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Book Review: Half the Sky

By Jess O'Connor Dialogue is the only way to instigate social change. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn understood this when they co-authored their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide in 2009. The book is a series of stories, woven together by carefully crafted argumentation and [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

What’s Next? An Investigation of Future Architecture Plans at Sonoma Academy

By Will Twomey Now that we have our newly built field, what is the next “phase” of physical improvements for Sonoma Academy? In the original plan for the school, there were going to be seven buildings built, but even with $40,000,000 to spend, there was not enough money for permits, [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

Homeless No More

By Jess O'Connor The Sonoma Academy soccer teams faced a new challenge this year, as the construction workers hurried to put the finishing touches on the new Chris Ziemer field. “We learned during the summer that our project was delayed,” said Athletics Director Chris Ziemer. His namesake, the Chris Ziemer [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

Help from Abroad

By Genaro Pamatz This summer, students from Sonoma Academy went on many foreign adventures, but not all were for vacation and fun. Some students took volunteer trips to help people in need.   Sophomore Ysabella Richard traveled to Nicaragua, to do volunteer work for children and adults. She helped garden [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

AP Inflation

By Jake Lawson The yearly schedule frenzy begins months before the actual school year starts. Director of Academic Services Oona McKnight works tirelessly to put our schedules together during the summer months, only to be met with dozens of requests to change schedules immediately after they are sent out. Of [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

By Genaro Pamatz Governor Brown declared a State of Emergency on Jan. 17, 2015, and directed all officials to take any necessary actions to immediately raise water availability. That was almost nine months ago, and the state is still struggling.   “From big to little, it all matters,” said Janet [...]

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Kickstarting Cross-Cultural Kinship

By Jake Lawson This summer, a few Sonoma Academy students returned to campus in July to work at the Sonoma Academy Summer International Institute, a summer camp for international students ages 10-17 from China. The institute is an English immersion program designed to help international students learn more about not [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

California on Fire

By Jess O'Connor California was ravaged by yet another wildfire this summer that burned through 76,067 acres of Lake, Napa and Sonoma Counties, as reported by the California Department of Forestry on Oct. 3. “Even though it was a sunny day originally, the fire had kind of obliterated the sun,” [...]

By | November 19th, 2015|0 Comments

Omar Khan, 16

Its About Time What is the best superpower? Is it the ability to fly? The ability to sling webs from your wrists? The ability to read minds? As good as those may be, they are hardly close to the best superpower: the ability to control time. The possibilities are as [...]

By | October 26th, 2015|0 Comments

Jessica Tang, 16

The New Racism A recent study published by the Washington Post in late June 2015 revealed that non-Hispanic white millennials were pretty much just as racist as their predecessors when it came to being prejudiced against blacks. With the recent rash of police attacks explicitly targeting the black community, I [...]

By | October 26th, 2015|0 Comments