Creative Writing – A Greater Evil
By: Chase Flihan | Writer October 30, 2016 “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit, I’ve not been bad all my life. But if […]
Columns & Opinion
A Human Responsibility: Allowing All a Place In the Global Community
By: Chloe Rudnicki |News Editor October 21, 2016 The human tendency for self-absorption and the pervasiveness of disaster clash to form the epicenter of an international epidemic of selective empathy. In a world choked by […]
How Political Correctness has Empowered Prejudice
By: Chloe Rudnicki | News Editor October 6, 2016 Each generation has its defining trait, a marker of either success or failure as each wave of young adults attempt to outstrip the constraints and […]
Brock Turner – Privilege or Prison?
By, Gavin Kelleher | Writer September 28, 2016 On January 18th of last year, Brock Turner, a 20-year-old Stanford student, was arrested after two cyclists discovered him behind a dumpster on top of an […]
Chromebook Funding for SCHS
By Meghan Serceki | Opinion Editor September 21, 2016 Last year, the Capistrano Unified School District announced they would discontinue funding for Google Chromebooks at San Clemente High School, leaving teachers with only a […]
From One Millennial to Another – Breaking the Cycle of Unconscious Racism
By: Gavin Kelleher | Writer/Photographer September 13, 2016 With a population of 318.9 million, the U.S. has been commonly labeled as a “cultural melting pot.” Throughout history, a wide variety of different ethnic groups and […]
Avoiding the Anthem: A Protest of All-American Oppression
By: Saffron Sener | Editor in Chief September 9, 2016 On August 26, 2016, Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the 49ers, sat through a rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner,” an anthem that is traditionally observed standing […]
A Double-Edged Sword: The Dark Side of Nationalism
By, Chloe Rudnicki | News Editor September 7, 2016 A surge of far-right conservatism has swept the world as war-torn regions, such as the Middle East, plummet into deeper chaos. An unforgiving global socioeconomic […]
An Ode to Seniority
Saffron Sener | Editor in Chief August 15, 2016 Over the past three years, I’ve grown accustomed to greeting my upperclassmen acquaintances, specifically those of the senior persuasion, in the halls, and looked forward […]
The Struggles of a Two Party System and the Upcoming Election
By, Maya Fransz-Myers | Media Editor June 7, 2016 With the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election as close as November this year, the structure surrounding our country’s voting process has become a highly debated topic. Many […]