It was dark out, and I was tired. There were blurry images of fields of grass and sugarcane, mountains and valleys passed by as we jetted forward racing for a life, a very important life, my dad’s life. My dad was reclined as far as he could in the car seat...
Chess has no luck. If you lose, there are no cards or dice to blame. There are no teammates to accuse of incompetency. Losses come from your own failure to outwit, outsmart, and outplay your opponent. Chess is a battle of intellect. Chess is competition in its purest form...
A pair of simple shoes: black, linen, flat, pointed-toe. I bought them on an early morning in San Francisco. They were perfect: classic, comfortable, and they went with everything. They were exactly the shoes I was looking for. I was excited to put them on, break them in, and dispose of my ragged, old, suede flats that turned my feet a sickly green color in the rain. I loved those new shoes so much that...
Shovels, rakes, hammers, love, hope, and compassion: components that every community needs to thrive; however, without the willingness of people to volunteer time and effort, these components will never be fulfilled. What started out to be a bleak work-filled summer...
Robbie Dibble is popular. He is known for his athleticism, artistry, and desire to be the center of attention—who could forget the crowds he attracts at school dances? His personality, however, overshadows another part of him, a part that his friends forget: Dibble has Asperger’s syndrome. “Asperger’s is a high-functioning form of autism..."
As senior Brayan Araiza pinned his opponent in the heavyweight division in the first period, the largest crowd in Ed Iacopi Gym for a duel wrestling match in recent history erupted. The Casa wrestling team cemented its belief that the program is back by beating Petaluma for the first time...
It’s a minute to class, but a view of the quad doesn’t show it: students are milling around, joking with friends, and dragging their feet with no apparent intention of arriving to class on time. Excessive tardiness is an increasingly problem. On Wed. Feb. 10, however, the school is taking dramatic action in correcting this problem by enacting a much stricter policy. Each student that is late to class, whether by a minute or an hour after the bell, will receive...
Unity. Compassion. Love. Community. We encounter many people every day: some we know and acknowledge as friends; others we pass by with blissful ignorance. However, there are closer relations to each of these people than is visible on the surface. They all share the same bond of living in the community. On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake jolted the small, under-developed country of Haiti...
Except for the light tapping of raindrops on the windows, the dark living room at Lynne Moquete’s house was silent. Twenty students who had accompanied her to the Dominican Republic and Haiti sat, unmoving. A friend from the town they stayed in called Moquete after she helped earthquake victims in Haiti. “So what do we do now?” Moquete asked her students. “We spread awareness and make this fundraising the best it can be,” answered senior Alexis Halstenson. The students gathered at Moquete’s house...
A Haitian man once said that he is never scared now, because growing up in Haiti, his entire life was a nightmare. He was never hungry, because growing up in Haiti, his body could not miss what it rarely possessed. Haiti, the poorest region in the western hemisphere, never received adequate support before the horrendous Jan. 12 earthquake. When it occurred, it shook the lives of many, including several Haitian-American...