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…
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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…
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…
Purple Project succeeds in awareness, fails in engagement
BY KYLIE YEATMAN In 1983, the general public collectively learned that there’s more to anti-drug activism than Nancy Reagan telling kids to just say no and pledge to DARE. Thirty-five years later,…
California sees increase in wildfire severity, frequency
BY KIEREN DASTE While not having completed the 2018 wildfire season, California has already seen more than 50 wildfires, ranging in size from relatively small incidents to massive ones such as the…
Political posts have potential to unite or divide students
BY ATHENA FOSLER-BRAZIL Social media is changing the landscape of politics. Not only are politicians themselves logging into the social network, but platforms like Instagram and Twitter are dramatically altering the way…
CUSD BOARD ELECTRON: Meet the candidates
BY KYLIE YEATMAN Voters throughout Carmel-by-the-Sea, Carmel Valley, Big Sur and Pebble Beach will be tasked on Nov. 6 with electing two candidates––choosing between incumbent board president John Ellison, Operation Padre chair…
Carmel Unified looks to improve technological aspect of district, student life by investing in Project 2020
BY MILES PREKOSKI With the opening of the 2017-18 school year, Carmel Unified started implementing a district-wide infrastructure project called “Project 2020,” designed to bring better Wi-Fi to all the district classrooms,…
Teen musician inspires with CMS program for beginning band students
BY GRACE DEAN Through a program for beginning band students at Carmel Middle School, trips to Mexico and her own experiences in high school music, CHS senior Sophia Buraglio inspires and educates…
Remembering Annabelle Vandenbroucke
BY ELLAH FOSTER Anderson’s hands are at her neck, twisting around a fragile gold heart. It was Annabelle’s. At first, Kristen and fellow junior Sarah Movahedi are tentative, but they soon light…