Issue 8, 3/23/2018 by The Campanile

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INSIDE

Editors' note

the edition

Celebrating The Campanile's 100th anniversary

Through the Decades . . . . A2-A7 Paly Journalism. . . . . . . . . . . A8 History of The Campanile . . . B1 Awards and Advisers . . . . . . B2 Underground Publications . . . B3 Wartime Productions . . . . B4-B5 Protests at Paly . . . . . . . . . . . . B6 April Fool's Editions . . . . . . . B7 Comics and Cartoons . . . . . . . B8 History of Sports . . . . . . . . . . C1 Sports Victories at Paly . . . . . C2 Title IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3 Notable Atheletes . . . . . . . C4-C5 Intramural Sports . . . . . . . . . . C6 Sports Photo Collage . . . . . . . C7 Alumni Verbatim . . . . . . . . C8

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Paly Journalism

An in-depth look at the history of Paly's publications. PAGE A8

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Throughout The Campanile's 100-year run, its newspaper layout has undergone multiple redesigns.

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Wartime production

Student cover stories during U.S. wars of the past century. PAGES B4-B5

Campanile's athletes

By Waverly Long Staff Writer

Almost all the articles The Campanile has printed over the past century can be examined in the Paly Journalism Archive, which was started in the library about 100 years ago by the librarian at the time, according to current Paly librarian Rachel Kellerman. Kellerman said librarians have been collecting and preserving Paly’s publications since 1901, when they started developing the print Journalism Archive. The digital archive was only started in 2014 and unveiled in fall of 2017. According to Kellerman, parent and community volunteers have played a large role in the execution of this project, including former Paly parent Elizabeth Trueman, the Media Boosters organization and junior Charlotte Kadifa. All these volunteers have been working toward achieving the same goal. “The primary goal is to preserve student voices and make this unique archive available to past present and future students, faculty, and community members,” Kellerman said in an email. The archive can be used to search for alumni, discover Paly student coverage of major historical events and find similarities and differences between generations, according to Kellerman. It can be found at http://palyjournalismarchive. pausd.org/. “I encourage people to explore how art and illustration and eventually photography (visual media) has changed over the years in the various publications,” Kellerman said. “Paly students have always been incredibly creative.”

amid a culture of censorship and prior restraint from the administration. Staff writers Tess Manjarrez, Sam Hwang and Shannon Zhao delve into student life during wartime, while News & Opinion Editor Renee Hoh and senior staff writer Grace Kitayama examine the impact of student protests from the ‘60s to modern times. News & Opinion Editor Noah Baum and staff writer Alyssa Leong also showcase The Campanile’s more lighthearted side in their feature on past April Fool’s special editions. In the C section, Lifestyle Editor Vivian Feng and staff writer John Tayeri highlight Paly’s fight for gender equality in sports through their article on Title IX. Staff writers Ujwal Srivastava and Leyton Ho and Sports Editor Eric Li cover two prominent Paly atheletes — Brooklyn Nets basketball star Jeremy Lin and Olympic ping pong player Lily Zhang — and their talents both on the court and as members of The Campanile. We welcome you in our celebration, and thank you for 100 remarkable years as the voice of Palo Alto High School’s students. — Allison, Ashley, Ehecatl, Maya and Niklas

1996: Board corruption exposed

Jeremy Lin and Lily Zhang on their Campy experience.

Paly Journalism Archive

lot can happen over 100 years. Through times of stability and turmoil, Palo Alto High School has constantly evolved — and The Campanile has been there to record it all. As honored as we are to be able to create this issue for the 100th year, this is not just our celebration. It is a celebration for all who came before us, the power of student voice and the changes this paper has brought over the years. In this issue, staff writers Waverly Long and Byron Zhang begin by investigating how The Campanile’s articles and investigatory pieces have prompted change in the Paly community. Moving on in the A section, various staff members highlight main events throughout the decades as well as changes in Paly lifestyle, from the wars in the ‘40s and ‘50s to the hipster and rock and roll phases of the ‘60s and beyond. Staff writers Kiana Tavakoli, Anna Meyer and Sophia Moore end the section with a feature on the evolution of our esteemed journalism program and the various publications that students have created. Continuing to the B section, staff writers Kaylie Nguyen and Yusra Rafeeqi detail Paly’s underground publications, which thrived in the ‘60s, ‘80s and ‘90s

Exploring our impact over the past century

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Ben Hewlett recounts writing the article that publicized Board fraud.

By Waverly Long

Staff Writer

hen staff writer Ben Hewlett published an article in March of 1996 that exposed the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education’s questionable decisions regarding a superintendent promotion and school funding, he had no idea what a significant impact the article would have.

After the article was published, further investigation revealed irregularities within the School Board, including the discovery that 17 administrators had abused school funds. The information soon became public, and resulted in withdrawn raises and the resignation of the superintendent and business manager. “All the way up through publishing, I didn’t honestly expect that [the article] would be such a

big deal,” Hewlett said. “I mean, I got the sense that people at the school would be possibly concerned about it, but I didn’t expect that it would be picked up by people outside of the school and by people in the community… So it was kind of surprising to see that it got traction.” Hewlett’s article shed light on the promotion of Associate Superintendent Pat Einfelt to Deputy Superintendent, which was coupled with a $9,000 raise per year. The topic of the promotion emerged in a closed Board meeting at 10:35 p.m. and a unanimous decision to approve the promotion was made within the same minute, according to Hewlett’s article. The meeting was adjourned just a minute later. After noticing the odd timing of the decision in the meeting minutes, Hewlett investigated further and discovered several red flags in the situation.

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1993: Poll sparked Living Skills reform By Byron Zhang

Staff Writer

national survey from 1988 found that approximately one out of every 10 American girls between the ages 15 and 19 had become pregnant from unprotected sex each year since 1973, according to the Jan. 18, 1991 issue of The Campanile. As school officials and parents grew more alarmed by this data, The Campanile shocked them once more in 1993, when it published the results of a poll, revealing that 55.8 percent of sexually active Paly students had engaged in unprotected sex. The poll’s findings prompted District officials to revise the curriculum for Living Skills, a course implemented in 1992. The poll, administered to 344 students, also revealed that 1.7 percent of those surveyed had contracted sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Brian Henderson, the editor-in-chief of The Campanile in 1993, suspected that the actual percentage might have been significantly higher than the reported. “True statistics are likely to be substantially higher, as many teenagers either are not willing to admit that they carry, or have carried, an STI, or do not have themselves tested frequently,” Henderson said. Following the publication of

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A graph that was run in The Campanile in 1991 shocked many adults. The Campanile’s poll results, the Palo Alto Youth Council (PAYC) also conducted a survey and received similarly high statistics, confirming the The Campanile’s data and the need to reform the sex-education curriculum. To prevent students from practicing unprotected sex, the PAYC advised the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Board of Education to revise the Living Skills curriculum, which did not offer much information to students about using contraceptives. Prior to publishing the survey's results, staff writers authored multiple articles regarding STIs and sex education at Paly. In an editorial written in 1991, The Campanile brought attention to

the need for an in-depth sex education course and proposed to install “condom vending machines” in school bathrooms to encourage safe sex. “The people who are having sex will be more willing to use a condom if it is easy to get than if they have to go to great lengths to get it,” the editorial argued. In 2000, seven years after the revision of Living Skills, The Campanile conducted a new survey, administered to 823 students, which revealed that only 40 percent of sexually active students reported having had unprotected sex, a 16 percent decrease from 1993. The number of students who had engaged in intercourse also reduced from 31 percent in 1993 to 26 percent in 2001.

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Prior to the survey results, all students in one grade shared one couneselor.

1992: Survey prompted Teacher Adviser system By Byron Zhang

Staff Writer

o this day, schools across the country use the counselor system, in which all students in a given grade consult with a single guidance counselor on issues such as class schedules to college applications to mental health. However, at Paly, this system has long been abolished, due to the results of all-school survey published in The Campanile on Jan. 17, 1992 that revealed widespread student dissatisfaction with the counselor system. This controversy ignited a school-wide discussion on the reformation of the Guidance Department and eventually led to the creation of the Teacher Advisory (TA) system. Although the Guidance Department stated “developing an individual educational and career plan that will be updated annually with each student as the top priority,” according to the January 1992 issue of The Campanile, 68 percent of juniors and 87 percent of freshmen indicated that they had never formulated a four-year plan with their counselors at any point during high school. In addition, 52 percent of those who did receive help from guidance counselors still found the counselor system inaccessible. “My counselor called me in for an appointment and made me wait 45 minutes before she finally had time to see me,” one respondent of the survey said in the January 1992 issue. “She looked at her list and said, ‘oh are you here to see me, too?’ She called me in, and she’s asking me that?” Moreover, the poll showed that the vast majority of students were inclined to turn to their counselor for mostly clerical tasks, such as academic planning and

college applications, but not personal issues such as mental health. “It’s amazing to me that I can spend more time restructuring a student’s schedule until it’s just perfect than I can spend counseling a suicidal student,” said Jack Phillips, one of the four guidance counselors in 1992. One month after the poll’s publication, former Principal Sandra Pearson requested the Site Council, which oversees the school budget, to form a committee to develop plans for a more accessible and efficient counseling system.

The results of an all-school survey reavealed widespread student dissatisfaction with the counselor system. The committee quickly submitted its proposal for a new TA system, which increased the counselor-student ratio significantly by training teachers to become counselors, thus relieving the school of the financial burden of employing more counselors. “It is clear that the department is meeting the needs of less than a quarter of the student body,” stated in an editorial in the March 9, 1992 issue of The Campanile. “It is a waste of time and money for three professionals to be performing tasks that could easily be carried out by paraprofessionals.” The TA system went into effect in fall of the 1992-93 school year and received positive responses from a majority of students, according to multiple surveys conducted by The Campanile. In contrast, Gunn High School uses the counselor system to this day.

The Campanile

Friday, March 23, 2018

1910s-20s

Construction on new gym, swimming pool and auto-shop begins in early ‘20s

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By Paarth Sharma & Kesi Sound

Managing Editor & Lifestyle Editor

aly students now have something in common with their 1923 counterparts — they both have been through years of disruptive construction on Paly campus. In October 1923, construction of three new projects began: a new gym that would house a new gym that would feature Paly’s first ever swimming pool, a mechanic and auto shop building and a science wing.

Construction on the new gym started with a ceremonial breaking of the ground by students and staff. As construction for these projects started up, it wrapped up for the auditorium, where the finishing touches were being put in place. The new theater would boast “one of the best switchboards of any school in the state” at the time, much like the Performing Arts Center (PAC) does today.

The new gymnasium was split into four sections: a girls unit, a boys unit, the swimming pool and an outdoors basketball court.

Today, the school faces similar pressures, constructing new buildings and facilities such as the Media Arts Center, Peery Center and new math and history building. The swimming pool, a first for Paly, was a sizable 50 by 75 feet and ranged in depth from 3 feet all the way to 9 feet. While these numbers seem modest compared to our current pool, which is 75 by 150 feet and over 10 feet deep, it was massive for the time and a much needed addition for the school. Construction on the new gym started with a ceremonial breaking of the ground by students and staff. Mr. Mercer, the school groundskeeper at the time, was given the honor of taking the inaugural swing. Among the people in attendance were Pro-

fessor S.D. Townley, one of the project’s main funders, and Paly’s board of trustees member Colonel Austin. Both were key members in the new gym and pool construction. In addition to the new buildings, the construction also included a new covered bike rack that would be built next to the new gym. In April 1924, the new swimming pool opened to students for the first time. “This pool is destined to play a large part in our athletics,” said an article in The Campanile. “It has been longed for and hoped for for many years, and at last our dream has come true. Ask any student in the school whether or not he has watched the progress made on the pool with great expectations of the pleasures to be derived from it. You will undoubtedly receive a very decided affirmative answer.”

Students cheered at the prospects the new pool would offer. Walter Nichols did the honor of making the first dive into the pool upon its opening. Students cheered at the prospects the new pool would

offer. “Now that we have our beloved swimming pool there is no reason on earth why Paly High should not have a championship swimming team,” said an article in The Campanile. Now, a full 100 years later, Paly’s swimming and diving team dominates its competition, placing highly in Central Coast Section (CCS) and sending students to top colleges for the sport each year.

In addition to the new buildings, the construction also included a new covered bike rack that would be built next to the gym. All the construction done in this time period was due to the fact that Paly was expanding at a tremendous rate, and new facilities were constantly in demand to house the growing population. Today, the school faces similar pressures, constructing new buildings and facilities such as the Media Arts Center, Peery Center and new math and history building.

Influenza outbreak strikes many community members and Paly students in late 1910s refrain from speaking about influenza or allow it to dominate one’s thoughts While the author acknowledged that influenza was “a terrible thing,” he claimed it was the student body’s “patriotic duty not to let it [influenza] monopolize our thoughts and attention, and to drag us down into the depths of despair.”

A century ago, flu season took millions of lives and permanently altered the timeline of history. E.B/PALY JOURNALISM ARCHIVES

By Paarth Sharma & Kesi Sound

Managing Editor & Lifestyle Editor

lu season. Today, for many, it serves as little more than a precautionary reminder to get a flu shot at their local Walgreens. But a century ago, flu season took millions of lives and permanently altered the

timeline of history. One of the most influential events of the 1910s and one of the deadliest pandemics of all time, the Spanish Flu, spread across the world and eliminated 3 to 5 percent of the world’s population. The Spanish Flu infected nearly half a billion. Palo Alto, and Paly in particular, were not spared from its wrath. On multiple occasions, school life

had to be altered in order to deal with the epidemic affecting large portions of the school. Multiple school dances were cancelled, and school was even shut down for a brief period in 1918. Nevertheless, the January 1919 issue of The Campanile persuaded students to keep their morale high. Like many others at the time, The Campanile suggested that people

Unlike other diseases, the flu had an especially strong effect on the highschool age population. In fact, 99 percent of influenza deaths were in those under the age of 65, with teenagers and young adults in particular the hardest hit. For this reason, the disease had an even more immediate connection to Paly, as it sent many a high school student home for weeks at a time.

Campanile editor sued by local photographer for featuring miscredited photo in 1929 By Paarth Sharma & Kesi Sound

Managing Editor & Lifestyle Editor

n early 1929, The Campanile was sued by photographer Brooks Whitney for accidentally giving him credit for a photo he claimed was so bad that merely being associated with it may have ruined his business. In response to being accredited to the photo without his knowledge or

consent, Whitney intended to sue the editor of the newspaper at the time, Francis Ayres, to the “fullest extent of the law.” Whitney also alleged that he had warned the paper beforehand to not falsely give him credit for the photos. The images, which were pictures of sundries, were featured in the February 1929 issue of The Campanile. In court, Whitney went as far as to claim that the pictures “could not be” pictures, and rather were simply

paintings, shown by their incredibly low quality.

Whitney also alleged that he had warned the paper beforehand to not falsely give him credit for the photos. The two met in court on March 4,

1929, and according to court records, Whitney won the case, successfully suing Ayres and winning all charges. As a result of the suit, Ayres was forced to pay “$5000 for using the plaintiff ’s name without permission, as well as an additional $1000 for using it in connection with pictures which were not photographs and $500 for resulting loss of business” for a total payment of $6500. Today, this $6500 charge would be equivalent to just under $100,000.

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October 1923: New construction begins as school population increases

October 1926: Beloved teacher passes away

Construction starts on a new gym, swimming pool, science wing and autoshop. This marks the beginning of Paly’s population and academic expansion over the following years. Construction of the pool ends later in April 1924.

In October 1926, Rebecca T. Greene, a teacher beloved to many students, tragically passed away. In remembrance of her work on campus, The Campanile published a memorium in our October 14 issue.

January 1919: First official Campanile The Campanile publishes its first official issue, covering topics from a fundraiser Paly students held for Armenian relief efforts to a wild Enza bird a teacher spotted hovering around school. Despite the first issue being in 1919, The Campanile itself was still founded in 1918, making this year its 100th anniversary.

March 1929: First Campanile lawsuit The Campanile editor Frances Ayres becomes the first and last ever member of The Campanile to be sued for their work. Ayres lost the case and ended up being charged for $6,500 in damages to the photographer who sued for the miscredited picture.

November 1925: Flapper culture hits Paly

December 1928: Paly becomes known for superior academics

In a short prose piece published in The Campanile’s Nov. 12, 1925 issue entitled “She Taught Him Football,” an encounter between the football team captain and a flapper girl is recounted. This story marks the beginning of flapper culture in the mainstream at Paly.

The Dec. 20, 1928 edition of The Campanile featured an article entitled “Paly’s Place,” detailing the academic success of Paly. Paly was already setting precedents for neighboring schools as well as the consistently high academic performance of its students.

The Campanile

Friday, March 23, 2018

1930s-40s

Paly adapts evacuation procedure, curriculum following World War II

Retired World Affairs course recently revamped by Yonkers into Foreign Policy Honors class with updated curriculum By Ben van Zyll & Raj Lele Staff Writers

ith the World War I era coming to a close and the World War II era just beginning to ignite (without the United States), Paly introduced a new course for students for interested in the anatomy of wars and, more importantly, how to resolve them. “The course, taught fourth period by Tully C. Knoles and fifth by Mrs. Leona McCully, deals with problems of war and peace and is designed to give those who will soon be fighting on the battlefront a clearer conception of what the war is all about,” The Campanile reported in the March 12, 1943 issue. “Both classes have reviewed the causes of World War I and the defects of the peace which followed. Currently Mr. Knoles’ class is reading in the American Observer a series of articles about our allies, while Mrs. McCully’s is discussing the work of the League of Nations.” Although the class no longer exists, a current class that draws parallels to it is U.S. Foreign Policy H, which is taught by Adam Yonkers and covers the policies that the U.S. uses in its relations with countries in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Because U.S. Foreign Policy is geared toward policy making and international relations, it is distinct from “World Problems” in that “World Problems” aimed more toward how students can achieve peace in the midst of World War II. According to Yonkers, he believes foreign policy is important for students to learn because they need to be aware of how countries view the U.S. and how the U.S. impacts the world on many levels such as foreign aid, trade and the environment.

“I think having a general understanding of what was taking place at the time would have probably been a good idea if you were about to enter the war.” Jeremy Dou

“Just off of the top of my head: a global sense, a world view, understanding not just from the outside in but inside out,” Yonkers said. “We need to have a perception of how we’re viewed and not just thinking about projecting our voice on the outside world.” Recent U.S. Foreign Policy student

Jeremy Dou said he would certainly take World Problems had he been a student in the 1940s. “Global relations is generally a really interesting topic,” Dou said. “I think having a general understanding of what was taking place at the time would have probably been a good idea if you were about to enter the war. I would definitely take The anatomy of wars to further my interests in this area.” Additionally, according to Varun Dutta, a previous U.S. Foreign Policy student and current U.S. Army National Guardsman, he would take the class because he thinks he would be better prepared if he were deployed.

“We need to have a perception of how we’re viewed and not just thinking about projecting our voice on the outside world”

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History teacher Adam Yonkers lectures his Foreign Policy class on the aftermath of the Korean War.

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“I probably would take that class,” Dutta said. “Although being in the Army we have to listen to our officers, if I don’t really have an awareness or an understanding of what’s going on, I’m probably not going to be as successful on the battlefield. But the class would

probably make life a little bit easier because when we get briefed by our officers, I would know what’s going on.” According to Yonkers, if he were teaching World Problems back in the 1940s, he said he would emphasize the global perspective so that students would know what the U.S. is thought of

by other countries. Furthermore, he added that if he were teaching, he would try to explain the idea that wars hardly ever come to an abrupt stop. “I think one of the interesting things is that people don’t realize that the war in Afghanistan is the longest war in American history,” Yonkers said. “We don’t

have a world war but we have the war in Iraq which continues to kind of fester, and then the war in Afghanistan and because global issues cause everyone to worry about like Iran and North Korea, you tend to forget that a lot of World Wars were kind of neatly ended with a treaty or a surrender.”

James Sato (Class of 1942) bids farewell to Paly in letter

After the Pearl Harbor attacks, Paly implemented an evacuation procedure in case of an aerial attack. The following is from the Jan. 15, 1942 issue of The Campanile.

alo Alto Senior High School evacuation procedure in case of an air raid warning, while school is in session, was issued in the following bulletin. This bulletin concerns only the high school and is a supplement to and in no way conflicts with the general instructions issued by Charles W. Lockwood, City Superintendent of Schools, in cooperation with the local civilian defense authority.

