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By Averi Halbert

By Emi Gruender

By Mason Vargas After more than a decade on the sidelines, the head coach of Westmont Warriors football, Mark Kaanapu, is stepping away. “Coach K” has announced his retirement, ending an era that began in 2014. Over 11 seasons, Coach K led the Warriors to a 61–41 overall record. He leaves behind a program shaped…

By Kathryn Tanaka (SPOILERS FOR PROJECT HAIL MARY AHEAD!) As millions of people do at the beginning of every new year, I made a resolution for myself: to read. As much as I hate to admit it, most of the books I read are the ones assigned to me at school, and that simply will…

By Logan Whiteson Antisemitism in high schools over the last decade has been on the rise, and literature has increasingly stepped in to confront the moral failures and blind spots of educational institutions. In 2017, a history teacher in upstate New York drew national attention when he assigned a project where students had to argue…

By Lucky Felder and Haley Kim Sparked by our love for romance-fantasy and conversations about book boyfriends, we’ve decided to dive back into Rebecca Yarros’ TikTok-famous series Fourth Wing, which is set to have five books once completed. Although we’ve hit a couple slumps on our journey reading this series together, we were finally able…

By Kathryn Tanaka While many book to movie adaptations fall short of viewer expectations, it’s nice to dream about seeing masterful writing become reality through film. Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient flipped my world upside down, each paragraph keeping me glued to my seat. From loopy timelines to mind-boggling plot twists, if any book deserves…

By Braeden Gourley “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” Arguably, it is more immoral to strip a human of their free will than allowing them to choose between good and evil. The brutality of the novel A Clockwork Orange did not exactly amass my full immersion, though I did find…

By Rocco Felder, Jacob Froman, Rory Mackin, Brandon Marshall, Ruhaan Popli, Kainoa Raub, and Kevin Rangel

By Gio Arteaga  Music in African-American culture hasn’t always been categorized as it is today. When the genre first emerged, it wasn’t meant to become the overarching umbrella term for African-American music; it was used as a categorization. When Black artists began to emerge, a lot of music took heavy influence from gospel music, and…