2018 was a great year for music. We heard melancholy and emotional ballads from some of the alternative genre’s best artists, projects produced by rap music’s most powerful moguls and breakout solo…
As teen vape use rises campus staff and students weigh in
By ALICIA KRUEGER On Nov. 13, the FDA released its long-awaited 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, showing a 78 percent increase in high school student e-cigarette use compared to 2017, an increase…
Content overhaul in order for AP World History curriculum; CHS accommodates
BY KYLIE YEATMAN After 16 years of offering AP World History as a cohesive global course centered on teaching the entire history of the Earth in only eight months, the College Board…
Increased screen time overwhelming for today’s teens
BY ELLAH FOSTER When CHS junior Natalia Miller found out through her settings that she had spent 38 hours on her phone in the past 10 days, she expressed nothing but shock…
Revisions made to Carmel High’s course approval process
BY PETER ELLISON The sequence for creating new courses at Carmel High was changed this school year with the site leadership committee, a group of department heads, placed in an official position…
Parent petition lobbies CUSD for later school start time
BY DILAN PATEL Following California Governor Jerry Brown’s recent veto of Bill 328, a bill that would require schools to push start times to at least 8:30, a group of CUSD parents…
Campus supervisor Katie Alvarez acclimates to CHS job
BY GRACE DEAN Following Don Perry’s recent retirement, Katie Alvarez joined Tammy Hardisty and Josh Leigh as a Carmel High campus supervisor on Oct. 15, taking the 9:45 a.m. to 5:45 p.m….
Nonprofit organization empowers youth to serve community
BY ATHENA FOSLER-BRAZIL Traipsing through the brush and along trails last spring, the Cachagua Clean Up Crew, consisting of a number of Carmel Valley resident students, picks up trash in areas of…
Class of 2019 sets precedent in early college application process
BY ALICIA KRUEGER After weeks of late nights and hard work, Nov. 1 hit and approximately 50 Carmel High School seniors submitted their early action and early decision applications to various colleges…
Students choose unique personal styles over blending in with peers
BY TAYLOR DESMOND Plaid pants, platform shoes and pink hair result from the influence of ‘80s pop culture icons and the desire of many CHS students to stray from the on-campus quasi-uniform…