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Caroline Oliver anticipates freshman year at Barnard. Saro Acharya sets up future in film with Emerson.

Members of the orchestra program will be touring Los Angeles at the beginning of spring break, from March 31 to April 3. This mini tour will be the biggest tour of the year for the group before the international tour to the Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in the summer of 2017.  

Out of the colleges that have accepted him, Acharya said he is leaning toward Emerson, since it is one of the top 10 film schools in the country and offers a “great” liberal arts education. The main campus is located in Boston, but the school also has a campus right on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.  

Playing in the tough De Anza League, the Falcons have secured a spot in the Division 3 CCS playoffs following February break. The team played their last league game at Los Altos on February 16.  

Winter guard begins preparations for new show.

Senior Saro Acharya completes his early applications.

As push for transgender equality continues, local high school creates gender-neutral bathroom.

Saro Acharya works on early apps and continues his journey towards a film and television major.

This year, the Falcon will be following the trials and tribulations of the college application process. Saro Acharya is one of two seniors who will be profiled in this series.

This year’s Homecoming themes have an overarching theme of “a Land Far, Far Away.”

The first of three year-end music concerts opened with a performance by the Concert and Chamber Choirs in the McAfee Theater on the evening of May 8 and continued in succession from there.

The Oxford University, a cappella group Out of the Blue (OOTB), led a workshop for the students in the school’s choir program.

Winter percussion elevates its performance this year, reaching nationals.

100 word opinion rants

One of the school’s strengths is the vast variety of extracurricular activities offered to students. Unfortunately, not all of these activities are recognized equally: sports such as football and basketball are higher profile regardless of how well or poorly the team is actually doing, while others remain under the radar. One such group is winter guard. 

Senior Danny Kawadri, with his distinctive deep singing voice, is one of the school’s many talented actors and singers. Performing has become one of Kawadri’s passions.

After Edward Snowden revealed just how much the National Security Agency spies on American citizens, people have hovered around hot-topic words like “cybersecurity” and “personal privacy.” And yet, while the NSA has been labeled as the big bully, many Americans remain unaware of the hacker activists who “dox” people and pose a far more severe public threat.

Like many other seniors,  Claire Strickland has a dream college: New York University (NYU). Strickland is looking for a place to be independent, and NYU fits the description: It doesn’t even have a campus center.  

Despite the popularity of Tumblr as a haven of acceptance for all members of society, the social media blogging platform, like many websites, has its pitfalls. One of the most troubling is that users often use Tumblr as an outlet to vent their emotions, without knowing when to stop.

On Nov. 24, the Missouri Grand Jury declared no indictment for Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, igniting a series of protests that led to the looting of stores, setting of fires and the arrest of hundreds of protesters in cities across the nation.

With the increased popularity of social media, authors today have become much more prominent and publicly connected figures — and this is a positive change.

In October, the Color Guard members rehearsed their field show “Sacred Geometry” with the marching band. 

On Sept. 19, Apple released the iPhone 6 worldwide — the company’s newest product in its “making things bigger and smaller and bigger again but not that big” progression. Despite Apple’s new upgrades, it has too many drawbacks to be worth the $300 for 16GB.

Saratoga’s marching band has been invited to march at the Rose Parade, an annual nationally televised festival of floats in Pasadena, on Jan. 1, 2016.

Freshman Angela Lee sews her own clothing, often inspired by designs on Polyvore, an online fashion community.

UCLA’s Bruin Marching Band, also known as The Solid Gold Sound, performed on the school’s football field on Oct. 17 during tutorial and lunch.

Actual Films will be on campus throughout the year to work on a documentary about moving on from cases of sexual assault.  

Teachers Kristofer Orre and Brian Elliott are one of several teacher pairs working with a new collaborative teaching model this year.