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More than Words: Exploring Microaggressions on Campus

By Alison Oh and Kaelyn Bowers on March 20, 2019 Features, Features Archives

As Xenia Bernal ’19 flipped through the pages of the 2017 yearbook, she was taken aback. Alongside silly photos of seniors in heart-shaped sunglasses and cheetah-print hats was a large photo of a group of boys in sombreros and fake mustaches posing with a huge bottle of Tapatío hot sauce. Bernal, a leader of the […]

Wonder Women: Exploring the increasing female presence in Advanced Placement courses

By Lindsay Wu on January 30, 2019 Features

On the first day of her senior year, Tivoli Nguyen ’17 entered her Advanced Placement Physics C class and chose a desk amongst the two boys already seated. After the rest of Nguyen’s classmates filed in—one boy after another—she realized she was the only girl in her class of seven. “It was so intimidating to […]