The difference between reality and the media’s make believe for teens February 6, 2015 Lifestyle, Spotlight In the pilot episode of Britain’s acclaimed TV series “Skins”, heralded for its frank and human depiction of teenagers, members of the ensemble cast get drunk, pass out on pills, smoke marijuana and try to get...
A different path January 16, 2015 Lifestyle, Spotlight Hillel: Exploring Jewish History For the past semester, alumnus Hillel Zand has been spending time in Israel with Kivunim, a secular Jewish gap year program. For Zand, Kivunim provided a compromise between the...
The Death of the Record Label November 24, 2014 Spotlight Record labels have been the backbone of the music industry since music started being sold. They do all the work that doesn’t actually involve creating the music, from financing and executive producing albums to...
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 ...
