The NCAA recruitment process explained by student-athletes at American Alvin Gonzales Staff Writer Self-discipline, obsession, and a work ethic are what every student-athlete planning on doing NCAA sports have in common. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that provides nearly 500,000 student-athletes in the United States the ability to continue their […]
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Trying Out For Sports?
The expectations vs. realities of trying out for sports and being on the team Alvin Gonzales Staff Writer Chuo Ying Zhai (11) – “I remember during our [basketball] talks, [our basketball coach] was looking, first, for chemistry around the team, of course, and whether we could play good basketball. Definitely ‘hustling,’ whether you’re hustling down […]

Antiracism vs Diversity: A New Curriculum
The divide between teachers and students on how FUSD’s reading list is evolving to teach anti-racism and diversity in English classes Darcy Chew Staff Writer Recently, a new district core adoption committee consisting of four American teachers was formed to adopt new books to the FUSD’s reading lists. As some students may have noticed this […]

Sink or Float: The Pressure of Shipping
Students’ thoughts about the dangers shipping (not the UPS kind) Darcy Chew Staff Writer Romantic shipping. The one very common in all types of fandoms. The one where a group of friends lightly tease their friends about being a couple. Now as Valentine’s Day has recently passed, students may find themselves wishing they were not […]

Day of the… Groundhog…?
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Anti Semitism?! In My Animated Movie?!
It’s more likely than you think. Bee Chaudhury Staff Writer CW// antisemitism, Holocaust mention Animated movies make up a large portion of many people’s childhoods, but there’s a lot of things in children’s movies that children themselves don’t notice. Generally, those things are either small details that aren’t super important, or they’re unpleasant things that […]

Love is in the ‘Net’
Distanced dating: the transition from in-person to online dating, and how couples are coping Mengting Chang Staff Writer As the saying goes, “love is in the air”. However, as we enter our Valentine month, it is COVID-19 that we find broadcasted on air (pardon the pun). Luckily, love didn’t just disappear and high school couples […]

The Internet and the Insurrection: What Happened?
How poor information literacy affects our political environment and country’s safety Lisa Yeung and Mengting Chang Staff Writers NBC News anchors watched in horror as protestors charged into the United States Capitol Building. Shocked correspondents desperately surveyed the scene as the uneasy population at the scene pushed back and forth, soon breaking through windows and […]

Fresh Start for a New Semester
Students at AHS discuss their plans for preparing for second semester of 2021 Neha Zope Staff Writer Dia Gupta (9) – “[For the second semester], I’m hoping to start writing out my assignments more because it’s hard to keep track of things when they are not written down and then you miss an assignment and […]

A Winding Journey to Teaching
Exploring the previous jobs of Mrs. Howell before her teaching at American began Neha Zope Staff Writer Most teachers nowadays tend to go down the conditional pathway of earning a teaching degree in college and taking on jobs that involve teaching in their early years. However for Mrs. Howell, her journey to teaching at American […]