Students are to go directly home without attempting to re-enter the building. The decision to send pupils home in case of air raid warning requires that definite steps be planned for 1 evacuation of the building and preparation for transportation and traffic control. Preparatory to dismissal—the school authorities will receive a confidential warning in advance of the sounding of public alarm sounds. The advance warning will be relayed to the secretary in the main office, who will immediately transmit the information to Mr. Carrington and Mr. Erickson, the bus drivers, who will move their busses to the area opposite the El Camino Real entrance to the grounds, from which position pupils will be loaded. It will also go to Mr. Olson, one of the custodians, who will drop the chains by which the library road is blocked to auto traf-

fic, and io Mr. Green, who will sound the fire drill bells. The custodians will go directly to the stations previously assigned, to direct traffic. Auto traffic regulations will have to be strictly enforced. A regular fire alarm bell will be sounded and teachers and pupils will leave the building by the route followed in regular fire drills, directions for which are posted in the rooms and familiar to the different room groups. If the drill signal should be sounded while students are congregated in the assembly or the cafeteria they are to go directly to the El Camino Real side of the building and wait. The students will gather in the four areas across the school roadway nearest the building as they are in the habit of doing on the occasion of fire drills. Those students from the boys’ physical education and from the shops, whose fire drill terminates in the area back of the shops should go around the library road, to enter the school bus or to get their own cars. They should not attempt to go through the building. After students and teachers have all arrived at the respective areas, five short bells at quick intervals will be sounded to indicate that it is an air raid warning and not a fire drill where a single bell is used as a signal to return to classes. Students are to go directly home without attempting to reenter the building. Books, wraps and personal belongings left in the building will have to be repossessed on return to school. Do not attempt to use the telephone. Civilian authorities have requested that we clear the lines. Students who come to school by bus will enter the one of the

two busses they regularly ride. Both busses will be stationed near the main west entrance to the grounds. Students driving automobiles should keep their car keys on their persons.

Preparatory to dismissal—the school authorities will receive a confidential warning in advance of the sounding of public alarm sounds.

In retaliation for the Pearl Harbor attacks, the Government issued the evacuation of thousands of Japanese residents throughout the western United States, naturalized citizens or immigrants. Paly’s own James Sato, a devoted student and peer, was one of 25 students removed from our school. Sato wrote the following letter to Paly in the June 5, 1942 issue of The Campanile.

O MY FELLOW STUDENTS: I cannot express in words or thoughts, but only in deep feeling, the wonderful consideration and treatment I have received in my three happiest and fullest years at Palo Alto High School. In the time following my evacuation, I shall remember and feast upon the fun and friends I have been so fortunate to make.

If you have made arrangements to ride with another student, note where his car is parked and go there directly and get in the car. Driving about the grounds to pick up friends wall not be permitted. Bicycle riders are to stay out of the center of the street to prevent the hazards the increased auto traffic is certain to create. Students are to go directly home and by the shortest possible route, and remain there. Civilian Defense regulations require people to stay off the streets. If the dismissal signal is given before 11 a.m. and followed by an all clear signal, students are to return to their classes at 1 p.m. If the dismissal occurs after 11 a.m., students are not to return until the next morning. If the dismissal plans are carried out as above on the confidential warning but no air raid signal follows, the return to school will depend on whether the alarm is sounded before or after 11 a.m. In case school is to reconvene at 1 p.m., the bus drivers will cover their regular routes during the noon hour to pick up students at their usual stations.

“But I shall never forget the joy and sorrows we shared together in defeat and in triumph.” James Sato I will hear no more the happy,

busy, buzzing noises in the halls and at coming games. But I shall never forget the joy and sorrows we shared together in defeat and in triumph. In this time of national emergency, we have to make sacrifices. Each and every one of us must do so in order to achieve our final victory. I, and many of my fellow Americans, are now doing so. I make this sacrifice of evacuation without malice or deep bitterness. Students, play hard, work hard, and a square and eternal victory will be ours. You students are the backbone of America. My message is nothing but the burning gratitude and thankfulness of being one cf the Americans who love and believe in America so much. To the faculty of the Palo Alto Senior High School, I give my sincere gratitude and thankfulness I cannot express,

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James Sato poses for his class of 1942 senior portrait in the yearbook. for the understanding and most sympathetic attitude taken toward me and my fellow students. I shall always cherish and remember this. Students, teachers, and dear friends, I will not say good-bye, but until we meet again. The sacrifice I make is so small compared

to the sacrifice our boys are making in the front lines for our sake, I shall never forget the wonderful and swell community that I have lived in so many years. I am most proud of being the product of the one and only PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL.

Internment in our backyard California housed two massive Japanese internment camps of the United States internment campaign. Tulelake, a small city at the northern point of California held 18,789 Japanese people at one point, the most of any internment camp. Manzanar, a town east of Fresno held a camp of 10,046 at its peak. Despite being the only official internment camps of California, there were an abundance of Japanes evacuation areas throughout all of California. Civilian Assembly Centers were prolific and found as local as San Bruno.

Oct. 8, 1931: Paly Enrollment Rises With Stanford Opening

Nov. 12, 1937: P-T.A. Holds First Meeting in Auditorium

Nov. 1, 1946: Pepsi-Cola Offers Deserving Seniors Scholarships

Because Stanford University’s academic term started in October, there was a surge of students that joined Paly in October, which increased the aggregate of the student body population by twenty students, from 935 students to 955 students.

Despite being a common organization in high schools across America, Paly’s Parent-Teacher Association was only established in the 1937-38 school year so that parents could attend a dinner and program in an effort to get to know their children’s teachers better.

Nowadays, many college applicants scramble for scholarships or financial aid to ease paying off their tuition. Back in the 1940s, Pepsi-Cola gave 14 Paly students the opportunity to be assisted in their post-Paly plans. They were awarded $25 per month (about $338 today).

Sept. 25, 1930: Golf Course Announce Special Student Rates

March 22, 1934: Boy, Girl Flee; Caught in Reno, Lodged in Jail

Feb. 19, 1942: FDR signs Executive Order 9066

Currently, Paly students are pampered with luxuries such as having Town and Country right across the street from their classes, and with that, many restaurants offer student discounts on meals. Likewise, the Cardinal golf course began to offer a 15 cents for 18 holes deal.

In an effort to return home to the East Coast, a man and a woman posed as students at Paly and stole a typewriter from Paly’s campus. Even though many students witnessed the pair strut off campus with the typewriter, they made no effort to thwart the couple.

In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed off on an order that allowed the incarceration of people from Japan. This was the case with Paly student James Sato, a Japanese American who was removed from Paly in 1942.

The Campanile

Friday, March 23, 2018

1950s-60s:

By Neil Kapoor & Ethan Nissim Staff Writers 1950s t is often stated that the 1950s was the era of rock ’n’ roll. Yet, rock ’n’ roll music was not the only burgeoning aspect of life that this decade harbored. During this exciting time, The Campanile faithfully documented events at Paly and in the Palo Alto community. Today, these records offer a glimpse into our past, from revolutions to civil rights and war protests to pop culture. This section of Paly’s history, spanning 1950-54, focuses on the outspoken nature of Paly’s students. Addressing the social problems in the aftermath of World War II and the efforts to help those in need as much as possible, these years witnessed our community become more socially conscious than ever before. Sixty-eight years ago, The Campanile reported on the students’ disappointment with the optimistic yet false promises made following World War II. Despite predictions that 1950 was the dawn of a new America, cities across California, including Palo Alto, continued to be plagued by overcrowded jails, mental hospitals, old-age homes, orphanages and schools. Students complained of congested, unusable highways and polluted cities. To address these issues, The Campanile advocated for people to work together as the only solution to make 1950 the “year of opportunity,” and spur the progress

that was promised but not delivered a decade after World War II. Today, Paly students continue to advocate for social reform, most recently in the National School Walkout protest that advocated for increased gun control. At a city level, Palo Alto has made strides in improving our public schools and pollution standards, but heavy traffic and overburdened services continue to be a challenge. Not long after World War II, the United States found itself embattled in the infancy of the Cold War — this time on the Korean Peninsula in 1952. As the pressures of wartime began to weigh on the Paly community, students and teachers collected clothes and bedding as part of a clothing drive to support the needy. In total, Paly contributed 1,411 pounds of clothing and bedding to the war effort, and 750 pounds of clothing were subsequently shipped off to Korea. The drive was orchestrated as a competition between 33 sections of the student body, and the winner of the contest was given a theatre party by the Varsity Theater organization. Today, many Paly students are active in clubs and organizations that offer volunteering opportunities to serve the community. The latter half of the 1950s was marked by an increase in student enrollment and diversity in Paly’s student body. As Palo Alto offered more opportunities for prospective homeowners and workers alike, Paly’s needs, culture and student wishes shifted as well. Luckily, The Campanile kept

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up with Paly students’ ideas to address new campus issues during this time period. This period of Paly’s history, from 1955-60, was characterized by Paly students’ growing interests in extracurricular activities and the support administration provided to the students like incentives for improving overall campus life. Five years after the 20th century’s halfway mark, Paly students’ talent and enthusiasm were just as rich as they are today. In an editorial article, The Campanile advocated for the creation of a school debate society in light of Paly’s widespread argumentative enthusiasm and other Bay Area high schools’ efforts to organize formal debate programs. Many faculty emerged as very supportive of the idea. Paly students themselves supported founding a debate team in spite of the cost overhead the team would generate. First, they claimed a debate team would offer rewards to the school, mainly the trophies and honors they symbolize, from success in competition and contributions to the reputation of Paly. Second, they suggested that the fun and camaraderie of arguing and counterarguing would easily provide enough reward for the significant time and work investment. Third, they argued that the mental development, quick thinking, skillful reasoning, teamwork and mental self-reliance teach life-long lessons no matter what one makes of their life. Today, Paly’s Speech and

Nov. 4, 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States. During the election season, The Campanile covered Eisenhower’s campaign appearances at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, as well as his candidacy in the 1956 presidential election.

Debate team maintains a highachieving lineup of both debaters and speechies with three students qualifying to the 2018 California Speech and Debate State Championships, the highest caliber in the state. Just as the increase in student enrollment prompted the introduction of activities such as debate, systems to ease daily commutes emerged as well. In this time period, droves of Paly students could be found walking to school on a daily basis. The Campanile proposed an interesting idea for Paly’s own transportation service as a quick, regular way of getting to school each morning. As a result, organization members would give rides to other students so they would not have to walk, and in return for their good deed, members would receive service points in accordance with the time they spent taking students to school or home. Every quarter, the Point Award Board, a committee that rewarded service points to students for positive efforts, would doll out points to those members of the transportation organization for improving school climate as a whole. Today, many Paly students walk, bike or drive to school, and the need for such a committee is void due to Paly students’ alreadyintense involvement in extracurricular activities. 1960s In the first half of the 1960s, a debate about the role and purpose of student government raged

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across campus. In October 1962, the student court declared that an official trial did not need happen for a student to be given punishment, which The Campanile responded to with a scathing editorial. Months later, in February 1963, The Campanile would follow up with an editorial labelling the institution of student government useless. The editorial board formally requested that student newspapers stop covering the student government and their actions. The student government debate took the backseat in December, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Replacing the editorials about the student government was a large article titled “What protects man from irrational men?” bemoaning the tragic impact a single individual (Lee Harvey Oswald) could have on the lives of so many. Ironically, directly below it was an article about a school dance getting cancelled due to the drunken state of a few attendees. This momentary disruption did not prevent further coverage of the student government in the following months. The Campanile documented the revision of the school’s constitution, multiple changes of position and ultimately, the disbanding of student government at Paly a few years later. As the second half of the sixties unfolded, Paly students became increasingly politically engaged, clashing with the administration and with each other over issues of freedom and open

discourse. A poll taken in February of 1968 showed the student body divided over the war in Vietnam. This was not the first time The Campanile had covered student perception of the war; in October 1967 an interview with a Vietnamese exchange student was conducted and published to provide additional insight. In May 1968, the first ever Paly student walkout occurred, protesting the administration’s desire to clamp down on speech it deemed unacceptable. “In 1967-68, the Vietnam War was starting to escalate, and politics were becoming a bigger deal on campus,” said Keith Raffel, editor of The Campanile during the 1967-68 school year. “People weren’t allowed to smoke at school, but they wanted an area where they could smoke just for freedom’s sake,” Raffel said. Continuing the issue of free speech, an underground, nonapproved publication began to distribute itself on campus. “Some students started something called Radio Free Heaven, to be an underground newspaper,” Raffel said. “I didn’t write there, but I almost got suspended because I was in favor of distributing it, and the principal wanted to make an example of me.” According to Raffel, the publication didn’t get attention before the administration got involved. “I think no one would have paid attention if the administration hadn’t tried to ban it,” Raffel said.

Nov. 22, 1963: JFK is assassinated

May 2, 1968: First student walkout

President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in the middle of a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. This act of violence prompted the publication of the editorial “What protects man from irrational men?”, bemoaning the impacts one gunman could have on the lives of so many.

The first-ever Paly student walkout occurred, though only about 5 percent of students actually participated. Though initially protesting racism, the draft and restrictions on the freedom of the press, the protest’s purpose gradually changed to protesting the administration for suspending two participants.

June 25, 1950: Korean War begins

Nov. 1, 1955: Vietnam War begins

1967: Radio Free Heaven is founded

To help support the needy, Paly students and teachers collected clothes and bedding as part of a clothing drive. The harsh conditions and controversial actions of the United State’s continued involvement in Korean and Vietnam Wars would eventually prompt Paly students to protest both wars.

To gauge Paly students’ take on the United States’ extensive involvement in the war, The Campanile conducted a poll across 800 students. The questions assessed student opinions on U.S. presence, withdrawal of troops and escalation of force. The results confirmed a stark divide among the students.

In an effort to escape censorship from the administration and staff, a small band of students starts to publish an underground paper titled ‘Radio Free Heaven.’ The administration tried to stop it from being distributed due to the controversial nature of their content, but only succeeded in drawing more attention to it.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

1970s-80s

Paly students immerse themselves wholeheartedly in the ‘hippie age’

Laser rock shows, Grateful Dead and Who concerts fill students’ weekends

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The Palo Alto based band, The Grateful Dead, lured students to San Francisco for their New Year’s show.

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powerful phrase in itself,” wrote an unidentified staff writer in a 1980 edition of The Campanile in reference to the sheer movement that was rock and roll. “The ultimate symbol of any existing generation gap. An event frowned upon by society’s elders, yet cherished by its youth. An entertainment medium that draws the most dedicated crowds in the bright light world.” It’s no secret that rock domi“

nated the ‘70s and ‘80s music scene, luring students to local venues to catch worshipped artists on tour. Students marveled at the opportunity to see The Who live in Oakland, Calif., and felt particularly passionate about following the Grateful Dead, the Palo Alto based band, to San Francisco for their New Year’s festival show. “Everyone is there for one reason — to see one of the longest lived cult groups still in existence,” wrote staff writer Dan Spector in 1984 in reference to the Grateful

Dead concerts. “There has to be something unique about a band which consistently sells out huge concert halls and open-air festivals and has a set of fans as dedicated as the ‘Dead heads.’” While some concerts at the time were more erratic and could pose a dangerous atmosphere, the Grateful Dead offered a scene where listeners were peacefully swept up in the music. “They set an easy, melodic base in an already relaxed atmosphere,” Spector wrote. “None of the pushing and shoving evident at other

concerts is seen, just dancing.” A more unusual destination at the time was the Laser Rock Show, which played on Friday and Saturday nights at the De Anza College planetarium. “The laser rock performances offer loud music, psychedelic lighting and a bizarre change of pace,” wrote staff writer David Swope in 1984. The shows toyed with the genre of Psychedelic Rock, combining Pink Floyd’s classic melodies into a soothing, exotic musical dream. Stereotypes about this time period lead present day students to imagine the ‘70s and ‘80s as time dominated by hippies, individuals who reject conventional values and gravitate towards illegal, hallucinogenic drugs. The reasoning for this belief is represented well in a 1984 article titled “Hypnotapes help find one’s inner being.” Swope writes that the “widely advertised, ever-popular hypno albums allegedly reach inside the subconscious — that real power center of one’s being!” He mentions that it was common for students to acquire the tapes, produced by famous hypnotist Barrie Konicov, and “listen to a genuine hypnotist tell a person how to breathe, while imagining himself being twisted, enlarged, purified, taken apart and reassembled to unlock his spiritual door.”

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magine our school without the Associated Student Body (ASB); there would be no voice on behalf of the students to push for a better school climate. In February 1970, the majority of Paly students voted to abolish the student government. According to a 1970 issue of The Campanile, written by Marchal Sanders, out of 1,458 students, 399 voted to keep student government, 486 voted to terminate it and 573 did not participate in voting. In the 1970 article, former Student Body President Joe Simitian led the front against Paly’s student government, promising “no more hassle” in his campaign. “Student government keeps many students from participating,” Simitian says. “The structure of the government as it was estab-

lished at the time was not representative of student desires.” There was a general consensus that one of the main purposes of student government was to filter through student complaints, according to the article. However, students believed it would be more efficient for administration to manage this criticism.

“Any type of student government is better than none at all.” Unidentified Student Although the overall attitude towards student government tends to be dismissive, the abolishment led to several mixed reactions. An unidentified student said, “Any type of student government is better than none at all.”

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Staff Writer

arijuana was a mystery in the ‘70s and ‘80s. While the general consensus was that it was bad, the public had little to no idea of the ramifications of smoking weed and the toll it takes on the body. Staff writer Pete Freund published an article in 1976 titled “Marijuana is bad, bad, bad,” hoping to reveal the harsh reality of the drug to his cannabis-crazed peers. He disclosed that the “active ingredient in marijuana — tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — interferes with the function of cells and is uniquely accumulated in the body,” and that “the use of grass beyond three years may cause irreversible brain changes.” At the time, according to Freund, “doctors [did not] know enough about marijuana to allow the public sale of it.” There was little Freund or even distinguished scientists could do to stop the marijuana madness with minimal influence over the public, and the cannabis situation at Paly had amplified to involve the administration — but not in terms of prevention. Following two months of thorough investigation, four staff members were arrested on Jan. 18, 1984 for drug trafficking —

global illicit trade involving substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws — within school campus. The discovery unnerved the parents, especially when it was revealed that in addition to marijuana and sinsemilla, marijuana with higher THC content, the convicted staff were also responsible for the distribution of cocaine and hallucinogenic mushrooms to high school students. A student who bought illegal substances relayed that one convicted staff member had not been careful in executing the deal.

Four staff members were arrested on Jan. 18, 1984 for drug trafficking within school campus. The Palo Alto Police Investigative Division and the Allied Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team concluded that “any person 18 years or older who prepares for sale, sells or gives away a controlled substance to any minor upon the grounds or within any school is subject to a felony charge, warranting a five to seven year sentence in state prison,” according to a 1984 account written by Peter Jacobson and Paul Stein.

‘Wave’ Fashion, Music Popularized

Student government voted to be removed By Kennedy Herron

Weed obscurity and drug trafficking

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s the chapter of “Johnny Rotten, safety pins and torn T-shirts” faded, the New Wave of black suit jackets, flat leather oxfords and wraparound sunglasses consumed the latest fashion fad in 1980, according to an article in a 1980 issue of The Campanile by an unidentified staff writer. According to the writer, there was an extreme difference between Punk and New Wave in terms of music, fashion and other forms of expression. While Punk involved aggressive music and offensive clothing, the writer said New Wave has a more “fun and futuristic” style. “New Wave is becoming very high-tech,” the writer said. “Computers, as pins or as instruments, play a large part in New Wave fashion and rock.”

The use of electronics, lasers and rockets had an influence on the fashion of the ‘80s. For men, most outfits incorporated a black suit jacket from the ‘50s or ‘60s paired with a plain, white shirt and a narrow, striped tie. In a more casual situation, men would sport bowling shirts or plaid shirts with ankle hugging jeans. Arguably the most important part of the look, accessories completed these outfits. Whether they were “buttons of a New Wave group, or actual cutouts of the group,” pins took one’s fashion to the next level, according to the 1980 article. “The most important thing to realize about New Wave is that it’s limitless,” the writer said. “The above descriptions are merely the average look. The possibilities are endless.” This sense of unbounded creativity allowed for a more personal feel to one’s New Wave look.

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As Punk fashion and dyed hair faded, New Wave fashion took over. Although hats did not make an appearance in New Wave fashion, longer hair with curls on top was fairly popular. While individuals would dye their hair a neon green or a bold pink during the Punk era, “the only hair dying that [went] on among New Wave fans [was] either jet black or white,” according to the article. Haircuts during this new fad were typically longer, especially

in the back, as Punk cuts favored short hairstyles from absolutely no hair to colorful mohawks. According to the article, it is necessary to distinguish Punk and New Wave, as there are drastic differences that set the cultures of each apart. The writer wrote, “New Wave is fun. It permits us to laugh at ourselves and at the world around us, behind us and ahead of us.”

Administration implemented a campus smoking area in hopes of eliminating the buildup of smokers in school bathrooms By Leela Srinivasan

Staff Writer

round 40 years ago, teenagers could saunter into a convenience store to purchase packs of cigarettes well before the age of 18; smoking had not yet become a tabooed habit among high school students. While administration had no hope of preventing the students from smoking on campus altogether, they sought out ways to decrease the buildup of smokers in the bathroom. The answer was found in the form of a designated smoking area located on campus.

