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Running Out of Time

Claire Liu, Staff Writer • April 25, 2014

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...

Ramifications of Rape Culture

Hillel Zand and Maya Kitayama • April 24, 2014

"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...

Shmacking the System

Hillel Zand, Editor-in-Chief • March 8, 2014

"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...

Tricks of a Paly cheater

Arjun Parikh, Daniel Tachna-Fram and Stephenie Zhang • February 7, 2014

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...

Common Core State Standards

Stephenie Zhang, Editor-in-Chief • November 8, 2013

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...

Spotlight: In my opinion slut-shaming must stop

Claire Liu and Lauren Gargiulo • October 11, 2013

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...

The Social Divide

Claire Liu, Staff Writer • May 8, 2013

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,...

When I Grow Up

Stephenie Zhang, Editor-in-Chief • February 22, 2013

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,...