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athletes

By Khadeejah Khan persist for years.

SCHS has a record number of female athletes, with 131 girls playing a sport this fall. The ad dition of the girls field hockey team enhanced this as a secondyear program.

“With the addition of field hockey and the growth of other traditional female sports, you are seeing more girls playing,”

Athletic Director Nelson Gifford said. “What we really want to do is grow and share this experi ence so other students know that these opportunities are available to them.”

Field hockey goalie, senior Aliya Kabir, who has been on the team since her junior year, is proud of the progress her team has made. She appreci ates the environment the team has created and hopes to see it

SCHS students and faculty express issues using

By Jazzy Ramirez

In the past, SCUSD has en countered problems with the previous grading and resource platform School Loop. Thus, the district required a system shift. As Aeries has become the new software, some prefer the switch, but many students and teachers have encountered obstacles ad justing to the new system.

Vice Principal Tony Lam ex plained that few teachers have used Aeries in the past for at tendance. Before the 2022-2023 school year started, however, teachers attended training on how to use Aeries, but some find it dif ficult to use in a realistic class room setting.

“Once school started and there were students in the class, that is a different perspective,” Lam said. “The majority of our teach ers here have never used the Ae ries Gradebook before. People are having a difficult time navi gating the software and how to do certain things.”

Lam mentioned that at the be ginning of the school year, the district offered a few days of drop-in training for teachers who were continuing to struggle using the platform. A personal chal lenge for Lam was accessibility as his Aeries interface as an admin

istrator is different from teachers’ Aeries interfaces. Lam, however, found the district’s support to be an essential solution.

“I don’t have a gradebook, so what I see on my side of Aeries is not the same thing as what teach ers see on their side,” Lam said. “They (the district) usually gets back to me within the same hour of the day when I have a question or I’m trying to help a teacher. I found that to be very, very help ful that there is a resource at the district who can help.”

Additionally, some teachers have found the Aeries platform too complex. Spanish teacher Amanda Vrabel finds Aeries’s settings hard to adapt to.

“The settings are incredibly not user-friendly or intuitive,” Vrabel said. “There’s just a lot of things that I don’t feel I can con trol as much.”

While Aeries initially seemed beneficial to many as it combines an attendance record and grade book, unlike School Loop, Vrabel has still found drawbacks and in conveniences.

“All the benefits to having your attendance linked to your grade book I haven’t found useful or even to work as well,” Vrabel said. “Even if I had the settings

fall

“We have strong players who really are strong pillars for the team,” Kabir said. “We also have freshmen this year, which is re ally cool as it signifies that next year and the years to come, the team will still be alive.”

As one of the goalies, Kabir values her position and the re sponsibility that comes with it.

“It is a lot of fun being a goal ie,” Kabir said. “You are adored by the team the whole time. It is a special position.”

Senior Mia Bolanos-Teque is also playing her second year on the team and cherishes the bonds.

“The team is a little family,” Bolanos-Teque said. “We are not competitive with each other. Even when we lose, we take pic tures and sing on the bus.”

Passion vs. Profit: Students seek to find a balance

in my interests,” Rodriguez said. “This is what I want to do, and I feel like only I should be able to decide the direction of where I’m going.”

Similarly, senior Ayush Gupta felt influenced by his family to pursue a lucrative ca reer.

“I think a lot of my family went into computer science, and my older brother is going into computer science,” Gupta said. “It’s always been that common element to feel pres sured to follow.”

Gupta plans to major in data science or business, aiming to land a job in sports manage ment.

By Mylinh Duong

In the midst of college appli cations, the start of a promising future is beginning for many SCHS seniors. As they navigate interests and career paths, stu dents weigh in on the conversa tion regarding pursuing passion or profit.

Senior Nathan Rodriguez is looking to major in Literature in hopes of becoming an Eng lish teacher. While acknowl edging that financial income is a large factor to consider, Ro driguez believes his passion is worth chasing.

“For this specific job, I am

leaning more towards passion because I already know that as a first-year teacher fresh out of college, I won’t be making much money,” Rodriguez said. “For me, passion is more important than the money you will be earn ing.”

Despite familial pressures in choosing higher-paying occupa tions, Rodriguez wants to priori tize his interests of becoming a teacher.

“My parents have always want ed me to either work at Apple or at Google, or do something that would make more money in the future, but that’s never ever been

“I’ve always enjoyed math, and it’s been one of my favor ite subjects. Data science al lows me to explore that interest and still get me into a lucrative field,” Gupta said. “I feel like being a sports manager will allow me to better the culture around a team, and that’s al ways something I’ve wanted to do.”

The expected salary for a sports manager falls between $30,000 to $90,000. While content with the pay, Gup ta intends to take up a parttime career of being a math teacher or tutor.

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Students take advantage of Tutorial Time

By Nicholas Iriberri

In an attempt to improve students’ access to resources and teacher sup port, SCHS has introduced a new rendition of the student support that seeks to improve many of the short comings from the previous version. What began as time for students to read silently on their own has evolved into a system in which a student can visit the classroom of any of their teachers, receiving help in the fields where they need it the most.

Vice principal Sharon Freeman, explains what she wanted the support period to achieve.

“When we came back after dis tance learning, (the school) wanted to guarantee this time for students to be able to get support from their teachers,” Freeman said. “As well as where (students) can get work done during the school day.”

Previously, the school had em ployed a system in which students would head to their sixth period class, but would have some time before class to work on other assignments and could visit teachers who had giv en express permission.

“Now the idea is that you can just go and visit any of your current teachers to get support, or just use that time to get homework done,” Freeman said.

Since the start of the 2022-23 school year, students have been able to visit the classrooms of any of their teachers, as well as locations such as the track, cafeteria, and library. This

new, more flexible system has helped students such as sophomore Logan Van Pelt.

“(I) have asked teachers questions before in classes I was struggling in,” Van Pelt said. “I’ve been able to pre pare for classes easier, (and) get home work done earlier.”

Student support has become a vi tal resource for students who want to

keep up with school work and prepare for tests. However, many students and teachers feel uneasy with the tool SCHS uses for attendance, the Five Star app.

“(Five Star) kind of gives more of a prison vibe than having a school feeling with having (it) watch where you’re going,” said Van Pelt.

The Five Star student app requires

that all students check into their stu dent support class. Freeman, having previous experience with the app, explains the necessity of the feature.

“I used it at my previous school,” Freeman said. “This is our way to check and verify attendance and make sure that students are where they need to be.”

Not only students interact with the five star app. English teacher There sa Shaw-Iyer believes the app could be improved.

“It’s a little confusing,” Shaw-Ier said. “It seems a little not user friend ly, I think the site can be cleaned up a bit.”

As the school year progresses, students will continue to be able to utilize the powerful resource that is student support. While students and teachers have their feedback on the new implementation, Free man believes it is an improvement overall.

“We’ve had some hiccups here and there,” Freeman said. “I think giving them time during the school day to get work done is very, very helpful.”

Bruins from the LGBTQ+ community reflect on their coming out experiences

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Before opening their bed room door, a student inhales a lengthy breath. As they walk down their hallway, dread and fear fill their body. They stare down at their dining room table as they tell their parents the name and pronouns they pre fer. They watch as their parents take their hand in their own and smile. The student exhales.

Recognizing the reality of their own coming out experi ences, the SCHS LGBTQ+ community reflected on the problematic assumptions asso ciated with sharing one’s sexual orienation or gender identity and gave their advice regarding the advantages of coming out.

After coming out two years ago as nonbinary, freshman J.C. Vu reflected on her recent consolation after correcting others when addressing their gender.

“I’m not afraid anymore to be like, ‘Hey, I’m actually no binary and I use she/they pro nouns,’” Vu said. “It’s a lot more comforting to be showing your identity than having people

Aeries

on my grade book saying (to) automatically drop or add kids, it still wasn’t getting it right.”

English teacher Daniel Eaton also commented on the difficul ties he experienced when input ting student grades.

“It was giving me wrong grades, and students were get ting wrong grades, so I kept saying there’s a glitch, and I’m trying to fix it,” Eaton said.

“There were a few glitches like that where it was showing zeroes where there shouldn’t have been zeroes.”

For many students, accessing Aeries also comes with its is

Junior Lauren Taffe who identi fies as a transgender man has no ticed the dangers of the oversexual ization of people in the community itself, along with the assumptions of attraction.

“I came out, and it was instantly like, ‘Oh, do you have a crush on this person?’ ‘Do you have a crush on this person?’ just because I’m gay, but it doesn’t work like that,” Taffe said.

For Taffe, the expectation that personalities will change after com ing out creates a harmful assump tion not only for him but for those attempting to openly identify with their gender or sexuality.

“People who don’t understand as much assume that coming out changes who you are,” Taffe said. “It doesn’t change. You were al ways gay. Now they just know.”

Freshman Lee El-Domeiri ac knowledged the challenges when coming out and advises those in the community to strengthen their selfconfidence and surround themselves with a positive environment.

