“Tough it out” Kai Vetteth April 20, 2019 Showcase, Sports Solomon Thomas, San Francisco 49ers defensive end and Stanford alum, stands at the front of a Paly psychology classroom, his hulking figure towering over the crowd. His lunchtime audience, comprised of student-...
Plans to reorganize special education Alex Liu April 19, 2019 News, Showcase PAUSD’s special education department is being reorganized to reduce its independence and thereby eliminate confusion and increase efficiency, Superintendent Don Austin said. The reorganization brings the sp...
Administrators consider renovating auto shop despite teacher concerns Johnny Yang April 19, 2019 News, Showcase Following the completion of the new library, the facilities steering committee is now considering a proposal to renovate the auto shop, a possibility that has been discussed for years. The facilities steerin...
PAUSD mislabels student graduation requirements in Paly, Gunn transcripts Alyssa Leong April 19, 2019 News, Showcase Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) erroneously labeled about 200 Paly and Gunn students from the Class of 2018 as having not met A-G graduation requirements, however this mistake did not affect college e...
Community unites to commemorate, remember Mischa Nee Annie Chen and Tien Nguyen April 19, 2019 News, Showcase Mischa Nee, a Stanford junior, Paly graduate and former Editor-in-Chief of The Campanile who died recently in a hiking accident, was eulogized last week as a young man who “said yes to life over and over and ov...
Film festival features student submissions Emily Asher April 19, 2019 News, Showcase With videos ranging from comedies to dramas, Paly’s sixth annual film and animation festival took place in the Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 11, drawing a large and diverse crowd of students, parents ...
Former student client discloses personal experiences working with indicted college counselor Rick Singer Noah Baum and Kennedy Herron March 22, 2019 News, Showcase After the indictment of 50 people — some of them Palo Alto residents — in a college admissions cheating scandal, many community members involved in the college admissions process say current admissions practice...
Board approves assistant principal’s resignation, librarian’s retirement Annie Chen March 12, 2019 News, Showcase The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education accepted assistant principal John Christiansen’s resignation, which will be effective June 30, and librarian Rachel Kellerman’s retirement, which will be...
Passing on the baton Tien Nguyen March 7, 2019 Showcase, Sports Heirlooms have always been a source of connection between generations in a family. Sometimes these tokens are physical objects like a ring or a set of china. But sometimes they are intangibles, like particular ...
Diving into Divorce Annie Chen, Miranda Li and Johnny Yang March 2, 2019 Showcase, Spotlight When junior Sasha Poor was 11 years old, she came home one day and found a brand new book sitting on a bookshelf in her garage, titled “A Smart Girl’s Guide to Her Parents’ Divorce.” A sixth grader at the time,...
