In past years, scheduling had always been quite the event. There was an entire day planned out for counselors to come to classrooms and hand out important-looking sheets of paper. Students would travel...

Lights, camera, paper? Before all the action, comes something that is the foundation of every good movie. The script. The very beginning of every good movie, from the James Bond series, to Harry Potter,...

Bombs ahoy! All students take cover. Eggs are falling with great velocity from G3. Friday Jan. 30, IB Physics dropped eggs with the mission of creating an apparatus to save the egg yolk from breaking...

On Saturday, Jan. 10, the SMCHS dance team competed in their first competition of the season, the Aliso Dance Classic at Aliso Niguel High School. The team performed in a total of nine routines, six group...

As the esteemed singer and songwriter Jessie J proudly sings, "It's not about the money, money, money. We don’t need your money money money. We just want to make the world dance, forget about the price...

Senior year: the year to do it all before high school is over forever. There are some must-do traditions at SMCHS that the graduating class always looks forward to: senior prom, Kairos, ditch days, the...

October has arrived and it seems like everywhere we look, we catch glimpses of pink. ­From the ribbon wrapped trees on campus to dashes of pink on the football field, everyone at SMCHS seems to be thinking...

Don’t do drugs. Drugs are bad. Drugs will kill you. These messages have been repeated to us over and over again since the day we learned what a cigarette was. But as kids, we most remembered not the...

Buses were full, girls made last minute beauty appointments, and boys frantically tied to find a tie that matched their date's dress color. It was Homecoming week, the week of Oct. 6-11. The spirit...

Picture this: Mr. Holloway sitting behind a large round table at a City Council meeting instead of standing behind the attendance desk at school. Crazy. Holloway overseeing legislation instead of giving...

It hurts to say goodbye, and this case is no exception. It's official: one of SMCHS’s teachers is soaring away. Art teacher Emily Dilbeck, who has worked at SMCHS for eight years, is leaving the nest...

Doubt the first. Cry the second. Trust the third. Live the fourth. A saying used on all Kairos retreats which, after you attend, will become very relevant to your everyday life. On Saturday,...