Column: Why school being canceled is actually the best Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe June 2, 2020 Column, Lifestyle As students recover from incompetently administered Advanced Placement exams and face a never-ending stream of Schoology messages, they continue feeling the effects of the deadly and novel coronavirus from home...
Column: Quarantine Diary Sasha Lehrer May 28, 2020 Column, Lifestyle Monday, May 4 Dear Diary, I have to say, today wasn’t the best. I managed to force myself out of bed around 7 a.m., which is progress from the early 2 p.m. wake-up time that became routine during the firs...
Column: Everything wrong with Snapchat Sasha Lehrer February 4, 2020 Column, Lifestyle BREAKING NEWS! Girl catches BF cheating with her MOM! Snapchat, a social media app that many Paly students use, is a platform that promotes nothing more than bland, flaky content and communication. There are s...
Satire: Why climate change is fake Emma Todd October 23, 2019 Column Ahhh, climate change. The warming of the earth’s atmosphere. The rising temperatures and the “increasing greenhouse gases,” whatever that means. The apparent melting of ice glaciers in the North Pole. All l...
Column: how to get teachers to round up your grade Khadija Abid April 10, 2019 Lifestyle Time moves fast. One second, you’re scrambling to get acquainted with a new set of classes and teachers, stammering as you recite a not-so-fun fact about yourself to a new set of peers, and then BAM, out of now...
Column: How to dress well Nicholas Le February 24, 2019 Lifestyle 1 Paly’s student body is made up of a large variety of people, many of whom lack a real sense of fashion and dress quite repulsively. How will these people solve their issue? Don’t worry, I’m here help. The 'I’m...
Differentiating between dance and cheer teams Shannon Zhao March 29, 2017 Opinion, Sports, Sports Opinion You would think that the large bolded font “PALY DANCE” on my varsity jacket would be enough to indicate that I am on the Paly dance team. However, for some reason people still feel the need to ask if I am a ch...
The “Nice Guys Finish Last” Column November 8, 2013 Opinion Disclaimer: Please read to the last paragraph before forming any opinions. The following is a lesser-known portion of “Law Codes of Masculine Men,” known colloquially as the “how to get a chick without...
Oh Crap! February 22, 2013 Opinion An epidemic that has long plagued Paly’s campus has gone overlooked for too long. This school must soon confront its greatest flaw so that students can finally live in peace. No, this flaw is not the amount of ...
Pucker up for hockey February 1, 2013 Sports Guess who’s back. Back again. Hockey’s back. Tell a friend. (North) America’s favorite winter pastime is back after the National Hockey League’s players reluctantly agreed to multi-year multi-million dollar sa...
