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Shiyo Ohashi

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor

Shiyo Ohashi is a senior at Carlmont. She's graduating class of 2025 and enjoys art in her free time.

 

All content by Shiyo Ohashi
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Cartoon: No pause for peace

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor September 29, 2024

Meta is creating a safer space for young people with their new instagram for teens. Other social media companies should follow their example.

[Photo] Editorial: Tech giants must do more to protect teens

Editorial Staff September 24, 2024

Meta is creating a safer space for young people with their new instagram for teens. Other social media companies should follow their example.

A Roto-Rooter truck arrives at Carlmont to fix the sewer clog before any leaks  can spill. The worker fixes the issue quickly, allowing people to use the S, T, U bathrooms again.

[Photo] Breaking news: Carlmont sewer clog releases disrupting odors across campus

Lara Ibasco, Staff Writer August 29, 2024

A Roto-Rooter truck arrives at Carlmont to fix the sewer clog before any leaks can spill. The worker fixes the issue quickly, allowing people to use the S, T, U bathrooms again.

Cartoon: Phancy an elephant?

Cartoon: Phancy an elephant?

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor August 29, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that this season will be one of the hardest-hitting hurricanes in the US. 17 to 25 storms are predicted, with seven of the being hurricanes and at least four predicted to cause major damages. This is in part due to rising ocean temperatures and global warming - we need to act fast to stop future situations like this happening.

Cartoon: Going under

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor June 3, 2024

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Cartoon: Climate change cooks up migraines

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor May 23, 2024

California may have just solved renewable energy's biggest drawback. While solar power is an excellent method of combating climate change by providing electricity without the release of fossil fuels, there has remained one problem: the sun doesn't shine all day. However, California has now installed giant batteries to store the energy for later. More states should follow California's example in helping save the planet.

Cartoon: When the sun don’t shine

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor May 12, 2024

On May 3rd, counterprotests at the University of California Los Angeles attacked a Palestinian encampment on the campus. Unprovoked, they used sticks, chemical sprays, and fireworks as weapons against the students. Police were called, but did nothing to stop the violence for hours. This, and other similar scenes, have been playing out across the country in response to the Isreal-Hamas war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. C0llege students should be able to continue to demonstrate their support for what they believe in safely and peacefully.

Cartoon: Bruins bashed

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor May 12, 2024

A year has passed since the Tennesee school shooting that left six people dead. The community is still reeling from the deaths, and the lawmakers are trying to find a solution. Their proposal? A bill that allows teachers to carry a concealed handgun.

Cartoon: Grammar and guns

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor April 28, 2024

When you go in for an x-ray or download a new app that tracks your sleep cycle or calories, you may accept that those apps can see your data. However, what you didn't know is that your brain may be up for sale too - the data from electrical signals controlling your every thought and action can be bought. Colorado's new bill aims to stop this. They offer proper privacy protections from big tech companies aiming to use biological and neural data, something all states should follow suit in.

Cartoon: Brainwave warden

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor April 28, 2024

As the school year drags to a close, Juniors cheer, preparing for a summer of fun before they find themselves back in the classroom. However, for Seniors, an uncertain future awaits. Some have been rejected from their dream schools, some accepted, and others at a crossroads. The college admissions process is no easy task, with highly competitive students and parents, and limited spots. The future may be daunting, but there are always options. Taking a gap year, working and getting real-life experience, or going to a community college are all solid and successful options. 

[Photo] Cartoon: Graduation hesitation

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor April 19, 2024

As the school year drags to a close, Juniors cheer, preparing for a summer of fun before they find themselves back in the classroom. However, for Seniors, an uncertain future awaits. Some have been rejected...

We all know the story: the SATs are unfair. Standardized testing gives an advantage to well-off families who can afford the best tutors for their children. Due to this disparity, colleges have turned to test-optional policies, and more and more students are choosing to opt out of submitting test scores. However, new studies show that SAT scores do not hurt diversity. For some, the SAT is a crucial stepping stone out of poverty and into the world of higher education. The SAT shows trends in intelligence and hard work, helping predict where students' success in college. The SAT is less about how much money you spend and more a reflection of your effort and character and should remain a factor in the college selection process.

Cartoon: SATisfactory scores?

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor April 1, 2024

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Cartoon: Motherhood on strike

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor March 24, 2024

The House of Representatives has voted to ban social media app Tiktok from the United States: a controversial decision that caused uproar among the younger generations and somehow united the Democrats and Republicans. The ban offers Tiktok's Chinese owner, Bytedance, to either sell the app or have it banned.

Cartoon: Bye-bye Bytedance

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor March 14, 2024

A familiar scene plays out: Donald Trump and Joe Biden stand across the stage from each other, vying for the title of president in front of an audience of more than 300 million Americans. They hurl insults of past mistakes at each other. It's a tight race. Only, it's not 2020 anymore: four years later, 77-year-old Trump and 81-year-old Biden are back at it again. With Republican candidate Nikki Haley dropping out of the race, Americans will be forced to choose between two unappealing (polls say) candidates yet again. American voters need to do their part by stepping up to the polls and making a change. Otherwise, we'll find ourselves in this situation once again.

[Photo] Cartoon: The rematch

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor March 10, 2024

A familiar scene plays out: Donald Trump and Joe Biden stand across the stage from each other, vying for the title of president in front of an audience of more than 300 million Americans. They hurl insults...

As Mahomes threw the game-winning point at the Superbowl, Israel launched an attack on Gaza's biggest and last camp for humanitarian aid. As Usher took the stage at halftime, children in Ethiopia and Sudan starved to death. As Americans stayed riveted to their screens on Sunday night, the world continues to churn on: mass shootings occur, global warming still threatens species extinction, and Ukraine loses ground against Russia's invasion. While football and other pastimes may be entertaining, we cannot let ourselves be blindsided by the travesties occurring around the world.

