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Security or self-expression: TikTok ban raises issues

Albert Jung, Staff Writer June 27, 2023

The vibrant virtual realm, teeming with viral dance routines, crafty political satire and a medley of memes — otherwise known as TikTok — is junior Hope Van Riesen’s digital lifeline. To end her...

Embrace failure, learn from adversity

Embrace failure, learn from adversity

Olivia Atkinson June 22, 2023

Textbooks lay scattered across the desk as I furiously scribble in the margins of my notebook. Glancing up at the clock on the wall of the library’s silent room, a wave of panic washes over me while...

Art by Ivy Lee

Musk alters Twitter work culture, content

Jerry Xia June 22, 2023

Designer and former Twitter employee Danny Yee turns on his monitor and scrolls through his Twitter feed. He smiles as he reads the latest news on SpaceX’s starship launch and laughs as he watches a...

The Riot: alternative rock student band composes single

The Riot: alternative rock student band composes single

Henry Liu, Staff Writer June 12, 2023

A G-flat minor chord riff, providing a melancholic yet comforting tone, emanates from the front of the quad. Junior Maximilian Rabbitt-Tomita strums his guitar and sophomore Dexter Cleveringa sets the...

Photo by Rachel Lee

Penny Ice Creamery opens new locations in Palo Alto and Los Altos

June 12, 2023

As customers flood the shop to get a taste of the fresh, scratch-made ice cream, lively music and loud laughter ring through the new Palo Alto location of The Penny Ice Creamery. Zachary Davis, the...

Art by Sophia Kelly

Students navigate spectrum of symptoms during allergy season

Erik Feng, Senior Staff Writer June 12, 2023

Walking into a classroom in April and May is always a tragic sight. Blue Kleenex boxes sit in every room as sniffly students fill trash bins with crumpled tissues. For some students, allergy season means...

Senior send-off verbatim

Lillian Clark, Staff Writer May 31, 2023

After four years, seniors have found different ways to acclimate to school life and learn how to balance responsibilities outside of school with their academic achievements. One thing senior Ankai Jin...

Art by Katie Wu

Students weigh risks, rewards of betting on March Madness

Alec Bonnard May 8, 2023

Sophomore Will Hagan stares at his TV, on the edge of his seat, as he watches Florida Atlantic University play the Memphis Tigers in the first round of March Madness. With only a few minutes left, the...

Photo by Hannah Singer

Classroom in a forest: Mountain School provides great alternative to traditional education

Hannah Singer, Editor-in-Chief May 5, 2023

Face planting into 12 inches of freshly fallen snow. Tapping a maple tree and watching as clear sap flows through a web of tubes, all leading to the sugar house. Running to the dining hall between classes...

©️ 2022 Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon. Photo: Ugo Carmeni, used with permission.

Kehinde Wiley exhibit debuts in San Francisco, speaks out against systemic racism

Lillian Clark May 1, 2023

In San Francisco’s De Young Museum, wide, floor-to-ceiling paintings of vibrant colors and floral patterns with vines strewn across the bodies of young Black men and women hang in dimly lit rooms. These...

People of Paly: Carl Hubenthal

People of Paly: Carl Hubenthal

April 28, 2023

Although students might know Carl Hubenthal as the guy on the bike,” there’s more to him than that. Hubenthal has been a Campus Supervisor for seven years ever since a friend of his asked him to...

Photo by Jerry Xia

IKEA: The food warehouse

Jerry Xia and Erik Feng April 12, 2023

Arriving at IKEA When people think of IKEA, they think of sleek, modern furniture, and warehouse shelves stacked with crates. Yet, when we arrived at the well-lit lobby with the one-way escalator, we...

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