Two Pathways, Three Years Vivian Feng and Kesi Sound April 28, 2017 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight As his freshman year drew to a rylose, Jordan Schilling was feeling unchallenged and even a bit apathetic about high school. To get the most out of his next three years, something needed to change. That’s when ...
Bursting The Bubble Niklas Risano and Ehecatl Rivera-Pinedo March 29, 2017 Showcase, Spotlight With a crime rate of nearly zero, self-driving cars and a $2.5 million median home price, Palo Alto is undoubtedly a bubble. So when Palo Altans woke up on Nov. 9 and found that Donald Trump had been ...
Painting Diversity on the College Canvas Edward Kim and Sam Yun March 1, 2017 Spotlight 1 The issue of race in higher education has spearheaded a polarizing debate that still permeates college admissions today. Affirmative action, a concept that would ideally eliminate racial barriers in the workfor...
The Legacy of Barack Obama Philip Ericsson and Ehecatl Rivera-Pinedo February 1, 2017 Showcase, Spotlight For 228 years, our nation has seen many men take on what is arguably, the most difficult job in America: the presidency. While executives have had varied impacts on America, the 44th President of the United Sta...
College Acceptance Rates for Paly Students Kai Oda and Edan Sneh January 25, 2017 Showcase, Spotlight View the FullScreen application (recommended) The Campanile’s Goal The college data of the past few years provided by Naviance displays some salient, optimistic trends concerning college acceptance rates f...
Protests: The Evolution of Revolution Allison Wu and Ashley Zhang December 7, 2016 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Marching In As hundreds of students flooded the streets of downtown Palo Alto in reaction to Donald Trump’s election victory, they marched in step with a proud American tradition: exercising the democratic r...
The Roots Beneath the Tree Nicholas Melvin and Paarth Sharma November 16, 2016 Spotlight “I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.” Leland Stanford,...
A Look into Paly’s Political Perspectives Allison Wu and Peyton Wang October 28, 2016 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight Following months of heated presidential debates and rising tension between political parties, Election Day will occur on Nov. 8, marking the start of a new era in American politics. The two major parties in th...
Bay Area Gentrification: Technology Boom Pushing Out Locals Grace Kitayama October 11, 2016 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight, Videos *Housing data for East Palo Alto courtesy of Zillow.com The Price of Progress Silicon Valley is internationally known as a glimmering hub of innovation and technology, and the home to some of the world’s ...
New Teachers: 20 More Reasons to Love Paly Maya Homan, Ashley Zhang, Kiran Misner and Sam Yun September 15, 2016 Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight With the torrents of incoming freshman, a new wave of teachers has joined Paly faculty. But just who are these people we pass every day in the halls and spend hours during block days with? Who were they before ...