In a 1976 editorial about the new addition to the school, student journalist Margaret Connor wrote that it had proven to be a good answer for many, including non-smokers, who could adapt their routes to avoid the area. The advantage for administration was that it “[met] the teachers’ needs by not making them have to patrol a restroom and turn ‘policeman’ for the day,” according to Connor. The adolescent need to rebel is inevitable, and students soon began to abuse their privileges by smoking and distributing marijuana in the smoking area, initiat-

ing parent backlash towards the school’s decision. In February of 1980, student journalist and editor-in-chief of The Campanile Paul Chamberlain published an article detailing the escalating situation, writing that “over 200 Paly parents questioned the District’s policy regarding a designated smoking-area last Thursday as they filled the school auditorium for the second in a series of drug abuse programs.” In the event to follow, parents attacked the policy vigorously and demanded its repeal, while Principal James Van banded with the counselors in defense of the in-

stated smoking area. “‘[The elimination of the smoking-area] would only serve to drive smoking back into the bathrooms and the bushes,’ Van said. ‘Only a small part of usage takes place at school; if any impact is to be made on students, a cooperative effort on the part, of school and parents is needed,’” according to Chamberlain’s report in a 1980 issue of The Campanile. The principal fought back, conducting a strong argument; he claimed that if parents accepted the elimination of such areas as panacea, students would simply be prompted to move their smoking

habits out of direct view. “As a result, people will pretend chat a drug problem does not exist,” Van said. “Consequently, there will be no improvement in the situation.” Following Van’s speech, some parents were swayed and shifted to his side; however, others remained unconvinced. After a lengthy battle, administration and parents came to a consensus that a mandatory drug information program must be implemented for students, enabling them to make better

decisions regarding the use of drugs. Chamberlain wrote, “although still being forThe mulated, the prolegal gram would include films and smoking small group age in discussions, and Paly 1980 was counselors have already 16. begun meeting with parents to plan family workshops.”

April 1975: The Campanile wins award

June 1982: Weighted grades considered

April 18, 1986: Libyan crisis in effect

The Campanile was awarded a First-Class rating in a National Scholastic Press Association newspaper judging. The newspaper received excellent and superior ratings in several categories, including sports coverage and writing, editorials, the cover page, headlines, printing and inside news pages.

The Palo Alto Unified School District Cabinet considered a weighted grades system for the first time in Paly history. This would allow honors students to receive more recognition for choosing difficult courses by equating a B in an honors course to an A in a regular lane, which was a new concept at the time.

The United States responded to terrorist activities in Libya by attacking them with bombs. This caused a decrease in tourism due to the ongoing fear of terrorist hijackings and bombings. Many students and families canceled their upcomings trips to locations like Israel in order to avoid danger.

February 1970: ASB removed

1980: U.S. smoking age established

January 1984: Faculty members arrested

Paly students took a vote, with the majority ruling to get rid of the existing student government, which we now call the Associated Student Body (ASB), due to their inaction with issues. Out of 1,458 students in the student body, 399 voted to keep the government, 486 voted to terminate it and 573 did not participate.

Prior to 1980, there wasn’t a nationwide minimum smoking age. The implementation of this requirement prohibited anyone under the age of 16 from purchasing or smoking cigarettes, changing the dynamic of smoking for many high school students who had become accustomed to the habit.

After distributing cocaine, marijuana and sensimilla to high school students on Paly grounds, four faculty members were arrested. The investigation involved both the Palo Alto Police Investigative Division and the Allied Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team, and lasted two months.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

1990s

Gulf War, senior deck, changes to policies and new faculty positions defined ‘90s life at Paly By Philip Ericsson Business Manager

ar was on the minds of the student body in 1991; the first Campanile issue of the year showcased students’ varying and divisive opinions of the Gulf War. “Of the students polled, 50.3 percent oppose the use of force against Iraq by President [George H.W.] Bush, 49.7 percent favor it,” wrote John Monroe of The Campanile.

“The economic sanctions placed on Iraq need more time to take effect.” The Campanile, Jan. 18, 1991

Many of the students’ greatest concerns regarded the potential of a reinstated draft “The U.S. will invade too quickly… the economic sanctions placed on Iraq need more time to

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Activist Christopher Gronberg stands in front of Palo Alto’s City Hall to protest the Iraq War.

take effect,” said one Paly student interviewed for the story. “The arrival of body bags containing U.S. soldiers will be pretty scary, a concern we must all take in to consideration.” Another concern surrounding the war was the possibility of a rise in terrorism within the United States. Worried students cited potential attacks such as water poisoning and airplane hijackings. The article ended on a somber note as one student reflected: “I don’t want to die.” The next story on the front page of this issue from Jan. 18, 1991 was titled “Military draft unlikely.” The article’s author interviewed social studies teacher Tom Rowland about the potential for a draft that would include high school students. He believed that the potential drafting of 18-yearolds was unlikely, as the United States usually refrains from picking them first. The U.S. started by sending 500,000 professional, military and reserve volunteers from the United States Military. They also relocated troops from abroad to the Persian Gulf. According to Tom Rowland,

the potential of a draft was “extremely slight,” as Congress only approved going to war by a close 52-47 vote. And even if a draft was to be held, the men whose 20th birthdays fell in the draft year would be most likely to be selected. After them, the order follows as men whose 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 19th and 18th birthdays fell in the draft year.

Many of the students’ greatest concerns regarded the potential of a reinstated draft. “Rowland feels that politically the draft would present problems and would also ignite anti-draft protests like the ones which occurred during the Vietnam War,” wrote Eng. The article ends by saying that though a draft is unlikely, men over the age of 18 who not reached their 26th birthday must register; those who do not could face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 ($475,000 today).

Senior deck finally constructed after years of anticipation; implementation of budget cuts cause District-wide change By Philip Ericsson

Business Manager

he Campanile issue from March 9, 1992 included a story about the construction of the senior deck. The deck was “much anticipated” and was a gift from the graduating Class of 1990 at Paly. “Leftover funds from the class of 1989, as well as money from the Student Council fund, were used to pay for the approximately $11,000 total construction costs,” wrote J. Wegbreit of The Campanile. The deck took a total of two weekends to build. “I want students to enjoy the deck, and I hope they take care of it because it belongs to our student body,” said Student Activities Director Virginia Bakken in the article. “Our next project will include benches, trees and bushes to enhance the deck.”

Another interesting story from this issue was a senior editor’s account of his travel to the 1992 Winter Olympics.

“I want students to enjoy the deck, and I hope they take care of it.” Virginia Bakken

“In the days of the ancient Greeks, the Olympic Games were the summation and ideal of Greek civilization,” wrote Senior Editor Bjorn Sunde. “Every four years, the greatest and most promising young athletes from across the known world would gather at Olympia to compete for the honor of their city-states. Governments bowed in submission to the games, and all other business

took a back seat to them. All wars ground to a halt while the games were taking place.” Sunde detailed his experience at the Olympics and the most impressive events from each day. In the June 16, 1993 issue budget cuts were discussed. The District had just announced that it intended to cut $25,000 from it’s annual operating costs. Many jobs as librarians, English department aides and the Guidance Office’s Secretary saw hours and wages reduced, and in total three jobs were completely cut from the District. “We [the administration] have been wondering how we can do things more effectively and efficiently for students,” said former Principal Sandra Pearson. With these budget cuts came many reorganizations within the District; staff were assigned new positions to make up for the ones lost or limited in the cuts.

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Paly students rejoice on the recently constructed and highly anticipated $11,000 class gift, the senior deck.

Poll detailing student drug use and new smoking regulations influence the student body at Palo Alto High School By Riley Short

Staff Writer

ront and center on a March 1994 issue of The Campanile is a story titled “Recent poll reveals alarmingly high drug use among the Palo Alto student body.” The story cited that drug use was most prevalent among male seniors, but was far from absent among ninth, 10th and 11th graders.

“There are cigarette butts and empty packs all over the ground. Its astronomical.” Jerry Smith

The numbers from the 1994

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poll on the entire Paly student body showed that 41 percent of students had tried marijuana, 18 percent had tried acid (LSD), 16 percent had tried shrooms (hallucinogenic mushrooms), 9 percent had tried speed, 7 percent had tried cocaine and 6 percent had tried heroin. “These numbers are extremely high,” said 1994 Student Body President and senior Anne Hawkins. “But unfortunately, they don’t surprise me.” The article cited that 54 percent of parents were unaware of their children’s drug use. Eighty percent of students also said that their parents either would not or do not approve of their drug use. In the first issue of 1995, new smoking regulations were outlined. The regulations prohibited smoking on bleachers, near backstops and play structures in parks.

A manager at Town and Country store at the time was glad for these new restrictions.

“These numbers are extremely high, but unfortunately they don’t surprise me.” Anne Hawkins

“I think it’s great,” said Jerry Smith, Manager of John’s Town and Country Market. “If you walk around out front [of the store] with a camera and take pictures, you will see all the debris left [by Palo Alto High School students] just after lunch time. There are cigarette butts and empty packs all over the ground. It’s astronomical.”

March 11, 1996: CCS win

Feb. 10, 1997: Superintendent hired

Apr. 1, 1999: April Fools’ edition

As part of a historic season, the boys varsity basketball team at Paly won CCS after defeating Westmont High School 38-28. Paly went on to advance to the NorCal playoffs beating Foothill High School 74-50 but their run ended after a heartbreaking 57-58 loss to Grant High School.

The Palo Alto School Board selected Don Phillips as the new Superintendent of the school district. Phillips was a graduate of Gunn High School and had previously been the Superintendent of the Mountain View-Los Altos School District. The position had previously been vacant since August.

The Campanile published an April Fools’ themed front page, full of funny headlines and bogus stories. Some of the headlines read: “Foreign language cracks down,” “Teacher’s former star life exposed” and “Librarian ejects student from library for writing too loudly” (See B7 for full story).

March 1996: New rules at Paly

May 20, 1996: New tech jobs

Oct. 26, 1998: School reform

New policies were instated in the new year. Among these was a new strategy to crack down on habitual truants. Campus Supervisor Scott Reese was given a list of when students had preps. Any student who was not in class could be looked up and if they were cutting, they would be asked to go back to class.

As a way to combat problems with installation and management of the PAUSD network wiring project as well as other technology projects, the District advertised for two administrators to coordinate and supervise technology. Even back in 1996, Paly was advanced in its utilization of tech.

Newly proposed propositions affected school expansion costs and new guidelines as well as positions. One of the propositions would institute a $9.2 billion dollar bond measure for all public schools in the state of California, specifically for renovation and new construction.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

2000s

How Paly students reacted to tragedy and injustice: 9/11, sexual assaults and suicide

The Campanile covers community responses to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

Palo Alto high schools cope with suicide clusters By Lucy Nemerov & Khadija Abid

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ollowing the devastating terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, The Campanile set out to cover students’ reactions. Through a multitude of articles and verbatim pieces, The Campanile highlighted the local effects and opinions regarding the globally devastating event. A verbatim piece in The Campanile, published on Dec. 3, 2001 asked students what they thought about the emphasis on religion since the Sept. 11 attacks. The article captured the optimistic and inclusive views of the student body, featuring various students who condemned bigotry and encouraged a united front. Alumnus Neeraj Miglani, a sophomore at the time of the article, said, “we’re all U.S. citizens. And we’re all in this together, so we need to drop the racist comments and focus on uniting as one.” Similarly, alumna Maayan Ben-Artzi said, “I don’t agree with it, because they are singling out people and religions, and it’s going against everything America says it stands for.” In another verbatim piece, written by Corey Miller and published in on Sept. 30, 2002, The Campanile reported on various students and their perceptions of terrorism and the war on terror. Alumnus Ryan Kutz provided a humorous response, stating that “terrorists are everywhere. They are in your cheeseburger.” Other students provided more nuanced interpretations, however, and discussed possible faults with the U.S.’s current response to terrorism. Though individual views differed, the students

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presented a general consensus that the threat of terrorism had increased and that immediate action was required. In one such example, alumnus Sathvik Tantry said, “terrorism isn’t something you can squish. You can’t destroy or make it go away without actively taking a resolution in what they want ... We can’t just use violence. ”

“I think each person in the world, no matter where they live, was personally affected by Sept. 11.” Deline Drury

In addition to covering the local response to the Sept. 11 attacks,The Campanile also reported on international reactions to the event. In an article written by alumnus Corey Miller, published on Sept. 30 2002, The Campanile asked teens from around the globe to share their opinions about a variety of Sept. 11 related topics. Throughout the article, Miller reflected upon several international responses

to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, and how people from other nations perceived America differently following the devastating incident. “It was not just Americans or those living in America who felt as if they had been attacked,” Miller said in the article. “Responses confirmed the notion that most people viewed the terrorist strikes as attacks not on America, but on the world and on humanity in general.” Miller referenced quotes from students from a myriad of countries, including South Africa, Britain and Australia. “I think each person in the world, no matter where they live, was personally affected by Sept. 11,” Deline Drury, of Pretoria, South Africa, said. On the one year anniversary of the attacks, The Campanile reflected upon the drastic impact of the terrorist attacks. In a Spotlight titled “One year later: How 9/11 changed the world,” published on Sept. 30 2002, alumna Laura Gaynon said, “today’s Paly students live in a far different world than those of the past. Increased security, threat of global economic troubles and the shadow of war are now undeniable aspects of modern American life.”

PAUSD reacts to multiple sexual assualt scandals at Palo Alto High School

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By Lucy Nemerov & Khadija Abid StaffWriters

n recent years, PAUSD has been riddled with sexual assault scandals. As these accusations and cases became publicly known, student journalists at The Campanile have worked to examine these cases from a student perspective and inform the student body. On June 2 2017, The Campanile published an article titled “A Muddled Mystery: Sexual Assault Allegations Roil District.” Campanile writers extensively reported on the known information about the 2016 sexual assault case, as well as community reactions to the incident. In the issue mentioned, the article “A Muddled Mystery: Sexual Assault Allegations Roil District,” states, The Campanile has uncovered more accurate information that clarifies the situation: The student had been convicted in juvenile court of “oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace or fear” for the incident at the church, and of consensual sex with a minor, not sexual assault, for

the incident on Paly’s campus.” Shortly after the sexual assault case came to light, news came of the administrations mishandling of the situation. In the article, “Paly principal releases formal disciplinary letter from District”, published on March 7 2018, the errors made by Principal Kim Diorio were outlined. The article explained, “The letter of reprimand, sent to Diorio by Interim Assistant Superintendent Anne Brown, states that, among other mistakes, Diorio and other school administrators failed to interview all relevant witnesses to the incident in question, including both students involved.”

In recent years, the PAUSD district has been riddled with sexual assault scandals. The article clarified many assumptions made my community members who were upset by the handling of the case. Though this case in particular received an abundance of media attention, the 2017 case was not the first time Paly

has been under scrutiny for sexual misconduct. In an article titled “The PAUSD Predicament: Sexual Misconduct,” The Campanile delved into previous cases of sexual harassment and assault that involved PAUSD employees. Within the article, the different cases were outlined. “Sexual misconduct should never occur, and yet it has continued to plague the District. Former Palo Alto High School principal Phil Winston was disciplined for inappropriate verbal and physical behavior towards students and resigned in June 2013. Paly English teacher Kevin Sharp resigned in November 2015 after having an inappropriate relationship with a recently graduated student . . . Most recently, Paly chemistry and biology teacher Ronnie Farrell was taken into custody on June 15 for allegedly groping a 15-year-old girl in his classroom on campus.” Throughout the past two decades, there have been numerous cases of sexual misconduct involving students and staff. Despite a multitude of attempts for improvement, sexual harrasment incidents are unfortunetly still prevalent in our community.

n a town where many students are overcome with pressure, mental health and suicide have become recurring issues in the Palo Alto Community. Starting in 2009, there have been two major teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto, affecting the community as a whole. In the first cluster, the community witnessed the deaths of four students who attended Gunn High School as well as two other local teens over a 7 month span during the 2008-2009 school year. In the second cluster, four students died by suicide between October 2014 and March 2015. The suicides plaguing Palo Alto undeniably elicited an emotional response from the student body. However, The Campanile recognized the need to grieve and refrained from publishing editorials regarding the topic. In a Letter from the Editors published on February 6 2015, the editorial board explained The Campanile’s decision regarding their journalistic response to recent events. The letter stated, “In wake of the tragic events that have affected our community, the staff of The Campanile has chosen to refrain from publishing any editorial comment regarding the topic of suicide . . . We understand the obligations of The Campanile as a member of the Palo Alto High School journalistic body; however, we believe that the best course of action in the months to come is to prevent harmful speculation and to allow time for grief and recovery.” Following these clusters, the district enacted new policies to prevent further tragedy. The Campanile ensured that the newspaper would not publish emotional articles in response to the suicides. Instead, they only published stories regarding actions taken by the district. On May 20, 2015, The Campanile published an article titled “Cameras to be installed near train.” The article covered the district’s decision to install cameras by the CalTrain tracks. These cameras were not installed to act alone, only to assist the security guards who are stationed on the tracks. The article explained, “Implementing a new automated camera system will extend visibility of the tracks and also notify guards of anything or anyone on the tracks in a more timely manner. The cameras will be able to alert guards the moment an individual steps onto the tracks. This will ensure that public safety officials have enough time to arrive at the Caltrain tracks in order to resolve possible issues.”

is definitely a step in the right direction.” In an article published by The Campanile on February 29, 2016 titled “CDC Investigating Palo Alto suicides,”The Campanile explained the actions being conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) within the district.

Schools within the district have also established a multitude of mental health related programs. The article states, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently conducting an epidemiological study on Palo Alto’s recent suicide clusters in order to address and mitigate Santa Clara County’s problem of youth suicide after a formal request from the county and state public health departments last March.” Although the CDC’s studies were put in place to find the root of the suicide problem in Palo Alto, The Campanile explained that some community members doubt the effectiveness of the studies, as student opinion is not being looked at. Former Henry M. Gunn High school English teacher expressed his concern in the article, “I understand that this study has an emphasis on collecting data, and it’s not the fault of the CDC that that is the nature of this study,” Vincenti said. “I think that the mistake is in people being allowed to think of this study as something that will make a profound difference for this district. The study’s shortcomings are fairly obvious in that the researchers … will not be interviewing a single teenager in Palo Alto. … You can’t do a study of teenage suicide in Palo Alto and not talk to a single teenager. It just does not make sense.” In attempt to promote mental health and prevent another cluster, schools within the district have also established many mental health related programs. In an article published on November 20, 2015, titled “Program emphasizes mental well-being,” The Campanile informed students about the new “Sources of Strength” program. According to the article, “The implementation of the Sources of Strength program has been divided into two parts: establishing adult advisors and peer leaders and starting student-led projects throughout the school known as “campaigns.”’ The piece “Program emphasizes mental well-being” also voiced the opinions of administrators involved in the program. “Part of what we’re trying to do is trying to change the narrative from ‘Palo Alto is the place for suicides’ or ‘Palo Alto is the community where everybody gets so stressed out that they have to jump in [front of ] trains’ to ‘[Palo Alto’s] culture is the place filled with resilience,’” Paly’s Mental and Health and Wellness Coordinator Jonathan Frecceri said. Since the first suicide cluster, the Palo Alto community has enforced many new policies and reforms in order to increase mental health awareness and help students cope with grief. Although some doubt the effectiveness of said programs, the community has become aware of the challenges students face in the school environment and ramifications that can come as a result. “We as a community, as well as a society, should be making sure that people understand that like [for] any other health condition, there is treatment and help, and that students and teenagers can avail themselves to the services or people that can help them,” Diorio said.

1 IN 7 TEENS IN THE U.S. HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE

In a town where many students are overcome with pressure, mental health and suicide have become recurring issues within the Palo Alto Community. The article also included the opinions of Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) students. “I also think that the response time will not be quick enough to stop anyone from committing suicide,” Former Gunn student Kathleen Ji said. “If someone knew exactly what they wanted to do, they’d be able to jump before anyone could respond to the video. I do applaud the city’s efforts though; this

March 2001: Gun scare

November 2015: Egg Wars

March 2018: Kim Diorio resigns

Rumors surrounding a gun fight on campus concerned many community members. The school was locked down and the two suspected students were searched, though no weapons were found. Follwing the incident, The Campanile has also published a Spotlight on gun violence and covered school protests regarding gun laws.

In the notorious Egg War scandal, hundreds of upperclassmen were threatened with suspension for participating in an egg fight on Gunn High School campus. Jacquie McEvoy, Paly’s principal at the time, was criticized for implementing strict disciplinary policies following the incident.

After holding the position of principal for five years, Kim Diorio announced her resignation on March 9 2018. The Campanile has reported on the resignation and retirement of numerous principals. Throughout the past decade, Paly principals have stayed for an average of three to four years.

January 2000: Al Gore/ George Bush election The contested election between Al Gore and George W. Bush envoked passionate student responces on both sides of the issue. The Campanile published local opinions on the contreversy and covered protests that took place on El Camino and Embarcadero regarding the issue.

Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks

May 2017: Sexual assault

Follwing the devestating incident, The Campanile covered local reactions and opinions regarding terrorism, religion and war. On the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, The Campanile published a Spotlight delving into the longterm effects and reactions to the terrorist attacks.

