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[News] Gunn will be dedicating an entire school day on Wednesday to college admittance, testing and career exploration. Juniors, sophomores and freshmen will be taking the Preliminary SAT (PSAT), PLAN and EXPLORE respectively from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., while the seniors will attend Stanford Psychologist Fred Luskin’s stress reduction lecture. —Alvin Man
[Forum] Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers with 5,000 teens ages 16 to 20 dying from fatal crashes anuualy. That may not sound like much given the size of the American population, but anyone could be a part of that statistic. In a society where every life counts, raising the driving age will help save lives in the future.—Alvin Man
[News] Social Studies Department offers honors credit for Model United Nations—Alvin Man
[Features] The Oracle staff takes a look at teacher weddings of this year. —Sophie Cheng, Eugenah Chou, Alvin Man, Mati Pluska-Renaud & Hannah Plank-Schwartz
[Forum] Decent people wear clothes to cover themselves up. Girls who wear too little clothing and show too much skin are the target of negative feedback. “Slut”, “skanky” and “whore” are just some adjectives commonly hurled at scantily clothed women. Frankly these are not words anyone would want to be associated with. So girls, cover up! —Alvin Man
[Features] Every year, the Mathematical Association of America holds the annual American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). The AMC offers five different tests, which are AMC-8, AMC-10, AMC-12, American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) and United States of America Mathematics Olympiad (USAMO). Only the AMC-10 through the USAMO are given at Gunn. The AMC-10 is given to students in tenth grade and under, and the AMC-12 is usually given to juniors or seniors.—Alvin Man
[Features] The purpose of Fair Trade is to ensure that Third World country workers are given basic benefits such as living wages and better working conditions. The Students for Fair Trade club helps to advocate this idea by selling fair trade chocolate, coffee and tea to students, teachers and other community members. —Alvin Man
[Sports] The Oracle staff takes a look at the spring sports offered at Gunn. —Tiffany Hu, Elaine Liu, Alvin Man & Emily Zheng
[Sports] Changes in proposed football program cause conflict—Alvin Man & Niki Mata
[News] New courses will be added to the 2009-2010 class catalog including Model United Nations (MUN), Introduction to Engineering and French Civilization and Culture Honors. Some are extensions of classes that are already in existence while others are completely new. “Some of these classes are to fill the gap between middle and high school,” Principal Noreen Likins said. “Quite a few of middle school kids take classes at middle school and when they come to Gunn, they do not find similar programs available to 9th and 10th graders.”—Alvin Man
[Sports] The Oracle staff interviews Travis Cottle, Sports Announcer. —Alvin Man
[Sports] With an unprecedented record of 26-3 last year, the girls’ varsity basketball team is now working towards an equally strong season. The team recorded the most wins in Gunn’s sports history.—Wen Yi Chin and Alvin Man
[Features] Junior Jackie Hwang has been playing and composing songs for the piano, guitar and violin since she was eight years old. Last summer, she decided that she wanted to major in music and composition at the University of California Los Angeles, Caliart or Berklee College of Music. “[They provide] more freedom and they offer commercial music,” Hwang said.—Alvin Man
[Features] The Oracle staff interviews teachers about their favorite books. —Ann Abraham, Joseph Lin & Alvin Man
[Entertainment] Everyone wants one, but which one is right for you? With so many choices, consumers have a hard time finding their music player match. —Alvin Man
[Features] The Oracle interviews fresh faces at Gunn. —Sophie Cheng, Mari Ju, Alvin Man, Jeffrey Wang, Amy Yu & Sarah-Jean Zubair
[Sports] Game against Presentation High School calls for hard play—Alvin Man & Joseph Lin