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Change Starts with Conversations

Change Starts with Conversations

As she was walking home from school, Camille Clay heard racial taunts aimed at her. Unfortunately for Clay, this type of behavior was nothing new. At school, kids made fun of her black skin tone. “I came back home from swim practice and saw the N-word spray painted on...

Making a difference with student activism

Making a difference with student activism

From protests for civil rights in the 1960s to a 2018 national school walkout to oppose gun violence, numerous youth-led protests and demonstrations have shown that students are an integral part of making a difference in their community. Although teens participating...

Opinion: Break the chains of modern slavery

Opinion: Break the chains of modern slavery

Human trafficking steals the freedom of approximately 27 million people across the globe annually and is the second largest underground economy in San Diego according to the San Diego District Attorney’s Office. It makes me sick to my stomach every time I think about...

Opinion: Changing the body image epidemic from within

Opinion: Changing the body image epidemic from within

The other night, I settled into the couch, flicking through the channels on the TV in hopes of finding an entertaining show. I eventually landed on the reality show “Botched,” where patients — mostly women — who have already had significant plastic surgery consult...

Change Starts with Awareness

Change Starts with Awareness

Ironically, in an era where everyone seems to be perpetually glued to their cell phone screens, many people these days are not aware of current events, much less what is going on in their own community. Knowledge and wisdom were once considered an esteemed privilege,...

Change starts in the classroom

Change starts in the classroom

At San Marino, our anecdotes of hallway breakdowns and tension headaches are as common as the 5s we score on our AP exams (to give you a perspective, almost 50 percent of students who took the 2018 AP Chemistry exam scored a 5). These fees we pay for academic merit...

Change starts with LGBTQ acceptance: bigger than a law

Change starts with LGBTQ acceptance: bigger than a law

The struggle that the LGBTQ youth of America face is far more than a few cruel words. Imagine this: it’s a regular summer’s day 2015, the overbearing heat is beating down on your face and you’ve taken to sitting in front of a fan in your living room to escape a...

March for Our Lives leaders pave the way for change

March for Our Lives leaders pave the way for change

Rachel Iribe remembers a young girl staring at her intently during the March for Our Lives rally in Los Angeles on March 20. The child sat atop her father’s shoulders, her head bobbing as the crowds moved through Downtown L.A. The girl’s eyes did not stray while Iribe...