La Puma

09/14/2018

Getting ready for a new year with 13 new staff writers! Check out their first articles at chslapuma.com!

06/01/2016

Tomorrow's a big day! The last La Puma issue of the year comes out during 4th period and the yearbook will be distributed during 7th period and after school until 4 in the MUR.

05/31/2016

Incoming freshmen: new graduation requirements may be coming your way. The district governing board votes on them tomorrow. http://chslapuma.com/news/2016/05/27/district-considers-new-graduation-requirements/

The Graduation Requirement Evaluation Committee (GREC) has set forth a proposal for modifying the graduation requirements for Acalanes Union High School District students for the first time since 2001. Several new guidelines were introduced during meetings with the Campolindo governing board. The 1s...

05/30/2016

Campolindo's debate team is now ranked 3rd in the nation for Parliamentary Debate! Read all about how they got there: http://chslapuma.com/news/2016/05/27/debate-club-earns-national-ranking/

Ranked 3rd in the nation for Parliamentary Debate, the debate club celebrated its most successful year since being founded in 2012 by seniors Peter Moore, Thomas Liao, and Conor Hanvey. “Natural progression” has led the club from “nowhere to being somewhere,” said Liao, who has been debating since 8...

05/29/2016

Have you heard about the new Coalition Application? http://chslapuma.com/opinion/2016/05/26/new-college-application-not-effective-solution/

According to unofficial La Puma tradition, the editor-in-chief’s last column consists of advice to the underclassmen. In a shocking turn of events, the girl who has written extensively about the value of breaking tradition, being an independent thinker, and trying new things is actually going to fol...

05/27/2016

Juniors finally completed CAASPP testing today. Despite what the California Department of Education believes, the Common Core is not actually preparing students well for the real world, writes Isabel Owens. http://chslapuma.com/opinion/2016/05/12/common-core-testing-not-answer-to-millennial-malfunctions/

The “California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress” English and math tests will be administered to sophomores and juniors from May 16 through May 27. The standards assessed by the CAASPP were developed in response to a lack of critical and analytic thinking abilities among California stu...

05/26/2016

"I have always been encouraged to think inside the box, unless outside the box means 'drop out of college, but only do it to pull some crazy-smart stunt so you can be super rich, like Steve Jobs or something, and then go back to living in Silicon Valley where you and your family spent 13 years driving past corporate complexes and paying too much mortgage.'"

Read more from Rachel Jin's opinion article about the traditional "college-grad school-job" path: http://chslapuma.com/opinion/2016/05/24/where-are-we-headed-really/

College decisions and the impending graduation of the class of 2016 is a reminder to current juniors that “You better start getting yourself together real soon, son.” Yet, I find myself drifting farther and farther away from the concrete plans into which I have been investing my time and energy sinc...

05/25/2016

Apollo turns into an acne-ridden teenager and a love-hate relationship between Will and Nico develops in Rick Riordan's novel Trials of Apollo. Read Kate Ginley's review here: http://chslapuma.com/lifestyle/2016/05/23/apollos-trials-trumped-by-gay-romance/

As his most LGBTQ+ friendly young adult novel so far, Rick Riordan’s Trials of Apollo has set the bar for both humor and sexual acceptance. Narrated from the Greek god Apollo’s point of view, the story is a surprising contrast to the traditional mythological cannon. Though the book mostly focuses on...

05/25/2016

The final college workshops of the year will be held on Thursday for incoming juniors and seniors. http://chslapuma.com/news/2016/05/23/workshop-helps-post-grad-planning/

The 6th series of college workshops were held in the computer lab for next year’s juniors and seniors on May 19 and May 26. Headed by college and career adviser Joan Batcheller, students were able to develop prospective college lists and receive help with researching their respective programs and re...

05/20/2016

to the Campolindo production of Rumors. http://chslapuma.com/lifestyle/2016/05/12/small-cast-offers-unique-experience/

The Campolindo Drama presented Neil Simon’s Rumors from April 28-30. Rumors chronicles a couple’s arrival at an upscale dinner party and the subsequent disarray after partygoers discover the host in a coma, having shot himself in the ear, and his wife gone. Drama teacher and the play’s director Jami...

05/16/2016

Biology students learned all about the science behind our sewer system. http://chslapuma.com/news/2016/05/12/science-examines-sewer-treatment/

Biology students in Roxanna Jackman’s 5th and 6th period classes learned about what happens after water and other materials are flushed down the drain. Sewer Science is a 1 week unit that most biology students complete during the year. Jackman’s classes tackled it the first week of May. After creat...