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DACA protesters in San Francisco.

Should DACA be Repealed?

By Mark Espinoza, Staff Writer December 15, 2017

DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a program that protects immigrants from getting deported back to a country they barely lived in. These immigrants were brought to America as children by...

A sculpture of Socrates in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

What Mrs. Mullen’s class can teach us about political discussion

By Cade Culbertson, Staff Writer December 15, 2017

Whether it is a family or social gathering, there has always been an unspoken rule that certain topics such as politics shall never be discussed. This rule has become even more common ever since the 2016...

TIME Magazine's 2017 Persons of the Year cover features just a few of the Silence Breakers who helped launch the movement against sexual assault.

TIME Magazine Recognizes the Silence Breakers

By Rithika Vighne, Staff Writer December 13, 2017

TIME magazine has stepped forward with a unique choice for 2017’s Person of the Year. In fact, this person could be your neighbor, your classmate, or maybe someone you saw in the grocery store the other...

Gun Laws Need to be Updated

By Thomas Amoroso, Staff Writer October 27, 2017

Back in 1783, when most guns shot one bullet at a time and necessitated a 10-step program to reload, stricter gun laws were not necessary. Now it’s 2017. The average person in possession of a semi-automatic...

NFL Protests Has Country Divided

By Jack Hauser, Staff Writer September 27, 2017

When Colin Kaepernick originally decided to kneel for the national anthem last year, I doubt he imagined it would transform into the league-wide protest it has today. Kaepernick’s original message was...

Where's the Best Water?

Where’s the Best Water?

By Thomas Amoroso, Staff Writer September 13, 2017

I left my fourth period Journalism classroom on a mission to go around school and objectively determine the best water fountain. To find out the water temperatures, I borrowed a food thermometer from Scott...

Cardale Jones takes a snap during a preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers.

San Diego Begins First Season without the Chargers

By Jack Hauser, Staff Writer September 8, 2017

For the first time since 1961, San Diego will witness the start of the NFL season from the sidelines, with no team to call their own. Some conspiracy theorists and fans alike believed that San Diego...

Photo Courtesy of Nadia Ballard

One Way to Brighten Up Your Day…

By Nadia Ballard, Staff Writer September 1, 2017

One day in the middle of summer my dad looked up from his iPad and asked me, “What do you think about heading up to Oregon to see the eclipse?” The only previous experience I’d had of solar eclipses...

Golf? How does this game work

Golf? How does this game work

By Mackenzie Moe and Drew Atkins June 13, 2017

If you read our first piece in The Pony, Makenzie and I had no idea about each other’s sports. Though she doesn’t understand volleyball, and I will never understand basketball, we have one thing in...

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