Adora Zheng

Letter from the 2020-21 Editors-in-Chief

Adora Zheng, Andrew Toteda, Benjamin Stein, Kris Risano and Shiva Mohsenian

May 29, 2021

Call us crazy, but one of the things we’ll miss most about high school is pacing the quad on campus, harassing groups of students at brunch to ask if they’d like a Campy still hot from the presses. Maybe we w...

Post-Paly Prestige

Adora Zheng, Andrew Toteda, Benjamin Stein, Kris Risano and Shiva Mohsenian

May 25, 2021

Every fall, millions of high school seniors sit down at their computers and attempt to boil their life’s journey into a 650-word essay. Their application, which consists of transcripts soaked in sweat, years of...

BREAKING NEWS: Santa Clara County moves from Purple to Red Tier

Adora Zheng

September 8, 2020

Santa Clara County is moving up from the Purple Tier to the Red Tier of Governor Gavin Newsom's 4-tier reopening plan, state officials announced today at 1:15 p.m. According to Newsom's plan, K-12 schools can o...

Students use digital means to stay connected under COVID-19 quarantine

Adora Zheng

April 27, 2020

A month ago, a movie with friends would have junior Stephanie Peng driving to the nearest theater, hugging her friends, buying concessions and enjoying a new release. Today, it entails sending a link to a Zoom ...

COVID-19: The virus that has shaken the nation

Adora Zheng, Benjamin Stein and Andy Wang

April 6, 2020

The typically packed University Avenue is desolate, a lone man seen wearing an N-95 respirator waiting for his take-out order from an empty restaurant. School campuses have been abandoned, whiteboards and desks...

UC eases admissions requirements in response to COVID-19 crisis

Adora Zheng

April 1, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the University of California school system announced that it will eliminate the requirements for standardized SAT/ACT and spring 2020 letter grade for students applying in Fa...

BREAKING NEWS: All Santa Clara County public schools shut down for three weeks due to coronavirus concerns

Adora Zheng and Sarah O'Riordan

March 13, 2020

All schools in Santa Clara County will be closed starting Monday, March 16 for a minimum of three weeks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to an announcement made by County Superintendent Ma...

Admin consult students in principal hiring process

Adora Zheng

March 4, 2020

Two weeks after Principal Adam Paulson announced his resignation, effective at the end of the 2019-20 school year, the administration held an open meeting in the Media Arts Center to gather student input on th...

Dialect on the Decline

Adora Zheng

February 4, 2020

A high school student in Shanghai sits down to begin her homework. Her task? To write an 800-word apology letter for speaking Shanghainese, her local dialect, in class. According to the Shanghai Municipal Educ...

Student who made alleged shooting threat on Gunn High school is taken into custody

Adora Zheng, Jace Purcell and Kris Risano

December 14, 2019

The Palo Alto Police Department took a Gunn High School student into custody at 2:45 a.m. Friday morning who had allegedly submitted a school shooting threat the night before, via a web form. The District and P...

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