A student athlete was accused of allegedly sexually harrasing multiple female students. In the past decade, there have been numerous cases of sexual misconduct in Palo Alto. PAUSD administration has been accused of mishandling incidents based on the Title IX regulations, causing widespread dissatisfaction.

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Reviewing the History of Paly Publications Over the Decades The Public School Gazette 1895 The Palo Alto Statement 1895

The Campanile 1918

Sphinx 1902

Madrono Pamphlet 1903

Red and Green 1901

KPLY Radio Viking Magazine 2015 2009 C Magazine 2010 The Paly Voice 2001

InFocus 2001 The Sequanile 1932

Madrono 1919

Verde Magazine 1999

Art by Renee Hoh Text and Design by Anna Meyer, Sophia Moore & Kiana Tavakoli

The Campanile

Paly’s student-run newspaper, The Campanile, has been publishing for 100 years, and began with Dorothy Nichols leading the publication through its first year. The past century has been filled with many national and state awards for the publication and its individual writers. According to Esther Wojcicki, The Campanile adviser for the past 35 years, the purpose of The Campanile is “to provide accurate information to the community about issues of importance or things that have happened so they can make intelligent decisions.” This means that The Campanile reports on news from all

parts of Paly’s campus. Through uncovering student opinion and voice, The Campanile is able to work towards creating a better campus.To achieve this result, Wojcicki strives to allow the students as much freedom as possible. “My goal is to empower the students and to give them control of their environment," Wojcicki said. "The school is for the students, and the more they feel it belongs to them, the more they’re going to work towards a good environment for everyone." Despite nearly being fired for this hands-off approach, Wojcicki and co-adviser Rod Satterthwaite continue to do so in order to enable student development.

The Paly Voice is Paly’s online publication, created in 2001. "[The Paly Voice's] responsibility is to not only report the news, but also to interact with our community in a meaningful way,” according to The Paly Voice’s website. According to adviser Paul Kandell, the biggest change involved its content management systems; Voice moved from a home-coded system to a modernized template in around 2010. The Paly Voice used to be the only Paly online news outlet, but now it competes with other publications’ online presence. The challenge for The Paly Voice, then, is to provide readers with a reason to read news from The Paly Voice and remain the most innovative online news provider; this task has motivated the staff to constantly improve. The Paly Voice earned a Gold Crown award in 2012, followed by Silver Crown awards in 2015 and 2018.

In 2008, The Viking was created as a branch off The Campanile, becoming the first high school sports magazine in the United States. The Viking serves as an outlet for students who feel passionate about sportsrelated topics. A quote from the letter from the editors published in the first issue of the magazine in October 2007 stated that “The Viking will report not only on the day-to-day events of the sports world, but also on the important underly-

Paly's clubs and broadcast publications KPLY Paly’s newest publication is KPLY, a radio publication, which started just three years ago. According to their website, the goal of KPLY is to “become a new voice for student news, entertainment, and music.” KPLY has 24/7 broadcasts. The broadcasts cover various topics according to the student's interests. Proof Magazine Proof is Paly’s arts and photography magazine, which first started in 2011. It was a finalist for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Crown Award for its first issue. “Proof is focused mainly on showing students’ work,” Proof senior art editor Caitlin Dazey said in an interview with the Paly Voice in 2011. "The purpose of Proof magazine is to serve as an artistic platform for students who want to share and express their artistic abilities," said junior Patille Papas. "It's a great place to meet other artists in the Paly community." Agora Magazine Agora is Paly’s foreign affairs magazine, which started three years ago as a club and evolved into a

print magazine in 2016. Their purpose is to create a club with interested members who inform and discuss the events occurring around the world and to draw more students into foreign affairs. Anthro Magazine Anthro Magazine is a club started as a platform for students from Paly and other local schools to express themselves. According to the Anthro Facebook page, their goal is “to highlight issues that we see in our community, create a safe place to debate these issues and to make sure that student voices are heard.” After being founded in November 2016 as a club, Anthro may transition to a class setting in which students can enroll in the next year. Infocus Infocus, “The Eyes and Ears of Palo Alto High,” is Paly’s broadcast TV station. Their goal, as stated on their website, is “to capture student-life at Palo Alto High School through a balanced lense.” As technology has improved, InFocus has made adjustments over time. One significant change is in the format and structure of the broadcast. For example, new segments such as "Guess Who?" have been added.

Campanile alumni's favorite memories Compiled by Kiana Tavakoli, Anna Meyer & Sophia Moore

Staff Writers

aly journalism has allowed for experiences that many alumni reminisce about to this day. When asked about memorable moments, this is what past Campanile staff thought of. “I remember accidentally printing the paper with a drawn-on mustache — or was it devil’s horns? — on the photo of a School Board member… and having to Sharpie over it in every single copy before distribution.” — Gaëlle Faure “Back in the day before everyone was offended about every-

thing I plagiarized this idea in my column entitled “CASUAL OBSCENITY.” The concept was how Bert and Ernie are gay. Another student complained to the School Board and principals and Woj defended me from getting in trouble!” — Aaron Pugliese “Steve Jobs bringing us dinner during production” — Jenni Cambier

“Completely redoing an issue during the final week of production when the Iraq War broke out. And the angst of figuring out the right way to cover it.” — Katie Crocker Storey “Woj talking our way into CBGB in New York... That portable...(I can smell it now).” — Abigail Reider

Verde Magazine is Paly’s features magazine, created in 1999. According to Verde’s first Editorial Board, “the magazine hopes to encompass topics as diverse as the student body.” Esther Wojcicki, the first adviser of Verde, recounted the difficulty in finding a new adviser until Verde won a NSPA Pacemaker award after its first year. According to current adviser Paul Kandell, “the magazine can serve as a way for students to come together and exercise their free expression… in a way that also creates an incredible learning engine for them [the students].” The freedom of student expression has allowed Verde to become “very social justice ori-

In 2010, a small group of students from The Campanile branched off to create a new magazine centered around arts and culture. In its first two years, C Magazine struggled to find an adviser other than Esther Wojcicki, who was already advising The Campanile. Although the magazine started off slowly, it is now an awardwinning publication, having won a CSPA Gold Crown Award in both 2014 and 2018. The current C Magazine adviser, Brian Wilson, says that C Magazine has now grown to around 40 writers and that the interests of the writers is clearly reflected in the magazine. “C Mag really seems to align with the focus area of the students of the staff,” Wilson said. “The students who are part of the staff are really passionately involved in a specific area of journalism.”

“Going... to New York and [Esther Wojcicki] telling us we’d be meeting ‘someone who works at the New Yorker’ and sitting down face to face with David Remnick.” — Arjun Singh “Cutting and pasting all the pages together with razor blades.” — Michelle Braun Nayfack “All of us editors-in-chief staying at school til 1 a.m. in solidarity, so that we could all drive... to the printer in San Jose together. Also... the glee of The Campanile staff collectively making the School Board extremely uncomfortable when we uncovered an unorthodox pay raise given to an administrator; what an empowering experience to discover journalism's power to hold powerful people to account. — Rebecca Reider

ing issues that face athletes, parents and fans.” The Viking has continued the aim of publishing articles that go well beyond teams and scores and into the lives of athletes. “Stories are written about the importance of diet, cutting weight, race and its connection to sports,” said Brian Wilson, Viking’s current adviser. “Just things that are bigger issues, but seen through the lens of sports.” The Viking, now a strong independent publication, recently earned a CSPA Gold Crown Award in 2013 and received Silver Crown Awards in 2015 and 2018.

ented,” as stated by Kandell. In 2013, Verde published an article about rape culture at Paly. This controversial article led to the creation of a consistent procedure for the administration to follow up in the event of sexual harassment. Verde has recently formed two new branches: Via Verde and Veritas. Via Verde was created “to discuss student experiences with local and international travel and to encourage students to expand their worldview and discover different cultures around the world,” as stated on the Verde website, while Veritas “aims to show students the role science plays in their lives.” Verde has proved itself to be another successful Paly publication by becoming a recipient of several national awards.

Paly’s yearbook, the Madrono, was created in the same school year as The Campanile (the 191819 school year). In the beginning, Madrono was organized by section (such as sports and clubs). However, in the past few years, Madrono has changed significantly. “One of the biggest shifts we’ve made was that we went into chronological coverage,” said Madrono adviser Brian Wilson. “Every week the staff has a conversation about what things are happening in the Paly community and which of those to cover. This allows for students on the staff to see themselves as journalists.” The new chronological order that Madrono has implemented allows for a more journalistic approach to the creation of a yearbook, as it steers the focus of the staff towards capturing significant pieces of Paly life which arise naturally, rather than artificially.

The Campanile Editors-in-Chief Maya Homan • Niklas Risano • Ehecatl Rivera Allison Wu • Ashley Zhang Online Editor Edan Sneh

Managing Editors Nicholas Melvin • Paarth Sharma

News and Opinion Editors Noah Baum • Renee Hoh

Lifestyle Editors Vivian Feng • Kesi Soundararajan

Science & Tech Editor Peyton Wang

Sports Editors Eric Li • Kiran Misner

Multimedia Editor Philip Ericsson

Business Manager Philip Ericsson

Khadija Abid Annie Chen Marie Davis Eric He Kennedy Herron Leyton Ho Samantha Hwang Neil Kapoor Edward Kim

Staff Writers

Grace Kitayama Bernie Koen Raj Lele Alyssa Leong Miranda Li John Loftus Waverly Long Tess Manjarrez

Anna Meyer Sophia Moore Navid Najmabadi Lucy Nemerov Kaylie Nguyen Ethan Nissim Christopher Pierno Yusra Rafeeqi

Illustrators

Photographers Peter Gold Samantha Hwang

Jonathan Stoschek Alyssa Leong

Advisers Esther Wojcicki • Rodney Satterthwaite Letters to the Editors: Email all letters to editors to theeds18@googlegroups.com The Campanile prints letters on a space-available basis. We reserve the right to edit submissions. The Campanile only prints signed letters. Advertisements: Advertisements with The Campanile are printed with signed contracts. For more information regarding advertisements or

William Robins Riley Short Leela Srinivasan Ujwal Srivastava Kiana Tavakoli John Tayeri Ben van Zyll Byron Zhang Shannon Zhao

Annie Chen Marie Davis

Miranda Li Renee Hoh

Writing Coaches Evelyn Richards • Elisabeth Rubinfien sponsors in The Campanile and their size options and prices, please contact The Campanile Business Managers by email at campanile.ads@gmail.com. Note: It is the policy of The Campanile to refrain from printing articles that misrepresent or alienate specific individuals within the Palo Alto community. The Campanile would like to thank the PTSA for supporting the mailing of our newspaper!

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The Roots Beneath The Campanile

Text & Design by Marie Davis & Nick Melvin

early a hundred years ago, it was considered an accomplishment for students to finish eighth grade, as many jobs did not

require a high school or college education. Although people were not expected to complete a higher education, Palo Alto’s foundation as a college town for Stanford University enabled local parents to form

their own school district, giving way to our very own Palo Alto Senior High School. From its beginning, Paly’s strong educational values enabled it to be the ideal location for progressive extracurriculars such as journalism. In the fall of 1918, Paly senior and Commissioner of Literary Activities Dorothy Nichols proposed the creation of a newspaper “by and for the students of the Palo Alto Union High School,” as stated in the 1919 yearbook. Paly’s journalism program consisted of mostly “pamphlet” style publications such as The Red and Green, Sphinx and Madrono. “The Madrono pamphlet was a mixed bag of journalism as you will see if you look over the early issues: part

news, short story, jokes (most and Green [the school colors in its place was found a desk of them pretty silly), athlet- at the time],” said Nichols in for the editor with plenty of drawers in ics, dramatics and at the end an interview which to file of the year a sort of yearbook,” for The Campa“Staff members contributions said Paly Librarian Rachel nile’s semicenKellerman in an email. tennial exclu- hurried home in the and communias well The newspaper was intend- sive. gathering darkness cations, as to estable ed to replace Madrono, which In spite of was originally published every The Campa- after weary hours of a full-fledged ‘morgue.’” three weeks, allowing it to be- nile’s hundred W h e n come the high school’s official years of dedi- toil, getting ready for Nichols was yearbook instead. cated jourthat first issue.” on staff, Paly Unlike today’s paper, which nalism, the Elizabeth Wallace students had to is composed of nearly 50 stu- n e w s p a p e r ’s pay a $1 annudents, the staff was only com- b e g i n n i n g s posed of 10 reporters and were nearly thwarted by a al subscription fee to read The business and managing editors bad case of the flu. Although Campanile. The business manfrom all grades, since there schools were closed for five agers aggressively advertised in was no Beginning Journalism weeks, The Campanile’s staff bold-print notices: “360 sturequirement at the time. Prior refused to let the epidemic dents, 150 subscribers — what to their scheduled September stymie their plans, even when are the other 210 of you going to do about it?” debut, The Campanile ran an it reached Nichols. After receiving a few crieditorial offering a prize to the “Meetings were held student who (masks on tiques from the many subpicked the best and distances scribers, an “Open Column” “I really wanted name, which kept as per and a “Question Box” were eswould be de- the name to be The the board of tablished for the student body; cided by a mahealth regu- contributions included short Campanile, but some lations) and stories, poems and a majority jority vote. “A c t u a l l y, people wanted it to be staff members of opinion pieces. In addition, we manipuhurried home according to The Campanile’s lated the deci- the Red and Green.” in the gather- semicentennial exclusive, staff sion a little; I ing darkness writers had the advantage of Dorothy Nichols really wanted after weary conducting the occasional the name to hours of toil, eavesdrop for more credible be The Campanile, but some getting ready for that first is- sources as their office was lopeople wanted it to be the Red sue,” wrote Elizabeth Wallace cated directly above the staff in the 1919 faculty meeting room. When all the stories were Madrono. R e l e a s e d turned in after several deadline with a short reminders from the editors, delay on Nov. Nichols typed them all up and 27, 1918, the brought them to the Palo Alto paper con- Times to be printed. Then, she sisted of four hauled the huge rolls of paper pages filled home while simultaneously with athletic, proofreading all the articles. d r a m a t i c , The newspaper did not go military and completely digital until 1997 social news, when the staff transitioned to along with digital transfer and launched a two edito- website. “During the old ‘paste up’ rials. After moving we literally glued articles and to the high images onto a backing (like school’s new an art project) and physically location on delivered the resulting poster Embarcadero board to the printer to phoRoad where tograph and print,” said Paly Paly cur- alumnus Matthew Gunn in an rently resides, email. “We were using Adobe the newspaper staff secured a Pagemaker software to do laycouple of tables and a much- out, but we weren’t fully operneeded typewriter for their ating in the modern world.” Through the past 100 years, new office in the Campanile the newspaper has endured Tower. “These tables soon took many changes, including the on a very businesslike air and addition of three sections, became covered Lifestyle, Sports and most rewith clippings cently, Science and Technoland papers of ogy, now containing 24 pages all sort,” Wal- of content. Nonetheless, the lace wrote. one component of The Cam“Not long ago panile that has never changed one of the is its ability to foster lifelong tables disap- bonds between its many stupeared and dent writers and editors. “I found the friendships I developed with those a year older as immensely useful,” Gunn said. “As a junior, talking with seniors helped me navigate the college application process. As a senior, I appreciated the insight on college I got from those same Campanile alums.” All photos from Paly Journalism Archives

Underground Publications Censorship on student speech in the 1960s and ë70s led many Paly student to create underground publications to fully express their opinions, political and otherwise. PALY JOURNALISM ARCHIVES

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Student protests

A century of students exercising their right of free speech. PAGE B6

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War coverage

How The Campanile responded to moments of national crisis. PAGES B4-B5

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Cartoons and illustrations

The artistic creations by the hands of the paper. PAGE B8

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Teacher advisers of The Campanile throughout the years Verbatim: Alumni reflect on the advisers 100 years of The Campanile’s teacher advisers — from 1918 to present-day “[Mr. Neff ] was great. He was kind [of ] formal, but he had high expectations and we learned a lot from him. He believed in structure and responsibility and he taught us all about who, what, when, where and why. I [remember] him turning us loose and giving us the responsibility to run the newspaper and make the decisions.”

PALY JOURNALISM ARCHIVE

Robert Neff, adviser from 1981–84

Esther Wojcicki, adviser since ‘84

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Rodney Satterthwaite, since 2016

Palo Alto High School English teacher and Campanile adviser Esther Wojcicki was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for exceptional scholastic journalism instruction. The honor included a financial award of $5000. The award was announced in a special ceremony on Nov. 14, 2001. Wojcicki became the first recipient of this award. In order to be eligible for the honor, a candidate must be nominated by students and parents. The Society received 25 letters of nomination for Wojcicki, easily the most for any candidate. Parents, past students and current students all combined to support Wojcicki in winning the award.

1918–19

Como Montgomery

1923–24

Carmel Myers

1924–29

Harriet McCausland

1929–30

Louise Heatwole

1930–33

Ethel S. Mitchell

1933–34

Walter H. Nichols

1934–36

Holland D. Roberts

1936–38

Wallace H. Moore

1938–41

Evelyn M. Kizer

1941–42

Mr. Frank Colombat

1942–47

Naomi Gill

1947–50

Florence Turner

Editor in Chief | 1985-86

1950–62

Bill A. Davis

“[Satt] is a really optimistic and funny teacher, and that reflected positively on the character of the classroom ... he was always, always smiling during class. Satt always gave us thoughtful and honest advice. I can’t recall a time when he didn’t stay until the end of production, and ... he always made time for us when we had questions.”

1962–63

Thomas Near

1963–67

Patrick Presto

From The Campanile, 1996 The Campanile introduces new staff, including advisor Wallace Moore

1977–80

Barry Bergstrom

1980–84

Robert G. Neff

Wallace H. Moore of the journalism department began teaching at Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1923, and after two years there he went to Japan to teach at the Takamatsu College of Commerce. He journeyed through China and Siberia. finally returning to the United I States to attend the Harvard graduate school for a year, receiving his Master’s Degree in 1929. He then taught at the Culver Military Academy until 1934. Coming West to Stanford University he received his Master of Education the next spring and is now a faculty member here.

David Swope

Editor in Chief | 1984-85

“I loved working with Esther ... I wouldn’t have changed [my] experience for the world ... She was a real character. If you said to pick one teacher who [taught me] the most, ... I would always go back to [Woj]. She had a huge impact on me ... She [taught] me how to be understanding of people [and] that even in the face of adversity, you can still be great.” MIRANDA LI/THE CAMPANILE

From Corey Miller in The Campanile, 2001 Esther Wojcicki, adviser since 1984, wins prestigious journalism award

Craig Vaughn

Jacqueline Moore

1984 – Present

Esther Wojcicki

2016 – Present

Rodney Satterthwaite

Editor in Chief | 2016–17

— Corey Miller Editor in Chief | 2002–03

From The Campanile, 1993 A “Guess Who?” article about a former adviser of The Campanile He is a fine, upright, outstanding man, who is faculty adviser for The Campanile (incidentally he’s going to proof-read this and will know who’s writing it!) who spends his spare time trying out current quips on a variety of people here and there. Some of the quips are really quite good, and some are just some of those quips! For nearly all his life he has devoted his entire time to the education of high school youths, and he has written several books on boys. His style of talking is extremely emphatic, and he delights in beaver hats! Can you take it?

Answer: Walter H. Nichols!

Past awards and recognition

Throughout its 100-year history, The Campanile has been commended by various journalism organizations nationwide West Regional Award TIME Magazine

In 2002, the West Regional Award was awarded to The Campanile by Time Magazine for editorial excellence, winning the nationwide competition.

CNPA Award California News Publishers Association

In 2010, The Campanile won the first place award in the CNPA’s annual statewide contest for the best student newspaper in California.

Gold Circle Award

Columbia Scholastic Press Association Since 1984, Gold Circle Awards have been given by the CSPA for individual achievement by student journalists. According to the CSPA, “[The Gold Circle Awards] are offered to recognize superior work by ... individuals.” In the last 21 years, individual staff writers of The Campanile have won 14 Gold Circle Awards, with article topics ranging from feminism and religion to scapegoating minority officers.

Hall of Fame

National Scholastic Press Association According to the NSPA website, “In 1987, the National Scholastic Press Association established a Hall of Fame for member student publications — newspapers, yearbooks and magazines — which have earned 10 All–American ratings from our publication critique service within an 11–year span.” The Campanile has been included in the NSPA Hall of Fame since 2004. It received a special honor plaque to mark the induction and was added to the NSPA Hall of Fame plaques, which are displayed and showcased at Journalism Education Association (JEA)/NSPA high school journalism conventions.

Crown Award

Columbia Scholastic Press Association According to the CSPA website, “Crown Awards are the highest recognition given by the CSPA to a student print or digital medium for overall excellence.” In the last 22 years, The Campanile has won five Gold Crowns for High School Hybrid News/ Newspaper/Publication, one Gold Grown for High School Digital News and five Silver Crowns for High School Newspaper. The Campanile won its 2018 Silver Crown just one week ago.

