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Sophomore Yoon Lee writes down a message in Korean on a piece of paper on Mar 12. Lee said that even though most students don’t necessarily understand Korean culture they still try to take in parts of it.

Immigrant students work to assimilate into American culture, still retain sense of cultural identity

Riva Jain March 25, 2025

Sophomore Yoon Lee has never felt more alone than when she first immigrated to America. For Lee, the distance from her home country, family and friends, coupled with the seemingly insurmountable language...

Senior Sara Perez Penaloza looks at the Colombian landscape as a child. “While the changes in immigration policy don’t directly affect my family, it still affects our opinion of the government,” Perez said. (Submitted Photo: Sara Perez)

Immigrant students, teacher reflect on struggles, future goals in the United States amid recent changes in immigration policy

Riva Jain February 27, 2025

Junior Marcos Rodriguez and his family fled Venezuela in a frenzy. Rodriguez said he can still remember the rushed good-byes he gave his close friends and family. It took a total of two weeks for a once...

Students, teacher bring praise to ethnic traditions to American Thanksgiving

Students, teacher bring praise to ethnic traditions to American Thanksgiving

Jasmine Y. Zhang and Anthony Pho November 18, 2024

As the fourth Thursday of November approaches—this year, it will be Nov. 28—the perfect American Thanksgiving comes back into the spotlight. As a holiday that originated from an autumn harvest feast...

Seniors Amna Ahmad, Eesha Singh and Mahira Hafeez color in various Salvador Dali paintings at the Newfields Lume exhibit. The students were a part of the AP Spanish Language field trip to the art museum.

Students, teacher weigh the benefits of implementing field trips alongside classwork

Riva Jain November 12, 2024

As a group of students crowd the Salvador Dali LUME exhibit at the Newfields art museum on Oct. 23, senior Amna Ahmad said she wondered why classes at this school don’t offer more field trips. For Ahmad,...

 Sophomore Edward Chen hits a pickleball at the Pickle-Pong Club callout on Aug. 23 in the Fieldhouse gym. The club consisted of playing pickleball and ping pong games.

Q&A with sophomore Stephanie Tan and sponsor Fernando Yañez on pickle-pong club, racket sports

Keira Kress October 3, 2024

Stephanie Tan, co-founder and sophomore What inspired you to start the pickle-pong club? I really like both pickleball and ping pong—I’ve played ping pong since I was eight and I’ve played...

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