Chess tournament brings competitive mindsets to Fox
Audrey Luey, Staff Writer
April 16, 2019
Advantage Chess sponsored their annual scholastic chess tournament at Fox Elementary School last weekend, where over 100 students participated. The chess tournaments serve as fundraisers for the Fox School PTA, as all staff members are volunteers. The club began with about 80 kids, but as chess grad...
Scots lacrosse suffers disappointing loss at Serra
Miles Ozorio, Staff Writer
April 14, 2019
Filed under Sports, Top News, Uncategorized
The boys varsity lacrosse team was unable to catch up against the high-scoring Serra Padres in a non-conference game on Saturday, April 13. The match, which ended with a final score of 18-6, snapped Serra’s eight-game losing streak while simultaneously extending the Scots’ losing streak to seve...
The Underestimated Importance Of Vaccines
Zachary Khouri, Staff Writer
April 9, 2019
Filed under Features, News, Top News
Three-hundred and fourteen individual cases of measles were recorded between January and March of this year in 15 states of the U.S. Of the 157 cases recorded in Rockland, New York, 82% had not gotten a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. It’s been 2015 since the last person died of measles in the U.S., and another 12 years before that. Eighty-one flights traveling in the U.S. in the past year had at least one person on board with the disease. But why is this a problem? If one person in the vicinity is infected with measles, 90% of the individuals around them will also be infected. The disease was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000. And it’s not just measles. For the first time in 30 years, a child has contracted tetanus in Oregon. It took $800,000 to save him, but, according to most doctors, would have only taken a single shot to prevent it from happening at all. For epidemiologist Jennifer Pavon*, this rapid rise of illnesses is due to vaccine resistance, which she attributes to a lack of education on the subject. “I think with any misinformation crisis, it really boils down to an educational crisis, where people aren’t educated enough to seek out fact-checked, correct information,” Pavon said. “People...
Editorial: Brandy Melville couldn’t care less about the average female
April 9, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinion, Top News
In an age where young girls and women are more vocal than ever, there's an area for them to speak up once again: the clothing industry. This is nothing new. Change is already in progress due to women urging companies to represent different types of women in their most real forms. Some brands have li...
Online art theft goes unregulated on Instagram
April 9, 2019
Filed under Features, Top News
Imagine you just got home from a long day of school. You drop your backpack, lazily take off your shoes, and throw yourself onto your bed. You reach for your phone to see how your latest post is doing. It’s a drawing that took you countless hours and an unreal amount of effort to complete. But as y...
News Brief: Carlmont senior arrested for alleged child molestation
Anna Feng, Scot Scoop Editor
April 3, 2019
Tavi Benelli, a Carlmont senior and Belmont resident, is facing charges for possession of child pornography and molestation of a child after he allegedly touched and took inappropriate pictures of a 7-year-old girl. Benelli was working at the bounce house Pump It Up on 1303 Elmer St. on April 1, where...
Celebrating Holi at home in Belmont
Talia Fine, Multimedia Managing Editor
March 26, 2019
Filed under In-Depth, Multimedia, Top News
This content is a fusion of first a recap of the Belmont celebration of Holi, an Indian holiday, and the event from the perspective of someone who practices the holiday regularly. ...
Luck o’ the Irish works against Scots boys varsity lacrosse
Joshua Baxter, Staff Writer
March 25, 2019
The Carlmont Scots varsity lacrosse team faced a formidable opponent in their 17-6 loss versus the Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep (SHCP) Fightin' Irish. The Scots' large deficit is a little misleading as they got off to a quick start taking a 1-0 lead less than two minutes in with a goal by attackman...
Kindness Week warms school environment
Maya Lip, Staff Writer
March 24, 2019
Students gathered in the quad to make bracelets for Kindness Week, a week-long event filled with small activities to promote goodwill and spread positivity. To kick off the week, colorful notes with kind messages flooded locker halls. On Tuesday and Wednesday, students huddled around a bracelet booth...
JV baseball fights back in a race with the Mustangs
Natalie Doud, Staff Writer
March 24, 2019
The Scots were able to make a strong come back in a tight game against the Capuchino Mustangs, pulling a win on Wednesday afternoon. The first two innings were scoreless, both teams putting up a strong defense, with multiple players hitting pop flies out to center field and striking out to quickly en...
Boat project has Carlmont students racing to the finish line
Katie Blondino, Staff Writer
March 21, 2019
This year’s geometry classes competed against one another in the second annual boat race. The geometry teachers asked their students to create boats made only of cardboard, duct tape, and plastic bags that would be able to float across the pool and back while carrying a student. The project was...
JV boys lacrosse out-hustles Mountain View
Zain Patel, Staff Writer
March 17, 2019
Head Coach Chris Agbanusi doesn't ask much from his JV lacrosse players other than to put their hearts into the game. While not pretty, his boys did just that, pulling off a 10-9 win at home against Mountain View. "We did a lot of silly mistakes, and our defense was having a little trouble. Honestly,...
Audrey Luey, Staff Writer
Advantage Chess sponsored their annual scholastic chess tournament at Fox Elementary School last weekend,...
Aaron Penn, Staff Writter
“One of the great things about Barrett is that it’s almost exactly in the heart of the city,” said...
Anika Bhatnagar, Staff Writer
Velocity Dance's combined convention and competition in San Jose allows dancers to test their skills...
Sean Vanderaa, Staff Writer
April 17, 2019
Jordan Peele has done it again with another brilliantly shot film comprising of a predominately black cast. The premise of the movie and the overall horror aspect of it are...
Jai Sinha, Segment Producer
April 17, 2019
Jai Sinha reports on students' reactions to 105 minute periods, and how they think the schedule could be improved.
Maddy Ting, Zachary Khouri, and Mikayla Nguyen
April 17, 2019
Episode Nine: Mainstream Media will be split into three parts: music, books, and television & movies. In Part One of Episode Nine, Zach discusses controversy...
Andrew Shao, Staff Writer
April 16, 2019
A new Marketing Communications course will be available for the first time at Carlmont in the next 2019–2020 school year. Carlmont will be the first in the Sequoia Union...