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The Paly MAC displays many of The Campanile’s awards and plaques.

Pacemaker Award

National Scholastic Press Association According to the NSPA website, “Each year, the National Scholastic Press Association presents scholastic journalism’s preeminent award, the Pacemaker.” Awarded annually since 1927, the Pacemaker represents excellence in American student journalism. These prestigious awards are considered to be the highest national honors in their field. In the last 12 years, The Campanile has won four Newspaper Pacemaker awards for outstanding coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership, design, photography and graphics. The most recent Pacemaker that The Campanile received was in 2017.

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Harriet McCausland

Ethel S. Mitchell

Walter H. Nichols

Harriet McCausland was the adviser of The Campanile from 1924–29, when there were 37 staff members. According to the 1927 Madrono, “Miss McCausland, for three years the faculty adviser of The Campanile, is experienced both as a journalist and a teacher and her assistance is invaluable to the staff in publishing a live and interesting paper.” The newspaper was published semi-monthly, at 10 cents per copy or 60 cents a semester subscription.

Ethel Mitchell was the adviser of The Campanile from 1931–33, when there were 29 students on the staff. According to the 1931 Madrono, “Mrs. Ethel Mitchell’s sympathetic work as faculty adviser added to the success of the paper.” A 1933 issue of The Campanile says “Too much credit cannot be given to Mrs. Ethel Mitchell for her ready help and work as faculty adviser.” During this time, a subscription was 75 cents per semester.

Walter H. Nichols was the adviser of The Campanile from 1933–34, when there were 32 members on staff. “Formerly, the [Campanile] staff often worked until midnight,” according to the 1934 Madrono. However, “with the aid of Mr. Nichols and his watch, the basement [where staff worked] was closed at nine and ten o’clock.” The Campanile was published weekly, with copies sold for 10 cents each, and subscriptions at 75 cents per semester.

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Individual Awards

National Scholastic Press Association The NSPA also presents awards to individual writers — in 2017, Campanile staff writer Maya Homan won the Story of the Year Award under the Sports category, and Campanile staff writer Vivian Feng received an honorable mention under the Diversity Series. Additionally, Ben Hewlett received an honorable mention for a News story in 1996.

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1996 Gold Crown Award Plaque

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Evelyn M. Kizer

Bill A. Davis

Patrick Presto

Evelyn M. Kizer was the adviser of The Campanile from 1936–38, when there were 22 staff members. She “ably advised the staff and assisted them in maintaining their fine traditions,” according to the 1940 Madrono. “A great deal of the credit for this fine publication is due to … [Mrs. Kizer] for leading the members of The Campanile staff in putting out one of the best high school papers in the country.”

Bill A. Davis was the adviser of The Campanile for a decade, from 1950–60, when there were 23 staff reporters and members on average. He was an English and Journalism teacher, and sponsored and supported the Madrono during his time as well. Later, he “relinquished his role as Campanile adviser to accept the position of Sophomore Counselor,” according to a 1960 issue of The Campanile.

Patrick Presto was the adviser of The Campanile from 1960-62 and 1963-67, with 28 students and an annual subscription cost of $1.80. After three years as a lieutenant in the Air Forc, Presto taught English, journalism and Spanish at Paly. From the same issue, “According to his colleagues, Mr. Presto has succeeded in maintaining the high quality of The Campanile and has carried on the fine traditions of Paly.”

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History of underground publications at Paly

Censorship of student press by faculty led to production of unsanctioned papers By Kaylie Nguyen & Yusra Rafeeqi Staff Writers

t is difficult to imagine that at Palo Alto High School, home to 10 publications and one of the most well-known high school journalism programs in the country, there was once censorship on

students’ right to free speech. Just a few decades ago, however, students were forced to go through the effort of secretly publishing and distributing underground publications to express their opinions freely without the tampering of administration or faculty. During the late 1980s, the Supreme Court case Hazelwood vs

Kuhlmeier preserved the right for public school administrators to refuse to sponsor student speech that was “inconsistent with the shared values of a civilized social order.” This case was presented after high school journalist students felt their right to free speech had been violated due to the censorship of a story on teen pregnancy

and divorce. This case applied to student publications that were not established forums by schools for student expression. Principals and teachers were able to censor content they believed was inappropriate or did not benefit to the educational environment within the school.

Radio Free Heaven created in late 1960s to voice opinions on current events By Kaylie Nguyen & Yusra Rafeeqi

Staff Writers

adio Free Heaven (RFH), an unsanctioned newspaper, was a known leftist publication at Paly. “Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge is the wig where-with we fly to Heaven,” quoted the paper in its first issue on Feb. 1, 1968. It had only four pages and covered controversial topics such as civil rights, drugs and the Vietnam war, according to The Campanile. The paper stated that its goals were “objectivity, diversity, quality

and truth.” However, it was illegal to distribute unapproved materials on campus. According to an article written by The Campanile in 1968, thenprincipal Ray Ruppel threatened to suspend students who violated this law. “Rather than being an effort to shock innocent students, this paper was established as a means of expressing our views on vital and timely matters,” wrote RFH. Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, there were many other underground publications, including Movement Against Student Suspensions, Radical Rag,

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Radical Rag mocked faculty for prohibiting distribution of the paper.

Power to Students and Solidarity. From

The Campanile, March 21, 1968: “For illegally distributing RFH last Monday, 70 students were nearly suspended, including Paly’s student body president, commissioners, four justices of the student court and yearbook editor. So much pressure has descended upon Principal Ray Ruppel that he cannot allow further illegal distribution on campus without automatic suspension of all students participating.”

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Students criticized admin for punishing those who wrote for RFH.

O.Y.E. established for students to practice right to freedom of expression By Kaylie Nguyen & Yusra Rafeeqi

Staff Writers

.Y.E. was an underground newspaper published from October 1991 to January 1992. The publication purposefully did not reveal what the initials stood for. Although the state of California prohibited censorship of student speech, O.Y.E. published material deemed to be illegal by the California Educational Code, and as a result, was labeled underground. The publication, assembled by a staff of loosely associated students, focused on giving an open forum to any anonymous student writer. Dan Potter, the editor-inchief and co-founder of O.Y.E, described that the newspaper had a main emphasis on expressing students’ opinions on a wide range of topics, political and otherwise. “It doesn’t really make sense today in a world of blogs and Internet forums, but back in the early ‘90s we had none of those things,” Potter said in an email. “When we started publishing O.Y.E., about half of high school students were still turning in handwritten papers. It’s plainly

obvious from a quick perusal that the publication was never about journalism so much as it was about free expression.”

“The publication was never about journalism so much as it was about free expression.” Dan Potter Articles published within the newspaper ranged from a discussion of Student Council and its ineffectiveness at Paly to students’ opinions on current events at the time, like the “Black Market Operation Bust.” One staff member published an article revealing the intent behind creating O.Y.E. “It seems educators only want youth to be interested in things like student government and school spirit,” an anonymous writer wrote in a December 1990 issue of O.Y.E. “[They] can’t build an environment where students cannot fully express their opinions and expect them to love this environment as well. The admin-

istration comes down hard on forms of student expression they deem to be negative. I’m only asking [administration] to be a little more open-minded and try to see the hypocrisy in what they’ve created, and to give this haven for uncensored, unadulterated student opinion a chance.” Throughout four semesters, Potter and O.Y.E. staff gained increasing levels of support, as well as increased resistance, from Paly faculty members. At times, they faced difficulty while working through the production cycle and distribution of the newspaper. Not knowing the backlash and repercussions of running the newspaper was “harrowing,” according to Potter. By late 1991, school officials’ patience ran out and they threatened to expel Potter if he continued to produce the underground newspaper. This time of difficulty and uneasiness for O.Y.E. led some staff members to leave, resulting in a partially-blank issue. Potter eventually stepped down from his position as editor, but continued to advise the remaining staff. Soon after this incident, however, the paper came to an end.

“It was tough going with a constant fear of retaliation from the school administration,” Potter said. “After publishing two issues in 1992 our little underground coalition fell apart.” From Dan Potter in The Campanile, Dec. 16, 1991: While the legality of O.Y.E. has been debated extensively, I think it is important to ask not only the question “is it legal,” but to ask “should it be legal.” Teachers have accused O.Y.E. of being obscene, but is it really? Of all of the students I have asked, not one of them has been seriously offended by the use of four letter words. Even if these words are offensive to some teachers, O.Y.E. was not written for the teachers, it was written for the students. As Tim Dickinson said, “...[these words’] used in an open forum for student expression is wholly appropriate. What do they think it teaches a student if they spend years telling him how the Constitution protects his rights and his freedoms, and then they nail him for assuming that it applies to himself?

Paly journalism program is a product of present day student press laws By Kaylie Nguyen & Yusra Rafeeqi

Staff Writers

urrently, Paly students no longer feel the need to run underground publications solely to express their views because student press freedoms in California have been securely established. California Education Code 48907: Pupils of the public schools, including charter schools, shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech and of the press [...], except that expression shall be prohibited which is obscene, libelous, or slanderous. Also prohibited shall be material that so incites pupils as to create a clear and present danger of the commission of unlawful acts on school premises or the violation of lawful school regulations, or the substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the school. In 1977, the state passed Education Code 48907, which

counters the later Hazelwood ruling. This code allows for student editors, rather than faculty, to edit content. “At Paly I’d like to say that we have a lot of press freedom,” said Managing Editor of Verde Magazine Stephanie Lee. “I know people who go to other schools who don’t have any press freedom at all because their principal censors whatever they want to write.” Since Education Code 48907, Paly journalism has covered many controversial topics such as reproductive rights, women in politics, rape culture and stories about the school administration. “If we had a school administration who was very controlling of what can and cannot be published, many of these stories would have not made it out to the public, and however [these stories] impacted the community would not have happened,” Lee said. “We’re bringing to light a lot of issues that would not have been talked about if there were no student freedom laws that protected us from administration tampering. All the change that we made through student reporting would not [have happened].”

Lee further expressed that student speech is an important aspect of Paly journalism. “It’s so important for me to voice my own opinions and thoughts as well as help everyone else who [doesn’t] necessarily have that voice to speak up for them and tell their stories,” Lee said.

“We’re bringing to light issues that would not have been talked about if there were no student freedom laws that protected us from administration tampering.” Stephanie Lee Paul Kandell, journalism advisor of The Paly Voice and Verde, said that journalism at Paly would be significantly different if California had not allowed for student freedom of speech. The administration and faculty would instead

have to edit student content. “[The administration] would slow down the process so much [that] we would become vastly inefficient,” Kandell said. California Education Code 48907: Pupil editors of official school publications shall be responsible for assigning and editing the news, editorial, and feature content of their publications subject to the limitations of this section. However, as a journalism teacher, he says he is thankful for his students that this is not the case at Paly. “Why don’t we have an underground newspaper?” Kandell said. “Because what would they be writing about? You already have the freedom to do everything. I think that’s a good model for a democracy. When you start constraining speech, then you start getting underground publications because people feel like they have to fight or hide to communicate their messages. I’m glad we don’t have that situation here and hope that continues.”

Student censorship legislation in the U.S.

DAN POTTER/O.Y.E.

O.Y.E. printed partially blank issue after staff was threatened by admin.

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The Campanile

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How The Campani

s the first issue of The Campanile took shape in late November 1918, Americans a conflict that claimed the lives of 50,000 U.S. soldiers. The war eﬀort had reached battalion” and trained in infantry skills, “army games” and rifle shooting. Presumab but it did not erase the trauma of war from Paly’s campus. War and peace, patriotism and p past century. The newspaper has a long history of mobilizing students to engage with the conflicts from World War II to the War in Afghanistan. A 1990 Campanile opinion colu

1939

World War II begins with Hitler’s invasion of Poland.

World War II Throughout World War II, The Campanile covered many aspects of life during wartime, whether it was informing students of job openings as stenographers or getting in touch with Paly students in Japanese internment camps. Wartime news and issues dotted the front pages of the paper, not just because the country was immersed in the war effort but because Paly itself felt the impact. Many new classes and extracurricular activities were added in support of the war. For example, an article in the October 1942 issue of The Campanile discussed the addition of new Red Cross classes and new soldier camps. The Red Cross course prepared girls to earn credentials to be able to support the staff of the Red Cross, a national organization that looked out for the welfare of the soldiers. On many occasions, The Campanile advocated for students to participate. “We will help to support this group so they can continue to give o u r men in uniform the medical attention, food, recreation and hospitals they need,” The Campanile wrote. “Soon we will all have the opportunity to participate in the Red Cross membership drive, which will be conducted in the school, during classes.” Many Paly students got involved through volunteering as secretaries. An ad proclaimed the need for “your fifty men and women from Paly … They’re going to do tedious work, friend, so all our fighting boys out there in nowhere will have the food, supplies and transportation they need; the chance they deserve.” The Campanile also reported personal accounts from Japanese-American Paly students and alumni sent to internment camps during the 1940s as a result of government concerns about Japanese spies. The Campanile staff members helped advocate for their peers by writing editorials and other articles opposing internment camps.They also published in support of their fellow Japanese-American classmates.

1941

1942

Japanese troops attack Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii.

Executive Order 9066 allowed Japanese-Americans to be detained in internment camps.

“Though Japanese-Americans in our student body are compelled to move away because of restrictions banning their residence in strategic war areas, it doesn’t mean that they are all spies and saboteurs,” The Campanile wrote in an editorial. “They are Americans too. From all reports, Americans in Japan hate the Japanese because of the cruelties imposed upon them. In our conduct toward the Japanese still here in school, let’s not give them cause to hate Americans. Give them a farewell that will make them want to stay Americans!” Furthermore, in an attempt to boost morale of their Japanese peers, The Campanile suggested that students write to them. “There must be no retaliation of barbarisms in a manner which we now attribute only to the German and Japanese nations,” an editorial stated. “There is something we in high school can do now. If we know any Japanese in camps, we can help their morale by writing them letters or in other ways letting them know we haven’t entirely isolated them. Some Palo Alto people are sending packages with clothing or little luxuries. This friendly interest has been greatly appreciated. So let us be fair to the Japanese now. Let’s be democratic and practice the justice and good will toward men which is the American and the Christian way of life.” The students who were sent away did not forget their friends back in Palo Alto. One, Dan Iwata, wrote a letter to The Campanile describing his life in the Manzanar Relocation Center located in a desolate California desert town. “School has gone on for three and a half weeks and we still haven’t desks or enough books for everybody,” Iwata wrote. “We have to sit on the hard floor a whole period of 45 minutes to each class. And at the end of that 45 minutes, you’ll begin to really feel the floor. School starts at 8:30 in the morning and lets out at 11:45 for lunch. And again from 1 to 4:15. That sure is a solid day of school! The education board doesn’t want us to study at home because of the poor lighting condition we have in our apartments so we are required to take at least one study hall a day. You don’t get as much choice of subjects over here as we did at Paly High.” Another perspective on the war came from Nancy Jennings, who published a firsthand a c c ount

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of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In January 1942, Jennings recounted her experience of being evacuated to San Francisco shortly after the attack. She then began attending Paly. “I lived with my father, mother and brother, in Hickam Field, which is right at Pearl Harbor. I was awakened by the first bombs that were dropped,” Jennings said. “My brother and I took [our mother] to the window and showed her the smoke coming from the ships. That convinced her. Every once in a while bombs would shake the house, but we knew that we were safe except if there was a direct hit. After the raid was over we were evacuated to the Oahu Country Club and the next ten days the wealthier families took care of the refugees. We went back to Hickam Field to pack as we had gotten two hours notice that they were evacuating us to San Francisco.” During the war, many Paly students were deployed but later came back to finish their high school education. However, World War II took a toll on the Paly community — 73 alumni never returned from the conflict.

Cold War

The Campanile has a long history of mobilizing students to engage with the world around them and addressing a feeling of powerlessness among student voices. During the Cold War, threats of Soviet attacks, communism and nuclear warfare troubled the country even though troops were not engaged in combat. Students at Paly, however, seemed to be comparatively indifferent. After observing the low participation at on-campus “Day After” noon discussion groups, a writer in a December 1983 issue of The Campanile cited a “clear lack of student involvement in the nuclear issue,” perhaps reflecting a feeling of futility, and called on students to become Pen Pals with their Russian teenage counterparts and to “make a difference” toward a peaceful future. “Through a better understanding of the Russians, and their better understanding of us, we can start to deal with them as real people, and not just abstract creatures or a foreign ideology,” an unnamed staff writer wrote. Nearly every aspect of American life was touched by the anxieties of the Cold War. Hollywood films tried to instill anti-communist sentiments in the American people, while retailers marketed supplies for surviving a nuclear attack. Then, just as the nation settled into peacetime at the Cold War’s end, the 1990 Iraqi attack on Kuwait shocked the world, sending waves of “unanswered questions” across country. Some of the questions were expressed in a January 1991 opinion piece written by Benet O’Reilly a year after the assault.

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ile Faced Wartime

across the land were jubilant: Armistice Day had just brought the end to World War I, a all the way to Palo Alto High School, where eager young men had joined a new “cadet bly, the combat in Europe ceased in time to spare the high schoolers from seeing action, protest -- these have been consistent themes addressed by The Campanile’s writers over the e world around them, and beyond, and of giving voice to students’ opinions on American umn speaks for much of the century: “We are living,’’ it said, “in a diﬃcult time.”

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Vietnam War begins, the country erupting into a conflict that had been brewing since 1946.

Terrorist attack on World Trade Center by Al-Qaeda left 2,753 people dead

War in Afghanistan begins, triggered by the Sept. 11 Twin Tower attacks

“What should we believe?” O’Reilly wrote. “Should we go? Who are we fighting? Am I going to have to go to war?” The United States reacted to Saddam Hussein’s forceful occupation of oil-rich Kuwait with military action, making O’Reilly full of questions about the implications of America’s involvement in the region. “What will happen in the Middle East?” O’Reilly wrote. “No one knows for sure. Should one protest? Should one support the President’s decisions? How long will the war last? How many will die?” Apprehension spread as the possibility of another long war loomed. “We are living in a diﬃcult time,” O’Reilly wrote. “The year 1990 started out as a year of peace, with an end to the lengthy cold war, and it ended as a year threatened by war. How will 1991 turnout? We’ll see... ”

Vietnam War The Vietnam War was perhaps the most controversial unofficial war in the history of the United States, and The Campanile took every opportunity to report on students’ differing opinions. Those differences began with whether the United States should have entered the war at all. A poll and article by Sue Bollock from the February 1968 issue of The Campanile showed students were deadlocked on the issue, with 44 percent approving of the U.S. presence in Vietnam, 40 percent disapproving and 16 percent undecided. When the newspaper asked students whether they thought war should be declared against North Vietnam, 63 percent said no. “The war is immoral, illegal and insane,” said one student. “I’d rather save lives than face.” Another disagreed, saying, “We must protect Vietnam and the world from a communist takeover.” Indeed, in this period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Campanile gave voice to both the hawks and the doves of the Vietnam War. These terms grew in popularity during the Vietnam War period to refer to those who opposed military pressure (doves) and those who favored official entry into war (hawks). These divisions did not, however, line up with either major political party, causing even intraparty tensions. As the war progressed, national support for the conflict diminished, and such opinions were reflected at Paly. Student outrage at the government’s actions in Vietnam led to Paly’s first student strike, a protest in which 60 students participated, 22 of whom were suspended. Throughout the Vietnam War, The Campanile reported on such student protests against American involvement as well as on peaceful alternatives to the conflicts. (For more on Paly student

protests, see page B6.) “An army need not carry weapons of war to be effective in its purpose,” stated an editorial from the October 1965 issue. “Why not a peaceful army, a huge peace corps?” The draft made the war personal for Paly, as upperclassmen could be selected to serve in the military. Until the end of the draft in 1973, students were watching their friends fight and die in a war that — at least for some — they had no choice but to participate in. This was addressed in an article by Guy Wilson in the December 1967 issue of The Campanile: “It is important to note that the war does reach all the way down to the high school level with its concomitant draft, causing senior ‘men’ to ponder the future possibility of conscription, combat, Viet Cong and other unpleasant thoughts.” By 1969, the tone had become more urgent. “The draft may turn out to be the final factor in the lives of many young men. Don’t just think about it; do something!” the September issue urged. “Is conscription constitutional when there has not been a declaration of war (as with Vietnam)?” The effect of the draft left many students pessimistic about their futures. As soon as a man came of age, he could be sent off to war. This negative sentiment was perhaps best put by Jim Rolin in the May 1968 issue, a time when the voting age was 21. “Today’s teenager can get killed in the jungles of Vietnam before he can vote for the person he feels represents his ideas in Congress, before he can own one share of common stock,” Rolin said. The draft and the wartime propaganda-fueled nationalism both directly affected Paly students and, in turn, the The Campanile. From interviews to editorials, The Campanile used what freedom it had to give voice to every student and their opinion.

