Sabrina Ketel: Feature Associate
In life, there are people you meet who strike you right off the bat as just plain nice. Before they even know who you are, they’ve got their arm around your shoulders and everything is smiles and rainbows and laughter. Another minute in and suddenly you’re their new best friend. Ariana Sañudo [...]

Elaine Ejigu: Staff Writer
     You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, but Olivia Frescura leads a double life. She is a high school student by day and a makeup extraordinaire by night. She was featured in last year’s yearbook for this favored hobby: experimenting with makeup. Since then, Olivia has taken off on YouTube via [...]

Kait Feldmann: Feature Editor
At the age of six, most kids are reading their first chapter books. Aric Attebery was in the kitchen helping his mom cook. Attebery started taking culinary classes in middle school. By the next summer, Attebery was teaching classes. Soon after, Attebery’s neighbor recommended him to an executive chef—and so in eighth [...]

Elizabeth Rainey: Opinion Associate
Clarke Kristen is a bubbly junior with an airy attitude and bright smile that makes her approachable and fun to talk to. However, do not be fooled by her laidback exterior. Clarke has an intense passion for dance, and her dedication to the art easily makes her one of the most driven [...]

Anne Kitchens: Staff Writer
You may have seen freshman Ryan “Danger” Stone parading down the halls in his plaid shorts and sunglasses and thought nothing of him. But what most of you don’t know is that Ryan is a dedicated student, athlete, and social butterfly. Taking on three honors classes as a freshman, he refers to [...]

Emily Saltz: Staff Writer
Janice Ahn is intense. This much is clear to those who can glimpse her stomping around campus, moving in a manner so quick and focused that often one only catches only a whir of a bright headband and purple tights. This appearance reflects her inner drive: the petite South Korean senior encounters [...]

Max White: Guest Writer
It is not uncommon to see Coach Patrick McGrail in the general proximity of the high school track, his mane of golden hair streaming behind him in the breeze and his signature sunglasses protecting his sapphire eyes from those pesky UV rays. Perhaps you have even read one of his articles in [...]

Paige Muhlestein: Staff Writer

The product of an unlikely romance between a take-charge publicist and a musical journalist, Marisa Simmons is much more than the sum of her parts. This closet genius prefers to fly under the radar, but give the door a shove and you’ll discover a whole new side to Simmons. Behind the 4.0 [...]

Emily Saltz: Staff Writer
Beau Blyth wants to clarify that he is not a gamer. He is a game creator. Having already created online phenomena like Teknopants and Metal Slug (a spin-off on “Metal Slug”), the senior is part of an emerging network of independent game makers, in the process overthrowing the gaming mainstream. His computer [...]

Nathaniel Lash: Staff Writer

A strong backer of the social conservative movement, a believer in the agrarian society, and a constant critic of “those damned youth” is not generally someone you would expect to find in California well below the age of 60. However, junior Brendan Osborne would seem to fit the shrinking caste of young [...]