As soon as an English teacher says, “we’re going to be taking the Star test today,” everybody groans and resigns themselves to another boring day in class, set to take the same test they have taken...
IB and AP students know the feeling well. It’s finals season and you’ve worked hard all year to maintain your grades. You did all the journals, solved all the equations, and wrote all the essays. It’s...
Lucas Grannis, Assistant Opinions Editor
• May 5, 2023
As points were totaled, there was an evident tie. An intense matchup with one more game would determine a winner – not just for the outcome of a measly night rally, but for the outcome of something much...
Dear President Biden, please don’t run for reelection.
Running a country is quite a feat and forgetting your train of thought mid-sentence only adds to the challenge. From his garbled definition of...
It goes without saying that teenagers can be a little stupid. Why wouldn’t they be? As teens break out of the bubble of childhood and start to adapt to the real adult world around them, some missteps...
The students of Claremont High School have always been afraid. They are afraid of responsibility, vulnerability, and commitment— all normal teenage worries that everyone experiences as they try to figure...
Dear Tropical Lei,
I am writing to you in regards to your marque. For years, pre-pandemic, it has been a source of amusement and an educational tool for many new readers driving along Foothill blvd. between...
Many Americans are dependent on automobiles for transportation. This is a tired system that stresses those who cannot afford a car, forcing them to turn to our widely underdeveloped and underfunded public...
When ChatGPT was first launched on a late November day this past year, millions of people from different parts of the country speculated that their lives would be changed forever; people seemed to think...
2022 saw the deaths of over one hundred thousand people due to opioid overdose, slightly surpassing the previous year. It is not controversial to say that the opioid crisis is an appalling part of the...
Homeroom has become a regular part of Claremont High School’s schedule this year and has received a diversity of responses from staff and students. One of the largest parts of homeroom’s curriculum...
You may remember when the news articles about fentanyl started pouring in. The media had preached continually about the dangers and harms of the drug. Then, recently, there were mentions about the newly...
