La triste realidad sobre el Machismo
Jimena Perez, Writer
January 11, 2019
Machismo, la idea de que un hombre es naturalmente superior a una mujer, y consecuentemente debería actuar de tal forma. Es algo que ha estado presente en México y en muchos otros países Latinoamericanos desde hace siglos, y que lamentablemente sigue siendo un problema monumental. Alrededor de ...
Setting Pride Week straight
December 17, 2018
Last month, a student club known as the Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) hosted its own Pride Week at Foothill. Despite ultimately enjoying their right to host this event on campus undeterred, with rainbow flags and the like, many queer activists despaired at the school administration’s refusal to e...
CHANG: there is something critically wrong with Foothill’s administration.
December 12, 2018
Below is a rough transcript of the speech that I gave at the Ventura Unified School Board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 11 during the public commentary period. I conveyed my apprehension, as a student, regarding Foothill’s current administration. Although my words were received by an audience of community me...
Cartoon of the Week 36
Lillian Li, Illustrator
December 11, 2018
Cartoonist Lillian Li visually depicts math teacher Wayne Powers' popular joke "get all of your ducks in a crow."...
Why I hate Christmas
December 8, 2018
So it’s December. Fires are a burnin’, cocoa is a steamin’, sleigh bells are a jinglin’, and the wretched sound of “All I Want For Christmas is You,” blares through the speakers of my iHome on 95.1 at 6:15 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. I’ve placed a lot of trust in 95.1 to wake me up every day...
Satire: Trump’s disaster tweets
December 5, 2018
In the aftermath of two disasters, the Alaskan earthquake and the California wildfires, President Trump has released tweets about both of them. There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are ...
Ventura Unified’s revolving door of superintendents harms students
December 1, 2018
In the last four years, the Ventura Unified School District (Ventura Unified) has had three superintendents: two full-time and one interim. David Creswell is the only one I’ve ever even seen in person. I first met Creswell last year. He spoke at a Ventura Unified meeting shortly after the Thomas Fire erupted and ravaged our town. Though he was rel...
Foothill Bad Faith Podcast Episode 2: the protester vs. the patriot
November 28, 2018
In this episode, we give the people what they want: Colin McClain '20 and Hannah Yale '20 debate the issue of gun control. ...
Gentrification, Dole Whip, the American “melting pot”
November 7, 2018
Dan Fitz-Patrick is the first history teacher who has ever dared me to question America’s melting pot metaphor. During his lesson on the Gilded Age and immigration, Fitz-Patrick asked our class to decide if America is a melting pot of cultures, or a salad, a tossing together of cultures. He also aske...
Midterm opinion: We are each personally responsible for America’s gun problem
November 3, 2018
Individually, your perception of humanity, your perception of gun violence and your perception of government contributes to the culture in America. As of late, our culture is one of derision. It’s a flaw of the collective soul of America: we’ve distanced ourselves from one another, distanced...
June: History of the marginalized
July 3, 2019
Grad Map 2019: Where are we going?
June 16, 2019
Cartoon 41: “How I feel about leaving high school”
June 15, 2019
Foothill Tech: only a drive-by destination for many Dragons
June 15, 2019
Editorial: Ethnic Studies as a district-wide requirement
June 10, 2019
Seniors seize opportunity to share passions, interests in yearly Dragon Talks
June 9, 2019