Three groups of students from SDA’s drama club, Thespian Troupe #2196, won their individual events at the California State Thespian Festival this past weekend. The students had the opportunity to perform...
By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor March 6, 2015
Students and staff have been coping with the loss of a freshman student this week.
In first period on Wednesday morning, teachers informed classes of the student’s suicide and of the help available...
High school students had the opportunity to visit Canyon Crest Academy on Feb. 21 to attend a free writers’ conference put together by the school’s Creative Writing Club. More than 20 authors held...
By Elise Gout, Editor In Chief/Features Editor January 7, 2015
SDA’s Drama Production class is wasting no time in starting off 2015 with its production of “The Mouse That Roared,” set to open this Thursday with subsequent shows this Friday and Saturday.
“The...
By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor December 9, 2014
SDA Community Day, originally scheduled for Dec. 16, will now take place this coming February to give the organizers more time to prepare.
Senior Kate Shapiro, one of the leads in planning the event,...
By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor October 20, 2014
This past Friday, on Oct. 17, the Girls Varsity Volleyball team lost their home game against league rival Del Norte, a hard-fought three sets to zero. The Mustangs were spurred on by a fairly large student...
By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor September 18, 2014
I am a victim of college spam. When it comes to mail, I always used to be pretty old-fashioned. I believed in the traditionalism of handwriting letters, the sincerity behind thank you cards.
Then I...
Claire Brady
Can you describe your rock climbing? How often do you do it for? Where do you do it?
I rock climb at minimum twice a week, but usually more. I have had weeks were I climb every single...
After finishing Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, teacher Justin Conn's AP English class had the opportunity of Skyping with Frank Galati, accredited for adapting the novel into the screenplay, as well as...
Numbers were shouted out like bids at an auction. Students gathered, many sitting, too nervous to stand. Junior Samantha Steinberg bit her lip and clasped her hands together at her chest, wincing periodically...
Creativity surrounded the air around a single mike stand, a girl gripping white papers in jittering hands. One short pause, a breath, and so she began, reading at this year’s first poetry slam.
Put...
Elizabeth Anglin- Anglin grew up in San Diego where she attended University [Cathedral Catholic] High School. She studied environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara before earning her teaching credentials...
Tens of thousands of people from across the country traveled to USC for the 18th annual Los Angeles Book Festival on April 20th and 21st. Sponsored by The Los Angeles Times, this free, two-day event celebrates...
Broken glass. Bloody smiles. Binding darkness. The images that were described flashed by one after the other. “Take this room and turn it into something terrifying,” he had told the kids. Towering...
Dozens of people all share the tight space of Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla. Chairs have been set up, but as there are not nearly enough for everyone, people huddle by the alcoves and compete for space...
