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The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

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Sophomore Raymond Wang performs with a Chinese yo-yo at the celebration during lunch.

Cal rings in Chinese New Year

Linda Wang, Features Editor March 15, 2016

Wishing Cal High a year filled with luck, the Chinese class students celebrated the Year of the Monkey by bringing Chinese New Year festivities to campus. Students across all levels of Cal’s Chinese...

District approves cell phone antenna on campus

Aileen Villalpando, Staff Writer March 15, 2016

The San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education approved earlier this year a proposal to construct a Verizon Wireless cell antenna on the Cal High campus. Verizon’s antenna will be...

Junior injured after hitting speed bump

Joanne Kim, News Editor March 15, 2016

When Cal High installed five new speed bumps in the back parking lot last month, the school hoped to improve student safety. This plan quickly backfired when junior Arjun Dhamrait fell victim to the...

District approves new school calendar

Annissa Bensalah, Features Editor February 10, 2016

The San Ramon Valley Unified School District school board unanimously voted on Dec. 15 to implement a schedule that would move first semester finals before winter break next school year. The new schedule...

Senior Davis Bullock (10), pictured here playing against Foothill, is back at school and on the field after an arduous recovery from cancer. His last round of chemotherapy was on April 22, 2015, and he’s currently in remission.

Davis Bullock beats cancer

Sydney Finkel, Staff Writer February 10, 2016

Last year at this time, senior Davis Bullock was lying in a hospital bed wondering if he would ever be able to play soccer again. Bullock was unexpectedly diagnosed with stage IV Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma...

Former Walt Disney teacher arrested

Joanne Kim and Linda Wang February 8, 2016

More than a dozen Cal High students were shocked to learn that their former fourth grade teacher was recently arrested for allegedly molesting one of his 10-year-old students while at Walt Disney Elementary...

Behind the social media craze

Ingrid Lam and Abby Fritz February 8, 2016

Social media is perhaps one of the most interesting and intricate modern institutions of our time. On one hand, it is a glamorous exciting world, a glittering ode to the new technology, territory that...

Math teacher Fred Albano has seen the students and school progress throughout the years, being the longest employed teacher at Cal High.

Two teachers celebrate 40-plus years at Cal

Jasmine Wu, Features Editor February 8, 2016

After entering his 41st year of teaching at Cal High, no one knows the school better than Algebra II teacher Fred Albano. He has watched the school grow over the years and has a lot to say about it. Albano...

Gary Treibwasser has been teaching with a unique style for his 40 years employed at Cal.

Gary Triebwasser has been teaching math at Cal since 1976

Adam Poklemba, Staff Writer February 8, 2016

What is in a name? He who we call Trieb could by some other name seem twice as chill. “I got yelled at every day” said AP Euro teacher and former Cal student Chris Doherty. Or, perhaps, still...

Hailey Clark’s Make a Memory Club helps raise money to assist ill patients.

Make a Memory club helps ill patients

Rebekah Cha, Staff Writer February 8, 2016

Living in a world where society and media uplift American ideals of self-love and independence, Cal High junior Hailey Clark is just trying to do her part with her new Make a Memory Club. Clark grants...

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