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...
Preparing for the future Shannon Zhao, Lucy Nemerov and Johnny Loftus November 8, 2017 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Eight years ago, Zach Gibson, a Paly alumnus, entered the special education program as a sixth grader who was navigating the rough currents of his mental disabilities. Gibson was born with moderately-severe aut...
Spotlight: The History of Spirit Week Paarth Sharma, Khadija Abid and Bernie Koen October 23, 2017 Showcase, Spotlight Spirit Week and all the wild rallies, spectacular dances and intricate floats it’s comprised of may be all-encompassing when it comes to school pride and spirit. Few people, however, know of its origin, or the ...