Heidi Hirvonen, senior I have never much fancied myself a troublemaker. Yet California State Law might beg to differ. On Nov. 11, my mother escorted me, clutching a faded speeding ticket in a damp palm, to the Santa Rosa Juvenile Court, where I was to be evaluated and [...]
Nick Pimentel, senior I care about the environment, I guess. Somewhere, in the back of my mind, behind the thoughts of the girl with the large bottom in first period, the girl with the nice eyes in fourth period and the girl I don’t have a chance with in sixth [...]
Kristina Schmuhl, junior Lexi Tonascia is not your average female sophomore. She obsessively watches her weight during the holiday season and is the center of attention in a room of rowdy boys. But how are these qualities unaverage you say? Well, Tonascia is a female wrestler. Standing at 5’?, [...]
Adam Sillow, junior On a scorching hot Friday afternoon, when most Maria Carrillo High School students are on their way home to enjoy the weekend, the MCHS women’s soccer team is battling it out against the Piner High School Prospectors in the intense heat. Left forward and MCHS sophomore Katie [...]
Marianna Mapes, senior For Maria Carrillo High School senior Sydney Wuu, anxieties about paying for college are nothing new. “I started worrying about it freshman year,” said Wuu, who has her eye on the University of California, Santa Barbara. “I know I’ll have to pay for 100 percent of my [...]
Kelly McCabe, junior Erin Netherda kneels to offer a tray of steaming soup to a small group of Namibian orphans. They gladly accept her gift and devour the rations until the last drop of nutrition has vanished. They glance into their bowls ensuring their tongues have done their job effectively. [...]
Kenny Kasper, senior There’s a new reason for students to be sitting in the principal’s office at Maria Carrillo High School, and it’s not for disciplinary reasons. Rather, when his door is open, students will find that Principal Rand Van Dyke, though dressed in a button-down shirt and tie, is [...]
Heidi Hirvonen, senior Mike Lavell is a gentle man, with a graying biker’s mustache and a Harley man’s sense of style, who fosters a hobby of collecting and tending to various breeds of cacti. He is also Maria Carrillo High School’s Boo Radley: a character who MCHS seniors imagine lurking [...]
Social networking site makes it difficult for students' social lives and academics
By Jay Scherf The chicken you ate last night most likely came from a feedlot in another state and was fed genetically-modified corn subsidised by the government. It ate that corn through a beak cut short by farm workers to prevent the animal from pecking other chickens to death due [...]