Photo Credit: Alejandra Rosas By: Alejandra Rosas We’ve all noticed a six-foot tall, tough, and well-built security guard patrolling the campus and monitoring student behavior as a typical security guard would. However, not everyone has noticed that the former security guard supervisor Delvon Jackson is now a teacher for the Public Safety Academy (PSA), a ...
Feature, PeoplePhoto Credit: An Uong By: Alejandra Rosas Many students join a sport they are passionate about. However, not all make good use of that interest—taking it to another level where one helps others achieve and express their love for that same sport. Meet Desiree Garzona (’13). Garzona decided to join the dance team her freshman ...
Feature, PeoplePhoto Credit: Alejandra Rosas By: Jeannie Mai As we grow older, the question that tends to come up the most is what we want to be when we grow up. Most children dream of becoming a firefighter or an astronaut. At age 13, junior Leo Trajano dreamt of joining the army. When Trajano was in ...
Feature, PeopleHere are some faculty members who attended Hoover as students. By: Alejandra Rosas After four years of stressful studies, extracurricular activities, and all the wonderful things high school has to offer, many students are ecstatic to graduate and never look back. However, some of the teachers on campus were once Hoover students themselves, and have ...
Feature, PeoplePhoto Credit: An Uong By: Jeannie Mai They walk the same, they talk the same, they even look the same—they must be the same, right? Wrong. It’s easy to see why strangers would mix up identical twins Katherine (Kate) and Kristine Paguinto (’13) so frequently, but, to be quite honest, they could not be any ...
Entertainment, Feature, PeopleBy: Alejandra Rosas “I’m not comfortable with myself. I secretly don’t like what I’ve become. I feel like I don’t have anyone to talk to. I feel like I can’t trust people anymore because I’ve been betrayed so many times.” This dejected passage was written anonymously, in what students around campus are calling “the wandering ...
FeatureBy: Greg Kalfayan Students who leave high school at 16 are usually considered dropouts. Many are. But there is another category: 16-year old high school graduates. These kids are on the fast track to receiving college degrees and professional success. Most students spend four years in high school and then get jobs or head off ...
FeatureBy: Meagan Knight .paris We arrived in the morning at 11 a.m. at the Charles De Gaulle airport where we converted our dollars to euros and spent two hours waiting for our bus to take us to the Mercure Hotel, the best of the three hotels we stayed at during our trip. At 3:30 p.m., ...
FeatureBy: Greg Kalfayan It is 1:30 a.m. As you ask yourself why you stayed up so late, you contemplate skipping first period. You climb into bed to savor a few precious hours of sleep before you get up for school. We have all been there. Sleep deprivation is becoming a bigger and bigger problem among students. ...
FeatureBy: Edwin Flores No shoes, no service. A simple phrase that states that it is common courtesy to wear shoes when in public places. But what about children in developing countries who barely manage to feed themselves? Shoes are definitely not their first priority. In 2006, Blake Mycoskie founded Toms shoes to help combat injustices ...
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