Andrew Toteda

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...

Review: ‘Parasite’ first foreign film to win Best Picture Oscars

Andrew Toteda

March 4, 2020

For the first time in Oscar history, a foreign-language film was crowned Best Picture this year, and President Donald Trump was quick to criticize the movie he hadn’t watched. “And the winner is . . . a movie...

Palo Alto should deploy municipal fiber to increase data speed

Andrew Toteda

February 20, 2020

If you thought Pokemon has been around forever, so has the desire for high-speed internet in Palo Alto. But unlike fire-breathing Charizard, the ancient copper cables that connect Palo Altans to the outside wor...

ASB announces prom, Skoglobe

Andrew Toteda

February 14, 2020

After much fanfare and a captivating basketball shootout, the Associate Student Body revealed this year’s prom location as taking place at the San Jose Tech Museum on Saturday, April 18. According to Junior Cl...

Paulson to resign as principal in June

Andrew Toteda and Benjamin Stein

January 24, 2020

Principal Adam Paulson announced his resignation and departure from Paly at the end of the 2019-20 school year following six years of work as a campus administrator, according to a school-wide announcement earl...

Putting Prowess: Paly girls golf wins states

Andrew Toteda

December 14, 2019

After a transformative season, Paly Girls Golf added the California Interscholastic Federation state title to its trophy shelf following a thrilling eight stroke win over Southern California rival Troy High Sch...

Girls golf defends CCS title, continues onto state level

Andrew Toteda

November 17, 2019

By a razor-thin margin, the girls golf team defended its Central Coast Sectionals title at the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch on Oct. 29, cementing back-to-back-to-back wins at CCS over the last three years. The te...

Girls golf remains undefeated

Andrew Toteda

October 30, 2019

Maintaining their streak with nine wins and zero losses, the girls golf team continues to sink its opponent’s aspirations. On Tuesday, the team played Los Gatos, winning by 14 strokes: 207-193. They will play ...

The Call for Creativity

Andrew Toteda

October 23, 2019

Paly junior Eli Crystal steps back from the 2,100 degree furnace and gently places an elegant teal-colored glass vase with swirls of blue on the cooling rack where the still radiating heat buckles the air aroun...

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