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Intro to Criminal Justice Professor Silvina Minero discusses the plan for the days class.

Moorpark College courses offered at OPHS

Emily Francis, Graduated Editor-in-Chief February 11, 2020

As part of a new dual enrollment program, two Moorpark classes were available for students to take during eighth period on Mondays and Wednesdays: Intro to Business and Intro to Criminal Justice.  The...

Administrators look for new ways to stop vaping

Loren Yona and Jay Dugar February 11, 2020

As the vaping epidemic grows and more students begin to participate, Oak Park High School administrators are looking for new, more effective ways to find and deter students from vaping. According to...

Update on Senior Activities

Juliette Setudeh-Nejad, Graduated Online Editor-in-Chief February 11, 2020

Senior activities have been a controversial topic since last year when some senior activities were rumored to be recalled. Water Assassins is a game played by seniors, where they are given human targets...

Next chapters for Hannie Low and Julie Prince

Sam Barney-Gibbs and Juliette Setudeh-Nejad February 11, 2020

Julie Prince, college and career technician, and Oak Park High School textbook clerk Hannie Low are new additions to the College and Career Center. Prince was brought on to assist the current college and...

Functional Yoga program incorporated into PE classes

Oliver Carter, Editor-in-Chief February 10, 2020

Audrey Walzer, who has been teaching forms of movement (gymnastics, dance, yoga, ice skating, etc.) for 50 years, was recently hired as the yoga instructor at Oak Park High School following the PE Department’s...

DJ Cook teaches his fifth period AP Psychology class about sensation and perception.

Cook and Kinberg create new classes

Atmika Iyer, Graduated Editor-in-Chief February 10, 2020

Cook creates new class: Geopolitics in the world today  An avid sports fan, he has Colorado Rockies and Denver Broncos gear up on his walls. A “Rick and Morty” sketch from an old student hangs by...

Save The Bees: And All Pollinators

Navya Batra, Graduated Digital Media Manager February 10, 2020

This year Daniel Conway opened Bee Club, a club focused on improving life for native pollinators. “For my Modern Injustice project last year in English II Honors, junior Maclean Dickey and I researched...

Welcome to Havana

Oliver Carter, Editor-in-Chief February 10, 2020

Dates. Dancing. Dresses. Dinner. Vice, occurring Feb. 28, is modeled after the Latin-American, coastal country of Cuba, specifically in its largest and most vibrant city founded 501 years ago: “A...

Students in the OPHS Rocket club test their rocket which will be submitted to a NASA program.

Club prepares rocket for NASA

Daisy Calderon, Graduated Photo Editor February 10, 2020

Rumbles and roars are heard as rockets are launched and flown various times into the sky at Underwood Family Farms. Prior to this, the Oak Park Rocketry team traveled to Virginia to participate in The...

Construction happening at Medea Creek Middle School

Jay Dugar, Graduated Managing Editor February 10, 2020

To combat classroom shortages at Medea Creek Middle School, new classrooms will be installed this semester on the upper black-top area, near the field. Much like the rooms that make up the i-building...

Old Talon newspapers become the canvas for art students. They created posters encouraging sustainable practices and environmental literacy.

Teachers and students initiate #NoWasteWeds

Atmika Iyer, Graduated Editor-in-Chief February 10, 2020

A group of Oak Park Unified School District teachers, staff and students have been meeting regularly to discuss different ways to promote environmentalism and sustainability at Oak Park High School, led...

Oak Park High School student Alex Goldbeck and other students from around the state rally behind state senators to lower the voting age to 17 at Sacramento Capital.

California voting age potentially to be lowered to 17

Juliette Setudeh-Nejad, Graduated Online Editor-in-Chief February 10, 2020

A new bill about the voting age in California, Assembly Constitutional Amendment Eight (ACA-8), has passed in the state assembly and has been referred to the Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee. The...

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