9/11 & War in Afghanistan The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were a direct assault on America, yet the jolt was not only felt by Americans, but also by millions abroad. Former editor-in-chief of The Campanile, Corey Miller, looked beyond the borders of Paly to assess the impact by inviting students from around the world to share their thoughts regarding implications of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and other targets. “I think each person in the world, no matter where they live, was personally aﬀected by Sept. 11,” commented Deline Drury, of Pretoria, South Africa, in a September 2002 issue. Emma Hampton of Surrey, England, shared a similar opinion. “Sept. 11 has definitely changed my country’s view of America,” Hampton said.

Hampton said her prime minister’s determination to stand shoulder-by-shoulder with the United States was generally popular in England. However, there were varying beliefs. Nikheel Patel, described as Asian-Indian by ethnicity and Portuguese by nationality, disagreed. A resident of the United Kingdom, Patel said that Americans are often depicted as naive and selfish in foreign aﬀairs. “Sept. 11 has made people think this even more, although the whole country was behind the U.S. trying to catch Osama [bin Laden],” Patel said. Patel was quoted in The Campanile as arguing that America could utilize its aﬄuence and influence “to come up with a better solution than waging war.” The resulting War on Terrorism, including the commitment of American troops to combat in Afghanistan, was controversial around the country and at Paly. “What will bombing Afghanistan really achieve? Maybe it will bring some secure feeling for the nation, but ultimately it will not stop terror,” wrote Nick Carey from Opunake, New Zealand. While it was easy for non-residents to criticize the actions of the United States, citizens were wrestling with their own doubts as one of the most fundamental American systems, the press, had seemingly become somewhat directionless. It was, undeniably, a time of terror for grieving Americans, who more than ever needed reliable news. Yet some of the media failed to inform, and instead, enthralled the public with sensationalism. A Time magazine headlined “How Real is the Threat?” excessively described the graphic methods of terrorism. On the other hand, an issue of People magazine printed a cover story entitled “Calming Your Fears,” which attempted to ease the anxieties of terrorism and downscaled the reality of threats. “To complement the score, news content has become less informative and more sensational,” wrote reporter Amin El Gamal in a February 2002 issue of The Campanile. “The media should stop carelessly suggesting new methods of terrorism … that only threaten to become reality and instead perform their duty of reporting only what the public ought to know.” In his article, entitled “Media hype hinders return to normalcy after 9/11,” Gamal argued that the possibility of returning to previous conditions would only occur with the termination of sensational journalism. Gamal’s plea for professional journalists to report the facts accurately and fairly underscores the very challenge faced day in, day out by the thousands of student journalists who have written for the The Campanile over the past 100 years. Student journalists have persisted through times of war and peace to both inform and empower the Paly community.

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The Campanile

Protests at Paly: Power of the populous By Renee Hoh & Grace Kitayama News & Opinion Editor & Senior Staff Writer

ot so naive. And not so reckless. Throughout the years, generations of Paly teenagers have taken advantage of their right to freedom of speech, and proven time and time again of their maturity and impact on the local and global level, that they have a voice. Whether it be objecting to decreased spending on education or obnoxious audience members at assemblies, The Campanile has consistently provided students with a platform for their voices to be heard. 1938:“Why not cooperate?” The author of the article cited a belligerent audience who had no respect for the performer nor Paly, thus inspiring protests from students and administrators alike to protest rude behavior at voluntary assemblies. Students with no interest in the topics and the speaker should not attend, much less cause a disturbance during the performance, which shows little respect for the performers and the school, according to the protesters. Then Principal Ivan Linder believed that disciplinary action would be “a direct insult to any intelligent group such as the students of the Palo Alto High School.” Agreeing with Principal Linder, the staff writer wrote: “You can easily take this matter into your own hands, Palo Alto students, and save a lot of trouble for all concerned. Simply display the same kind of courtesy to the performers as you would want given to you if you were to exchange places with the person on the stage.” 1960:“Why can’t we do the same as they have?” The f i r s t protest of nonlocal issues at Paly was, in fact, not a protest at all, but rather a gathering of a small group of students who wanted to make change. 1960 was a year of worldwide political unrest, much of which resulted in protests and demonstrations ranging from issues such as riots against the government in Korea and Turkey to racial demonstrations in South Africa and non-violent protests against the segregation of African American people in the South. A staff writer described the world events that were occuring during the time. “During the past few months, meaningful issues have been exploding with increasing frequency all over the world," a former staff writer wrote. "There have been racial demonstrations in South Africa, and riots against the government in Korea and Turkey. In our own South, Negroes have been non-violently protesting the use of segregation,” Additionally, capital punishment was about to go on trial, and the nation was heavily split on the issue. Though the students at Paly knew that the issues affected them and wanted to express their voices, many students did not know how to do so. The Campanile turned to write about a few students who were quietly leading their own forms of protest. “Letters are important," one participant said. "If you’re concerned over an issue, write letters to anyone and everyone, who has something to do with it." Students would meet to discuss

worldwide issues and decide what was the best way they could invoke change in spite of limited resources and opportunities. They would also write letters to protest organizers and newspapers who were sharing their ideas and beliefs while offering support and petitioning for change.They set an example not only for their fellow classmates but for future Paly students. “When we realize that some high school students have found mediums of communication and action, the whole idea of expressing ourselves on significant issues becomes less far-fetched, and we begin to think,” a former staff writer said. A former student protester said, “Why can’t we do the same as they have?” 1977: “They’re getting just what they’re paying for” In December 1977, Paly teachers protested on campus after the District failed to promptly negotiate raises for teachers. Teachers objected their unfair wages by staging sit-ins during lunch and walkouts to the District office. The faculty even went as far as to sing Christmas carols between 7:45 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. when class was starting. The idea was that since teachers were required to be on campus from 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., they would give the District what it was paying for by singing. “It’s just one way of showing that we’re serious,” said a teacher who

was participating in the singing. “The District pays us to be on school grounds from 7:45 to 3:30; they’re getting just what they’re paying for.” In 1978, the average salary for a Paly teacher was $21,000, or $83,660.98 in today’s figures. However, the highest possible salary in the District was $25,225, or $92,773.97 today, and requirements of 90 units of outside education in addition to a Bachelor’s Degree, plus 40 years of teaching experience.

Additionally, teachers argued that their wages were not living wages for Palo Alto. “PAUSD has hired, almost exclusively, teachers with at least an M.A. and several years of teaching experience,” former staff writer David Lewis wrote. Teachers proved that they were overemployed for the amount that they were being paid. “The District hires teachers with above average education and prior teaching experience and then expects to pay them an aver-

cesses of nonviolence and advocated for the disarmament of the military as weapons should never be an option. Clare Smith, a local human rights spokesperson, spoke at the rally, stressing the need for "activists to rebel" against the draft and draft registration. “Violence is not the solution, it’s the problem,” Smith said. Smith also asked the students not to register for the draft. “Do I obey the law or my conscience?” she asked. “I’ll have

“A Congressman, a policeman and a strike leader laughed together. There was harmony; there was happiness. There were exceptions. Some pleaded for escalation and violence, but in the vote they lost. Public schools, private schools, colleges and universities - all dedicated to teaching the American way of life. Peaceful protest is a part of that life. Education is listening, and questioning, and understanding. It is learning to respect and discuss opinions, and to work together on ideas. It is practicing democracy.” The Campanile, Volume XLV, Number 15, 24 April 1969 Editorial Comment

Reportedly, the teachers were paid 14.9 percent less than the cost of living in Palo Alto; thus they were pushing for a 5 percent raise. Many teachers felt the wages were unfair because teachers were often entering the District with higher education and more years of schooling than surrounding districts, but were paid the same as the average teacher in California.

age salary,” teachers said. “The teachers in this District are extremely qualified," Paly math teacher Don Hepworth said. "An average teacher in the PAUSD would be considered a superior teacher almost anywhere else in California.” Though Palo Alto is still an expensive city to live in, teacher's salaries have greatly increased. In an article published by Palo Alto Online in 2016, 70 percent of teachers make over six figures a year, with a starting salary of $65,392 that may increase based on how many post bachelor degree semester credits are earned. Additional l y, instead of teachers being required 40 years of teaching to reach their highest possible pay grade, t h e y a r e now only re-

to go with my conscience on that one.” Additionally, Baez reminisced of her history of protesting at Paly by recounting a story in which she refused to leave campus during an air raid drill in order to protest the "senselessness” of such drills despite being frightened. Baez said, “Passive resistance, does not mean that you don’t do anything. It means that you fight with every available resource, except violence.” 1991: “I don’t want to die” In 1991, the student body was torn on their opinions on the Gulf War. On Jan. 16, Palo Alto High School students, among others, gathered in protest of the Gulf War at Palo Alto’s City Hall. According to the The Campanile, approximately 1,000 demonstrators attended the protest at City Hall. The reason the Gulf War was so heavily disputed in the student body was that it threatened to directly affect students; students feared that the draft would be reinstated and were scared for their lives. An unnamed student quoted in the story said, “I don’t want to die.” 1998: “Education, not incarceration” Students from around the Bay traveled by BART to converge in San Leandro to raise awareness for lawmakers to spend more only on schools rather than prisons. Showing their support, BART officials waived the fee to travel to and from the rally for students. Nearly 2,500 students were outraged that spending on prisons had increased by 60 percent whereas spending for public education had decreased by 3 percent. The Campanile reached out to students and administrators alike for their concerns regarding the state’s lack of funding for public education. “If we don’t give the kids the service in school, we’ll have to

er employees were fighting for a raise as well. The Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) School Board and the California School Employees Association (CSEA) had reached an impasse in the previous month on salary and benefits negotiations for classified staff. The District classified the number of staff at around 450, including instructional aides and assistants, clerical and business staff in the classified bargaining unit and technology staff, custodial, landscape, maintenance, transportation, food service staff, supervisors and office staff privy to confidential negotiations information employees. The groups had been negotiating for almost a year. The CSEA asked the school board for a 6 percent raise with an additional 2.4 percent in benefits, health and welfare, but the issue was disputed. While some believed that classified staff did not deserve a raise, the staff argued that they often had to work the equivalent of multiple jobs with much less pay than the average teacher. Additionally, controversy arose when the CSEA learned that the District accumulated approximately $l.l million in savings as a result of the Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) projections. Though the CSEA felt that some of the savings could be given to the classified staff, the District wanted the money to go to school programs. Staying on the right side of history, The Campanile supported the CSEA’s protest for higher pay and work benefits in an editorial written in the same issue. CSEA President at the time, Mary Paolucci was interviewed. “As a valuable part of the District, we need to be treated with the same respect as teachers and administrators,” Paolucci said. Unlike classified staff, who have no medical cap or cash back from their benefits, teachers have a $5,009 medical cap and can take home any unused money as cash. Currently, the District is due to have a new bargaining agreement with the CSEA, in the most recent agreement, the CSEA was granted the benefits that they been protesting for less than 20 years prior.

2018: “Enough is enough” On March 14, 2018, students across the Bay Area, including quired Paly, hosted a walk out. Cheered to teach on by honking passersby, students for 30 years stood by Embarcadero Road in with 90 post solidarity for 17 minutes, one bachelor degree minute for each victim of the credits (which Parkland, Fla. mass shooting. also attribute to a Students boasted signs advocathigher pay grade), ing for more gun reform as well as thus earning an annual the mottos “Enough is Enough” salary of $132,043 a year. and “Never Again.” The impact Though the wages still of the walkout lasted throughout may not be enough to live in the day, as students wore bright Palo Alto now, the new system orange shirts and circulated imhas allowed for teachers to earn ages on social media. more money as well as develop Live streams, videos and stotheir skills as educators. ries from The Campanile documenting 1980: “Do stu“My mere existence as the I obey the d e n t s ’ a rebellious, barefooted, law or my anti-establishment young p e a c e f u l conprotest girl functioning almost science?” graced the totally out of the context Preachof commercial music and screens of ing Ganattaining such widespread F a c e b o o k dhi’s and notoriety designated me and InstaMartin Lua counterculture heroine, gram users, ther King thus furwhether or not I underJr.’s ideal ther broadstood the full import of of “passive casting the position” resistance,” s t u d e n t ’s folk singer voices to a -Joan Baez and Paly larger audialumna ence and PALY JOURNALISM ARCHIVES Joan Baez making a along with larger imtwo Paly pact. activists Junior warned the Zoe Sid Featured in The Campanile for nearly five decades and counting, folk student was at the singer, activist and Paly alumna Joan Baez epitomizes the forceful urge for populamarch in students to share their beliefs in the form of peaceful protests. tions of the order to Baez’s first act of civil disobedience occurred when she refused to leave dangers of share her the classroom during an air raid drill because of how illogical it was to asarmed forcvoice and sume that students would survive a bombing and make it home. es and war. unwavering In response to the Vietnam War, Baez channeled her frustrations into T h e opinions. her music and famously opened the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence Campanile “I was in Carmel; she later expanded the program to include Palo Alto. captured talking with Baez often returns to Paly, chorusing with the madrigals, sharing her then senior my neighknowledge of pacifism with students as well as lending her voice to the Ben Davidbor about Peace March in Nov. 2016. son inform[gun vioing students lence],” Sid that fightsaid. “They ing could be give it to them in prison later on,” were explaining to me how big viewed as a violation of human said Dan Kelly, then Vice Presi- of an impact students can make, rights at the Students for Human dent of the San Francisco Board and how using all the resources Rights-sponsored event in the of Education. "Currently, in Cali- that we have, such as social mePaly auditorium. fornia today, education spends 42 dia, could really make a change. The trio specifically targeted percent of state money on educa- The talk inspired me, and so I the ongoing draft and the violent tion, and 9 percent on correction made a post in my class group on civil war occuring across seas in and rehabilitation. Facebook which gained a lot of Somalia. Students were encour2000: “We are seeking respect” momentum.” aged not to register for the draft Twenty-two years after The Protests and The Campanile even if they must risk arrest; in- Campanile covered the teacher’s go hand in hand in expression of stead they highlighted the suc- protest of their salary, non-teach- freedom of speech.

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The Campanile’s old take on April Fools’ Day A brief look back at the short-lived Paly tradition that published an annual newspaper which satirized student life and news By Noah Baum & Alyssa Leong News & Opinion Editor & Staff Writer

nce a year, The Campanile used to push the real news to make way for humor. Although the April Fools’ editions of The Campanile, which ran from 1988 to 2001, satirized problems that were different than those Paly faces now, the students’ sense of humor was still very much the same. The April Fools’ editions looked like regular editions of The Campanile, but the devil was in the details. The newspaper may have been titled “The Campanal,” and the bylines were all spoofs such as “Juan Nite Stand.” The April Fools’ portion was printed on a cover that wrapped around the real newspaper, but a reader could be easily overwhelmed by the raunchiness packed into only four pages. “I can’t believe we got away with some of this stuff,” said former Campanile editor-in-chief Rachel Metz, who produced the 1999 April Fools’ edition. The Campanile staff always saved their most shocking ideas for the front page of the April Fools’ editions. One year, the front page “uncovered” a now-retired teacher as a pornstar. Another year’s edition headlined “Prom cancelled.” In 1995, a Campanile editor posed naked with his backside to the camera, covering a quarter of the front page. “That was actually my older brother,” Metz said. “[The editors] went to Paly early one morning

and had my brother disrobe on the quad. He wore a pair of Teva sandals, and I think that was it.” Behind most of the jokes, however, the articles responded to or criticized current events, often brutally. One stated, “Paly enacts anti-homeless ordinance” after being “inspired by recent events” of the City of Palo Alto’s sit/lie ban on University Avenue. Additionally, the photo of the naked editor was responding to a University of California, Berkeley student who had become notorious for not wearing clothes to class in the early ‘90s. The students’ freedom with the newspaper when creating the April Fools’ edition allowed the four pages to be filled with unabashedly honest opinions conveyed through satire. “The goal was amusing ourselves, not necessarily making things other people would find funny,” Metz said. Along with writing meaningful satire, The Campanile staff would sometimes go for the easy laughs in the April Fools’ editions. Articles like “Teacher to pose nude,” written by Cly Maxx, the “Staff Gynecologist” and ads for a certain service by the name of “Richard Johnson’s Penile Enlargement” appeared in the April Fools’ editions. The April Fools’ editions were not complete without immature and gross-out humor. Teachers also joined in on the fun. In response to a stricter detention policy in the language department, the 1999 April Fools’ edition led the front page with a photograph showcasing Spanish teacher Kevin Duffy, who still teaches at Paly, holding a machete

to a student’s neck. The accompanying story was modestly titled “Foreign language cracks down,” the caption adding, “Although Pluemer [the student] is not technically enrolled in a Foreign Language class, all involved felt he deserved it anyway.” The story described new ways the foreign language teachers were torturing students, including textbook beatings and crucifiction. Duffy said he understood the students’ sense of humor and enjoyed being a part of the April Fools’ edition. “We laughed and laughed,” Duffy said. “And [the Campanile students] were a fun group.” Some of the ideas for the April Fools’ editions, however, were too explicit to publish. “The initial version was far more risque, and we thought humorous, but there was some stuff we all knew wouldn’t make it to the print edition,” said 1999 Campanile technical editor Matt Gunn, in regard to past April Fools’ story ideas. “Probably some stories went a little too far,” Metz said. “But it was all in good fun.” Although not every idea was deemed fit to be disseminated to

the entire school, The Campanile staff still managed to make the finished product plenty outrageous. “They liked to push the envelope, but that’s what people do,” Duffy said. “I had fun with it. I mean, it was all silly.” In 2001, after more than a decade of editions that challenged what could be printed in a student publication, The Campanile ran its final April Fools’ issue. According to Campanile adviser Esther Wojcicki, who had been on sabbatical that year, the 2001 edition that was published “went too far and the administration decided it was the last issue.” Since then, The Campanile has not published a satirical newspaper on April Fools’ Day. However, the issues still evoke fond memories for former Campanile writers who got the opportunity to write and contribute to them. “As I remember it, it was sort of a collaborative environment of people trying humorous stuff out … there are some little fun bits in it,” Gunn said. “It was all in good fun,” Metz said. “That was the spirit behind it.”

BEST CAMPANILE APRIL FOOLS’ PSEUDODYNMS 1. C. Nior Pranx 2. Hugh G. Rection 3. Howie Rubder 4. Holy R. Thanthou 5. Engelbert Humperdinck 6. Nigel Wondershorts 7. Hoorne E. Bahstud 8. Freig Anja 9. Mike Rautch 10. Tess Teekle

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An editor posed nude for the April Fools’ issue in 1995 in reference to a Cal student who was attending classes naked.

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B8 Through the Decades: Comics and Illustrations

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he Campanile has been blessed with dozens of comic artists each with their own unique drawing style. Each illustrator has brought a unique spin to the comic series, with their distinct art style and humor (some better than others). The following comics were taken from Paly Journalism Archives and The Campanile’s Issuu, featured on either A8 and previously A10. From the onset, Madrono artist Feg Murray set the bar in terms of illustration quality and composition for later publications to follow. Decorated headers are certainly one of Murray’s most influential ideas. His custom illustrations brought detail and attentive frill

to each page. Even now, the tradition of custom page headers are present, especially in The Campanile’s issues. From spreads to interior pages, illustrated headers continue to express a level of intimate and personal design to each issue, allowing each page to have a miniscule yet unique element. As times changed, so did our type of illustrations. The Campanile saw the change from handdrawn to computerized illustrations as technology became more influential and contemporary in the world of journalism. Illustrations moved from being drawn on pen and paper to graphic tablets, and were created on sophisticated programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. These

new programs provided artists with a much larger pool of technical tools for them to utilize in their drawings. Recent Campanile artists have taken advantage of the specialized programs and produced a level of design never seen before in our publication. From gradients to image tracing, digital graphics have become the new norm. The creative minds of The Campanile continue to blossom and flourish in the 21st century. Although a century has passed, The Campanile has continued to uphold its exceptional level of design. As new illustrators come in, they also bring a unique style and flair to the publication, pushing it to new heights.

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A series of events were sketched by Murry.

Murry drew for Madrono (February 2012).

Feg Murry

eg Murray was originally an artist for Madrono. He illustrated many of Madrono’s covers, and also drew the first panel comic to ever be featured in Paly publications. “No one ever did anything that was a whole page that was like that, like a panel comic, and what I found interesting was that it looked like an early version of his work,” said Paly librarian Rachel Kellerman. At the time, photographs were not of best quality, so skilled artists like Murray were highly sought after.

Through illustrations, the artist could fully express their creativity and maximize details in pictures. “The photos that we saw weren’t very good quality, so the way to express things visually were these pen and ink drawings,” Kellerman said. After Murray graduated, the Madrono became the Paly yearbook, and comics and illustrations were passed to other Paly publications. The Campanile was the one who received the torch, and thus given the responsibility to pro-

duce creative and relevant illustrations. Although Murray was no longer the leading artist for Paly publications, he had certainly left his mark on how graphics should be drawn. “He was certainly someone who started early, in establishing really high quality illustrations that told stories and were artistic, but also amusing,” Kellerman said. Murray’s legacy had certainly influenced the later artists, and had steered Paly publications onto the road of expressive and articulate cartoons.

