F RI DAY, M A RC H 1, 2013
A look into Tino’s Alumni and History
It’s time to abolish slavery LIFESTYLES page 8
It’s not about the looks
Sol’ Power SPORTS page 11
FEATURES pages 6 & 7
VOLUME 54 NO. 5
OPINIONS page 5
The Prospector
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Taking the sound
UNDER GROUND
News briefs Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City State has decided to resign at the end of February due to his “advancing age” (85 years) and is the first pope to resign since 1415. A 10,000 ton meteor streaked into Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, at the speed of 33,000 mph, and injured approximately 1,100 people. It is the largest object to fall into the Earth’s atmosphere in over a century.
CHRIS CAI
opinions assistant
VINITRA SWAMY news assistant
Olympic and Paralympic Oscar Pistorius, the first double amputee to compete against able-bodied runners at the Olympics, is accused of shooting his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day.
Sophomores Maddy Scales and Ruci Karangutkar, along with fellow sophomore Neela Koduri of Saratoga High School, are the editors of a new independent publication on campus. Their literary magazine, No Shame in My Game, brings music appreciation to students in a new format. From Nirvana to One Direction, their magazine prints band spotlights, original poetry, pictures, song interpretations and numerous other literary discourses. Although the fledgling magazine currently has a limited circulation of only 75 copies, it already enjoys a small but
30 women were sworn into Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, a previously male dominated body. Many consider this a step towards women’s rights in a country plagued by sexism.
It’s definitely interesting, especially because it’s about music. Everybody loves music
South Korea elected its first woman president, Park Geun-hye, on Monday, Feb. 25.
- Sophomore Margarita Valencia ardent audience. The magazine is printed with their own resources and distributed among the classes at their own respective schools. Co-writing the magazine seemed to be the obvious choice, as Karangutkar and Koduri have been friends for “forever and a day” and after meeting Scales in the seventh grade, the three have been friends ever since. “We all have the same taste in music, for the most part,” Karangutkar said. “The main thing we all have in common is that we like Nirvana. However, Maddy’s very ‘pop punk’ and Neela likes One Direction.” Inspired by the movie “Beware the Gonzo” and the book “Perks of Being A Wallflower,” the three founded the literary magazine in order to better circulate their own ideas on music and music culture. Said Scales, “We wrote the [magazine] for ourselves,
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire to protest China’s rule in Tibet. At least 106 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in this protest. A hot air balloon fell 1,000 feet on Tuesday, Feb. 25 and crashed in the city of Luxor in South Egypt, killing 19 tourists.
PHOTOS BY JESSICA SHIN
STUDENTS PUBLISH UNDERGROUND MUSIC MAGAZINE cont. page 2
Extra $6 on AP exams goes toward administrative costs CHRIS S. YOON news editor
CHRIS CAI opinions assistant
The Advanced Placement exams are officially priced at $89, yet they are sold at this school, as well as at other schools in the Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD), for $95. Though $6 more expensive than College Board’s price, this additional fee helps cover administrative fees necessary for routine testing. The school’s intentions with the extra cost is to ensure that the testing process progresses as efficiently as possible while maintaining standards as set by the College Board corporation.
“The biggest expenses are the proctors,” assistant principal Geoff Wright said. “As you know, you have to have a minimum of one proctor. But as the number of students testing goes up, there is a matrix that tells us how many proctors are needed. Here at [the school], those costs are not quite as apparent because we have a great tradition of teachers acting as proctors.” The school is the only one in the district that uses teachers as volunteer test proctors. This does not, however, reduce any administrative costs since the school has to pay for substitutes to replace proctoring teachers. The benefit to this arrangement is that students are given a friendlier testing environment, thus making the already difficult testing experience more comfortable and less formidable. In addition to substitute fees, the school also uses the extra $6 for testing essentials such as table rentals and secure storage for exam materials. Teachers volunteer to proctor AP exmas cont. page 3
Cupertino became the first majority Asian American district in mainland United States. Recent studies show 70,000 Indian children have worked in mines without protective gear since the passage of a landmark 2010 law requiring children from ages six through 14 at attend school. The Supreme Court of the United States rejected a lawsuit against the federal government’s electronic monitoring of foreigners suspected of terrorism. COMPILED BY MICHELLE CHEUNG & TRINA BHATTARAI