“If you’re really pressured, it’s okay to take time to figure things out, to build up the courage,” ElDomeiri said. “Find a group of

sues. Junior Venice Mayor point ed out that the platform is not only time-consuming but also irritating to use due to its faulty program ming.

“With School Loop, the grades were there. It was easy to access. The servers didn’t crash as of ten as Aeries does,” Mayor said. “Aeries doesn’t have a good, reli able server, and it just added on to my anxiety as to whether or not my grades are the way they actu ally are.”

Freshman Ryan Chan agrees that Aeries is challenging to ac cess and manage.

“The interface is also harder to navigate around, so I feel like if they simplified it a bit more, that would be helpful,” Chan said.

Despite some having difficul

people that you would feel safe with and those that would support you no matter what.”

Long-term substitute AP Statis tics and Algebra Support teacher, Jackie Chirico, mentioned the real istic intentions behind sharing their identity as an adult, after having al ready repeatedly come out.

“You’re never quite done com ing out because there are always people who don’t know,” Chirico said. “Coming out ends up being less of a single point occurrence (but) a lifelong thing that you con stantly have to do.”

As a teacher, Chirico values the impact students hold in support ing and providing equality for LG BTQ+ individuals.

“I think it’s really impor tant for individuals to get to see people thriving and striving publicly,” Chirico said.

“The more positive success ful adults you see who are in your com munity, who have those who know people who are thriv ing, it makes it much much more likely that students not only survive but thrive.”

ties using Aeries, senior Mateo Garcia has prior experience as he used it frequently to access his transcripts and share them with college coaches. Compared to other students, he feels the transi tion was not as difficult.

“(On) School Loop, you don’t really have access to a transcript. You have to request it from a counselor,” Garcia said. “There was a solid month where coaches were coming to school, and I had to send my transcripts, or transfer them, or just show them.”

Many teachers and staff cur rently prefer School Loop over Aeries, but despite some technical issues with grading, Eaton main tains an optimistic outlook toward the rest of the school year.

“There’s going to obviously be

Along with Chirico, Taffe advises against revealing one’s identity to certain individuals when the outcome seems dis respectful or unenthusiastic.

“If you feel someone is go ing to react negatively, priori tize yourself, your own wellbeing,” Taffe said. “If they’re going to drag you down and you know it, maybe that per son isn’t worth your time

Chirico wants people to prioritize their personal jour ney and their version of a sup portive environment rather than digesting the harmful in fluences around them.

“You are you, and people don’t necessarily need to know more than that,” Chirico said.

a period of adjustment,” Eaton said. “I think School Loop feels

“Aeries doesn’t have a good, reliable server, and it just added on to my anxiety as to whether or not my grades are the way they actually are.”

- Venice Mayor, Junior

more accessible, and Aeries kind of feels a little bit more overwhelming. But again, that could be that we’re just not used to it.”

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Rather than providing inclusivity on campus, some believe the new gender-neutral bathrooms are misused despite their intentions

By Rhea Gosain

For many members of the LGBTQ+ community, finding an appropriate and safe space to utilize a facility is essential yet often a struggle. This year, SCHS has implemented new and more accessible all-gender bathrooms for students on cam pus after years of advocating by the LGBTQ+ Club and LG BTQ+ district committees.

Sophomore Ren Brown, president of the LGBTQ+ club, mentioned their past ex perience with the facilities and the new implementations.

“We (SCHS) never actu ally had gender-neutral bath rooms,” Brown said. “It was a big step to actually have those.”

While the newly-added bath rooms may symbolize a devel opment in inclusivity for some, others feel they are still far from perfection. Sophomore Sophia Stearns mentioned one of the biggest issues is over crowding in the bathrooms during lunch and breaks.

“When I try to use the rest room, it’s like a maze trying to get through the people,” Stea rns said.

Brown explained that the

root of the issues lies within a miscommunication of the gen der-neutral bathrooms, as many students are not aware of them.

“On the first day of school, I kind of was like, ‘Oh, they’re here and that’s great,’” Brown said. “Not a lot of people will know that.”

Brown also explained that the lack of communication and awareness leaves students un aware of the general rules, lead ing to further issues, including what many feel is the inappro priate social outlet created in the space.

rooms for the gender oppo site to the one across from it rather than a gender-neutral accessible restroom. Brown explained the original issue with the implementation of the bathrooms.

“At the school, we can’t build new bathrooms,” Brown said. “The best option was to change the boys bathroom or one of the girls bathrooms into just a gender-neutral bath room.”

Students find this still leaves a major gender divide, causing people only of a specific gen

Briana Bell shared an example of the situation.

“If there is a transgender guy who is not comfortable using the mens restroom so he uses the non-binary bath

we needed the district to act in order to allow us to act, and we finally got them to do that.”

“We (SCHS) never ac tually had gender-neu tral bathrooms.It was a big step to actually have those.”

- Ren Brown Sophomore

room, which is like the girls bathroom, that wouldn’t be the most comfortable for them (the transgender boy),” Bell

SCHS Principal Gregory Shelby discussed the achieve ment of implementing the new bathrooms.

“We’ve been working for years with our LGBTQ+ community, and this has been a frequent request. It is some thing that we have been trying to do for quite a few years,” Shelby said. “We knew that

Despite the situations from overcrowding to not enough inclusivity in the bathrooms, many students and staff still appreciate that they are a step forward toward creating a more safe and welcoming school en vironment.

Many members of the LG BTQ+ Club are also happy to finally see change in what they have been working toward. Ac cording to Shelby, gender-neu tral bathrooms are not the only change to increase inclusivity. He also talked about imple menting a gender-neutral locker room.

“We are trying to reevaluate anywhere we see any sort of im plicit bias,” Shelby said.

Both Shelby’s and the mem bers of the LGBTQ+ Club’s goal are to make the campus a safer and more inclusive place for everyone.

“We were one of the first schools in the area to have a Gay-Straight Alliance, and we want to continue to be a leader in supporting LGBTQ+IA stu dents,” Shelby said.

A variety of clubs strive to create communities on campus

the same ethnicity.

“I was one of the only Chi nese kids out there (Buchser Middle School), and I honestly really didn’t know anyone other than myself and my brother that was Chinese,” Chui said. “So knowing that there’s a club I can resonate with… makes me feel not alone.”

Many students join commu nity service clubs to help fulfill their service hour requirements, or to express their passion for helping others.

Senior Rida Faraz’s passion for service prompted her to pur sue taking on the role of vice president for SCHS’s UNICEF club.

Passion vs. Profit

“I plan on doing other side jobs as well to help get more money,” Gupta said. “I think that I’ll find a way to make it work out and in terms of side passions, I can pursue (some thing) that can help to equalize everything for me.”

Growing up visiting iconic sites, such as the Stahl House in California and the Chrysler building in New York, senior Waverley Moody felt her curios ity grow in pursuing a career in architecture.

ing to Stanford to earn his Ph.D.,” Moody said. “I feel like there’s an expectation to be better than your parents, but I feel like it’ll be dif ficult to be better than them.”

Similarly, senior Jasmine Kelly-Tanti expressed conflicting thoughts in regards to her cultural upbringing.

By Nishita Viswajith

During the school year, stu dents are influenced by differ ent clubs whose purposes range from cultural, academic, com munity-based, promoting spe cial interests and more. They appreciate that the clubs provide a social outlet, activities and a shared purpose participants can bond over.

SCHS hosted a Club Faire at the beginning of the school year that allowed students to learn about every club and decide which ones they would like to join. Club board members used it as an opportunity to reach out to the school community and gain new members.

Media manager of the Dihy drogen Monoxide Water Club, junior Grace Calfee, reflected on her experience at the Club Faire.

“We were loud, and we were

really talking with people,” Cal fee said. “Clubs are about peo ple and about friends, so making those connections definitely helps us get a lot of people.”

Theater director and English teacher Angelo Reyes is the ad visor for the Drama Club and the Do-Re-Me-Fa Charity Club. He explained having clubs on cam pus is an advantage that provides a space for every SCHS student.

“They (clubs) help kids, es pecially the newer freshmen and maybe even sophomores that are coming in and may be a little in timidated,” Reyes said.

Cultural clubs allow students to meet people of the same eth nicity as them, learn more about their cultures and appreciate cul tural traditions.

When junior Nicklaus Chui began his freshman year, he was able to find a club at SCHS where he could meet people of

“It really struck, seeing its mission to help out children and empower students (and) to be able to take action to help out with the mission,” Faraz said.

For SCHS students, clubs tend to be an important part of students’ lives, whether it is a social outlet to interact with other students who share a spe cial interest, a place to organize positive impacts in the commu nity, or an opportunity to bond over interests..

“Clubs offer both a social and emotional place to express your feelings, express your opinions and then also find other people who are similar to you,” Calfee said. “They’re a way to fundraise and support causes that you feel strongly about, but they are also ways to find friends and people who you connect with, which I think is really important in high school.”

“My aunt is a graphic design er who minored in architectural history, and my dad is an aero space engineer who attempted to major in architectural design when he was younger,” Moody said. “I’ve always been exposed to it, but never really understood how much I liked it until recent ly.”

