St. Vincent High joining Teen Life
Look for upcoming stories, articles, essays and more from the journalism class at St. Vincent High School.
Religious beliefs trample free speech
By Hank Smith On April 14 of 2010, episode 201 of the Comedy Central show South Park aired for the first time with multiple bleeps and “CENSORED” blocks spread throughout the episode, and they weren’t part of the original episode. As it turns out, the TV network, Comedy Central, [...]
Sonoma Academy joining Teen Life
In coming days, students at Sonoma Academy will begin posting articles, essays and more to the Teen Life web page. So please check back to read their work.
The Internet Generation
By Graham Sarasy We are the distracted generation. My generation – from here onwards referred to as The Google Babies – is the first in history to have such unprecedented access to information (and by that I mean mostly garbage) in the form of the Internet. We – specifically those [...]
MCHS Student Plays on the U.S. U15 National Soccer Team
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 [...]
College, is it worth the dough?
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 [...]
Maria Carrillo High School student spends the summer in Namibia helping orphans
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. [...]
New principal brings young vibe to old school values
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 [...]
Students deface hill again to continue tradition
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 [...]
To facebook or not to facebook, that is the question
Social networking site makes it difficult for students' social lives and academics