[Photo] Cartoon: News blitz

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor February 26, 2024

As Mahomes threw the game-winning point at the Superbowl, Israel launched an attack on Gaza's biggest and last camp for humanitarian aid. As Usher took the stage at halftime, children in Ethiopia and Sudan...

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Cartoon: Abort the court

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor March 3, 2024

On Nov. 30, 2021, a 15-year-old boy shot and killed four of his classmates in Oxford Township, Michigan. Two years later, his mother Jennifer Crumbley has been found guilty on charges of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison. She repeatedly ignored her son's pleas for help, brushing off concerning texts, drawings of guns, and phrases scribbled in notebooks like "blood everywhere." The pistol that he used to kill four peers and injure 7 more was gifted by his parents. Parents should be held more accountable for their children's actions: it is their job to protect them, raise them, and help them when in need. Above all, it's the job of parents to keep their children from dangering themselves and others.

[Photo] Cartoon: What happens when you gift a child a gun

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor February 8, 2024

On Nov. 30, 2021, a 15-year-old boy shot and killed four of his classmates in Oxford Township, Michigan. Two years later, his mother Jennifer Crumbley has been found guilty on charges of involuntary manslaughter...

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Cartoon: The Meta-curse

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor February 2, 2024

New York City has a law that requires them to provide a bed to any homeless person who asks. However, they also have a 30-day limit on that bed. Once 30 days is up, the homeless of New York are once again turned to the streets and have to take a number to find a place to sleep again. The numbers of people without proper shelter at night are now up to the 1700s.

Cartoon: Big city, big crisis

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor February 2, 2024

Mean Girls, the beloved 2000s coming-of-age film, portrays the complex social order of high school girls. Now, twenty years later, the iconic movie has inspired a remake. Although it has immediately faced backlash over changes in storyline, costumes, and castings, the new movie holds constant the ideas of friendship in girlhood, kindness, and staying true to oneself.

Cartoon: Does “Mean Girls 2” retain any meaning?

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor January 21, 2024

The evolving role of AI may bring new implications within the world of art.

Painting the future: AI in art

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor December 18, 2023

The year is 2028. Something catches your eye as you walk down the street: a brilliantly thought-out and executed ad - maybe for a drink, maybe for a stroller. The graphics are incredible. The animation...

On December 16th, three Isreali hostages waving a white flag were mistakenly shot by Isreal's forces, killing them. Since then, there has been an outpour of support and reporting on the three men's lives and families. However, this coverage sharply contrasts with the lack of coverage on Palestinian victims - who have no way of communicating with the outside world and humanizing their losses.

Cartoon: Waving the blue flag

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor December 18, 2023

The Texas Supreme court pulled the brakes on a lower court allowing an abortion to a woman with a fetus with fatal conditions. Texas has strict abortion laws and a statewide ban on abortion, presenting scenarios like these where the mother and child's life may be in danger. For the sake of human life, abortion should be legal nationwide.

Cartoon: Weighing lives

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor December 18, 2023

Pham stands between Vietnam and the U.S., two defining places in his life. Without turning his head back to catch a glimpse of Vietnam, he builds up his life in the U.S. to achieve his version of the American Dream.

[Photo] An immigrant struggle to achieve the American Dream

Audrey Gong and Audrey Navasca January 16, 2024

Pham stands between Vietnam and the U.S., two defining places in his life. Without turning his head back to catch a glimpse of Vietnam, he builds up his life in the U.S. to achieve his version of the American...

This year's Spotify Wrapped came out with a new feature: what place listens similar to you? The addition reminds us all that above all, music connects people. More corporations should tie into this theme as the year comes to a close.

Cartoon: Spotify wraps up the year

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor December 5, 2023

OpenAI was started as a non-profit to regulate AI advancements and ensure that we stayed safe with our usage. It's object was to "keep in humanity's best interests," and it did this by keeping it nonprofit which was controlled by an executive board, and funding themselves from for-profit. On November 17th, the board fired the CEO Sam Altman. In response, 90% of employees threatened to quit their job unless he was reinstated and the board resigned. Altman regained his position.

Cartoon: Confronting the AI question

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor December 2, 2023

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Cartoon: A Not-so-fowl Thanksgivings

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor November 21, 2023

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Cartoon: Thank you for your service

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor November 16, 2023

Many people may want to donate to support humanitarian aid in Gaza in the ongoing Isreal-Hamas war but do not have the funds. Tiktok creators are providing a new way to help, by monetizing their videos and putting that money towards aid. Every like, share, and save contributes to food and medical supplies if enough people do it.

Cartoon: Helping through the screen

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor November 9, 2023

Cartoon: Mike Johnson takes the mic

Cartoon: Mike Johnson takes the mic

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor November 1, 2023

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Cartoon: Record California heat

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor October 24, 2023

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Cartoon: Israel invasion

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor October 17, 2023

A group of radical Republicans voted their speaker Kevin McCarthy out of the house on October 3rd. The vote out was a cumulation of debates between McCarthy and eight far-right Republicans who didn't agree with his decisions. Them, and a unanimous front of Democrats, ousted the Speaker. This makes it the first time a speaker has been voted out of the house, no less by his own party. McCarthy stated that he would not be running again, leaving Republican Patrick McHenry as a temporary speaker.

Cartoon: McCarthy ousted

Shiyo Ohashi, Scot Scoop Cartoons Editor October 12, 2023

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