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 world travel he craved and the experience...
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 advertising and paying off radio stations...
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 attending top tier colleges is common, especially in Silicon Valley...
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 the form of what is commonly called a dress code....
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 complexion, a mane of...
“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 forcing them to deal with the aftermath in silence.”...
“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 or she hopes to...
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 before and went in to take the...
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 to “ask and answer questions to demonstrate...
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” than another. A...
