From Immigration to Assimilation Jaures Yip, Alyssa Leong, Sophia Moore and Byron Zhang February 2, 2019 Showcase, Spotlight As debates over weighted grades, middle school renaming and a cluster of other concerns rippled through the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) in recent years, an increasingly influential group — Chines...
Coming to a Consensus on Consent Noah Baum, Leila Khan, Shannon Zhao and Tien Nguyen December 12, 2018 Showcase, Spotlight, Student Life Introduction If you stop and ask 20 strangers to define “consent,” you will hear a variety of answers. If you stop and ask 20 students who have all attended the same consent assemblies to define the term, you w...
Bridging The Achievement Gap Annie Chen, Khadija Abid and Vivian Feng October 28, 2018 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight PAUSD is the number one school district in California according to Niche, 24/7 Wall St. and countless other acclaimed organizations. It boasts of sky-high graduation rates, impressive standardized test scores a...
Investigating the bell schedule kerfuffle Anna Meyer, Kennedy Herron, Maya Rathore and Miranda Li October 5, 2018 Spotlight Despite all the upheaval last school year, with dual resignations by the District Superintendent Max McGee and Paly Principal Kim Diorio, one thing seemed assured: Paly would have a new, redesigned bell schedul...
Turning Over a New Leaf Kai Vetteth, Eve Donnelly and Neil Kapoor September 7, 2018 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Introduction The only constant is change. In the recent months at Paly, this statement has fully applied. The end of last school year was met with a sudden goodbye to an unprecedented number of administrative...
The Campanile’s Annual Post-Paly Plans 2018 Edan Sneh, Allison Wu, Ashley Zhang and Maya Homan May 20, 2018 Post-Paly Plans, Showcase, Spotlight Fullscreen map here (recommended). International Schools Name Plans Beyond High School Charlotte Brownell The University of Edinburgh (Scotland) Jasper Chang New York Universi...
Shedding Light on Student Homelessness Waverly Long and Shannon Zhao April 20, 2018 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, The Campanile changed the names of student sources. Misconceptions When the final bell rings, signalling the end of a long school day, many students flock to the bike c...
YouTube Will Never Be The Same (Not Clickbait): Logan Paul’s Suicide Forest Video Brings Problems To Light Leyton Ho and Kiran Misner March 1, 2018 Showcase, Spotlight The Antics of Logan Paul Yo, are you alive?” infamous YouTuber Logan Paul shouts at a dangling dead body in a video published on Dec. 31 depicting Paul exploring Aokigahara, a Japanese forest famous for suicid...
Juvenile Justice Vivian Feng and Lucy Nemerov February 2, 2018 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Backstory They were smoking in the car, and his friend began speeding on the highway. A police officer tried to pull them over, but his friend decided to outrun the cop. It didn’t end well. The pas...
Caught in the Crosshairs Ujwal Srivastava and Ethan Nissim December 8, 2017 Showcase, Spotlight Intro Apr. 16, 2007 — 32 killed at Virginia Tech University. Dec. 14, 2012 — 27 killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dec. 2, 2015 — 14 killed in San Bernardino, Calif. June 12, 2016 — 49 killed in Pulse Nig...
