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Dry Gulch Gazette

Dry Gulch Gazette is an open forum for students and does not necessarily represent the views of Arroyo High School or of the San Lorenzo Unified School District. We want to provide our readers with entertaining, informational, and relevant stories that will be worth their time. We intend to produce accurate and unbiased reporting, and we will therefore work to correct any significant mistakes. You should contact us at AHSGazette@ gmail.com if you can find such a mistake in this publication. You may also email us to submit a letter to the editor, but we reserve the right to edit letters for length or accuracy. Letters will be rejected or published at the discretion of journalism staff.

Editors-In-Chief:

Wynne Bendell

Claire Terzich

Deputy Editors:

Lynnsy Ang

There are 1,531 students at AHS and almost all of them will use the school bathrooms sometime in their high school career. This school year there have been a few incidents of students defacing the bathrooms. Despite this small minority of disprespect towards the facilities most students using the bathrooms are doing just that, using the bathroom. Students should be able to expect clean bathrooms and shouldn’t settle for less.

Over the past few months, students have had to deal with many issues revolving the school bathrooms. Issues such as: absence of toilet paper in stalls, paper towel dispensers empty or not there all together, soap dispensers rarely have soap, and have either been left without soap or have been filled with hand sanitizer. The sink faucets do not provide an option for warm or hot water and only dispense cold water.

OPINION OF THE DRY GULCH GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD consequences for their actions to learn what is appropriate behavior. However, we also want the school to take in account that this constant surveillance on students actions can create a punitive environment which is not beneficial to students. We believe that a preventative approach to problems involving students and the bathrooms would be more effective. If bathrooms were up to a certain set of standards such as always providing adequate: toilet paper, soap, and paper towels, students would be less inclined to deface the bathrooms. Students have a right to clean and reliable restrooms.

Mia Chan

Makani Reith-Fifita

Copy Editors

Luis Derla

Logan Houghtelling

Jacky Li

Design Editors

Arianna Carandang

Shadhana Saud

Photography Editor

Joseph Kim

Illustration Editor

Jessica Reyes-Fajardo

Staff Writers

California Education Code 34292.5 states that: “Every restroom shall at all times be maintained and cleaned regularly, fully operational and stocked at all times with toilet paper, soap, and paper towels or functional hand dryers.”

The administration’s approach to situations revolving the bathrooms is to immediately figure out the culprit and punish them. It is important for students to have

On our campus we have new buildings in S and H halls that seem to be treated with much more respect than the classrooms in older halls such as A, B, C, and D halls. It fair to believe that this same respectful treatment would apply to our bathrooms. If students have bathrooms worth respecting, we believe they will be respected.

We are trapped in a vicious cycle of students disrespecting the bathrooms and the bathrooms being in a constant state of disrepair and neglect. We need to break this cycle. If the district provides students with updated facilities we will see the stududents do what it takes to maintain the facilities to the standard they want.

Adrianna Armijo

Eli Banuelos

Eden Buell

Clarence Capunitan

Trinity DeLa Cruz

MJ Feldman

Alina Gomez

Kelly Hu

Hailey Hutchinson

Anthony Nguyen

Ethan Nguyen

Jazmin Quintero

Gavino

Robby Romero

Haily Seguiran

Elmer Starkey

Staff Adviser

Samved Sangameswara

18-19: Clear your mind with Yoga

20: Rid yourself of Bad Habits

21: Cleaning up for Lent

How else do students clear their minds?

Senior Tiffany Fang

Taking long runs

“Long runs help me clear my mind because there’s nothing else to think about, so I’m left with my thoughts and it’s usually really quiet when I’m by myself”

Junior Keira Tan

Reading and Drawing

“I get distracted away from unecessary worries from school work and other things. It benefits me becaue it’s a healthy way for destressing”