Moody appreciates the mix ture of practicality and creativity that would enable her to create a unique style to thrive in the ar chitectural world.

“You only really hear about the famous architects. They are the ones that get the most creative freedom and they get to build the most extravagant buildings,” Moody said. “Ideally, I would have total creative freedom, but to do that, I have to make a name for myself. I think it would lead to joining or trying to get hired by an architectural firm and working my way up from there.”

For Moody, success has felt pressuring at times.

“My dad went to many years of college. He got into Georgia Tech and then he ended up go

“Ever since I was young –maybe two or three – my grandma started telling me, ‘You’re going to be a doctor,’ or ‘You’re going to be my doctor, Jasmine,’” KellyTanti said. “It does make me feel bad sometimes, and there is guilt of not being able to possibly sup port her or my parents in the fu ture.”

Kelly-Tanti hopes to major in music education and become a high school music teacher. The expected salary for a music teacher is around $50,000 to $70,000. Her musical passion started in fourth grade and has grown since.

“It wasn’t until this year when I decided to take two music classes instead of one. I’ve always been a part of the marching band, and this year, I am woodwind cap tain,” Kelly-Tanti said. “Last year, I ended up quitting a certain extracurricular to focus on music more.”

Moody highlighted the impor tance of introspection for individu als who are hesitant about their future path.

“Balance is important. Be able to read yourself,” Moody said. “Some people live miserably when they don’t have money to be able to go out to dinner and travel once a year. Some people are completely fine with that idea, so being able to read yourself and the kind of balance that would best fit your life and your needs is important.”

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To play or not to play?

Students find ways to adapt to unpredictable weather

Senior Sean McCormick has played soccer at SCHS for three years, with the plan to return for his fourth season, and the unpre dictable weather has forced him and his team to adjust in the past.

“Sometimes we will resched ule games if we know there is going to be specific weather at

ly if I am trying to play against the wind, it can feel like you are fighting against nothing.”

Cevallos has also found that his performance can be skewed due to extreme weather.

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Sweat drips down a student’s face as the unbearable heat of the sun surrounds them, wishing. they were in the cool AC. SCHS athletes voiced their thoughts on the challenges of climate change and extreme weather along with possible solutions, such as in door facilities to better prepare for the future.

Senior Noel Cevallos is cur rently participating in his fourth year of cross country and pointed out some difficulties the weather has caused.

“The practices were slightly shorter due to the weather since we (cross country) are basically

a fully outdoor sport just running on the streets of Santa Clara,” Cevallos said. “Our coach booked the small gym for a few practices and the weight room so that we could have slight AC and not just be scorched by the heat.”

Cevallos has also had to adjust to inclement weather, such as se vere heat, ranging from 90 to 100 degrees F, causing challenges.

“Most of the time, it is really hot during the day, so you try working out either really early in the morning, or late at night,” Cevallos said. “If it is raining, then sometimes you look at the weather and then try to find out which hour it is going to stop and plan then.”

“Sometimes we will re schedule games if we know there is going to be specific weather at the time, or sometimes they’ll just tell us to man up, put on extra clothes for the game. We have a thing where we will put on our away jerseys under our home jerseys and that helps.”

- Sean McCormick, senior

the time. Or sometimes they’ll just tell us to man up, put on ex tra clothes for the game. We have a thing where we will put on our away jerseys under our home jer seys and that helps.”

The weather occasionally af fects McCormick’s performance when he plays.

“The wind is the main thing,” Sean McCormick said. Especial

“I think I was slightly more fatigued just due to sweating more,” Cevallos said. “The heat makes your body use more water, so you just sweat a lot more and you have to drink a lot more wa ter.”

Cevallos also believes school teams that are more outdoor-ori ented should have backup plans, such as indoor practices in case of extreme weather.

“I think it could be beneficial not only for the safety but also for cross-training,” Cevallos said. “There are many things that you could do indoors, like weights and stuff that you do not neces sarily have to do outdoors.”

McCormick agrees that school teams that practice outdoors should have an indoor facility, but he acknowledged it can oc casionally be far-fetched, or inac cessible.

“I think an indoor soccer field would be great,” McCor mick said. “It would be really beneficial to us. Considering the weather isn’t that crazy here and knowing (what) that money could be spent on, I don’t think it would be the best use of our resources, but it would still be really beneficial.”

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SnapRaise has been implemented with the purpose of equity and easy use

plish that goal.

“SnapRaise is one that we found that is most accessible and equitable,” Gifford said.

The money teams earn through SnapRaise has opened opportuni ties for teams to upgrade equip ment. Varsity boys basketball coach Brian Van Dyck is looking to make a variety of purchases, including new basketballs, uni forms, whiteboards and condi tioning equipment. In past years, Van Dyck has had to limit the amount of athletes on his teams, but he hopes SnapRaise will solve this issue.

“I’m in a sport where we have to cut because we have a limited team,” Van Dyck said. “And now because of the limit of uniforms, I have to cut even more, so that directly impacts athletes.”

you’re paying for,” Gifford said.

“If we went away from that, which we talked about, you can do it, but now you have to do all the work.”

As an athletic director, Kiyota has heard that students dislike the idea of conducting email and text outreach to family and friends in order to receive SnapRaise dona tions. Junior Grace Calfee point ed out that doing so feels like a bothersome request.

“It’s a little bit awkward,” Cal fee said. “A lot of my teammates agree that sometimes you have to let people know ahead of time be cause it is like you are asking for money.”

letic Clearance and playoff costs.

“Everything gets jammed to gether,” Gifford said. “What we try to do is make sure everyone’s contributing to that overall ath letic experience.”

With many new coaches this year, Gifford believes SnapRaise is an easy introductory tool into fundraising.

“The level of entry is low and the accessibility is high,” Gif ford said.

Gifford commented that at his previous school, the water polo team raised money for polos to wear on game day to build unity and advertise their sport.

By James Kepner

Although SnapRaise has been present at SCHS for six years, it has become popular among sports teams this year due to the district’s encouragement for all coaches to have a fundrais ing page. As Title IX compli ance becomes a greater priority within SCUSD, the district has looked into multiple fundraising platforms.

The purpose of SnapRaise is to create an environment where

people feel like they can contrib ute and participate despite their economic status. Athletic Direc tor Nelson Gifford believes that SnapRaise has helped accom

Previously, SCHS sports teams have used a variety of fun draising techniques to generate revenue. According to Athletic Director DeeDee Kiyota, past methods include boba fundrais ers, gift wrapping and an annual basketball tournament, but none have been more successful than SnapRaise. Gifford added that the biggest game changer is how low-maintenance SnapRaise is, even if the company takes a per centage of the money earned for the teams.

“The 20%, it’s a service that

Furthermore, Calfee believes the overall idea of SnapRaise is beneficial but noted that the idea of a communal pool of funds can be discouraging.

“A lot of the time with SnapRaise, the money goes to the sports program as a whole,” Cal fee said. “So for certain sports, you won’t see that money come back into the sport, which can be frustrating.”

Although some students find it discouraging that funds may not return to the team, the athletic di rectors mentioned that the money is used to pay for universal costs, including referees, Huddle, Ath

“That (the polos were) such a cool and creative way of one creating unity amongst a team,” Gifford said.

Van Dyck understands that some struggle to open up their wallet but believes it is necessary for the success of athletes.

“The quality of our program and the quality of our equipment really depends on the support we get from both families, relatives and outside, so SnapRaise be comes a vital part of that effort to raise enough funds so our kids have the best equipment and al low them that competitive edge,” Van Dyck said.

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“SnapRaise is one that we found that is most ac cessible and equitable.”

- Nelson Gifford, Athletic Director

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Cheers for peers

The revamped Bruin Den aims to bring student participation to SCHS sporting events

By Andrew Littlefield

A student sits on the bleach ers, scrolling through their phone during a football game, feeling the repetition of another game. The newly refurbished SCHS Bruin Den aims to fix the prob lems of low energy and monotony between games by implementing themed sports games to increase student spirit and engagement.

One student working to im prove sporting events is ASB Spirit and Sports Commissioner, senior Prateek Kundu. One game Kundu helped organize was a blackout and neon-themed night at a home game against Cupertino High School on Sep. 30.

“For neon (themed-night), we threw out necklaces, bracelets and stuff like that,” Kundu said. “We wore bright neon colors, or blackout clothes.”

Neon-themed night was not the only motif that the Bruin Den has done this year. For example, the tropical paradise-themed night involved vacation and beachthemed clothing and accessories, such as leis, which were thrown into the stands by Bruin Den club officers.

The Bruin Den has expanded

Girls sports

With the new fall season, Gifford and the athletic de partment strive for inclusivity among athletes. In order to increase attendance for field hockey, the team’s playing times were moved from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to the foot ball field as Gifford believes this enhances their perfor mance.

“After playing at seven o’clock, they were like, ‘The

themed nights to other sports, such as volleyball, and plans on implementing them for basket ball. While the Bruin Den hopes to introduce as many unique themes as possible to avoid over lapping between sports, they have found it is not always pos sible.

