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The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

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People of all ages enjoy ice skating at the Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink in San Ramon’s City Center.

San Ramon celebrates holidays with winter festivities

Saya Kubo, Online Editor December 15, 2023

Embrace this winter by enjoying Kristi Yamaguchi’s Holiday Ice Rink, the Snow in the Bay event, and the Garden D’Lights in Walnut Creek with family and friends. These are among the many festivities...

Animal Outlook Club members gather to make pet toys for a local animal shelter. The club was created to support animal welfare and educate students on campus.

Club Spotlight: Animal Outlook

Camille Miller, Staff Writer December 15, 2023

Animal Outlook was created to support animal welfare and spread knowledge to raise awareness about the truth behind big industrial organizations and their treatment of animals. Founded in 2021 by 2023...

Photography teacher Paul Fortayon explains to a student how to develop film. He has taught at Cal for 24 years but is leaving for an administrative role at Golden View Elementary.

Paul Fortayon leaves after 24 years

Sherlyn Hernandez and Sophia Liu December 15, 2023

After 24 years of teaching at Cal High, Photography 1 and Advanced Photography teacher Paul Fortayon is leaving Cal to begin a new path in his life. Fortayon has accepted a vice principal position at...

Scotty, left, and Austin prepare to throw dodgeballs at opponents in their Strategies of Recreational PE class.

Strategies in rec course connects students

Gabrielle Huie, Staff Writers November 9, 2023

Strategies in Recreational PE is a class like no other physical education class on campus. The class was added to Cal High’s course offerings last school year, and provides students with one year of...

Jatinder Singh enthusiastically teaches AP Calculus BC.

Jatinder Singh is calculus king

Celine Leung and Mishti Ramachandra November 9, 2023

Everybody needs to have a teacher like Jatinder Singh at least once in their lifetime. These are the words of senior Hao Ouyang, a former AP Calculus BC student of Singh’s.Ouyang is not the only Cal...

A Moms for Liberty chapter parades through the streets of Williamson County, Texas. A group of parents from the organization recently spoke at a school board meeting.

Moms for Liberty arrives at SRVUSD

Keerthi Eraniyan, Features Editor November 9, 2023

The conflict between school boards across the nation and the controversial nonprofit organization Moms for Liberty has reached the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, challenging school policies...

Students gather around and use their phones to record a fight instead of intervening, contributing to a bystander mentality.

Bystander mentality enables fighting in school bathroom

Caleb Yi, A&E Editor November 9, 2023

A violent fight broke out in the boy’s bathroom on Oct. 5, as bystanders provoked the combatants and recorded instead of intervening, sparking concerns about how Cal High students and administrators...

From left to right, the Amateur Radio Club’s board includes Adam Fredrick, Vijay Shah, Ryan Clark, and Kai Hamre. The club recently had an antenna installed atop the technology building above Room T-6, where the club’s radio equipment is housed.

Club Spotlight: Amateur Radio

Srikar Thippavajjula, Staff Writer November 9, 2023

The antenna on top of Cal High’s technology building has caught the gaze of many onlookers, but what many don’t know is that it’s part of a project from a club that is dedicated to celebrating a...

Manuela Galvez Molina, right, celebrates “Día de la Cruz,” or “Day of the Cross,” a festival in Andalusia, Spain.

Coming from Spain to San Ramon

Gina Germano and Alyssa Reyrao November 9, 2023

Sophomore Manuela Galvez Molina transferred to Cal High from Spain this school year and is the only foreign exchange student among nearly 3,000 of Cal’s student body. “I’m excited about living the...

Cal High junior Ved Joshi stands in his backyard next to the picnic tables he constructed for his Boy Scouts Eagle project.

Ved Joshi contributes to National Park

Eva Brooks, Staff Writer November 9, 2023

About 1,400 pounds of redwood were shipped to Joshua Tree National Park’s historic site, the Desert Queen Ranch, on a trailer linked to a Subaru Outback driven by Cal High junior Ved Joshi. This 485-mile...

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