Profile: New student services and ASB bookkeeper, Loretta Brown
Hayden Brown, Senior Staff Writer
September 25, 2020
Not every new staff member is a new face. Loretta Brown worked as the Registrar and Student Services Assistant at Medea Creek Middle School for the last 10 years and is familiar to a lot of students in Oak Park Unified School District. “I worked in the main office and did enrollments, atte...
Profile: New counselor and 504 coordinator, Javier Licea
Charlotte Nicks, Senior Staff Writer
September 25, 2020
Javier Licea started this year as a counselor at Oak Park High School. Besides being responsible for a portion of the student body based on last name (St-Z), he is also the 504 coordinator, meaning he is the counselor for all students with a registered 504 plan – plans developed to assist and accommodate s...
Profile: New behavioral instructional aide, Jacqueline Dahl
Charlotte Nicks, Senior Staff Writer
September 25, 2020
Jaqueline Dahl is starting a position as a Behavioral Instructional Aide this year at Oak Park High School. Prior to coming to OPHS, she was a substitute aide at Los Angeles Unified School District. “My career as a substitute aide was jumping from school to school and not knowing what I was gett...
Profile: New physics and engineering teacher, Austin Lippincott
Charlotte Nicks, Senior Staff Writer
September 25, 2020
Austin Lippincott began teaching physics and engineering at Oak Park High School during the 2020-21 school year, after earning a physics degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and a teaching credential through Western Governors University. “I chose to come to Oa...
English curriculum highlights authors of color
Charlotte Nicks, Senior Staff Writer
September 11, 2020
A national push for increased inclusion of figures of color in public school curriculum has become local. The campus may be quiet, but that doesn’t mean the student body isn’t bustling with activity. In the wake of nationwide protests, many students and faculty have become involved, or intensifi...
How to use your TI-84 Plus
Shoshana Medved, Ombudsman
September 10, 2020
In COVID times, there's only one thing I'm certain of: I will never truly understand my TI-84*. Sure, Generation Z may be gurus at technology, but when it comes to calculators, there's a lot of things that still need explaining. While I don't know every trick in the book, below we will learn some import...
Allie Wang – Mini Documentary
Allie Wang, Staff Writer
May 7, 2020
I am a classically trained pianist, and I study at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Downtown LA. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the school to temporarily switch to online learning. I want to showcase my piano experiences in the time of this crisis. The piece that I playing throughout the mini-doc...
How to stay fit in quarantine
May 6, 2020
Now that gyms across the country are closing due to COVID-19 pandemic, access to workout machines and weights has been lost by many. But fear not! Keeping active and in shape is possible in the comfort of your own home. Calisthenic exercises are ones that utilize body weight and usually don't requi...
Grieving the loss of normalcy
Daniella Becerra and Daisy Calderon
May 6, 2020
The introduction to such uncertain times induces many different emotions for different people. With its grasp on our nation, COVID-19 has diminished a number of aspects of daily life. Oftentimes, the pit-feeling emotion of loss is followed by the feeling of grief. Grief is the emotion attached to the ...
Evaluating the environment of a 21st-century pandemic
Sam Barney-Gibbs and Bailey Andera
May 6, 2020
“Playing with fire” seems to be an uncomfortable phrase to many, especially to those who were forced into panic as the Woolsey and Camp Fires laid ash and smoke seemingly everywhere. It may hit too close to home. However, according to The Guardian, leading scientists suggest we continue “playing wit...
If you’re someone who likes to dress up on Halloween, you know that 2020 poses several extra obstacles which are making the process of finding a costume even more of a...
The Los Angeles Dodgers have broken their World Series drought of 32 years, winning their fourth game with a score of 3-1 in Game 6 of the first to four series against the...
Creativity is still alive at Oak Park High School, although the classes may look different. Distance learning has forced the visual arts programs, including drawing and painting,...
A blueprint for the return to on-campus learning with a hybrid model was approved by the Oak Park Unified School District Board of Education on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Ventura...