Sandra Cernobori and Alice Erber’s jobs as college advisors consist of helping juniors and seniors through the college application process. They, along with Paly’s Advisor Christina Owen, host an orientation...
The Internet controls us. From the way we connect with friends to the way we retrieve our homework, its hypnotic power is unfortunately essential to living today. Sure, the Internet can be extremely helpful...
Up-and-coming rapper Hoodie Allen kept his teenage fans screaming with hysteria on Nov. 30, 2012 at Castilleja School, despite arriving an hour late and performing a short 60 minute concert. At the end...
Summer break is often seen as a time to forget about school, relax and have fun.
For two Henry M. Gunn (Gunn) students, however, the summer of 2012 was an opportunity to launch a student-run website designed...
I work with and for some of the greatest people on earth. It is a real pleasure to come to work knowing I will spend the day with all of the students confronting and solving problems and just enjoying...
Bringing new spunk and energy into the math department is Herb Bocksnick who teaches Algebra 1 and Intro to Analysis and Calculus this year. Bocksnick did not always live in California. Coming from Montana,...
Towering 30 feet into the air and illuminating City Hall Plaza with 40,000 full color LED lights and 4,000 shimmering copper leaves will stand a large steel willow tree. Or so two Walter Hays Elementary...
Nearly every senior in high school dreams about finally receiving an acceptance letter to college. They have put in countless hours of work—editing essays, frantically filling out forms, asking teachers...
Paly Tumblrs. The only place where a snapshot from Lilo and Stitch or The Office can perfectly describe the daily obstacles of an everyday student. These blogs include random images or GIFs, often picturing...
In a field dominated by gangsters and tough images, an unlikely faction has emerged in the hip hop/rap genre. While their cultural heritage may not be as painstakingly obvious as it is for rappers like...
Back in the day when wearing camouflage was not just a semiannual senior tradition but rather the permanent attire for students drafted to Vietnam, senior Erica Gerard scurried around the Paly campus collecting...
It’s 9 p.m., and junior Elijah Waxman, or by his stage name, Kelevra Roc, receives a text message for the dance battle location. He has been selected to battle some of the most intense b-boys in the...