“We’re going to try to add variation, but there are only so many themes you can do,” Kun du said. “It’s really hard to come up with themes so there will be

environment is so different ver sus having to play games at four o’clock.’ People could show up, like friends and parents,” Gifford said. “It seems small, but it mat ters and makes a difference.”

Kabir appreciates the change in time and environment and be lieves it excites the team.

“Playing at night makes it more exciting,” Kabir said. “Last year we didn’t play on the foot ball field and it was during the day, so it was hot. The sun was in our eyes, and we played in the back of the school where we practiced. This year, we play on the football field, and we have the

some similarities, but we really try to make it different.”

While the Bruin Den aims to achieve greater student partici pation and higher attendance, the main goal of themed nights is to make the games more enjoyable.

“We’re hoping that with more participation, other students will see it’s a fun and engaging place and be more likely to come,” Kundu said.

While Bruin Den’s themed nights are an addition this year,

lights, so it feels more significant now. It feels like we have more support.”

Gifford also attributes the in creased attendance to expanded social media interaction.

“Whether it be volleyball, field hockey or water polo, you really see a lot of virtual interac tion and support, and it manifests itself into real-life attendance,” Gifford said. “That part is really cool, and it helps us see the crosssport support of one another.”

With the winter season ap proaching, Gifford hopes to see more attendees at all sporting events to increase support among

they are not a new idea.

Last year the Bruin Den, for merly the Blue Hole, also at tempted themed games. Sopho more Nathan Lei was part of the Blue Hole last year when they ex perimented with themed games.

“The themes mostly in volved streamers or balloons being thrown into the stands,” Lei said. “There was one time during Homecoming night when we threw colored powder into the sky.”

athletes and students.

“I want to find ways to in crease attendance across all sports,” Gifford said. “We want to focus on ways to get students to support each other and come out to games, which is some thing we want to focus on in the winter particularly.”

Bolanos-Teque encourages athletes to try out for the sport they are interested in despite their background.

“Go for it,” Bolanos-Teque said. “I picked up field hockey having no idea what it is. I basi cally trained myself in the sum mer to handle this weird stick

Lei mentioned that the only themed night last year was Ha waiian Day, where students would dress up in Hawaiianthemed clothing and cheer from the stands, but the turnout was disappointing.

“The theme of Hawaiian clothes was not massively suc cessful, as not a whole lot of the attendees wore themed clothing items,” Lei said.

Lei believes that the Blue Hole’s challenges last year were due to the lack of support from the former president.

“Last year was mostly one person doing everything, which brought down the quality of Blue Hole,” Lei said.

While the success of the Blue Hole was limited, Lei thinks the Bruin Den is heading in the right direction, and he believes the goal of the Bruin Den is work ing.

“I believe the main goal of the themed nights is to get the students as riled up as possible so that the game is as exciting as possible,” Lei said. “More cheers from your peers has to be a nice moral boost for the footballers.”

and this little ball as someone who played eight years of soccer.”

Gifford, too, hopes to see more athletes try out and push themselves out of their comfort zones to discover newfound talents and team mates.

“I have yet to meet some one who regrets playing in high school,” Gifford said. “I have had people tell me they regret not playing. No one said, ‘I regret playing too many sports. I regret having too much fun.’ So, go out, play and give it a shot.”

Lenient JV and varsity rules allow sports teams to be more competitive

regulations can have negative ef fects on athletes. Junior Aasees Sandhu, a member of the water polo team, shared that being a first year player on varsity came with many challenges.

“We didn’t have a JV girls (team), and it sucked because I didn’t really know the sport yet,” Sandhu said. “I was just learning on-the-spot but also learning with varsity, so everyone also knows what they’re doing. You get beat around, and it’s really hard.”

it makes the season not as fun, and it makes your team frustrated because you’re holding everyone back,” Sandhu said.

Nonetheless, these rules do not apply to all sports Within SCHS. SCVAL has by-laws for all sports with some being more lenient than others. For example, sports such as softball have more compliant regulations. Softball head coach Julie Kawamoto men tioned moving players around is sometimes necessary.

player on varsity.

“If we’re looking out for the benefit of the kids, it would definitely help that number 12 player to get some playing time on the lower end,” Kawamoto said. “At the same time, they get better practice on varsity even though they don’t get a lot of playing time. I leave it up to the kids to decide if they think this spot would be better for them or not.”

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By Clemente Beltran-Castro

Like most high schools, Santa Clara offers a junior varsity and varsity team for the majority of its sports. Restrictions seperate the two teams for safety and sports

manship reasons. However, cer tain players and coaches believe these rules are too strict to apply at SCHS due to the low participation in select sports programs.

Occasionally, SCHS sports

Updated Santa Clara Valley Athletic League rules state that a senior female is prohibited from playing on JV. The rules for the boys team, however, are stricter by limiting juniors from playing on JV. When asked whether both teams should be split based on skill, Sandhu said that it is very necessary.

“For boys, too, I think fresh man through juniors should be based on skill because otherwise,

“Last year, we had to get rid of our JV team. We started off with the JV team, but because of grades and injuries, we had to combine programs,” Kawamoto said. “The year before because of COVID, we didn’t have a JV team.”

Kawamoto pointed out that practicing on different levels cre ates benefits not only for the pro gram but for the players as well, with the example of a 12th string

Kawamoto commented that in previous years, only a select few girls have played travel softball outside of school. With an increased number of athletes participating in these programs in recent years, Kawamoto is looking forward to the season this year.

“We’re excited about this year and with the girls coming in, we’re definitely going to be more competitive,” Kawamoto said.

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GUN SAFETY

On June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court passed a ruling in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol As sociation v. Bruen, striking down the state’s strict policies on carrying firearms in public areas. This rul ing, contingent on a relaxed inter pretation of the Second Amendment, was passed by a 6-3 majority and has made it easier for gun owners to carry firearms in public.

After the Supreme Court deter mined New York’s concealed carry permitting law as unconstitutional, numerous states with heavy firearm restrictions were left in a scramble to rewrite their laws. History teacher

Christine Byerley believes the ruling undermines the legislative powers of individual states.

“I think that is kind of overstep ping. I think states and local govern ments should be able to make those decisions,” Byerley said. “If we can have the states make decisions about other things that have a direct impact on their citizenry, then I think this is no different.”

Following nearly three decades of inaction from the Supreme Court re garding gun legislation and the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, Texas, the decision was unexpected by those in the legal community.

While making this decision, the Su preme Court considered the dissent ing opinion, which revolved heavily around safety, whereas history and violations of the Second Amendment

An individual’s right to bear arms was first acknowledged in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008. This case resulted in a test for lower courts to deter mine how to rule on the Second Amend

anced. Freshman Yujia Fei agrees with the nature of the amendment, however, be lieves a stronger educational program for gun owners should be implemented.

“First you should learn about the re sponsibilities of it (a gun), and you should

Although improving gun education will be foundational for general safety, many believe modifying the current process for obtaining guns will mitigate gun violence. Junior Sireesha Dandamudi believes the process of purchasing guns has become streamlined and believes the best course of action would be to abolish public access to assault rifle weapons and implement comprehensive background checks.

“What we have seen with guns has been extremely dangerous and horrific. For change, honestly, I would like to see an increasingly reduced use of guns and a general understanding that what we’ve become so desensitized to and that what has become so normalized in our society isn’t actually normal,” Dan damudi said. “So I just hope that the public sentiment resonates with a lot of people.”

With the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of New York State Rifle & Pis tol Association v. Bruen, the public eye has shifted toward the effects of gun us age in society. While many have their own reservations surrounding the Sec ond Amendment and the expansion of gun rights in America, there is a great deal of support for modifying gun laws and implementing new regulations.

SCHS students and staff reflect on the importance of campus security and mental health in preventing school shootings

By Theodore Nguyen

In recent years, the debate over school safety and gun violence has grown from a small group into a nationwide discussion. For every school shooting that occurs, another spark is added to the flame of dis cussion amongst families, education staff and politicians. Some have be come desensitized to public shoot ings to the point that The Onion, a popular satirical news site, publishes articles with the titles like “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ says the Only Nation Where This Regularly Hap pens” when school shootings occur.

Given the nature of the debate, many have put forth potential so lutions to prevent a re peating event, ranging from nationwide gun control to the installation of security equipment. The majority of these ideas center around the presence of law enforce ment, the use of mental health pro fessionals and technology for early intervention and emergency drills to prepare students.

staff, serving as both deterrents and pil lars of support in the community. The employment of one, however, is contro versial. Senior Noel Cevallos believes that campus security is more suited to treat students at SCHS.

“I don’t feel that law enforcement

or make sure that if we think that there’s increased threats, that there are people there who are prepared to handle it?”

While there are disagreements about employing officers of the law, many concur that mental health professionals can provide the best outcome for stu dents. These professionals can offer early intervention, provide out reach and improve morale amongst students, espe cially when they are at their lowest.

