Last week, administration placed notices in various Paly restrooms announcing the school would start providing free menstrual products in restrooms in compliance with California’s Menstrual Equity for All Act. The notices, taped above baskets designed to hold the menstrual products,...
Flower bouquets, candles and objects that represented senior Lauren Brierly covered the folding tables on Los Altos High School’s quad on April 4. A poster with hand-written messages dedicated to Brierly stood adjacent. Brierly died on the morning of April...
Nelson Gifford resigned as head football coach on Tuesday. This resignation follows Gifford being let go from his position as athletic director last Thursday. Gifford, a 1999 Paly graduate, was the head football coach for four years and athletic director...
With trembling fingers, Gunn senior Edlyn Hsueh clicks “post,” adding to her feed of personal snapshots and portraits, some with her friends and others showcasing revealing costumes. Almost immediately, her phone lights up with an incoming flood of comments and...
Few Paly students can say they have been in all three math lanes. But senior Anneke Salvadori can. “Freshman year, I took geometry honors, and then I dropped into the ‘A’ lane,” Salvadori said. “Then I took Algebra 2/Trig A,...
While the United States has a separate justice system for juveniles, that hasn’t always been the case. In fact, prior to the 20th century, youths were tried in the same criminal courts as adults. The roots of the present-day juvenile...
Junior Noah Boyarsky (he/him) said students often view his transition to being male as something he decided on a whim. “I think a lot of people who don’t have experience with this just assume that one day I woke up...
We’re surprised that underage drinking is happening, which I find interesting and funny because we definitely promoted it –– it’s one of our core values. –Ben Bolanos Three weeks into the school year, the number of Paly parties is already...
Every fall, millions of high school seniors sit down at their computers and attempt to boil their life’s journey into a 650-word essay. Their application, which consists of transcripts soaked in sweat, years of hard work, scores on standardized tests,...
The recent rise in anti-Asian violence and hate crimes is not a recent development, and while it has shocked those unfamiliar with bigotry against Asian Americans, senior Michaela Seah said she was not surprised. “I feel like I knew it...