Are Top Tier Colleges Worth It? Lauren Klass October 13, 2014 Spotlight Stanford. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Columbia. These prestigious, top ranked universities are popular among the top of Palo Alto High School seniors’ college lists. The pressure of being accepted into, and atten...
The nature of the dress code Miranda Chen September 22, 2014 Spotlight Thoughout history and across regions, there have almost always been limitations on what women and men can wear, especially in professional environments. In academic institutions, such rules are packaged in th...
Running Out of Time April 25, 2014 Spotlight Dressed in a faded green-blue windbreaker, an older man laughs to himself and zooms by on an electric scooter on a roughly paved street behind a shopping center. He sports a pleasant smile and an aged complexio...
Ramifications of Rape Culture April 24, 2014 Spotlight "Most societies don't talk about rape,” write former Verde editors-in-chiefs Ana Carano, Sharon Tseng and Evelyn Wang. “We consider it a taboo, conditioning victims to feel ashamed about speaking out and forcin...
Shmacking the System March 8, 2014 Spotlight "Ivy League or bust. That’s what everyone says.” Palo Alto High School junior Kelly Swanson is one of the millions of high school students beginning his or her yearlong journey of finding the college that he o...
Tricks of a Paly cheater February 7, 2014 Spotlight In last year’s Advanced Placement (AP) Physics C class, Ben grabbed a test off the teacher’s desk, found the previous AP question’s answers online, programmed the answers into his TI-89 calculator the night bef...
Common Core State Standards November 8, 2013 Spotlight What is the Common Core? While eager first graders were once required to “demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the text,” under the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), they are now expected ...
Spotlight: In my opinion slut-shaming must stop October 11, 2013 Spotlight A note to the reader: This article is not promoting casual sex and dressing revealingly. However, it is not condemning it either. We are not saying that one perspective on sex is any more “right” or “moral” tha...
The Social Divide May 8, 2013 Spotlight 2 Author's Note I first became interested in exploring Paly’s social divide after passing “The Wall” as I rushed to my 6th period Chemistry class one day. While I walked beside the Student Center, a girl paces a...
When I Grow Up February 22, 2013 Spotlight What do you want to do when you grow up? Adults have incessantly asked this question to children and teenagers. When we were younger, our aspirations ranged from the President of the United States to firemen, b...