I feel about that, but I would sup port them having more funding as long as it’s not coming from any thing too important,” Louie said.

Ultimately, the brunt of the re sponsibility falls upon the school administration, to prepare for such an event and to educate students and staff on what to do. Both stu dents and staff are aware of more common emergency drills, such as the fire and earthquake drills, but rarely are shelter-in-place or run-hide-defend drills conducted on campus.

Run-hide-defend drills often consist of students watching or listening to a presentation on how to act, and then practice the drills in phases, usually with an announcement made ahead of time.

“I think this school has done a good job with preparing us for earthquakes and fires,” Cevallos said. “I feel like we’ve done less –relatively less – things to combat school shootings.”

ment. The test examines whether a rul ing is historically upholding the Second Amendment and if the government has strong grounds for the ruling.

Today, the public opinion surrounding the Second Amendment has been fairly nu

learn how to use it before owning one,” said Fei. “Of course, there are going to be people out there that are not good people, but I think the majority should take class es, or just learn in general about the safety of it and when it’s appropriate to use.”

“There needs to be cooperation be tween federal government manufactur ers, gun dealerships (and) gun licensing boards. There needs to be cooperation between all of us to balance freedom,” Byerley said. “It is not a simple thing, and Americans don’t always like to be told what to do.”

While Santa Clara seemingly is a safe community, many feel cam pus security is doing its best to keep students safe. Some, like English teacher Hannah Blue, believe that employing officers on campus can be beneficial.

“When done well, having an SRO – school resource officer – can be a really cool resource and an opportu nity to develop relationships with the campus,” Blue said.

Others think that effective student resource officers take more openminded approaches to students and

violence or just weapons is low, and I feel law enforcement on campus would just create more hysteria.”

There is a belief that their presence negatively affects student morale, leav ing some to ponder which benefits out weigh the downsides.

“I don’t want the school to feel like a prison and for students to feel scared,” Blue said. “Also, how do we maintain

Many, like Junior Ethan Louie, support the allocation of re sources and additional funding from the district to hire professionals and sup port mental health.

“I would support more funding as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of some of their important things. If they’re (the district) cutting teacher sal aries to fund this, I’m not too sure how

Cevallos is not the only person concerned about staff readiness, student preparedness and SCHS’s overall security. Regardless, the community is in favor of having drills for both students and teach ers to better prepare them for the worst-case scenario.

“I think if you have one every year giving students a refresher, that would be helpful, especially since they have kids coming in ev ery year, and there’s not always school shooting drills like fire drills and earthquake drills at other schools,” Cevallos said.

By Jaclyn Duran

Students often perceive the debate over gun violence as the responsibil ity of adults and political figures.

Students, however, can participate in the conversation. One of the ways students can get more involved in gun safety discussion is by protesting, ac cording to junior Chloe Nguyen.

“I believe that when there is cor ruption or when there is something wrong with society or government, that you should rebel, that you should do something about it,” Nguyen said.

In recent years, school shootings have become a much bigger conversa tion, resulting in more actions being taken to ensure that students’ voices are heard. In Feb. 2018, the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Doug las High School killed 17 and injured 14, evoking nationwide protests. Ac cording to Facing History and Our selves, students protested to stop the sale of high-capacity magazines and advocated for additional laws that re quire background checks for all gun purchases and a law to ban the sale of assault weapons.

“The students are the newer gen erations. We are the future,” Nguyen

said. “We can look back on our mistakes and we can improve them. I’m not say ing older people can’t, but I’m saying we are the future.”

Along with the Parkland shooting, according to The New York Times, 19 children and two teachers were killed May 24, 2022 in Uvalde County, Texas.

Protests arose after the Uvalde shoot ing, bringing the spotlight back onto gun violence and gun control. Relatives of the victims protested the police, claim ing incompetence. Police video footage revealed that officers were hesitant to confront the gunman, resulting in more deaths, which angered many, including the victims’ families.

Some students believe that protests are an accessible and effective way for students to get involved with issues like gun violence. Nguyen believes that pro tests are a positive and effective way of beginning change.

“Even if people think it (protests) doesn’t work, at least you’re trying to influence a group of people, and maybe that can start a movement or some sort of change” Nguyen said.

However, some feel that protesting is the least effective way of advocating. Exploring computer science and digital

media teacher Brian Van Dyck shares this viewpoint.

“They (protests) actually have caused more damage, including deaths, as gun violence itself is in the hands of crimi nals,” Van Dyck said. “Criminal behav ior does not beget criminal behavior.”

Some believe that in place of protests, prioritizing mental health in classrooms can lend a hand in creating safer schools by reducing feelings of hatred and re venge, which often result in school shootings.

“I think students can make their workplace a lot safer just so we don’t feel the need to protect ourselves,” Nguyen said.

According to the California School Boards Association, minimizing fear, including gun violence and bullying, will assist in creating a safer, more sup portive school environment.

As a result of the increased conver sation surrounding gun safety, on July 21, President Biden created “The Safer American Plan,” intending to fund the police to promote effective prosecution of crimes, invest in additional crime prevention and a fairer criminal justice system and lastly, keeping dangerous firearms out of dangerous hands.

Increased gun laws prove to be an effective way of decreasing gun violence, according to the California State Portal, which states Califor nians are 25% less likely to die in a mass shooting due to increased fire arm laws and policies.

Although increased gun laws have made an impact on reducing violence in schools and the U.S. as a whole, Van Dyck advocates that there is always the fear that no one can do enough to stop violent attacks.

“History has shown that people that want to do bad things are going to do bad things no matter what,” Van Dyck said.

This is why advocating and priori tizing mental health in schools is an important issue for many students, according to Nguyen.

“Because from what I’ve heard, a lot of school shootings happen because a kid is being bullied and doesn’t have a safe school place,” Nguyen said.“So they (students) feel the need to take revenge. I think stu dents can help out each other instead of bullying each other and make ev eryone feel like they need to protect themselves.”

Should Americans be allowed to access, rent and own firearms?

“Really nobody should be using a gun, but honestly, it just comes down to if you are going to be responsible with it, if you are going to use it to protect or do anything just to save somebody.”

“I think that (the Second Amendment) is an outdated amendment that has no use today because it does more harm than it does good, especially, if we look at how many school shootings there are per year in America. It is outrageous, honestly.”

“It is within a person’s right to own a firearm as long as they are being safe with it and as long as they keep it locked up unless they are going to a range for hunting.”

“I do not think (guns) should be banned altogether because that is a little strict, but definitely, like I said, they should make them harder (to obtain) so that not everybody can get them as easily.”

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- Marcella Callfee, freshman

Are protests an effective way to advocate against acts of gun violence?

Members of the SCHS community express their thoughts on current gun legislation and the Second Amendment

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America: Nation of Protest

By Aminah Hedges and Elias Panou

In July of 1675, a whiskeyfueled, furious and enraged man named Nathaniel Bacon aimed at Sir William Berkeley, the thengovernor of the Virginia Com monwealth, but Bacon could not take the shot. He ended up leaving with his 500 armed men. Berke ley had refused to venture into the Appalachians and fight the na tives to make room for Virginian settlement. Many Virginians with a westward pointed nose and a pioneering mind had felt snubbed that the West had been denied to them.

Bacon’s Rebellion was the first unified rebellion in American his tory. It set off America in a new direction: a nation of protest.

The Enlightenment was a spe cial time in American history. For the first time since classical Greece, folks agreed that all men were created equal. In America, these men became known as the Founding Fathers, property-own ing, aristocratic white men. Yet there was an altruistic nobility in their 1776 Declaration of Inde pendence. While they may have been high-born, they detested co lonialism and its runoffs. They spoke for men not entirely like themselves and advocated for the dignity of people unlike them.

At 1787’s Philadelphia Con vention, however, conservatism triumphed as these men were granted the reigns of power. They enfranchised only themselves in a system designed to protect their own properties and their own in terests. These men became the power they detested.

To the Union’s credit, the American spirit still persevered.

Later movements included those forgotten by the Founding Fathers. In the 19th century, wom en – whose role had been confined to the home by the ideal of Repub lican motherhood – began to push for suffrage. Beginning with local movements, women advocated for increased civil liberties. Employ ing tactics like public speeches, petitions, hunger strikes and acts of civil disobedience, suffragettes drew on previous ideas.

Of course, the suffrage move ment remained split on the subject of abolition. Some Black women used the movement as a platform to criticize the intersectional is sues they faced. Others opposed the Fifteenth Amendment for not including women. While the suf fragette followed in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers’ ideals of increased democratic participa tion, they fell folly to the same is sues: a narrow scope only focus ing on a select few.

Later, a war-struck American culture became fascinated with conformity. The Red Scare’s emphasis on Americana painted anything outside of the narrow patriotic suburban middle class as “un-American” and therefore

dangerous. This revolution of the status quo still implicated many of the same founding values. The 1950s, however, saw something new and uniquely American: the New Left.

