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Nearly 150 community members showed up to Tuesday night's meeting. Credit: Marin Valerio / The Foothill Dragon Press

Diversity Collective’s Community Forum leads to opposing calls for Creswell to resign, partake in training

Marin ValerioNovember 30, 2018

On Tuesday, Nov. 27, Diversity Collective held a Community Forum where community members were able to share their concerns about the recent situation surroundin...

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Community members wait as school board deliberates in closed session. Credit: Marin Valerio / The Foothill Dragon Press

Superintendent’s contentious sermon calls for school board meeting, no action taken

Anna Lapteva, Marin ValerioNovember 17, 2018

Editor’s Note: This article includes potentially upsetting discussion regarding the LGBTQ community among students. Right on the heels of the controversy surr...

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School Board: Tomas Juarico Luna (District 1)

Marin ValerioNovember 1, 2018

TOMAS LUNA: My name is Tomas Juarico Luna. I am a candidate for School Board Trustee, District Number 1. I would like to say it in Spanish as well. Mi no...

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City Council: Kevin Clerici (District 1)

Marin ValerioNovember 1, 2018

INTERVIEWER: What’s your background as a Venturan? KEVIN CLERICI: Well, great question. I moved here about 14 and a half years ago. I actually came as a jour...

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Foothill’s new psychologist Mariko Garza is here to help

Hana VrablikSeptember 19, 2018

Mariko Garza likes to eat her papaya fresh with a spoon and a squeeze of lime. She likes gardening flowers and going to indoor trampoline parks with her 4-year-...

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Dan Baker takes on science at Foothill

Thea WulffSeptember 19, 2018

You may have seen him around campus or as a student teacher in Biology—but this time, he’s back for good. After years of previous experience in the field, Baker...

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Blythe Blakeman '19 and Darren Wu '19 dance the night away. Credit: Olivia Sanford / The Foothill Dragon Press

Students “enchanted” at prom 2018

Marin ValerioApril 24, 2018

https://vimeo.com/266241801 On Saturday night, Foothill students and their guests followed a “glass slipper” up the stairs of the Ventura Mission for “An Enc...

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“It kind of sucks:” a response to divorce

Marin ValerioApril 13, 2018

Divorce. It's a seemingly routine response to marriage, one that appears to be more common in today’s families than not. Coming from a family with a history...

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Hannah Yale'20. Credit: Olivia Sanford / The Foothill Dragon Press

Hannah Yale’s response to America’s “epidemic of gun violence”

Marin ValerioMarch 13, 2018

While gun violence grows more common by the hour, students nationwide are taking a stance and fighting back. Sparked by the devastating Parkland, Fla. shooting,...

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Practical self care in a world of bath bombs and face masks

Marin ValerioJanuary 24, 2018

Amidst a sea of homework, friends and extracurriculars, self-care is often put on the backburner in order to stay afloat. Students’ perception of “self-care” te...

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Ryan Duston: “Volunteering has been a passion of mine”

Marin ValerioJanuary 15, 2018

https://vimeo.com/244394529 In the time not spent teaching biology and grading papers at Foothill, Ryan Duston lives an incredibly involved life. H...

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Winter Formal 2017 unifies students from around Ventura

Marin ValerioDecember 19, 2017

https://vimeo.com/247910144 Rainbow lights and smiles greeted high school students from across the city as they entered the Camarillo Airport for F...

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Renaissance students travel through the decades at fall rally

Marin ValerioOctober 31, 2017

Renaissance students, non-Renaissance students, teachers and staff roamed Foothill’s bustling campus, exploring the school’s first Renaissance Rally of the year...

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Blood drive combines learning with lifesaving for Bioscience students

Marin ValerioOctober 18, 2017

Each year, Foothill hosts at least one blood drive, giving students 16 years of age and older the chance to donate blood that has the potential to save up to th...

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Navigating the array of clubs at Foothill

Marin ValerioSeptember 22, 2017

With all the hectic excitement of Club Rush, it is possible you might have missed a booth or not gotten as much information about a certain club as you wanted t...

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