Popular culture normalizes political incorrectness for teenagers
Alison Kim, Staff Writer
February 6, 2019
Filed under Features, Top News
“That’s so gay.” You are walking down the school hallway on a typical day. You pass through a group of kids clustered around a locker and hear various racial slurs. You turn the corner and hear more offensive language that is always justified as being “just a joke.” This type of language ...
Drug use seeps into high school culture
Leela Stuepfert, Staff Wrtiter
February 5, 2019
Filed under Features, Top News
Millions of thoughts parade across your conscience. Your heart begins to pound. The slim black device sits on top of your homework. You hear it echoing your name. You reach for your addiction. As you inhale your escape, a cloud of stress exits your mouth. Substance abuse has unraveled into an epidem...
Teenagers need understanding, not fixing
Maddy Ting, Staff Writer
January 31, 2019
Filed under Features, Top News
"I hate you!" Her words echo down the hallway, followed by the slam of a bedroom door and the distinctive click of a lock. Her parents are left gaping at the barrier between them and their teen child, wondering, “Where did we go wrong?” Does this sound familiar? This is how the media ...
Why I (probably) shouldn’t be able to vote
Joseph Gomez, Segment Producer
March 24, 2018
Filed under ScotCenter, ScotCenter: Features
Joseph Gomez describes his problems with the concept of lowering the voting age.
Great America terrorized by a mob of teenagers
Rachel Borshchenko, Staff Writer
November 1, 2017
Many Bay Area residents’ nights came to a shocking end when mobs of thieves went on a rampage at Great America’s Haunt. Exact numbers are unknown, but police believe that 15-20 boys were involved in alleged robberies, assaults, and thefts. Two people had to be hospitalized, one for being tas...
Teenagers: It’s time to act your age
Jessica Adair, Staff Writer
November 2, 2014
Filed under Opinion, The Way It Is
Say goodbye to the days when your teachers held your hand and gave you a homework pass when you had a rough night, because it's time to grow up. For many of us, this will be our last year in high school, and then it's off to the real world where there is nobody reminding us to do our laundry or to...
Teenagers are surrounded by opportunities daily
Sarah Boro, Editor
February 18, 2014
Filed under Volunteering
The Belmont-San Carlos area is desperate for help from students, especially those whose goal is to better the community and help those around them. Students start high school and immediately begin thinking about college and their futures. Along with doing well in school and aiming for excellent grad...
Newspapers are becoming increasingly irrelevant to teenagers: Why some students don’t read “The Highlander”
Angela Perez de Tagle, Staff Writer
December 2, 2013
Filed under Campus Thoughts
Read this. Are you still reading? Is this even relevant to you? Let’s be honest. Teenagers just don’t care, and it’s astonishing for students to bother reading beyond the news headline. Though newspapers have been an abiding tradition dating back to the early 18th century, the fact...
Former NFL star reached out to house-crashing teenagers
Aria Frangos, Staff Writer
September 23, 2013
Filed under News
On Labor Day weekend, ex-NFL player Brian Holloway was shocked to find that 300 Stephenstown, N.Y. teenagers had held a destructive party in his house while he was away. Instead of pressing charges, his first action was to reach out to the partygoers via social media. Holloway was in Florida when his son n...
Struggling with cancer: Carlmont teenagers go through life-changing experiences
April 18, 2012
Filed under As seen in print
Since 3000 B.C. when the first case of cancer was reported, cancer has evolved significantly and a cure still remains a medical mystery. What most teenagers at Carlmont don’t know is that some of their own have lost family members to cancer, while a few of them have been diagnosed with cancer themselves,...
Audrey Boyce, Staff Writer
Hungarians held a festival on the day preceding Mother's Day, as they have done for the past five years,...
Talia Schreiber, Staff Writer
Students today find themselves overwhelmed by the high expectations set for them and will often find...
Taisiia Yakovenko, Staff Writer
Walking into the Belmont Library, patrons can access a variety of resources, get any questions answered,...
Joshua Baxter, Staff Writer
May 18, 2019
The odds of high school athletes making it to the collegiate level are slim to none. According to calculations done by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, there...
Nicole Yeo, Staff Writer
May 16, 2019
It's May, and student stress is skyrocketing as finals approach. However, finals aren't the only things on student's minds. Advanced Placement (AP) testing also takes place...
Sean Vanderaa, Staff Writer
May 15, 2019
Although "The Perfect Date" was the number two most-streamed movie in the U.K., its clichés and overall lacking plot substance made it a tough movie to get through. The...
Maddy Ting, Zachary Khouri, and Mikayla Nguyen
May 15, 2019
On the season one finale of Queer Time Podcast, Maddy and Zach discuss the LGBTQ community's relationship with government and politics. They cover the finalization of...