America’s blunder in Vietnam brought protests regarding Ameri can foreign policy and interven tionism. This new movement of post-Marxists and neoliberals alike sparked a shift in American society and a change from the op timism of the 1950s.

Though having roots in rebel lion against the Vietnam War, the long hair and colorful clothes of counterculture marked a larger re bellion. Counterculture was a re bellion against mainstream views of war, consumerism and inequal ity by youth who felt alienated by the suburbs. The protest was tied with a disapproval of racial, eth nic and political injustice. Though hippies defined counterculture in popular culture, they were entire ly composed of those who refused to conform to nuclear family val ues.

There was still one group of forgotten people: Black folk. Starting in 1954, the Civil Rights movement pushed against racial segregation and discrimation that had become a normal part of life for people of color in America. The movement aimed to dismantle the Jim Crow South where these effects of slavery were most nota ble. The movement achieved sig nificant victories with the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965 and inspired further pro test against the U.S. government.

While first-wave feminism was defined by the fight for suf frage, second-wave feminism was defined against the 1950s. Sim one de Beauvoir’s 1949 “Second Sex” defined women as othered by society and advocated for lib eration, marking the beginning of the ideas that defined the second wave. Starting in the 1960s, femi nists defined themselves in oppo sition to American suburbia, pop culture and the nuclear family.

America, however, is not al ways a country of progression.

In 2016, the election of President Donald Trump can be considered a conservative revolution. His heavy protectionist, anti-immi grant and populist ideals swept through America. Yankees and hillbillies alike protested Ameri ca’s new precarious position in the world order, which was marked by overbearing foreign interven tionism and the 2008 recession.

As Isaac Newton stated over 300 years ago, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction – Black Lives Matter, MeToo and Antifascism. With Trump’s election came move ments that sparked conversations about what neoconservatism sig nified in America. While some reactions were tamer than others,

many have retunred to the Phila delphia Convention and its con servative triumph. Those para digms set up over 200 years ago enabled many of the same issues Americans face today.

Have any of these protests ever accomplished anything great? Have Americans ever been free? After all, reform in America still leaves the same system the Found ing Fathers created. In many ways, the American government has been incredibly successful in making farsighted decisions in the conservation of federal pow er. With each concession made, the U.S. government superseded this with another check on liber ties. The Emancipation Proclama tion made way for the repatria tion of thousands of freed slaves and, moreover, their segregation. America’s withdrawal from Viet nam only distracted from Ameri ca’s intervention in South Amer ica, Afghanistan and the South China Sea.

The Indigenous peoples can not be forgotten. Stemming back to before Bacon’s Rebellion, na tives have been the victim of co lonial aggression. Native civili zations that numbered millions before 1492 were rendered hap less in their reservations’ squa lor. They did not back down from this adversity, however, as the American Indian Movement of the 1970s proves. From 1969 to 1971, the protesters occupied Al catraz Island in the San Francisco Bay Area. They were protesting against violated treaties, the Nix on administration’s exploitation of their resources and condemned lack of tribal autonomy.

Their legacy cannot be labeled American – the moniker of their oppressors – but represents a great influence on American cul ture. After all, the Founding Fa thers dressed up as Mohawk na tives during the Boston Tea Party. During the Revolutionary Wars, natives fought alongside the colo nists. Thus, their sacrifice cannot be forgotten. America’s signs, murals and artworks contain al lusions to the great chiefs of the 19th century, and to express cour age and pride, young Americans can be told to “fight like a brave,” in an idiom dating back centuries.

Much of the cultural, political and social diversity of Americans can be attributed to those who walked this land before the white man.

A country formed by discontent will never reconcile their values with tyranny. There is a long way for America to go on her odys sey. And while American culture is unlike any other, its fraternal relationship with countries such as Mexico and France grant it a for eign sophistication. It has been a long time since the Founding Fa thers, yet there’s a great strength in how far Americans have come.

Santa Clara needs voters, not dismissers

By Aisha Shafik

Editor’s note: The argument made in this article is not an of ficial Roar endorsement of May or Gillmor’s campaign. This is not an indictment of any can didates’ character. Information supplied is contingent upon the rapidly changing nature of news and election versatility.

The mayoral elections play a significant role in the Santa Clara community because citi zens have a say in what they want to see happen in their city. In Santa Clara, the main can didates running are incumbent Lisa Gillmor and current council member, Anthony Becker, who was elected in November 2022.

Gillmor, being a Santa Clara resident, has been serving in the Santa Clara City Council from 1992. She was then elected as mayor in 2016 and with her 30 years of experience, she has in corporated many impactful deci sions. By initiating plans for the benefit of the citizens, provid ing food for the needy as well as partnering with nonprofit or ganizations, Gillmor emphasizes

her commitment to putting San ta Clarans first over organiza tions like the San Francisco 49ers.

Lance Williams and Ron Kroichick of the San Francis co Chronicle reported that the 49ers have donated $368,000 to boost Becker’s bid in or der for him to become mayor. Additionally, they donated

$380,000 to two committee coun cil members, Karen Hardy and Raj Chahal, who are also running for re-election. The 49ers have been funneling money into these coun cilmens’ campaigns in order to stack the council with politicians who will let them do whatever they want. Santa Clara accused the 49ers of diverting stadium rev enue at the publicly-owned facil

In a world of love, the loveless are forgotten.

Much of pop culture revolves around romance. Trendy shows, hit movies, chart-climbing love songs and even everyday conver sations come with the expectation that romance should be sought out and prioritized. These expec tations, often pushed by media, ostracize the aromantic and the asexual communities.

Both asexuality and aromanti cism are defined by a lack of at traction. Asexuality, however, is a lack of sexual attraction to oth ers while aromanticism is consid ered to be a lack of willingness to enter relationships with oth

ers. The stigmatization regarding these non conformal identities are apparent in pop culture. Representation matters. When done properly, it can educate and make different ways of life more visible. Seeing elements of oneself reflected in fictional characters or in the media can be a validating and exciting experi ence. Unfortunately, the limited pre-existing representation for aromantic and asexual people is often inaccurate. Individuals who identify with these communities experience little to no roman tic or sexual attraction and are

often either misrepresented or completely ignored by popular media. In a world so focused on romance, it can be easy for those who identify as aromantic or asexual to feel lost or excluded. Queer representation for lesbian, gay or bisexual people, has im proved in recent years; however, there is still a low amount of content focusing on people who are simply not interested in ro mance. When culture depicts ro mantic relationships as a neces sity for everyone, it ignores those who do not seek out romantic or sexual relationships.

ity, in which Becker led the effort to resolve contentious lawsuits that were between the city and the team. Gillmor, be ing a 49ers critic, was fighting against this settlement.

The donations given to the other two running council members, was reported to the Secretary of State’s Office, which led to a heated discus sion between Becker and Gill mor. On Aug. 30 during a closed session, Gillmor and council member Kathy Wata nabe argued with Becker about the settlement being a bad deal for the city. Gillmor and Wata nabe both claimed Becker an grily cussed at them. Becker’s behavior is detrimental for the city and is not representative of a leader.

According to Carolyn Schuk of The Silicon Valley Voice, Gillmor has provided boxes of free meals to families in need and has partnered with other nonprofit organizations to help provide aid. Gillmor has also focused on Santa Clara’s home lessness task force.

Gillmor advocates for af fordable housing, and she has received funds for the next two years for affordable and transi tional housing. The city currently has ten affordable housing proj ects in working progress. Gill mor also supports the decision of having more access to different transportation. Santa Clara will collaborate with other cities to develop a city bus shuttle, with the assistance of council member Raj Chahal.

Due to the tension between the two candidates, the elec tion of incumbent Gillmor and Becker will ultimately impact the view of Santa Clara. With the actions taken by the two candi dates, it is important to see how their decisions have affected the city as well as how that portrays the character of the individual, especially considering the vari ous decisions they are making toward the city. Santa Clarans need to make their voices heard in this election because who they vote for displays who they want to make decisions that will affect them and the city itself.

Poor representation means that there are few opportunities to educate others about asexuality and aromanticism. Harmful ste reotypes and assumptions thrive on ignorance. Representation in mainstream media helps different orientations to become more ac cepted and normalized. The more people see aromantic and asexual people properly represented in media, the more likely it is that these groups of people will be less marginalized.

Assumptions about the need for romance not only harms asexual and aromantic people

but also platonic relationships in general. This is especially seen in friendships between people of opposite genders. It is far too often that platonic relation ships are perceived as roman tic or formed with the intent of romance. Rather than normal izing platonic friendships as an ideal, popular media frequently implies that the guy should get the girl. Too often, friendships must become romantic in order for there to be a happy ending. It is time to tell different sto ries with different expectations and different endings.

Society’s hustlers sell snake oil and deception, not success or wealth

By Nathaniel Hekster and Taejun Spencer

The great successes of men like Elon Musk, Ray Kroc, Jeff Bezos and other entre preneurs are often envied. They’ve led businesses that are now worth billions of dol lars, and live lavish lives in mansions, with garages hous ing a dozen cars worth over $100,000. Unfortunately, the chances of becoming rich are so low many give up and choose to look for easier ways to earn money. Many have stumbled upon Andrew Tate and his online course, Hus tlers University, on how to make easy money. The hustler lifestyle teaches young aspir ing entrepreneurs that work ing traditional jobs get them nowhere. This fake lifestyle is a delusion that many have

come to believe because of lies on social media.

