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Presidential elections are fast approaching and citizens everywhere are avidly scrutinizing the respective candidates. The Obama/Romney dichotomy is widening thanks to events such as the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. All over the country people are either registering to vote (the deadline being October 22) or, if minors, making sure that their politician-of-choice gets all …
In final efforts to finish researching for your history final, “Access to this web page is restricted at this time” appears on the screen. Websense, a security web filtering software has become the content-control web filtering software put in place by the district. Inacted to protect school computers from spyware and to prevent students from …
Throughout the day, students are constantly snacking on food, and taking various nibbles of friends’ lunches, and even kissing up to the various birthday students for a cupcake. Most do not even give a second thought about the ingredients, a student takes a bite of a snack, and innocuous bites could even be fatal. In …
Blown up structures on the lunchtime amphitheatre, stereos playing at lunch, flash mobs, Disney characters and dogs walking campus all have one thing in common; they all would be completely out of place on a high school campus. However, throughout the years, these strange but familiar traditions have become the norm for a Peninsula student. …
For eighth graders, this is the most important time of year- the time when one chooses a high school for next four years. Peninsula has hosted events to help make that process easier and the choice clearer. On Eighth Grade Night, bright stadium lights shined down and brought food trucks, students, parents, teachers, and most …
Peninsula High School has had a very clear, consistent goal for upcoming football seasons: stadium lights for night football games. With the yearlong efforts to raise funds for lights, the Steering Committee in charge of this project, had its plans terminated with the District’s statement disapproving of the project and deeming all funds invalid. The …