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This comic prefaced Allen Lucy’s joke section, a column dedicated to jokes and zingers (Feb. 28, 1924).

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This illustration was titled “A Tale of Winter Vacation,” and was drawn and written by Dan Kirby (Jan. 13, 1978).

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By Don Patch, this illustration depicts two students coming home from World War II (Jan. 26, 1945).

Daesun Hwang

aesun Hwang designed comics and illustrations for The Campanile from 1994-97. Drawing on the behalf of others and creating a balance between artistic choices as an illustrator and the needs of others allowed Hwang to master both his time management and deadlines. Hwang has been able to apply the skills he learned at The Campanile to his present projects.

“While I always had a passion for visual arts, drawing for the paper introduced me to the concept of creating something for a client with specific parameters,” Hwang said. “It taught me how to strike a balance between personal artistic goals and professional obligations, as well as how to apply my craft in a marketable fashion.” Being an illustrator for The Campanile has also given Hwang experience in situations where time is highly valuable.

“[Working in a time crunch] has been especially useful in my career, where performance in high stress situations is essential,” Hwang said. Since his time at The Campanile, Hwang has spent less time making small illustrations but has continued his career as an artist. “I'm fortunate enough to work as a creative professional now, so I've had the opportunity to continue to refine and polish my skills over the years,” Hwang said.

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The last installment of Todd Foreman’s comic series, “Weasels,” featured Foreman himself (June 10, 1981).

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Daesun Hwang showed how Paly’s reoccuring “new” cut policy has become commonplace (Jan. 22, 1996).

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“Palo Alto High’s Latest Construction Project” (Bo Field) revealed the issue of limited parking (Oct. 30, 2015).

Jacques Manjarrez

ecent Paly Alumnus Jacques Manjarrez illustrated for The Campanile in the years 2014, 2016 and 2017. As of now, Manjarrez is an illustrator for “The Maroon,” a wellknown publication at the University of Chicago. The Campanile has taught him how essential every-

one is to any group project. Manjarrez said, “[The Campanile] taught me the importance of good communication, as it is necessary for the writer and the illustrator to be on the same page in terms of the article’s subject so that you don’t attach an image to a totally irrelevant article.”

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Jacques Manjarrez criticized Paly admin and shed light on the Paly student databreach last year (April 28, 2017).

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History of Viking Athletics

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ootball season is one of the best opportunities for students to come together and represent their school. Whether students take this time to socialize with friends or actually watch the game, the unity within the stadium is electrifying. The football culture started in the early 1920s and has been on the rise ever since. Throughout the time span, fans have not been disappointed with the performance of the Vikings. The year 2010 was one of the most memorable seasons in Paly history as they won both the Central Coast Section (CCS) title as well as the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state championship. Despite rankings and expert predictions, the Vikings, led by coach Earl Hansen, marched off the field with a victorious 15-13 win against the Centennial High School Huskies. Consequently, Palo Alto became known not only for its triumphant atmosphere but for its top prospects and National Football League (NFL) recruits. Davante Adams is one of the rising stars in the NFL who began his high school career athletic career at Paly. Adams, who was a senior played the 2010-11 championship season, led the team in yards with over 300 and helped the Vikings reach a perfect 14-0 record. Adams was drafted with the 53rd pick by

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the Green Bay Packers and is developing into a number one option for franchise superstar Aaron Rodgers. Every year, Adams returns to the Paly football field where he organizes a football camp for kids. Another well respected Paly alumnus is legendary NFL coach Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh, a 1982 graduate, played quarterback for the Vikings. After his high school career, Harbaugh committed to the University of Michigan until he was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 1987 draft. In 2011, Harbaugh coached for the San Francisco 49ers and led them to the Superbowl in only his second season. According to the September edition of The Campanile in 2013, Harbaugh came back for the coin toss in the season opener. “Coach Earl Hansen asked me to [return],” Harbaugh said. “And when your high school football coach asks you to do something, you do it.” Paly’s current football team hopes to build on past experiences to create memories and reach greater heights.

occer is the most popular sport in the world. While it has taken time to spread to America, over the years, soccer has evolved to become a major part of Paly athletics. Introduced in Paly during early 1900s, both the girls and boys soccer team have a storied history, both on and off the field. One of the traditions carried by the boys team that started over a decade ago and ended just last year is the haircut tradition. During this tradition, first-time varsity players are given an eccentric haircut typically by the seniors on the team. While many call it hazing, teammates view it as a form of bonding and engage with teammates on a more personal note. The Vikings have also won a total of four CCS Championships in the years 1971,1998, 2000, and 2009 accompanied by numerous league titles. During the 2008-09 season — the l a s t time t h e Vikings w o n a title — the boys soccer team reached the CCS final for the third consecutive year, where they finally came out victorious against Bellarmine college prep. Over the course of the season, Paly had only allowed one goal

as well. Similar to the girls, they were informed that the school didn’t have the money to allocate for their cause. For those Paly students, their hopes for a team died out. However, a 2007 Verde article suggests that in 2006, a girls lacrosse team was added. The article indicates that at the time, Paly wouldn’t have been able to add a boys lacrosse team because it would come in violation with Title IX, which indicates that Paly can’t have too great an imbalance of girls sports teams and boys sports teams. Paly’s lacrosse program has recently enjoyed lengthy success. The boys varsity team celebrated a Santa Clara Valley Athletics League Championship (SCVAL) last spring. This was the team’s second league championship in three years, having also won SCVAL in 2015. The team also came in third place in lacrosse in 2014. The girls varsity team won back to back SCVAL championships in 2015 and 2016. Both teams give Paly students hope that the lacrosse program will be able to compete at a high level for many years to come.

SPORTS VICTORIES

Major sports wins at Paly

Taking an in-depth look at some of the most noteworthy Paly sports victories from recent memory, such as Paly’s varsity basketball State Championship victory in 2006.

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and had an astonishing record of 12-01 during league play which also helped them achieve a league title. In addition to winning championships, the Vikings have contributed elite competitors to the soccer world. Teresa Noyola, a MexicanAmerican soccer player who played for the Mexico national team, attended Paly from 2003-07 where she racked up 18 goals and seven assists during her senior year before committing to Stanford University in 2008. Another notable Paly graduate who is paving her way to reach professional levels is University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) sophomore Jacey Pederson. Pedersen, who committed to UCLA her sophomore year, has been a member of the U.S. Youth National Team program since 2012 and in 2016 represented the U.S. U-19 national team for a competition in New Zealand. Last season, both the boys and girls reached the semifinal of CCS but fell just short of making an appearance to the finals.

Boys Volleyball

Lacrosse hile the lacrosse team is one of the most popular sports teams at Paly, it actually hasn’t been around for a very long time. The efforts to create for a lacrosse team began in 2001, when a co-ed club was founded by Dustin Keast, who graduated in 2003, which met once a week to play the sport. As the club grew in popularity, it split into two clubs based on gender. The girls lacrosse club team was becoming legitimate enough that they soon started pushing for Paly to implement its own official lacrosse team. A few of the team members set up a meeting with the Paly principal at the time, Sandra Pearson. Pearson was quite supportive of their goals to start a new team at Paly. However, Pearson was concerned about the cost of creating a team, as well as field availability. According to Arianna Gianola, a member of the club that was attempting to found the team, it cost about $10,000 to start a lacrosse team. Despite Pearson’s support, the girls caught some bad luck. The Palo Alto Unified School District experienced a budget cut, and the administrators were informed that there were to be no new programs. Around this time, the boys got involved too, hoping to add their own team

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he topic of a certain sport has arisen in Paly news recently: boys volleyball. In as early as 1999, there have been discussions on adding a boys volleyball team to Paly. Two opinion pieces were written in 1999 and 2013 by The Paly Voice and The Campanile respectively, arguing for the reasons why our school needs to take the proper steps to fix this lack of a volleyball team. Both pieces cite what they believe to be unfair sexism in the policies that Paly followed during these time periods. This sexism was apparently laid out in a different 2015 Viking Magazine article, that explained that the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) had the following policies regarding players playing on another sex’s team if there was only a team for that sex: girls can play on boys teams so long as there’s no girls team, but boys can’t play on a girls team even if there’s no boys team. Many neighboring schools, such as Los Gatos High School, Archbishop Mitty High School, Saint Francis High School, Mountain View High School and Monta Vista High School, are listed as having a boys volleyball team in one of the pieces. Consequently, while girls could and did play on the football team, boys were unable to play on the volleyball team. Since hopeful male volleyball players at Paly couldn’t play alongside the girls team, they desperately

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pushed for their own team. Limited gym space, liability issues, staffing and monetary concerns were all listed as reasons why the administration hesitated to allow this team to be implemented. One of the articles also supported their argument for adding a team by pointing out that male players that play in middle school and eventually go to Paly are unable to continue their hopes of playing the sport after middle school. Luckily, though, it seems as if these efforts to add a team that lasted at least 20 years eventually paid off. After extensive efforts to add a team, the Palo Alto High School boys varsity boys volleyball team was inaugurated in the spring of 2018. In their first season, Paly’s varsity boys team is 2-5, having faced minor struggles. Many of the players on the team are playing volleyball for the first time, so the players are optimistic that they’ll be able to improve drastically. Thirty-five boys tried out for the team, but only eight got spots on the team, due to a lack of enough coaches to sustain a bigger team, or even another team. Paly currently does not have a junior varsity team for the sport, but if the program is successful, it’ll be something that underclassmen should anticipate in the coming years.

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Notable Paly athletes

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Highlighting the successes of some of Paly’s most distinguished athletes.

A compilation of past and present Paly’s athletes competing.

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Major sports wins in Paly history Will Robins & Peyton Wang Staff Writer & Science & Technology Editor

ver since Paly was founded in 1898, the school’s talented athletes and teams have risen to the podium in league, section and state competitions after their momentous performances. From undefeated seasons to consecutive championship titles, The Campanile covers the major sports wins throughout Paly’s history.

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Senior Arash Mostafavipour returns a winning forehand in the 1991 CCS Championships, enabling the Paly boys tennis team to defeat Homestead High School and initiate their streak of six CCS titles.

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In 2009, junior quarterback Christoph Bono attempted a play action in a game against Burlingame High School. A year later, Bono would lead the team to their second CIF Division I State Championship title.

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Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) Championships Out of all Paly varsity sports, the varsity boys swimming and diving team currently have the most SCVAL championship titles — a total of 28 wins. Until this year’s basketball season, the team led by one win to the varsity boys basketball team. Danny Dye, Paly’s varsity swimming and diving coach, attributes the success of the Varsity boys team to their persistence in carrying on the tradition of stellar performances. “Before SCVALs, the boys were in [the North Coast Section] (NCS) and still have the record in that section for most section titles,” Dye said. “Success for the boys is having pride in the tradition that has been set.” The boys swimming and diving team last won the SCVAL Championships in 2012, in which their stellar performances summed up to 488.00 points, crushing Monta Vista High School, the second place finisher, by 117.50 points. This year, the boys basketball team claimed their 18th consecutive SCVAL title, finishing the game against Los Gatos High School at home with an outstanding final score of 72-61. Junior Wes Walters, a center for the varsity team, believes their hard work in practice paid off in the basketball season. “We pushed each other in practice, which led to us being ready every night for the challenge ahead of us,” Walters said. “Our three-point shooters were able to open up driving lanes for players and we were able to put up a lot of points.”

“It felt surreal, like I was in movie. I never would’ve expected to hit a buzzer beater to win the CCS Championship.” Spencer Rojahn

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The varsity girls volleyball team celebrates its win against Marymount High School in the 2011 CIF Division I State Championships, claiming their second consecutive State title in Paly’s athletic history.

Out of the girls sports at Paly, the swimming and diving team has won the most SCVAL championships, with a total of 25 titles. “The girls have always had a strong sense of wanting to succeed,” Dye said. “We have been blessed with some of the best swimmers in CCS history, and yet it has been an all-around effort for winning SCVAL, a strong sense of team and desire to succeed.” Over the course of the past three years, the girls swimming and diving team have won the

SCVAL Championships. Last year, the team scored 414 points, far ahead of Monta Vista’s team, which placed second with 383 points. Central Coast Section (CCS) Championships Last year, the varsity boys basketball Team won their sixth CCS Championship, tying with the varsity boys tennis team — who won six consecutive CCS championships from 1991 to 1996 — for the most CCS titles in Paly’s history. In last year’s March 31 issue of The Campanile, senior Spencer Rojahn recounts the 2017 boys basketball CCS Championships, a close game against Los Gatos in which he hit a three-pointer shot at the buzzer and led the team to their sixth CCS title. “It felt surreal, like I was in movie,” Rojahn said. “I never would’ve expected to hit a buzzer beater to win the CCS championship. It was truly unbelievable and it was a moment I will never forget.” Throughout the season, the team ingrained their “survive and advance” mentality, which was highlighted in a previous game against Fremont High School. According to Rojahn, Paly was down by 12 points at halftime; however, the team came back in a 13-0 run and won the game.

“We won the state Championship and were undefeated, so that part speaks for itself... no one expected us to win [because] we were the underdogs.” Christoph Bono The final score against Los Gatos was 66-63. In addition to the most number of league titles, Paly girls swimming and diving team also has the most CCS titles for the girls, claiming a total of four CCS wins. Senior Claire Lin, a current captain of Paly varsity girls swimming and diving team, has contributed to their many successes. In the past two years, Lin scored points for the team in her individual events and relays, resulting in two new CCS titles. “There has never been such a succession of wins for Paly swimming,” Lin said. “Being part of it with an amazing team, I feel speechless. [In] 2016, we all worked so hard — to finally bring another championship to Paly was unreal. Winning back to back CCS championships as well as making history for Paly’s swimming and diving team with these group of girls, it couldn’t get any better.” Last year, the team earned 209 points in the CCS Championships, leading by 12 points to Saint Francis High School. Lin believes that the team can bring home more wins in the upcoming season. California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Championships Only three Paly varsity sports teams have ever been state cham-

pions: boys basketball, football and the girls volleyball team. In 1993, the boys basketball team clinched their first CIF Division III State Championship win. Thirteen years later, they won their CIF Division II State Championships in an upset against nationally-ranked Mater Dei High School, with the help of former key player and senior Jeremy Lin.

“When we sided out and [the game] was [13-8], I walked back to the end line, I got the ball and I was like ‘wait, we can do this.’ It was literally a second switch for me.” Maddie Kuppe Over the course of the high school season, Lin averaged 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 5.0 steals, leading Paly to a outstanding 32-1 season. In 2010, the football team pulled off a 15-13 win in the CIF Division I State Championships against Centennial High School. Earlier in the year, they also placed first in the CCS Championships after senior quarterback Christoph Bono threw a bomb to senior wide receiver Davante Adam, who scored the final touchdown. In The Campanile Feb. 1, 2011 issue, Bono attributes his Player of the Year Award to his team’s unwavering dedication. “The [season] was pretty good, I mean we won the State Championship and were undefeated, so that part speaks for itself,” Bono said. “But as a team, just seeing how our team went through a lot of different things, and how no one expected us to win [because] we were the underdogs may have given me an edge [to set me apart from the other athletes].” Lastly, in 2010 and 2011, the girls volleyball team placed first at the CIF Division I State Championships. In the 2011 game, the team won three sets to two against Marymount High School. Former senior Maddie Kuppe discussed her sudden boost of confidence in the final set of the game in the The Campanile’s Dec. 16, 2011 issue.

“There has never been such a succession of wins for Paly swimming. Being part of it with an amazing team, I feel speechless.” Claire Lin “When we sided out and [the game] was [13-8], I walked back to the end line, I got the ball and I was like ‘wait, we can do this,’” Kuppe said. “It was literally a second switch for me.” Note to readers: Peyton Wang is a member of the varsity girls swimming and diving team; in order to eliminate bias in the article, she did not write or conduct interviews relating to her team.

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Boys Water Polo

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Top 6 Paly Sports With the Most CCS Titles

Two years ago, the Paly girls swimming and diving team earned their fifth CCS title. The team moved on to place second at the CIF State Championships in the following week and win another CCS in 2017.

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Friday, March 23, 2018

How Title IX and The Campanile advocated for athletic equality A review of the struggle to gain equal oppurtunities among genders in school sports throughout the last century 1

An overview of The Campanile’s coverage of the integration of women into co-ed physical education, as well as the promotion of female student athletes across a variety of sports at Paly over the past 100 years.

By Vivian Feng & John Tayeri Lifestyle Editor & Staff Writer

ust two years prior to the passing of the 20th Amendment, when Paly opened as the first high school in the city, the school had a wide disparity in athletic opportunities for male and female students. Only male students were allowed to try out for the majority of after-school sports, and Paly hosted separate Physical Education (P.E.) classes for boys and girls. However, in the century since Paly began, an enormous amount of progress has been made through Title IX and the power of active student reporting in the fight for equal access and opportunity for women in the realm of athletics and beyond.

“I would tell any current female athlete to fight for the right to play their sport.” Sandy Ostrau As early as 1918, long before Title IX was enacted, Paly took its first steps towards providing opportunities to female athletes by hosting after-school girls basketball, hockey and tennis teams. The Campanile reported on our female sports teams in 1919, the first year the paper ran. “It was feared for a while that hockey would have to be discontinued on account of lack of numbers because many girls flew to basketball when there was a chance,” reported The Campanile on Jan. 22, 1919. “But many have turned out and the practice started again yesterday.” The Campanile began publishing longer stories on girls afterschool teams, and helped publicize the ways that Paly administration

promoted efforts implemented by the school to promote girls’ participation in sports, spanning from physical education classes to clubs. The Campanile even published an opinion piece on why girls should attend the first “playday” in 1929. “Every girl out for a sport!” reported The Campanile on Oct. 3, 1929. “Do you like hockey, basketball, tennis, volleyball and swimming? Choose your sport and come out. You will find your high school life will be enriched. What could be a better way of making friends, than by playing together? Come to playdays and make friends with girls from other schools. You can’t play with girls without getting to know them. Earn fifty points and become a member of the Girls’ Athletic Association.” To continue the streak of supporting girls athletics, The Campanile published a letter to the editor of Madrono later that year highlighting the lack of representation of girls in student media at the time. “To the Editor [of Madrono]: Why aren’t the girls’ athletics of Paly more fully represented in the Madrono?” reported The Campanile on Nov. 21, 1929. “Last year there were only two pictures of girls’ teams. There was none of the Girls’ Block P. Society which is more important than the G. A. A., which had a picture. The girls work fully as hard to make the Carnival, which finances the Madrono, a success. Why aren’t they given their fair share in the annual. Do two or three pages of girls’ sports to over twenty pages of boys’ make a fair ratio?” In 1952, coeducational P.E. was introduced at Paly. According to an article from The Campanile, “a group of young misses from the girls P.E. Department came shuffling quietly into the boys’ gym . . . With the help of gym teachers, a new program

began, which by this time has become an established custom.” Up to this point, P.E. was taught separately to boys and girls. Title IX was enacted in 1972, prohibiting federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on gender. Soon after the enactment of Title IX, Paly increased the number of girls’ sports that it offered. In 1976, Paly’s first-ever girls soccer team was created. The Campanile wrote an article on the team’s establishment on Dec. 10, 1976. Amy Shumway of The Campanile reported, “This is the first year Paly has fielded a girls’ soccer team. Right on jockettes!” According to Shumway, Paly was one of the many schools in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) to have added girls soccer to their sports program that year. At the time, Sandy Ostrau was a junior and a standout player on the soccer team. “At Paly I was thrilled to be able to play soccer for my school,” Ostrau said. “That first tryout was surprisingly popular and a lot of girls came out. There were enough players for varsity and JV teams. Many had never played soccer but wanted to give it a try.”