A common misconception is the time spent working directly correlates with suc cess. Eventually, working more does not provide any more benefit when it starts to become obsessive. The hustler lifestyle is usually defined as aggressive. The work-based physicality of the hustler lifestyle causes harm to its host, and overworking oneself leads to a plethora of physical and mental harm. According to the Cleveland Clinic, working 55 hours a week increases the chance of blood clots and strokes.

People who attribute their riches and success to the hustler lifestyle do not openly push the side effects of it, which causes an ide

alistic image of the lifestyle. The flashy business pitches and foolproof ways to get rich makes many feel guilty and ob ligated to adopt the salesman’s lifestyle. The idea of a simple change in lifestyle yielding sig nificant and proportional ben efit is incredibly appealing, and traps people into a flawed mindset that is supposedly a perfectly designed ideology.

Increased work hours have two negative side effects: more stress and less time to maintain proper health. The Medium re ported that without the time to maintain one’s health, hygiene practices become a secondhand thought. At the end of the day, what social media hustlers are reporting as the cause of their success is wholly detrimental to one’s relationships, work ef ficiency and overall health.

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Self care helps to boost the confidence of some students, when done for the right reasons

By Ellen Vu

Often targeting teenagers, self-care has become a modern trend, through practices in cluding meditating, exercising and skin care. These practices have become so popular that over two thirds of Americans have started partaking in these routines, People magazine re ported. Many students at SCHS also practice self-care and shared their reasons for start ing and the ways they improve their daily lives.

Freshman Jiomari Mercado incorporated self care into his life by exercising with zero expenses besides the cost of his time. Mercado explained that maintaining motivation to exercise can be difficult, but he keeps up with his routine to stay healthy.

“It’s a hardcore lifestyle,” Mercado said. “It’s not some thing a normal person would be able to get in everyday.”

Starting his exercise routine around a year ago, Mercado is proud of how it has benefited his mental health. He views his

self-image as a key part of his identity and credits it to exercising.

“I’m pretty happy with my self that I’m still taking care of myself better than other people would,” Mercado said.

dav has a differ ent approach toward selfcare, with her con sis tent skin care rou tine. Ya dav ex plained that her routine provides a posi tive start to her day and boosts her confidence.

“I don’t feel confident enough, and this routine brings back my confidence.” Yadav said. “It helped me prepare for the day.”

Along with helping her to

become more confident, Ya dav often feels stressed due to school work, and her routine takes her mind off of the nega tivity she feels.

“I think I definitely feel less groggy. I feel like a lot of stress is gone,” Yadav said. “I just wait to take my mind off the things from the pres sure of school stan dards.” Like Ya dav, sopho more Ina Wu focuses on skin care as a way to take care of herself. Wu es pecially appreciates seeing those who do not traditionally participate in it sharing her love for the practice.

“It makes me feel so happy when I see other people doing skin care or sharing their skin

care, especially boys and men doing skin care because there’s this idea that it’s a thing for girls, but skin care is for ev erybody,” Wu said.

Wu pointed out, however, that the costly standard set by society puts an unrealistic look on the skin care community. Wu explained that skin care does not have to be as elaborate as sometimes advertised.

“I see (influencers) doing their skin care routines, and there are a lot of steps in it with products that are rather expen sive,” Wu said. “I don’t feel like that’s too realistic because you can achieve good skin with drugstore products.”

Many SCHS students feel that starting a routine for them selves rather than to fit the standards of others is impor tant. They believe the media should not affect what they think of themselves.

“There’s a lot of false advertis ing for the standards that specifi cally girls should do self care of ten,” Yadav said. “I feel like you shouldn’t just focus on the media. You should focus on yourself.”

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Stay in or eat out? Students share their ideal dining locations

at home. Daroczi enjoys both eating her mom’s food and cook ing for herself.

“My mom makes tasty food, so I like eating it,” Daroczi said.

“My mom makes tasty food, so I like eating it. It is healthier and more conve nient for us to have food at home. Also, at home I can cook or bake, which I enjoy.”

Julia Daroczi , sophomore

“It is healthier and more con venient for us to have food at home. Also, at home I can cook or bake, which I enjoy.”

When she is not enjoying meals at home, Daroczi will occasionally eat out. While she sometimes eats food from chain restaurants, Daroczi tries to sup port smaller local shops.

Panou’s Paper Panel

By Elias Panou

In spite of all of his overburden ing ambitions and his pompous ap proach to writing, Oscar Wilde’s

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” is by far one of the most fascinating works ever made. Published in 1890, the Gothic novella was instantly contro versial among critics and in Victorian England. To the chaste Londoners, this work of Victorian horror left a distaste in the mouth of many. Yet through the years of countless movie adaptations and reworks of the origi nal manuscript, Wilde’s work has been revitalized and molded, chang ing in many ways.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” follows Dorian Gray, a decadent and frivolous character in north London. He makes friends with two other men – Lord Henry and Basil Hallwart –who introduce him to the luxurious side of life. Basil, a moralist, is capti vated by Gray’s beauty. Lord Henry is a character not defined by any set of morals but whose influence slowly corrupts Gray and turns him into a twisted predator in London’s dark nightlife.

Aesthetics, the philosophy of art, is often considered to be the frame work of the soul. Gothic aestheticism is an exploration of the deep tortur ous horrors of the supernatural and is a psychological discovery in the evils of the unconscious mind. Wilde’s aestheticism, however, represents the Gothic paradox: there is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Gothicism represents a moral contrast between good and evil. As Wilde writes in the preface of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” morality is a con struct.

By Catalina Lopez

After a long day at school, a student treats themself to a tasty meal, whether at a restaurant, lo cal shop or at home. Students at SCHS find eating out with friends and family enjoyable and appreci ate the quality time meals provide.

Freshman Priya Pudasaini en joys sharing meals with her fa

“My dad used to live in San Bruno in the ‘90s. Ever since we were young, he used to take us over there because he used to get breakfast from there every day.”

-Priya Pudasaini

ther. Since she was six years old, Pudasaini has been making memories with her father at a donut shop in San Bruno, where they share special connections.

“My dad used to live in San Bruno in the ‘90s,” Puda saini said. “Ever since we were young, he used to take us over there because he used to get breakfast from there every day.”

After visiting the shop for years, Pudasaini has many sen timental memories there with her father. She has especially fond memories of their shared rides on motorcycles when driving to the shop.

“It’s just a place I like going to with him whenever we go on a motorcycle,” Pudasaini said. “It’s kind of like a place where

I felt connected to him.”

While some students prefer eat ing at a restaurant, junior Hayden Vinson prefers eating at home. He finds cooking in the kitchen enter taining and inexpensive.

“It (cooking at home) is cheap er, and I also like to cook,” Vin son said. “Getting ingredients and making the food yourself is cheap er and more fun.”

Though Vinson favors eating at home, he sometimes finds pleasure eating out with his family on spe cial occasions.

“I like eating at Benihana,” Vinson said. “That was the restau rant my parents would take me and my little brothers for our birthdays when we were younger.”

Similar to Vinson, sophomore Julia Daroczi chooses to eat meals

“I want to support small busi nesses,” Daroczi said. “They take time to make delicious food.”

Daroczi also likes eating with her family and friends at Fanta sia, a boba place that Daroczi has dined at for years.

“I always used to go there with my family when I was a kid,” Daroczi said. “I have memories of going on errands and walk ing around the stores and getting boba. I have been eating there since I was in kindergarten.”

Students like Daroczi appreci ate the experience of dining with their loved ones and the quality time that sharing meals provides.

“I go out to eat with my family and my friends because it’s fun to bond and talk while we eat,” Daroczi said.

The bottom line is that Dorian Gray is a man tortured by his wan ing youth. It is his pure and chaste likeness that is kept in the fabric of an aging portrait that rots his aching mind. His soul, his very vibrance and energy, is contrasted in a reality between what is art and what is life. Taking from Socrates’s aestheticism, this representation of art in Wilde’s work portrays a holy and spiritual connection between that of the art and the artist.

Unfortunately, this novella can be boring in a variety of ways. While Wilde’s tone and decadent writ ing style is interesting and keeps the reader captivated just enough to get to the end of the book, only a select few events are entertaining. What re deems this novel is its beauty and the success it has in its portrayal of the death of brilliance. Be warned, this read is complicated. Its rewards may vary and any side effects are caused by its lasting radiance.

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Actors at SCHS describe tips and tricks they have learned to deliver stellar performances

years of theater experience, has a similar approach to Guzules when deciding how to play a character. He often prepares for his roles by watching the movies and broadway productions mul tiple times.

