Candlesticks flickered in wooden chandeliers. Banners adorned the walls. Two long tables stretched across the room. A girl with curly red hair stood behind the podium. This was not, however, a scene from...

“To me, the environment is everything,” junior Brennan McDonald said. McDonald, an environmentalist and Burlingame Environmental Club member, has pursued an activist role in the global fight against...

Senior Makenna Mahrer, a member of Girls Learn International (GLI), volunteered at the 63rd annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at U.N. headquarters in New York City. The U.N. Commission,...

The California Healthy Kids Survey revealed that 13 to 30 percent of San Mateo High School District students had consumed alcohol within the last 30 days. Teenagers employ a variety of methods to illegally...

An unlikely candidate sprung up in the midst of the ASB president elections when voting started on Feb. 13. Although he had not asked for it, junior Araz Ordubadi was “nominated” by his classmates...

Introduction The 91st Academy Awards will take place at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with millions of others watching from their home screens, although not as many...

December 2018 marked the stock market’s worst December performance in U.S. history since the Great Depression, according to CNBC. “What happened in December is what they call a market adjustment,”...

Tinder has found its way onto Burlingame’s campus and into the phones of its students. The app itself is easy to use; users add pictures of themselves to their profile, along with a bio, age and name,...

Strolling down Burlingame Avenue, I hear a variety of sounds—the conversations of people eating outside, the murmur of car engines as they cruise past and the whirr of planes flying overhead. Sometimes,...

Contrary to stories of airport nightmares during the 35-day government shutdown, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) was relatively unaffected. While U.S. airports across the nation, including...

To many students, the college process is becoming more competitive. The myth of the perfect student with the top test scores, GPA and most extracurriculars is becoming less of an exception and more of...

As public sector workers, teachers bargain with elected representatives who receive campaign donations from these same unions. This may be seen by some as an unacceptable influence of money on politics. The...