Jace Purcell

PAUSD school district navigates new options for reopening schools amid county and state restrictions

Valerie Chu, Ben Antonow and Jace Purcell

December 8, 2020

Less than a week after the Palo Alto School Board unanimously passed a new secondary school reopening proposal, Santa Clara County, along with the majority of California, reverted to the strictest “purple tier....

PAUSD proposes new reopening plan for secondary schools

Jace Purcell and Valerie Chu

November 9, 2020

Principal Brent Kline presented a new secondary school reopening proposal that outlines major changes to the initial hybrid learning model to the Paly staff on Wednesday, Nov. 4. A week later, at the Nov. 10 sc...

Back to School Blunder

Jace Purcell, Braden Leung and Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe

October 8, 2020

Spring Transition When the United States reported its first case of COVID-19 on Jan. 20, no one could have predicted what was to come. President Donald Trump called it the flu, faces remained unmasked and scho...

Intramural sports provide students an alternative to varsity sports

Jace Purcell

March 29, 2020

Amid the profound time commitment and demanding skill capacity, playing a sport for many students is often an entertaining idea but less of a realistic option due to their already intense schedules. Accordi...

Annual Career Month event kicks off in MAC

Jace Purcell

March 4, 2020

Aiming to provide students with insight on various career paths to help them plan their life after high school, Paly’s 12th annual Career Month began Thursday. According to senior and Career Month committee pr...

Changing the Censorship Landscape

Jace Purcell, Kris Risano and Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe

February 19, 2020

Background “In times of social turmoil, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression. We want the progress that comes from free expression, but not the tension.” And so, Facebook won’t pull back. In ...

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...

Boys basketball aspires to win CCS again

Jace Purcell

December 8, 2019

Following a 21-8 season last year, where they won a CCS championship, the boys basketball team hopes to win CCS again, giving them a run in the state championship according to junior Jack Elarde. To ensure thi...

City Council bans natural gas to promote sustainability

Jace Purcell

December 6, 2019

Palo Alto City Council banned the use of natural gas in new residential buildings through a unanimous vote in hopes of lowering carbon emissions to combat climate change on Monday, Nov. 4. According to Mayor E...

Teen arts council introduces new recording studio

Jace Purcell

November 25, 2019

Once junior and City of Palo Alto Teen Arts Council member Jonathan Sneh wraps up the drum pads in the Media Lab and adds the finishing touches on his very first self-produced, self-composed track, he knows he ...

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