“I think it’s really cool that Paly supported women’s sports and funded women’s teams before Title IX. It just shows a little about how our school was ahead of the nation.” Abby Ramsey Although there was now both a boys and a girls soccer team, the boys continued to be Paly’s first priority. The girls team did not

receive much attention or support from other students, or the the administration. Starting from the ground up, the soccer team faced many difficulties. According to Ostrau, their coach had never coached a soccer team before, having mentored volleyball previously. “The coach was very nice but nothing compared to the kind of coaching the boys had,” Ostrau said. “We were just grateful to be able to play at all on a brand new team. The boys team had access to the best fields and we had to schedule around the boys for buses for transportation to away games. There was no question the boys team had much more support, but I believe each year offered improvements to the girls team.” Later that school year, a girls track team was established as well, which The Campanile reported on in May 10, 1997. Devon Hinton, the writer of the article, included a discourteous remark at the end of the story. “Whether you watch the girls for their track or aesthetic qualities, I am sure you will enjoy yourself,” Hinton said. After Title IX, new girls teams were constantly being created at Paly. Subsequently, girls sports at Paly performed exceptionally well in the following years. An article written in 1978 described girls’ success in all sports for Paly. The Campanile wrote, “The girls sports teams have made themselves known throughout the school and throughout the SCVAL league. The fall season was highlighted by the vikings’ hockey and tennis teams, as they both captured SCVAL league titles.” In 1996, the first girls water polo team was created after several years of perseverance. The Campanile reported, “Several attempts to form a team had been made and defeated by the administration in previous years, but this year, in the spring of 1996, the Lady Vikes

will have their very own team.” The team was created because of public interest. To make way for this team, the school had to remove girls gymnastics as a team. In October 1998, sophomore Caroline Lucchesi wrote the following letter to the editor of The Campanile:

“I am a huge believer in the power of sport for mental as well as physical activity. I encourage girls of all ages to play sports.” Sandy Ostrau “Editor — I hate how girls sports get practically no recognition. They get no money. No one cares if they have a bad coach, not enough equipment or not enough money—it’s all about guys sports. Football gets tons of stuff; boys basketball gets warm-up suits— even JV. The JV girls get nothing and the Varsity girls got jackets. Last year, softball got nothing— all of it went to baseball. It really makes me mad. I wish that someone would care a little bit about girls sports.” Just four months later, freshmen and softball player Cindy Staehnke wrote a letter to the editors addressing the same issue. According to Staehnke, they did not have uniforms and their first game was in less than two weeks. The girls themselves had to pay for sports boosters, along with their own uniforms, equipment and jackets. In the sports world, some students reflect on the early efforts made my Paly to ensure opportunities for females interested in athletics. “I think it’s important to have women’s sports because it wouldn’t be fair if just guys got the opportunity,” said junior and varsity lacrosse player Abby Ramsey.

“There’s no reason not to have equal funding. I think it’s really cool that Paly supported women’s sports and funded women’s teams before Title IX. It just shows a little about how our school was ahead of the nation.” In the past few years, students and parents at Paly have been pushing for a boys volleyball team. While Title IX has mostly been used to promote girls sports teams in previous years, several parents of Paly students petitioned through the act that boys volleyball should be allowed to create a team. In October 2014, The Campanile wrote an opinion piece calling for the creation of a boys volleyball team. “Not having a men’s volleyball team can be seen as sexist to the male population — for each male sport there is a female counter sport; however, there is no men’s volleyball team to complement the women’s volleyball team,” wrote staff writer Dami Bolarinwa. In winter of 2018, a dream became a reality for boy volleyball players when a team was instituted at Paly. The Campanile reported, “The boys team was added to Paly’s athletic program because of Title IX, a federal civil rights law that forbids discrimination in any educational program. This year, Title IX was used in an attempt to promote a boys volleyball team at Paly and Gunn.” Although the battle to ensure equal opportunities for all has come a long way since Title IX was enacted, there is still room for improvement in the realm of athletics. “I would tell any current female athlete to fight for the right to play their sport,” Ostrau said. “Playing a sport is empowering for girls and sets them on an equal footing with boys and provides so many valuable life skills.”

Campanile headlines about girls in athletics prior to 2005

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Text & Design by Leyton Ho

Jeremy Lin: Achievements Senior Year HS

15.1 APG 7.1 PPG

All-State Selection Norcal DII Player of Year

Former Campanile staﬀ members Jeremy Li

One on One with Jeremy Lin

n addition to leading the boys basketball team to a state championship, Lin was a staff writer for The Campanile from 2004-06. “My time on Campy was really positive, it was amazing being around so many bright minds,” Lin said in an email to The Campanile. “I remember writing articles for the newspaper, but I always knew I was surrounded by more talented writers so it pushed me to try to be better. Typical days were pretty chill and standard unless it was production week, which would mean I’d be there until nighttime all week working on the story and paper release.” One of the biggest takeaways for Lin from his time on the publication was respect for the media. Having experienced the effort it takes to produce a paper firsthand, he strives to help professional reporters at press conferences as a pro athlete. “[The Campanile] has always given me a big appreciation for journalism, which I try to remember everyday when I’m doing interviews or PR-related obligations,” Lin said. “I try to be empathetic towards the media regardless of my mood or if I played terribly because they have a job to do as well.” Overall, Lin feels that high school was a crucial time for him and shaped him into the person he is today. “It was a huge experience for me because it taught me the importance of hard work and dedication,” Lin said. “Looking back, I would enjoy each day more and stress less about my GPA, SAT scores and tests. I wouldn’t work less hard, I’d just stress less.” Lin’s advised current Campanile staff members to enjoy their time on staff because “time flies.” In his junior year, Lin also took Advanced Placement (AP) U.S.

History with John Bungarden. Bungarden enjoyed having Lin in class and has followed his career through Paly, Harvard University and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

“[The Campanile] has always given me a big appreciation for journalism, which I try to remember everyday when I’m doing interviews or PR-related obligations.” Jeremy Lin

“In my memory, Jeremy was a typical Paly student,” Bungarden said. “He was bright, he was hardworking, and he was quiet in class. He didn’t volunteer a lot. He had to be called on to hear his voice. My clearest recollection has nothing to do with him as a student but as him as a basketball player when he came into class the day of NorCals. He was limping, and he said he was leaving the period early to go to the doctor. He said something along the lines of that he had ‘hurt his foot the night before and it’d probably be ok.’ Of course it turned out not to be, as junior year he was injured and didn’t play. He was just a good guy. It’s high praise for me to describe him as a typical Paly student.” Bungarden also reflected on Lin’s sudden rise to fame. “We were doing some school visits with my son and that’s when he had the couple of magic games and he was suddenly on everyone’s radar,” Bungarden said. “Part of the deal for a while was, ‘We

are from Palo Alto, where Jeremy Lin came from.’ He’s been interesting to watch, and it’s been interesting to watch his career from a distance. To play professional sports in any sport is a remarkable achievement and in the NBA it’s really impressive, and he’s had a nice career. I didn’t quite get all the hair things that he was doing, but I’m not sure many people did. It was an interesting flair of personality.”

Coach’s Corner

aly coach Peter Diepenbrock had a major influence on Jeremy Lin’s basketball career and has stayed in contact with Lin throughout Lin’s National Basketball Association (NBA) stardom. Diepenbrock reflected on Lin’s Paly career. “He was an extremely competitive and dedicated guy, a very confident player,” Diepenbrock said. “You knew that you at least had a chance in whatever game you were playing in with him. He was a hard guy to coach because he lived for the competition but didn’t love doing the basic drills we would work on daily. It was always a challenge to try to get him motivated to work in practice.” Along with playing basketball, Lin was involved in many other activities as a high schooler. “He was extremely organized,” Diepenbrock said. “He played badminton, did the newspaper, he was an excellent student and took AP courses; he was also taking Chinese classes outside of school, and he was heavily involved in his Christian church. He was very disciplined in his schedule.” According to Diepenbrock, Lin’s path to the NBA was unconventional and unexpected. Contrary to popular belief, Lin was not dominant in high school and refined his game later in his career.

“It has been very rewarding seeing a former player play in the NBA and have success,” Diepenbrock said. “He was a very good high school player, but normally people that make it into the NBA dominate much more than he did at the high school level. He had very moderate high school statistics given that he is an NBA player. His story is much more about his work ethic after leaving high school and doing what he needed to do to have success in college and the NBA. There were a lot of very good college coaches that saw him play quite a bit and just decided that he was just not good enough to play at their level.” That being said, after winning the Division II State championship, Lin went on to play basketball at Harvard University and in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and the New York Knicks, among other teams.

Through the Lens of a Photographer

rofessional sports photographer Kyle Terada, a photo editor of USA Today, was part of The Campanile in 2004. He frequently took photos of Lin at Paly basketball games. “[Lin] did well with academics and was well-liked by his peers and friends,” Terada said. “He was a good basketball player, great teammate, great leader and respectful.” As a photographer of Golden State Warriors games, Terada has interacted with Lin in the NBA. “Being able to see him from high school to playing at Harvard and going onto the NBA has been a joy,” Terada said. “When he visits he is always friendly and humble to anyone who approaches him.”

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Friday, March 23, 2018

ion to the Pros

Text & Design by Ujwal Srivastava

in and Lily Zhang rise to stardom in athletics

Back and Forth with Lily Zhang

ily Zhang, a staff writer on The Campanile for two years (from fall 2012 to spring 2014), has an impressive table tennis resume, having made the U.S. Olympic Team in the past two summer Olympics. Zhang picked up table tennis at age 7, when a friend took her to the Palo Alto Table Tennis Club, and hasn’t stopped since. Currently a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Zhang reflected on her time on The Campanile and its effect on her table tennis career. “I had a fantastic experience being on Campy,” Zhang said. “The friends I made, the skills I developed and the lessons I learned will stay with me forever.” According to Zhang, these lessons did not come at the expense of her table tennis career, as she was able to balance table tennis with her newspaper commitments. “I remember Campy was super accommodating to my training and competition schedule,” Zhang said. “Whenever I needed to travel for a certain competition, Woj and the rest of the staff would be supportive and encouraging and try to help me make up any work I missed.”

“I had a fantastic experience being on Campy. The friends I made, the skills I developed and the lessons I learned will stay with me forever.” Lily Zhang

According to Zhang, while her parents largely planned her schedule in high school, she has

developed techniques in college allowing her to continue playing ping pong and keep up with the demands of being a college student. One of these techniques is using a planner. “I recently picked up a planner and I definitely feel like it’s helped a lot,” Zhang said in an interview for Team USA. “Before I never gave much attention to it; I thought I could handle it all in my head. But after a while I realized it’s pretty overwhelming to keep it all in so it’s a lot more helpful to write it down and see it on paper.” Jake van Zyll, a current junior at Chapman University, wrote for The Campanile at the same time as Lily Zhang. He reflected on his interactions with Zhang in an email. “I got to know Lily a little bit while we were both writing for Campy,” van Zyll said. “She is incredibly nice and always had a smile on her face in class. I remember thinking that she had particularly well-thought-out questions for the amazing guest speakers that would frequent our class.” Van Zyll actually didn’t initially realize Zhang was an Olympian, and believed that Zhang’s personality endeared her to her classmates more than her Olympic pedigree. “I actually didn’t find out that she’s an Olympian until a few weeks after I’d been in class with her, and by then I just thought that she was nice and seemed normal so it didn’t really shape my perspective of her,” van Zyll said. “Everyone was really nice to her, but that probably had more to do with how she treated other people than her Olympic status.” Along with providing support, The Campanile also provided many positive experiences for Zhang. Zhang said that she enjoyed

production, the three-day process of turning stories into a coherent newspaper and valued the freedom that came with being a student journalist.

“My favorite section to write for was probably the Lifestyle section. I especially loved being able to eat at new restaurants or try out new activities. ” Lily Zhang

“I genuinely enjoyed production,” Zhang said. “Having a student run production was especially refreshing; we had so much creative freedom and opportunities to express our own opinions and ideas. Additionally, I learned many useful digital development skills, such as InDesign and Photoshop.” While Zhang wrote many different pieces for The Campanile, she appreciated the opportunity to write for the lifestyle section the most. “My favorite section to write for was probably the Lifestyle section,” Zhang said. “I especially loved being able to eat at new restaurants or try out new activities and then get the chance to write about my opinions or experience.” The support and positive experience Zhang received from The Campanile staﬀ was also present within the greater Paly community. In general, Zhang felt Paly was instrumental in helping her balance school and table tennis. “Paly in general was such an important support system in my life,” Zhang said. “The administration, teachers and my peers there provided me

with all the help and resources I needed to train, travel to competitions, and still pursue the classes and learning material I wanted. There is not a doubt in mind that I would not be where I am today without this incredible school and I am eternally grateful for Paly’s full support in encouraging me to follow my dreams.” While at Paly, Zhang took AP Biology with Erik Olah. “She was a good student,” Olah said. “She missed this class quite a bit for tournaments but she always let me know ahead of time of what she was missing and she would always come back and stay on top of stuﬀ.” Olah adds that Zhang was pleasant to be around and a great team player.

“I remember Campy was super accommodating to my training and competition schedule.” Lily Zhang

“She was a good student all around, took care of things, had friends, worked well with others on labs,” Olah said. Watching Zhang achieve success at the national level has been a rewarding experience for Olah. “It’s been really cool [watching her],” Olah said. “I never watched table tennis in my life but following her and tracking her has been pretty cool.” At the end of the day, Zhang is still a college student, but nothing can undermine her vast achievements at such a young age.

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Olympic teams U.S. National Championships Age when first on national team

Ranking in the world

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SPORTS

Intramural sports throughout the years By John Loftus & Christopher Pierno

Senior Staff Writers

aly’s athletic teams have long been powerhouses in their leagues. However, the commitment required to reach this level of excellence is often more than many students can afford. For those who want the exercise, team camaraderie and experience of playing the sport they love without the pressure and time commitment of an official school team, intramural sports have offered a convenient and enjoyable solution throughout Paly’s history. While intramural sports have varied throughout the years, they have included rugby, basketball, softball, ping pong, soccer and many more. Many of the original intramural sports still exist to this day, yet some, like rugby, have stopped. Intramural sports were first mentioned in The Campanile in a 1929 article, “Cougars Top Standings in Class A Cage Loop,” where it is revealed that the Class A team from Paly topped the basketball intramural leaderboard. While this seems like a relatively insignificant event, it is only the beginning of a long recorded history of Paly’s long intramural sports. Intramural sports seem to have gained real traction by 1932 because that year Paly hired Phil Sheridan as a full time employee to manage all intramural sports. Although The Campanile doesn’t explain why this was necessary, it becomes clear that intramural sports clearly played a more important role in school athlet-

ics than they do today, perhaps because of a lack of competitive sports opportunities with other local high schools. In 1939, the first intramural soccer league was organized at Paly. Coach Heldon Haper, a star at the San Jose soccer league at the time, took on the task in order to assist with coaching and games. While soccer is embedded in American society these days, in the middle to early 20th century, it was considered a purely European sport, and sports like baseball and basketball were much more “American.” By adopting soccer into Paly culture, Paly demonstrated its progressive attitude and willingness to accept new ideas, as professional soccer did not gain widespread popularity in the U.S. until the late 1960s. The Campanile did not only report on solely Paly intramural sports; the lack of other publications earlier in the century also allowed them to report on all intramural sports occurring in the District. In the first of many columns titled “Jordan Jots,” which was a column, The Campanile reported on David Starr Jordan Middle School’s intramural baseball and basketball teams. The reporting of District-wide intramural sports demonstrates the prevalence of the sports in the Palo Alto community. It also shows the difference between varsity and intramural sports. It is clear that even in those days, intramural sports represented freedom for students and Palo Alto residents to participate in sports for fun and to build community ties. This was reflected in the 1939 Paly rule that banned people playing school sports from

participating in intramural. While some disagreed at the time by saying that intramural sports were for all, one interpretation is that this blocked better players from dominating intramural leagues and let all people participate in the sports they wanted, whether varsity or intramural. Intramural sports also allow students of different genders to participate in sports not officially offered by Paly to their gender. One example is Powder Puff, an all-girls football tournament. However, it was banned in the 2014-15 school under grounds that it was sexist. Paly’s Associated Student Body (ASB) claimed it was sexist because it excluded male players and assumed that females did not know how to play football. On top of that, the male football players coached the female teams, which many thought emphasized male dominance. Another article titled “InterClass Seniors Sweep School Football” described the status of intramural football during December 1942. While this article displays the seniors’ victories in intramural football, it also holds a deeper meaning — it proved how intramural sports were able to keep strong community together even during the middle of World War II. Soon after this, all coverage of intramural sports disappeared in the 1960s and ‘70s. This may have been due to the increase in the number of schools in the Bay Area which offered more varsity and junior varsity opponents and ultimately left intramural sports in the metaphorical dust. While intramural sports still exist, they were at their peak in

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the first half of the 1900s. Regardless of this, The Campanile’s coverage reflects the unifying power of intramural sports in a community. Even today, students maintain the friendly yet competitive camaraderie that characterizes intramural sports.

“I made lifelong connections from simply participating in Paly sports.” Athena DeMarzo

ASB holds tournaments year round with sports including capture the flag, ping pong and basketball. Senior Jeremy Dou feels that intramural sports helps him build relationships with friends. “It’s a great opportunity to form a stronger bond with friends that we can get to play together as a team,” Dou said. “It’s also a great opportunity for us to get a sense of competing against our friends on campus, which will be happen to us a lot at college.” Many Paly students build lifelong relationships from the sports they play in high school. “Most of my friends I met through playing basketball,” said junior Athena DeMarzo. “I made lifelong connections from simply participating in Paly sports.” Intramural sports, whether in 1930 or 2018, offer the optimal playing experience for those who want to remove themselves from the victory-driven environment and instead focus on the sports they love and the relationships that will last them a lifetime.

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PALY JOURNALISM ARCHIVES

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Reviewing the history of Viking athletics 1

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hroughout history, a few things have been guaranteed: death, taxes and dominance in athletics at Palo Alto High School. Since the onset of the athletic program over a century ago, the Vikings have become a Bay Area powerhouse, winning titles in almost every sport, from football to volleyball to tennis. Over the years, memories from champion-

ships to preaseason matches have been captured by a multitude of photographers. Our collage consists of a collection of iconic sports moments from the past to present, including photographs taken from photographer David Hickey of Viking Magazine, the Paly Journalism Archive, swim team parent Patrick Lin (used with permission) and previous issues of our paper.

Legend 1.Girls Basketball; 2017 2. Dave and Mark Shultz; 1984 3. Boys Basketball; 2006 4. Girls Volleyball; 2010 5. Boys Soccer; 2018 6. Chris Clark; 1966 7. Boys Water Polo; 2018 8. Boys Football; 9. Davante Adams; 2010 10. Boys Rugby; 11. Spencer Rojahn; 2017 12. Cole Tierney; 2017 13. Girls Basketball 14. Chelsea Fan; 2017 15. Alice Zhao; 2017

16. Boys biking; N/A 17. Keller Chryst; 2010 18.Boys basketball; N/A 19.Girls Swimming; 2017 20.Riley Schoeben; 2016 21. Mailinh Truong; 2017 22. Boys basketball; 1961

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Verbatim: Campanile Alumni Text & Design by Khadija Abid, Vivian Feng & Ujwal Srivastava The Campanile has offered students a voice for the past 100 years, but also exposed students to unique opportunities.Various Campanile alumni recount their memorable experiences as part of the publication.

GREG LINDEN

REBECCA REIDER

1992-94

1994-96

y favorite experience was an interview I did with the Palo Alto police, a Q&A asking questions relevant to teenagers’ interactions police. That’s the kind of experience I couldn’t have had any other way. The most important thing I learned was the journalistic writing style, which is very different than narrative or scientific writing styles. The journalistic writing style is very useful in communication work and has stuck with me over the last 25 years.

remember all of us editors-in-chief staying at school until 1 a.m. or whenever in solidarity, so that we could all drive The Campanile to the printer in San Jose together, back when that was a thing. We were so committed! Also, I remember the glee of The Campanile staff collectively making the School Board extremely uncomfortable when we uncovered an unorthodox pay raise given to an administrator; what an empowering experience to discover journalism’s power to hold powerful people to account.

KAI ODA

ARJUN SINGH

2014-16

2008-10

y favorite experience on The Campanile was filming a series of videos covering Paly sports teams. There was no pre-existing structure or support and I barely knew how to turn on the GoPro that I received as a Christmas gift. Even though the initial videos were pretty terrible I had a great time interacting with the athletes and I got a lot of really great feedback from the editors-in-chief at the time.

oing on a class field trip to New York and Woj telling us we’d be meeting “someone who works at the New Yorker” and sitting down face to face with David Remnick. I still tell this story today, really an incredible thing to get to do as a kid and makes me appreciate the fantastic program Woj put together.

GAËLLE FAURE

ANNALISE WANG

2000-02

2015-16

JESSICA WONG

ETHAN TEO

2015-16

remember accidentally printing the paper with a drawn-on mustache — or was it devil’s horns? — on the photo of a School Board member and having to Sharpie over it in every single copy before distribution. I remember feeling so proud seeing [more than] half the school reading the paper during lunch on distribution days.

y favorite memory of The Campanile is definitely late production nights and getting those moments to bond with other staff members and people I wouldn’t have normally talked to. The most important lesson I learned is to do unbiased reporting no matter how you feel about the topic, because it makes the story infinitely more credible and can also make you see the topic in a new light.

ne of the most memorable aspects of being on The Campanile were the guest speakers and talks we were exposed to — in my time on the staff, we had the chance to be exposed to everything from a seranade from a burgeoning foreign pop star to a National Geographic photographer to a breakdancer (who was also a self-made millionare) to the CEO of Youtube. These perspectives and the many others that were shared by guest speakers were testaments to how journalism isn’t one-dimensional.

isiting YouTube’s headquarters was one of the many incredible oppurtunities I had as a member of Campy. We had many similar field trips and guest speakers every year, and getting the chance to understand how companies and organizations operate in their respective fields was really valuable. My biggest takeaway was the importance of asking questions. There are a lot of societal issues that are more nuanced than we’d expect, and I learned that it’s really important to understand how to reexamine and synthesize facts that we might have overlooked to draw more concrete conclusions.