Glued to the concrete floor for two hours, a Paly student locked himself into one of the school’s private bathrooms after being denied access to the Wellness Center. While the center’s staff speculated he was using the center as a...
The typically packed University Avenue is desolate, a lone man seen wearing an N-95 respirator waiting for his take-out order from an empty restaurant. School campuses have been abandoned, whiteboards and desks gathering dust. The virus that was once only...
“In times of social turmoil, our impulse is often to pull back on free expression. We want the progress that comes from free expression, but not the tension.” And so, Facebook won’t pull back. In a lengthy address at Georgetown...
Hundreds of parents and activists clad in red shirts lined the halls of the state Capitol, hoisting signs that read ‘DO NOT BULLY DOCTORS INTO NOT PROTECTING THEIR PATIENTS!’ and chanting ‘YES TO EDUCATION, NO TO MANDATION!’ Some even facing...
The Post-Paly Plans Map has historically been one of The Campanile’s most highly anticipated pieces. Though its intended purpose was to celebrate the post-graduation plans of every senior, the reality is the map contributes to the toxic, comparison-driven culture at...
When the five of us stepped into the Editor-in-Chief role a year ago, we knew the next 12 months of our lives would be a whirlwind of breaking news and deadlines, picas and headlines. We expected to be immersed in...
The names of sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity have been changed. Everybody’s doing it,” embattled college coach William Rick Singer said in a 2013 YouTube video, “it” referring to high school students doing all they can to...
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...
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 — Chinese parents — coalesced outside the spotlight. Palo Altans...
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 will get an...