Mollie Javerbaum
Editor-in-Chief (class of 2007)
Campanile, News, May 28, 2007
Newspapers and print journalists should embrace the opportunities for improvement the Internet provides, Stanford Knight Fellow R. Scott Horner said in a May 24 speech to the Paly Voice.
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Campanile, Opinion, December 11, 2006
While Palo Alto High School's five Government teachers coordinate their unit objectives, they do not use the same tests or compile overall grades the same way. One teacher, Grant Blackburn, combines weighted categories to end up with a student's final grades. Another, Steve Sabbag, combines total points, and has recently experimented with making projects pass/fail.
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Campanile, Features, November 13, 2006
Kirk's Steakburgers' aggressive enforcement of its recently-enacted no-backpack policy recently made it perhaps the most controversial vendor at Town and Country Village when the owner threw noncompliant student customers' backpacks over a fence and into a construction zone.
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Campanile, Sports, September 25, 2006
Five former members of Palo Alto High School's dance team quit this year and attempted unsuccessfully to form a separate team, saying the team's dancing style changed when Social Studies teacher Hilary McDaniel took over the head coaching position in 2004.
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Campanile, News, June 5, 2006
Palo Alto High School will purchase 38 Intel iMac computers for its English journalism lab and two journalism classrooms. The computers, which will be installed before the 2006-2007 school year begins this August, cost around $70,000 and were paid for by donations from the Parent Teacher Student Association, Paly parents and a staff member.
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Campanile, Features, May 8, 2006
A recent study by the Manhattan Institute found the national high school dropout rate to be at an astonishing 30 percent, causing prominent politicians, education experts and public figures to declare America's schools in a state of "crisis," inflicted by an "invisible epidemic" of dropouts.
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Campanile, Opinion, May 8, 2006
The end of sophomore year might be considered a milestone in the high school careers of most Paly students. Not only have they become upperclassmen, but they have also completed Palo Alto High School's physical education requirement. Never again will they don a grey shirt and sticky mesh shorts with the word "LOANER" that stink of the body odor of generations of students that walked the halls before. Never again will they deal with locker room theft or teachers who send home progress reports with an "F" to the best students as a joke.
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Campanile, Opinion, April 17, 2006
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently proclaimed June 7 to be "Los Altos High School Gay-Straight Alliance Day" in San Francisco. This odd holiday is the mayor's response to the Los Altos City Council's decision to refuse the request of the Los Altos High School Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) to proclaim a Gay Pride Day in the City of Los Altos.
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Campanile, Features, March 14, 2006
When Economics teacher Eric Bloom read about parties at senior Cullen Hollyn-Taub's house on another Palo Alto High School student's MySpace profile, Bloom's only response was to make a casual joke in front of his class.
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Campanile, Opinion, February 16, 2006
Although high school is intended to provide academic preparation for its students, the teenage years are also crucial to the development of personal characteristics essential for future success, including the ability to balance the social and academic aspects of life.
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Campanile, Features, December 16, 2005
During an advanced choir performance, the rich baritones, high sopranos and powerful tenors of Palo Alto High School's talented choir synthesize in perfectly balanced, multi-toned harmony.
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Campanile, News, November 21, 2005
Palo Alto High School's World Language Department finalized plans to administer final examinations before Winter Break in an attempt to curb student stress.
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Mollie Javerbaum