March 9, 2011
Fremont Federation of High Schools will become a large school again. Due to budget cuts and declining enrollment, the district has decided that in two years, Mandela High School, Media College Preparatory High School and College Preparatory & Architecture Academy will close and then merge into a...
March 7, 2011 • Jocelyn Sanchez, Oakland Unity High
When the House of Representatives tried to pass the Dream Act, it raised the hopes of ambitious students waiting for its approval. But when the Senate killed the Dream Act, just before Christmas, it was a harsh wake-up call. This was the last chance for supporters of the Dream Act to try to get it passed...
December 10, 2010 • ELIZABETH HAN & BAO NGOC NGUYEN, Skyline High
Bullying has always been customary — almost traditional — when it comes to the playground. When we were seven, we suffered from hair-pulling and comments that ridiculed our pieces of clothing. As we grew older, these negligible wisecracks turned into criticisms that attacked our weight and all...
December 7, 2010 • Stephen Phan, Staff writer
Oakland High students are outraged about the food served by the cafeteria. The line is long, they say, and the food and is not worth the price. Every day at lunch time, the lunch room gets overly crowded. There are way too many students in the lunch line at one time. Even though some kids go off campus...
November 14, 2010 • Monica Virgen, Jocelyn Sanchez, Brenda Pelayo, Oakland Unity High
Have you ever heard about urban camouflage? If you were thinking it had to do with the kind of camouflage clothing that soldiers wear in war, well, then you’re wrong — it has nothing to do with that. Think of it as a disguise that allows students to dress in ways that only other students would understand....
November 13, 2010 • Iris Perez, Oakland Unity High
Coming from a community that so many call dangerous, how dangerous could it be for me to travel to El Salvador? I was 16 last summer when an opportunity came knocking at my door: A chance to participate in a 10-day trip to Ciudad Romero, a community in Usulutan, located in the southeastern part of El...
November 13, 2010
Caged. Double-caged. That’s how I feel. I live in a neighborhood that was labeled a “safety zone” under the Oakland gang injunction approved last June, and I attend a “closed campus” where chain-link fences make sure that students can’t leave for lunch. And so I feel caged....
November 4, 2010 • Jazmin Garcia, Media Academy
School gardens do not cultivate failure. Instead they provide a nice environment, organic food and a place to teach students valuable skills. But social critic Caitlin Flanagan doesn’t think so. She wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine this year saying school gardens are racist because...
November 1, 2010 • Green & Gold Staff, Media Academy
Proposition 19, which would legalize the use and growth of recreational marijuana, has come under fire and been dismissed by some people in the community as a liberal move by Californians to promote the use of a damaging drug. If the proposition passes, it will be legal only by state, not federal, law....
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