As Californians, we view earthquakes as a natural aspect of life. If the ground gives a little shimmy, we smile, laugh and go on with our days. Our last devastating quake was in 1994, in Northridge....

Three stories up on R3 when the sun goes down, seniors are the reason why songs are blasting and professional male models are coming to SMCHS. The class of 2015 has been amping its fierce factor by...

There’s nothing that can quite compare to the feeling you get when reading the perfect piece of literature. Whether it’s a compelling book or a heart-wrenching poem, works of literature inspire our...

Within the walls of this court, defendants’ consequences are not decided by adults, but by their fellow high school students. This is Peer Court. And defendants of misdemeanor charges must answer to...

Us seniors have heard about it since freshman year. We've heard about the highs and absolutely heard about the lows. We were afraid that such history (horror stories included) would repeat itself and were...

From March 5-15, 10 SMCHS seniors experienced chilly (and sometimes freezing) weather, intense pollution, squat toilets, a tremendous amount of sushi and fried rice and two entirely foreign cultures. Led...

Needles and blood certainly are two things that high school students try to avoid at all costs. But on Feb. 26, SMCHS students ushered in the season of Lent by looking past these fears for the greater...

The weekend of Feb. 21, the SMCHS varsity ice hockey team participated in the State playoffs that determined which team the league will choose to represent California in Chesterfield, Mo. for the 2015...

Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and you. That's right, your name can fall amidst those of the greatest poets of all time. That is…if you submit poetry...

It's 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5. A giant charter bus pulls up to SMCHS ready to make its hour-long trek to the San Diego International Airport. Twenty-four anxious, overly-ecstatic, spray-tanned varsity...

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,...