Category: Campus Life

The Future of AmerAIcan
How Chat GPT and other generative AI can change education and the world. Tanvi Vidyala Staff Writer Only a few decades ago, artificial intelligence was hardly more than a fantasy found in the dreams of Sci-Fi fans and tech nerds. In recent months, tools like DALL-E Mini and Chat GPT have taken the industry and […]

On the Field with Marching Band
After taking home the gold seven times this season, Marching Band gives a glimpse into what it takes. Surya Chelliah, Alfred Ukudeev-Freeman Staff Writers “Mr. Wong has a hands-off approach. And it works.” Says saxophonist Dhruv Sharma (12) It’s a complicated, coordinated effort, but Mr. Wong has found a particular method for carrying out band […]
The Disbandment of American High DECA
Covering the fall of AHS DECA and the factors that played a role in its demise Sahana Narayan & Karyle Agno Staff Writers It’s the cycle of life at American: the rise and eventual fall of AHS clubs. Whether the fall is at the hands of the notorious AHS club committee, the strong foot of […]
Spirit Week is a Dying Flame
When underclassmen usurp upperclassmen in Spirit Week, what happens then? Vincent Nghiem Staff Writer Mention this year’s Spirit Week to the juniors, and you might induce within them a sensation akin to post-traumatic stress disorder: hours of video editing, tireless, fruitless efforts to urge people to keep coming to dance practices, and working long hours […]

When Can We Come In?
Behind the disarray of the Homecoming Dance’s entrance wait times. Surya Chelliah Staff Writer Flashing lights, loud music, meeting friends, dancing, and making memories; all part of the appeal of the Homecoming dance, but was any of this worth the nearly ninety-minute-long line some students waited through on October 22? According to an email blast […]

Faculty Fashion
An autumnal exploration of the most dapper drip sported by the teachers of AHS Vincent Nghiem Staff Writer Over the course of September flourished a string of popular TikToks presenting outfits that their creators would wear if they were teachers. They were zany, they were creative —but ultimately uninformed. So why not ask teachers themselves? […]

Satire: FUSD School Board Elections
Sinchan Mishra & Sahana Narayan Co-Editors-in-Chief It’s the time we have all been waiting for. Nights are spent sleepless, tossing and turning with a sense of impending doom. The streets are empty; a feeling of anxiety fills the air. At school, students are unable to focus, their minds haunted by uneasy thoughts about the imminent […]

First We Were Treating, and Then We Were Tricked
It should be socially acceptable for teens to go trick-or-treating Reva Gokhale Staff Writer October 31 is an important date in high school. We stay up late and eat way too much junk food and call all our friends and scare ourselves out of our minds––because it’s the day college apps are due, of course. […]

Media Literacy in the Midst of a War
Learning how students and teachers at American acquire their information and evaluate the accuracy of their information regarding the Ukraine-Russia crisis Sahana Narayan Staff Writer Over the last several decades, the world has watched as major global powers have taken shape and taken sides. Sometimes, it happened silently, through the alliances and friendships that didn’t […]