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Senior Rose Liu serves during a doubles match against Mountain View High School. Due to limited court space at Mountain View High School, MVHS is sharing court space with the Los Altos High School girls tennis team, leaving the Eagles with little practice time.

Los Altos and Mountain View girls tennis teams share the court

By Emilie Enser, Opinions Editor | September 24, 2021

The Los Altos High School girls tennis team is strapped for practice time as Mountain View High School campus construction — which covers the tennis courts — pushes the Spartans onto the Eagles’ courts. The District has assigned the Spartans to Rengstorff Park in the interim, but there isn’t...

The Los Altos Suburban District will be experiencing a limited water supply until tomorrow, due to a leak on Californias water facilities.

Los Altos to experience reduced water supply until tomorrow

By Vaishu Sirkay

When thinking about the source of COVID-19 misinformation, particularly in our area, your mind likely turns to the inaccurate information shared on social media about the effects of the virus or of the vaccine. But in schools, the issues surrounding COVID-19-related conversation are far more implicit, yet have the potential to be just as dangerous. It’s up to us to stay educated about COVID-19 protocol and to follow it.

Nina's Notes: You can't be immune to misinformation

By Nina Crofts, Senior Writer

District COVID-19 plans are naive and reactive

By Kaavya Butaney, Web Managing Editor

Senior Alessia Cis works on her Roman Bear, one of many painted bears that can now be found throughout Downtown Los Altos. The project, organized by the Los Altos Rotary Club, has offered professional opportunities to various local artists.

Bears have made Downtown Los Altos their home — meet the artists who made it happen

By Natalie Wei

The Mountain View – Los Altos Board of Trustees voted unanimously to increase the frequency of homework free weekends in the 2021–22 school year. However, many MVLA staff members believe that an increase in homework free weekends alone isn’t enough to improve the well being of students, and that further steps need to be taken by the MVLA District.

Board votes to increase homework free weekends

By Mira Sundar and Audrey Zhu

News

The Book of Unknown Americans replaces To Kill a Mockingbird in the freshman Survey of Composition and Literature courses.

‘The Book of Unknown Americans’ replaces ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from English curriculum

By Allan Feldman | September 18, 2021

“The Book of Unknown Americans” (“TBUA”), written by Cristina Henríquez, replaced “To Kill a Mockingbird” (“TKAM”) as the freshman Survey of Composition and Literature course reading and...

Los Altos High School has installed two gender neutral bathrooms in an ongoing process to expand its gender support plan.

An overview of gender inclusivity at LAHS

By Allie Bricca and Natalie Wei

Poll worker observes stations at Los Altos Youth Center.

Inside a polling station for the 2021 California recall election

By Rohan Vaswani

STUDENTSVRECALL is a grassroots movement of California students that is affiliated with the California Democratic Party and stands united with Newsom in opposition to the recall. They are hosting phone banking events and weekly town hall meetings to garner support for Newsom as he runs in the recall election.

Student-led organization to support Governor Newsom

By Mira Sundar

Los Altos High School will be offering the SAT for juniors and seniors, as well as the PSAT for sophomores and juniors, on Wednesday, October 13.

LAHS to administer on-campus SAT and PSAT in October

By Allan Feldman

Opinions

Los Altos High School was named a Green Ribbon School due to taking extensive action regarding environmental health, such as the implementation of solar panels for energy conservation. Despite the high earning award, Green Team believes there are many improvements students and the LAHS community can still make.

What’s next for Los Altos High School as a Green Ribbon School?

By Diya Gupta, Guest Writer | August 22, 2021

Dear Los Altos, As Green Team Co-President, it is truly a great honor to be able to refer to Los Altos High School as a Green Ribbon School. For those of you who missed it, this past April, LAHS earned...

SATIRE: Years of research into reducing student stress culminate with the unveiling of motivational signs

By Nathaniel Joffe

The Asian American identity is a constant crisis for many and reconciling the relative privilege of ones experience with the discrimination that is faced is a critical part of acceptance of oneself and identity.

Kulture à la Kaavya: Notes of a native Asian American

By Kaavya Butaney

The competition of college applications is harmful, but we can shift our mindset to mitigate it.

Application expectations: Does the stress even lead to so-called “success”?

By Emilie Enser

The digital AP exams this year do not offer the option to go back and change answers.

The shortfall of digital AP exams

By Kiefer Tierling, Guest Writer

Features

When Yao Yao Xiao arrived in California at age six, the challenges of overcoming a language barrier as a deaf person seemed insurmountable. Now, she’s headed to University of California Santa Barbara as an accomplished photographer, public speaker and advocate for the hearing-impaired community.

LAHS graduate Yao Yao Xiao empowers the deaf community

By Rose Liu | August 22, 2021

When Yao Yao Xiao, Los Altos High School ’21, was young, she would often be astonished by headphone-wearing joggers during the summer; she thought those strange, white wires were meant to protect people...