Devin Mitchell: Associate News Editor
The current political environment is not good for incumbents. Governor Jon Corzine was defeated in his re-election bid in Democratic New Jersey, Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Bennett were both beaten by primary challengers in Pennsylvania and Utah respectively, numerous others are in serious danger of losing their Congressional seats, and [...]

Luka Douridas: Staff Writer
Graduation has always been known as bittersweet. But for what reasons? For most seniors across the nation, it’s because of moving on—to a new life in college, and from the school and friends you know you will miss. At our school, however, namely for the Class of 2010, this “moving on” means [...]

Jim Wood: Staff Writer
It has been over a month since the offshore drilling platform Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, springing a leak that continues to spill thousands of gallons of crude oil into the fragile ecosystem. The weeks following have been filled with name-calling, finger pointing, and general disorganization [...]

Kait Feldmann: Feature Editor
Every year, seniors find out that of the two cords that can be awarded, those who receive both are only permitted to wear one during the graduation ceremony. Every year those select students get upset. And every year, as soon as graduation is over, they no longer care enough to address the [...]

Benjamin Winkel: Editor-in-Chief
I remember this one time I was sitting in Mr. Hogan’s room, and I was getting delirious. The newspaper was on deadline yet again, and it was late, yet again. I don’t know what set me off, but I distinctly recall saying to no one in particular, “You know that saying? What is [...]

Nathaniel Lash: Senior Staff Writer
The other day, I filled out a Senior Survey. On it were a series of statements that you could evaluate from “Strongly Agree” to “Strongly Disagree.” I came to the statement “I feel the administration treats the students respectfully.” It was a short moment while I recalled some things from this [...]

Staff Editorial
Practicality: A term that has been distorted and twisted in education so that students enter the world with minimal knowledge. Practicality once meant, “Something will be useful on a regular basis” but has been reduced to “something might be useful someday, in a hypothetical future where you may or may not use that [...]

Robin Laird and Sabrina Ketel: Staff Photographer and Assoc. Feature Editor
So as we sat down to write our senior farewell, we began to think about all that we’ve accomplished in our four years at South Pasadena High School. And we came to the conclusion that we’ve basically spent the entire time humiliating ourselves.
From coming to [...]

Erin Berry: Sports Editor
I think I may have spent too much time in high school wishing I wasn’t in high school. Since my first day of summer school freshman year —Ms. Kella’s PowerPoint 101— I have just been waiting for high school to end. I mean, what did high school ever do to me? Nothing [...]

Josh Irvine: Staff Writer
Once you hit senior year, that last final push until freedom from your parents, leaving local school districts which you’ve been attending the past 12 years, and finding new friends, you start to feel some anxiety. Some may refer to it as senioritis; others just call it apathy, either way it [...]