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      Nicholas Melvin
      October 23, 2020
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      Nicholas Melvin
      October 23, 2020
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      Braden Leung
      January 12, 2021
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      Will Thomas
      January 4, 2021
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      Gianna Brogley, Valerie Chu and Gina Bae
      December 27, 2020
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      Ziggy Tummalapalli
      November 15, 2020
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      Sloan Wuttke
      October 31, 2020
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      Ajay Venkatraman
      October 31, 2020
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      Gianna Brogley
      October 24, 2020
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      Ajay Venkatraman
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      Alex Liu
      May 30, 2020
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      June 2, 2020
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      Ziggy Tummalapalli
      December 31, 2020
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      Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe
      December 31, 2020
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      Joy Xu
      December 8, 2020
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      March 14, 2018
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      Nicholas Melvin
      June 1, 2017
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Author Nicholas Melvin

Nicholas Melvin

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Nicholas Melvin has been writing for the Campanile since the second semester of his Sophomore year at Palo Alto High School. When not pursuing galvanizing stories for the Campanile, he enjoys wiping the table with any opponent who dares to challenge him in a game of America's Pastime, or working for the Kansas City Chiefs, where he is employed as a professional laundryman. He has been relentlessly pursuing the art of journalism since the first time his grandpa asked him to bring in the newspaper when he was five years old.

Seniors victorious in Winter Rally, Prom to be held at Exploratorium

Nicholas Melvin
January 26, 2017
News, Showcase
This year’s installment of the winter rally was a stellar addition to the event’s legacy. The student team pulled off their first soccer victory of this millennia in a 4-1 victory. Math teacher John Rowe, wh...

Team success not correlated with individual greatness

Nicholas Melvin
December 7, 2016
Sports
Champion and greatness. Two words often tied together in a delightfully mystical way. Tied together through apparent common sense, but separate in an all-encompassing wonder called reality. In professional s...

The Roots Beneath the Tree

Nicholas Melvin and Paarth Sharma
November 16, 2016
Spotlight
“I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.” Leland Stanford,...
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PAC set to host first production of the year

Nicholas Melvin
October 26, 2016
News
In the words of legendary playwright Oscar Wilde: “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” The Haymarket Theatre is a prime example of the latter. In addition to being old, run down and...

Sports funding should be allocated equally among teams

Nicholas Melvin
October 26, 2016
Opinion, Sports
Pervading the campus of one of the most highly regarded high schools in California is an injustice so deeply-rooted and unbearably calamitous that it is taxing to even think of it. This abomination is the unequ...

Tim Tebow sets sights on professional baseball career

Nicholas Melvin
October 5, 2016
Sports
Since the end of the 2012 National Football League (NFL) season, something has been missing from the lives of American sports fans. More specifically, someone. He was the Messiah of the NFL, and quite possibly ...

Sports teams should remain faithful to hometowns

Nicholas Melvin
September 21, 2016
Sports
After more than 20 years, football is back in Los Angeles. In week two of the National Football League (NFL) season, the Los Angeles Rams will take on the Seattle Seahawks at L. A. Memorial Coliseum. It will be...

Helena McDowell: Skating with the boys

Nicholas Melvin
May 19, 2016
Showcase
With a bow in her hair and fire in her heart, Helena McDowell is proud to be the only girl on her hockey team. Sliding across the ice with her stick held low, she blows past defenders left and right, unstoppabl...
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Eight windows broken in vandalism incident

Nicholas Melvin
April 28, 2016
News
On an unknown date over spring break, a group of teenagers entered the Palo Alto High School campus with a BB gun, which was used to break eight windows. The punishment for those responsible could be restituti...

Sports should allow performance-enhancing drugs

Nicholas Melvin
February 25, 2016
Sports
Where there is competition, there is cheating. Whether it be competition in the classroom, or on the playing field, when there are multiple competing parties, there will always be those who cheat in order to ga...
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