Max Sklar

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Writer

From left to right, Theo Fleig, Sebastian Johnson, and Nina Smith practice graffiti in the wood shop.

Graffiti Club Works to Change the Narrative of its Artform

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Every school year brings with it a new set of students, teachers, and classes. New challenges for students to engage with in their schedules, new opportunities for teachers to be able to perfect their craft, and last but not least, new ideas that students bring to the table for the betterment of the school.

Sophomore Loren McErlane (left) rehearses in the Berkeley Community Theater for the upcoming Afro-Haitian dance show.

AFAM Dance Show: “New Beginnings”

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The biannual Afro-Haitian dance performance is a highly anticipated collection of work done by the students of the African American Studies Department.

CAS Ignites Cultural Exchange Through International Field Trip

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Dancing the night away to the sweet sounds of salsa while waves crash in the background is not your average classroom experience. Eating the food from the culture you are studying, straight from the source, using the language you have been tested on for the last 3 years in a place where it is spoken

Is Increasing Coverage of Reality TV a Danger to Young Viewers?

Entertainment

Reality TV shows are at an all time high in American viewership. Powerhouse names like the Kardashians seem to always be on the tip of everyone’s tongue, always a scandal away from being “cancelled.” Soccer moms talk about the latest episode of Real Housewives, while their kids chat amongst themselves about who they think should

IT Chapter Two Scares But Fails to Wow

Entertainment

“Sometimes the memories that we want to escape, what we want to forget the most, makes us exactly who we are.” This quote encapsulates the main idea that the new installment of the famous Stephen King saga deals with.

Day of Silence Humanizes Queer Youth

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The silence is deafening as hundreds of Berkeley High School students keep quiet while wearing signs around their necks. A math teacher calls on a student to answer a question on the board, only to realize she will not speak.

Women’s Day Festivities Fuel Female Fire

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“We want to use this holiday as a way to create a safe school environment for every type of woman,” said Esme Segall, a junior in the Berkeley High School Women’s Student Union.

Champion Athletes Reject POTUS Invite

Sports

Ever since 1865, when President Andrew Johnson welcomed the Washington Nationals, an amateur team, to the White House, it has become customary for American professional sports teams to visit the White House and the President following championship victories.

Wrestling Team Finds Success

Sports

The whistle blows and the wrestlers take their places in their separate corners of the ring. In the next three minutes, any action could mean the difference between winning or losing.