“I didn’t really try to do the same thing as the guy did in the (Broadway production of ‘Into the Woods’), but I ended up doing similar ones,” Lingsheit said. “I try to play them a little differently than the original.”

Senior Mia Rousseau has a different struggle. She of ten feels nervous before go ing onstage for the first time

“I feel like the first perfor mance, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to die’ or something,” Rousseau said. “But once I do it, the rest of it is just easy.”

Rousseau normally goes into auditions without researching roles. Once she is given her role, she will then listen to the songs for that char acter. There are characters she has played that are fairly by the book, but she enjoys interpreting them in her own way.

“I do like giving different inter pretations of characters and kinda what they’re like and how they do things,” Rousseau said.

back and feeling like it’s happen ing for the first time is challeng ing,” Enloe said.

Almost all actors, experienced

“You can’t really just copy someone else’s performance,” Enloe said. “I like to play the character but also as myself because that’s how it feels the most natural to me.”

- Monica Enloe , junior

By Amanda Troll

Many SCHS students enjoy performing in theater produc tions. After years of experience, student actors have learned what works for them and what does not.

Senior Ellie Guzules is an ex perienced performer who has had a love for theater since she was young. Before auditioning for a play, she thoroughly researches the role she is auditioning for. She

listens to the musical’s soundtrack and watches movie adaptations. Guzules often tries to add her own spin on a character while also keeping in mind what the directors will like.

“It’s their brain plus yours,” Guzules said. “And the longer you brew with the character, the more you like them and the more you find things about them.”

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- Ellie Guzules , senior

every show. To prepare her self, she drinks lots of water and listens to music.

Junior Monica Enloe, another ex perienced performer, finds that she also most enjoys performing when she gets to personalize her role.

“You can’t really just copy some one else’s performance,” Enloe said.

“I like to play the character but also as myself because that’s how it feels the most natural to me.”

After practicing lines and scenes for months, Enloe finds that some of the emotions she had first performed with get lost in the repetition of rehearsal.

“I think getting the emotion

or amature, struggle with some form of performance nerves. De spite this, students show up to perform without the fear of what others think, embracing the spotlight.

“Just put yourself out there and do the crazy thing. Make big choices,” Enloe said. “That’s what everyone says, but it’s true because you have to stand out, even if it’s wrong. The choice that maybe you shouldn’t be making, it’s something that puts you out there and makes people think of you.”

Students appreciate seeing themselves represented in the increasingly diverse Disney princess movies

By Rebecca LaBarge

Disney princesses have served as role models for generations. As Disney princess movies depict the princesses as magical, beauti ful and personable, they often in fluence children at a young age. SCHS students reflected upon the impact the princesses have had on them and the importance of seeing oneself represented in popular characters.

Junior Anika Dontu has been watching Disney princess movies since she was young and looked up to them as a child. She noted the importance of diverse charac ters and explained that children can benefit from positive role models who look like them.

“I think that everyone wants a role model, and Disney princess es and Disney in general has al ways been something that people, especially little kids, have looked up to,” Dontu said. “If they see someone like them, it would def initely be something amazing for them to see being like, ‘Wow! I can also be a princess. I can also be someone special.’”

Sophomore Amna Shaukut similarly has admired Disney princesses since she was young. She explained that representation in mainstream media and char acters is of great impor tance.

“I think that when we are lit tle, the first thing we see is Disney princesses be cause they are so iconic,” Shakut said. “(It’s) kind of like what ev erybody grows up around, so especially little girls when they see all of these princesses and they feel like a princess, it’s really important that we represent that.”

Sophomore Dania Gizaw be lieves that Disney princesses have been becoming steadily more di verse and hopes to see more rep resentation with time.

“When the princesses first started out, it was like Snow

White and Aurora – the clas sics – and now they are moving to things with different races and ethnicities and maybe soon they will go to maybe men or the LG

tion. If you don’t have represen tation, how do you have a voice?” Udinoor said. “I think that’s re ally important because they have a sense of hope and they have one to relate to instead of just looking at lightskinned people, or people who don’t look like them.”

it would have been for me as a young girl to see a princess who was maybe a little too loud when she didn’t mean to be, a princess who stimmed, a princess who gets too passion ate, maybe is too emotional and maybe struggles with controlling her anger,” Cuhan said. “Being a neurodiver gent woman is such a struggle that does not get talked about enough, and it just would have been so amazing as a kid to see.”

backgrounds.”

Freshman Ninya Udinoor also hopes to see more diversity in fu ture Disney movies and believes that representation of minority groups should have been preva lent in the movies long ago.

“Everyone needs representa

Senior Katrina Cunha be lieves that Disney still has many areas where can improve their representation. They particularly want to see Disney princesses with disabilities, or princesses who are neurodivergent. She be lieves that seeing herself repre sented as a person with ADHD would have been beneficial.

“I can’t imagine how amazing

Seeing oneself represented can be a validating and excit ing experience, especially in characters that are influen tial to young children. Many SCHS students agree that di verse characters help to make people feel included and seen.

“Any group that is not getting that much attention right now could be represented in Disney princesses, and it could definitely impact the way that younger peo ple think so that they could build a different and better generation in the future,’’ Udinoor said.

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It’s time to BeReal.

and staff share their experience with BeReal

By Aaryan Dubale and Nishi Vijayvargiya

A notification goes off during class. Heads turn. Eyes meet. It is time to be real.

BeReal has over 53 million down loads, yet only 3 million users open the app every day.

BeReal is a social media platform that has recently gained a lot of na tional recognition. Users are invited to submit a picture from their front camera and their back camera at a ran dom time every day in order to view their friends’ submissions. BeReal is strictly for photos and has no filters in order for it to “be real.” BeReal has around 21.6 million users and a por tion of them are SCHS students.

Many of senior Rida Faraz’s friends have BeReal, but initially, Faraz was against the idea of down loading BeReal because of the daily commitment. However, she eventual ly decided she would like to have the app to keep in touch with her friends and has learned to not feel pressured to take her BeReal immediately.

“If I post on time, I post on time and if not, there’s nothing wrong with it really,” Faraz said.

BeReal also does not disrupt fresh man Aditi Gupta’s day because it does not take her much time to submit the picture.

“BeReal kind of affects my sched ule but not crazily because sometimes it does go off in class, but if I’m in a rush, I’ll take one really quickly since BeReal is supposed to be authentic and genuine,” Gupta said. “It’s just a two minute span of where you take a photo in the moment.”

Freshman Jian Hong also does not upload her BeReal right away, often due to the fact that her notifications are silenced.

“I think sometimes it’s because I’m at school and my phone is on Do Not Disturb, so I find it (the notification) much later. I see the notification (and) I’m like, ‘It’s okay. I’ll do it later,’” Hong said.

Gupta, on the other hand, does feel the need to post her BeReal on time to

honor the sincerity of the app.

“I think sometimes I do feel a little pressured because my friends say, ‘Oh, why didn’t you post your BeReal on time? It’s supposed to be authentic,’” Gupta said.

Faraz believes that it is not necessary to pause what she is doing to submit her BeReal.

“If it comes up at a time where I’m doing something more important, then I don’t do it until I remember later that day, or do something more interest ing,” Faraz said.

Math teacher Anthony Brasil agrees that one’s image on social media typi cally portrays solely important mo ments.

“It’s kind of to show your highlights, like the ESPN Top 10, or something like that. But it’s perceived as every body’s living this super awesome life and going on vacations all the time,” Brasil said. “That sets a tone that is very nonrealistic, especially for young er people.”

Hong believes while not everyone is posting just their best moments, there is always someone who romanticizes their life online.

“I feel like whatever time it is or whatever app it is, there will always be that kind of person,” Hong said. “I completely understand them because it’s a picture of yourself that you are showing to your friends, and whether you are really self-conscious or your ego is kind of low, you just want to show them the best moment of your life instead of just showing a normal day.”

Social media can have a detrimen tal effect if it is not used as intended. According to Lawrence Robinson and

Melinda Smith from helpguide.org, social media can make people feel in secure about how they look and what goes on in their life. It also tends to lead to a low self-esteem and a nega tive view of one’s body. Brasil views this as one of the flaws in social media platforms, especially BeReal.

“It does pose mental health prob lems, like people setting unrealistic goals and setting these body image or life goals,” Brasil said. “It’s unreal istic and it kind of puts you in a bad mindset for, especially, a younger, like teenage demographic.”

While there are people on BeReal who glorify their own lives, Faraz thinks that BeReal is a more genuine app compared to other social media.

“I think it would be pretty nice if other social media platforms became as transparent (as BeReal). The best part about this app is that I think I’ve gotten a lot closer to people who I didn’t know too well,” Faraz said.

Some believe that relationships with others can be hard to maintain, but Hong believes BeReal might just change that.

“It’s just cool that you can see your friends wherever they live. Even if they live in a different state, you can see what they are doing at the same time as you,” Hong said.

Faraz likes the idea of seeing a more authentic side of people on Be Real.

“If all social media was like that, I think we would form inter action on a deeper level instead of seeing everyone’s social media personas,” Faraz said.

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