On December 5 and 6, Forensics students took a trip to the Medical Examiner's Office to get a glimpse of forensic science in the real world. Forensics teacher Jordan Yasutomi led the trips, which consisted of juniors and seniors. "Together with the forensics examiner, students performed case studies where most of the medical examiner's patients …
As the Winter Banquet makes its approach, the buzz about what to wear for the formal event is becoming more uproarious than usual. Earlier this week, there was an email from the principal to all of the girls attending this year's Winter Banquet about the updated dress code restrictions. Upon taking a closer look at …
The book will almost always be better than the movie; however, the movie version of Catching Fire lives up to its book pretty well. Catching Fire is the second part of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The overall story is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District 12, the poorest and lowest …
In September, Miley Cyrus released the music video to her newest single “Wrecking Ball”. The video broke the VEVO 24 hour Record for views with an astounding 19.3 million. If Miley was looking for some attention, she got it. What probably made people flock to watch the video was news that Miley was naked for …
Sophomores spent a day presenting their history projects on the Wild West era and participating in an environmental project by cleaning up streams and collecting water samples in the Ala Wai Watershed Project. This video was produced by Christian Oshiro, Jaryd Sugihara and Danielle Woo (Online News Class). Photographs by Tara Gruspe & Jordan Yasutomi. …
Student Council assigns Spirit Week dress-up days with a creative game. As usual, the student council started off the all-school homeroom with a game. Each grade had to select two representatives: "an intelligent boy" and "an athletic girl". The players had to place Christmas presents into their own hula hoop while trying to place other …
If you looked at all the pop songs from the 19th century to today, a huge majority of those songs are about one thing: love. Then, if one took the time to analyze the lyrics of love songs by women and love songs by men, there’s a distinct difference. Most songs performed by women are …
My time as a beginning freshman in high school was only a mere two years ago, but a lot of changes have taken place - probably the biggest changes I've ever experienced in my life. As a teenager, you get a lot of things shouted at you from all different directions and sometimes, if you're …
The seniors went to the Pu'u Kahea Conference Center in Waianae for their last camp as a class. The camp was themed "R.A.F.T", which stands for Reconciliation, Affirmation, Farewell, and Thinking Ahead. The Class of 2014 was challenged by faculty advisers and student speakers to take intentional steps towards finishing their senior year well. The …
I always knew Pentatonix was going to do well. In 2011, the group of five won the acapella TV competition Sing Off on the NBC network, and since then, the group has experienced a lot of success with the release of their second EP (extended play) PTX vol. 2. A few weeks, the group released a video on …
