Vaccine update: tests show good results, administration poses complications Ben Antonow January 24, 2021 Science/Tech 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...
Satirical Column: Why having no fans in stadiums is actually better Ziggy Tummalapalli December 31, 2020 Column, Sports When the NBA announced its season would resume without spectators, fans and players rejoiced at the idea of games being played in empty arenas in the Orlando bubble. Long gone would be the crowded, pushy lin...
Reopening plan should have been more transparent, involved more stakeholders The Editors-in-Chief December 11, 2020 Editorial, Editorial Cartoon As COVID-19 cases rise to record highs, the Palo Alto Unified School District board has approved a now-defunct plan for secondary students to voluntarily return to campus starting Jan. 7. After a grueling h...
Sports practices change due to COVID-19 Lauren Chung December 8, 2020 Sports Carpooling to practice. Sharing snacks. Stealing sips out of teammates’ water bottles. These were all elements of a pre-COVID era volleyball practice for junior Hathaway Bush. But in a matter of months, Bush’s ...
An (im)perfect season Jack Galetti December 8, 2020 Sports It is winter and the fall season has yet to begin. Santa Clara County’s move to the Purple Tier stopped preseason training in its tracks. Guidance from the California Department of Public Health currently bars ...
How to date during COVID-19 Bruno Klass November 12, 2020 Lifestyle, Showcase With no end to the pandemic in sight, students are reconsidering waiting for the virus to end before putting themselves into the dating world again. Until that time, here are some ways to prepare for dating dur...
Traveling During Distance Learning Ali Minhas November 11, 2020 Lifestyle Attending Palo Alto High School from the hilly greenland of Bozeman, Mont. would have been impossible a year ago, but for junior Christian Bevan, it’s now a reality. With school in full distance-learning mo...
Distanced Celebrations during COVID-19 Shantanu Deshpande November 11, 2020 Lifestyle With the continuation of annual celebratory events, Junior Vishesh Goyal was left with the sinking realization that he wasn’t going to have the kinds of student get-togethers he normally does — the kinds that u...
Column: Why fencing is the perfect Coronavirus sport Evelyn Cheng November 9, 2020 Sports Opinion While finding ways to remain active during a pandemic may seem difficult, one sport stands out as the most suitable to participate in under social distancing guidelines: fencing. The combat sport that involves ...
Preseason practices begin under COVID regulations Jack Galetti November 9, 2020 Sports When then-junior Diego Mazzon had his swim season cut short at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, he never expected that when he returned to captain the team this year, COVID-19 would still be haunting Paly ...
