I am not aware of an esoteric society of teens that convenes weekly to discuss the “underground unofficial” topic of sex, but in reality, sex and the teen perception of it are much different than you have described.
Let us begin where you left off: “Sex isn’t a fun activity but rather a necessary expression of [...]

Emily Saltz: Staff Writer
Jelly rolls. Muffin tops. If flab is so bad, why does it sound so delicious? Body type, like everything else, is subject to the whims of fashion. Though we have the Olsen twins and like socialites to thank for today’s skeletal cokehead chic, it wasn’t long ago that Marilyn Monroe could grace [...]

Kait Feldmann: Associate Et Cetera Editor
Contemporary author and scientist Carl Sagan once held the brain of neurologist Paul Broca (on display at a museum in Paris) and asked to himself a most unoriginal question: where do we go when we die? Sagan burrowed into a deep fissure somewhere in his funny little mind and mulled [...]

63 years later…
The post-WWII era highlighted a level of prosperity that America would very much appreciate today. But in 1946, this was exactly the case for California, which was struggling to attract enough college students to train as teachers. The proposition outlined 63 years ago aimed to raise teachers’ wages and create more incentives to [...]

Marcus Kahn: Associate Sports Editor
Religion is a sensitive subject to say the least. It has inspired great works of art, torn down empires, and built them from the ground up. But despite the power and extremity that religion inflames, no good comes from trying to disprove it.
Try to think of religion without bias. Think of [...]

Patrick Wiley: Contributing Writer
There is an unnoticed problem at SPHS and it involves one of our most fundamental rights as Americans. When a student’s cell phone is confiscated at school, the purpose is to end the disruption of the instructional day, not to fish for incriminating information. The truth is that when a cell phone [...]

Lana Ho: Staff Writer
Feminism – the topic that strikes a variety of mostly negative emotions in those who hear it. The very utterance of the word leaves the listener fearing a long, winding rant about the Proverbial Man keeping us down.
The stereotype of the feminist is one of the most wickedly sculpted figures – the [...]

Paige Muhlestein: Staff Writer
In an increasingly diverse country, Americans have learned to treat the differences in each other with mutual respect and understanding. But somewhere along the line mutual respect has turned to mutual blindness. Instead of celebrating the things that make them unique, Americans are increasingly ignoring them, all to avoid the risk of [...]