Editorial: Valentine’s Day has lost its meaning
Editorial Staff, Editors
February 3, 2020
When we think of Valentine’s Day, the first things that come to mind are often boxes of chocolates, roses, cards, or even heart-shaped candies. For many, Valentine’s Day is viewed as a simple Hallmark holiday, but the question is, should products be substituted for authentic connections and expre...
Opinion: San Francisco needs to clean up its act
Emma O'Connor, Staff Writer
January 31, 2020
The Bay Area is the epicenter of technology and yet, San Francisco, its pride and joy, is one of the dirtiest cities I’ve ever seen, and no one seems to care. In 2019, San Francisco spent $72.5 million on city clean up, but if you look around the city, you wouldn’t believe this for one minut...
Opinion: Consumerism kills
Cori Nicholson, Staff Writer
January 30, 2020
Money. Profit. It drives all of us. It's hard to ignore — after all, society is set up like this. The majority of the world works until they can't anymore. Go to work, go home, eat, sleep, repeat. It's a process, a system if you will; we have to have money to survive, which means what we do with t...
Opinion: Dance music should be student selected
Keya Arora, Staff Writer
January 29, 2020
If you asked your parents what their life was like in high school, chances are there would be few similarities. They walked multiple miles to get to school every day, an infamous tale, while we ride in the comfort of a car or perhaps a bus. Their valedictorians took three AP courses while ours take nine....
Editorial: Think again before course selection
Editorial Staff, Editors
January 27, 2020
Each individual student has their own interests and areas of strengths and weaknesses, but their goal tends to be similar: to graduate Carlmont with all the credits they need. The outlined requirements seem easy to follow, yet there are countless combinations of classes and ways to meet them due to t...
Opinion: Your World War III memes aren’t funny
Auva Soheili, Staff Writer
January 25, 2020
It was as if someone had reached into the part of my mind I try to shut out, had uncovered my worst nightmare — my greatest fear — and decided to play it on repeat right before my eyes and turn it into a sick joke for the nation to laugh at. The headlines spammed the internet. Growing up as...
Opinion: Sales tax should be included
Jack Hansen, Staff Writer
January 24, 2020
Growing up in the U.S., we are taught that the price we see is not going to be the price we pay. I’ve known that since the first time I tried to buy something with my own money. I took my carefully counted cash, only to find out it wasn’t enough. Sales tax had thwarted my plans, and it continues to do s...
Opinion: The internet needs a chill pill
Isabella Wesson, Staff Writer
January 23, 2020
I was never good at sports. A ball would come my way, and I’d send it flying in the opposite direction. Our fantastic teamwork and excellence in communication won our middle school team one game out of about 20. Yet my shelves seemed to be flooded with trophies. I found myself throwing them out...
Editorial: Carlmont is not free to go phone-free
Editorial Staff, Editors
January 19, 2020
"Please take out your cell phones." As the minute bell echoed through the halls of Carlmont High School on the first day back to school, teachers were already asking students to have their devices on-hand. Why? To download two apps deemed necessary to academic success: Campus Student, better known...
Opinion: Feminism has become too extreme
Lora Simakova, Staff Writer
January 16, 2020
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, the official definition of feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights based on the equality of the sexes. Although this definition states that advocates should work towards equality for both men and women, feminism, in today's society, has come to mean asse...
Opinion: We shouldn’t be so down on 2020
Elise Hsu, Staff Writer
January 16, 2020
We’re only two weeks into 2020, but a lot has been happening in those two weeks. Between the looming threat of a war between Iran and the U.S. and the fires in Australia, it may be easy to think that the turn of the decade will bring nothing but negative energy. However, we shouldn’t let the first tw...
Opinion: We need to slow down before finals
Nisha Marino, Highlander Editor-in-Chief
December 12, 2019
For six semesters, I've found the first few days of break after finals incredibly difficult. It took me a while to figure out why, but I've finally got it: the way the week is structured makes it hard to relax after it's all over. We're so stressed and busy up until the last day, and then suddenly we've...
Rachel McCrea and Allison Raisner
As record-setting wildfires burn across the state, a brush fire broke out in the San Juan Canyon in Belmont, causing evacuations in the nearby community. The first report...
Adila Azizali, Staff Writer
For over a decade, Apple Inc. has been producing new phones and upgrades of its operating system, strengthening it each time. Apple introduced its latest update on September...
Niamh Marren, Staff Writer
The highly sought after position of the instructional vice principal brings an unfamiliar face to Carlmont's administrative team. Over the summer, Jennifer Cho, the former...
Kasey Liu, Staff Writer
Editorial Staff, Editors
Villains can be some of the most memorable characters in the media that we consume. Done right, they can evoke a blend of fear, anger, and awe from an audience member. But...
Chelsea Chang, Staff Writer
Belief: The Black Lives Matter protests are responsible for the rise in COVID-19 in the U.S. Reality: There is no evidence to suggest that the Black Lives Matter protests...
Pavel Turovski, Staff Writer
In today’s modern society, open spaces are available to many at a premium. Especially to those who live in densely populated cities, parks provide one of the few places...
2020 has been a challenging year. Between COVID-19, a declining economy, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more, the upcoming election has proven to be more crucial...
Homework and home-life don’t always go hand-in-hand. Sometimes we forget that we can’t compromise on our mental health, even if it means excelling in school. In the second...
Allison Raisner, Staff Writer
The SUHSD school board unanimously supported the recommendation to continue distance learning for the second quarter, and possibly longer. At the monthly board meeting...