coronavirus – The Campanile

Vaccine update: tests show good results, administration poses complications

January 24, 2021

Vaccines usually take years, even decades to develop. However, countless pharmaceutical companies are pushing the envelope and scrambling to produce a COVID-19 vaccine by 2021. After a vaccine is created, it...

The Board’s Bubble

Maya Singer, Austin Xiang and Zack Silver

December 11, 2020

Lifestyle, Showcase, Spotlight

Despite pleas from parents, teachers and students, the Palo Alto Unified School District Board unanimously voted to adopt a hybrid reopening plan during its meeting on Nov. 10. The plan, which allowed high s...

Senior Sadness

Emma Todd

December 4, 2020

Lifestyle

For the class of 2021, instead of becoming a Second Semester Senior, it faces the prospect of Seasonal Senior Sadness. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, college application season in full gear and the loss of ...

The positives of online learning

Bruno Klass

October 23, 2020

Column, Opinion

Classrooms? More like class Zooms. While schools are now taking place online in the comfort of our own homes, students are still divided on whether or not the benefits of comfort outweigh the costs of decreased...

Students, teachers reflect on remote learning

Andy Wang

October 14, 2020

Lifestyle, Showcase

From breakout rooms to muted mics, the worldwide pandemic has transformed students’ way of learning. Having completed five weeks of online instruction, students and teachers have a lot to say. Question: Havin...

District releases criteria for reopening school in person

Jack Galetti

October 5, 2020

News, Showcase

Depending on Santa Clara County’s classification under California's new four-tier color-coded system for tracking COVID-19, in-person instruction could start as early as Monday, Oct. 12 for Palo Alto Unified Sc...

Palo Alto Unified School District announces a Fall reopening plan

Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe

June 30, 2020

Breaking News, News, Showcase

In an email sent to parents on June 30, Superintendent Don Austin announced a reopening proposal for the 2020-21 school year, which entails fall semesters starting with full distance learning for secondary scho...

Celebrations held in quarantine

Ziggy Tummalapalli

June 3, 2020

Lifestyle

About twenty cars with balloons and signs drove down Byron Street in between Kellogg Avenue and Embarcadero Road honking their horns on April 9, all for one fifth-grader Sam Miller’s birthday. The novel sta...

Letter from the 2020 Editors-in-Chief: The Worldwide Whirlwind

Annie Chen, Frida Rivera, Jaures Yip, Lucy Nemerov and Miranda Li

May 29, 2020

News, Showcase

During the final hours of production, there’s an inherent, invigorating energy which emanates from the Media Arts Center lab that the five of us have come to cherish. Two months ago, as we all celebrated yet ...

Paly athletes discuss effects of COVID-19 on sports

Evelyn Cheng

May 1, 2020

Sports

Determined to practice volleyball amid the shelter-in-place order, junior and City Beach 17 Black outside hitter Sophia Krugler passes the volleyball back and forth amongst her family in her backyard. Due t...

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