Amulya Vadlakonda

Students from same extended family share more experiences on their family's adventures. 

Falcon Staff opinion on the online platform switch

Recognition of women controversial at the Olympics

Sophomore Amith Galivanche and Junior Amulya Vadlakonda share their life experiences with their 19-person family. 

Junior explains her thoughts on AP class finals.  

Junior laments the exorbitant cost of prom

Reporter reflects on skewed perception of Indian culture.

Kendrick Lamar walked out on stage in chains, one man in a line of limping inmates. The metal links rattled as he wrapped his hands around the microphone, his brow furrowed in concentration.

What does it mean for a student to take the “most challenging” course load? This question on the school reports that guidance counselors send to colleges during the college admission process has never been answered with a standard measurement. In the past, the school’s four guidance counselors have made individual judgment calls on the rigor of each student’s academic load.

This year, the speech and debate team has entered 11 students in the 2016 Berkeley Invitational, which starts on Feb. 13 with over 3,000 participants across all events.

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast members once made us roar with laughter, but most have now left the show to find successful acting careers in the Hollywood.  

We are becoming so desensitized to gun violence that news bringing statistics like these have become “just another headline.”

CASSY (Counseling and Support Services for Youth) program is a safe place where students can go for therapy and yet often don’t. The reason might be that “therapy” is a loaded word: It drags with it the difficulty of mental problems, intangible issues that so frequently are overlooked.

Tumbler feminists giving feminism a bad name, twisting its definition.

14 years after 9/11, the terrorist attack on Paris, France, has the world once again fighting against a group of radicals who claim to defend truth and freedom.  

Junior Spencer Robinson finds niche in Speech and Debate team.

Recently, the debate over removing the GPA boost that comes with taking AP or Honors classes has become a topic of discussion.

Few students who apply for ISPE are approved.

Senior Isha Mangal works to highlight the challenges facing autistic children.

Brown and her husband Daniel Handler, who is more commonly known as Lemony Snicket and the author of the popular "A Series of Unfortunate Events" novels, announced last month that they will donate $1 million to the embattled organization.

Caitlyn Jenner has opened up a forum for discussion for everyone who is willing to join. With her new show “I am Cait” on E!, she is able to reach a wide range of audiences to get her message across. It is through this method of education that the trans rights movement is gaining momentum.  

On the first day of school, you’re flooded with multicolored syllabuses from each of your classes. You immediately check the rounding policies and dedicate yourself to keeping them straight for the rest of the year. Your math teacher doesn’t round up, your science teacher does and your English and history teachers both do, but only between a B+ and an A-.

Seniors Michael Ong and Sudeep Raj won second place at the prestigious California State Speech and Debate tournament for parliamentary debate on April 20-21 at Vista Murrieta High School.

At the end of this newspaper prank war, it is safe to say our team was the winner.

As the end of the speech and debate season nears, freshman Varun Viswanath and seniors Supriya Khandekar, Sudeep Raj and Michael Ong qualified at the state qualifications tournament at Leland High School on March 2.

The Internet has evolved significantly in the last few years — for  better and for worse. Too many times have we  heard our parents tell us to “get off of Facebook” or “stop Instagramming food.” But while the Internet can serve as a distraction, it has also connected the world to enact change in unbelievable ways.

If college is feeling more and more like a dangerous place, it’s because of headlines like this one from a recent New York Times issue: “Stanford Ex-Student Denies Rape of Unconscious Woman Outside Frat.”

In the words of senior Kevin Chiang, senioritis is like “having motivational hemophilia and a cut on your arm at the same time.”

In a moment of great mental weakness, we decided that it might be a good idea to challenge our linguistic talents and speak only Spanish for the duration of an entire Friday. Bonus points for speaking with a telenovela (soap opera) voice.

Over Martin Luther King Day weekend, several members of the speech and debate team made it to the elimination rounds of the large tournament held at James Logan High School.

As backlash to feminism, meninism has arisen as some kind of champion for men’s rights. Meninists degrade women, shaming them with posts like, “Ladies, the next time a guy has the guts to talk to [you], remember that he’s not wearing makeup. Also remember what you look like without it.”

Finally, on May 15, 2015, there’s going to be a sequel to the magical wonder that was “Pitch Perfect.”

At the Coast Forensic League Novice Individual Events tournament at Christopher High School in Gilroy on Nov. 1, the underclassman speech and debate team's work ethic paid off in full. Freshman Varun Viswanath took first place and freshman Divya Rallabandi won third in oratorical interpretation.

Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of all equality to men. Irony is Miley Cyrus declaring that she is “one of the biggest feminists in the world,” post-swinging around naked on a wrecking ball and twerking against Robin Thicke in a scandalous leotard.

Is the outside group Sources of Strength actually weakening Common Roots?

Reporter attemps to talk like Youtube character Miranda Sings for a day.

After eight years of coaching speech and debate, English teacher Erick Rector has stepped down. The program will now be led by Chris Harris, an off-campus coach who previously worked as an assistant coach.

Now-sophomore reflects on her high school experience so far.

Peter VandeVort packs a lot into 24 hours.