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VHS Poet Helps Homeless Students Live “A Blissful Youth”

VHS Poet Helps Homeless Students Live “A Blissful Youth”

Charlotte D'Orsi November 22, 2019

On a sunny Saturday morning in downtown Ventura, Ventura High School senior Yalda Kotobi sat outside Palermo Coffee to sell and sign copies of her recently published book, “A Blissful Youth.” Passersby...

Say Bonjour to Jeanne!

Say “Bonjour” to Jeanne!

Greta Pankratz and Charlotte D'Orsi November 14, 2019

Meet Ventura High’s newest multilingual foreign exchange student Jeanne Florentin is a fresh face not only to Ventura High School, but also in California. She is from Bourgogne, a region in central...

Custodian, Danial Sandoval, says that Cleaning graffiti off of the walls is very inconvenient because it requires extra time on top of his other daily tasks. Photo by: Charlotte DOrsi

Keep your pens on your paper, not on the walls

Jack Schatzman and Charlotte D'Orsi November 6, 2019

Graffiti around VHS is rampant, can it be solved? [dropcap size=small]U[/dropcap]pon entering any high school bathroom, one is almost 100 percent guaranteed to find graffiti of all kinds doodles, poems,...

Drawing by: Charlotte DOrsi

Bomb threat causes explosion of chaos

Charlotte D'Orsi October 25, 2019

A Threat made on ASB Instagram page prompts Police Department investigation  On the week of Oct. 7, all VHS-affiliated social media accounts were urged to change their passwords and disable comments as...

2019 VHS Homecoming Game Highlights

2019 VHS Homecoming Game Highlights

Juliana Jacobson and Charlotte D'Orsi October 14, 2019

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How well do VHS students know Geography?

How well do VHS students know Geography?

Sam Hicks and Charlotte D'Orsi October 14, 2019

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French Teacher, Sebastien DeClerck stands in front of his world map which he uses to educate his students on geography since it is no longer offered at Ventura High School. Photo by: Charlotte DOrsi

Monolingualism: the illiteracy of the 21st century

Charlotte D'Orsi September 23, 2019

In 2009, the United States Census Bureau reported that only 20 percent of Americans speak a second language besides English, that’s 61 million out of 305 million, so, in other words, not a lot of people....

My biggest class size is 37 which is comparatively not bad, but its still too big for a writing class [...] [the office] is making extra desks available, however, too many desks can become a fire hazard issue so thats another thing that needs to be considered. stated English Teacher Greg Raney Photo by: Charlotte DOrsi

Take a seat! Or…maybe not.

Charlotte D'Orsi September 9, 2019

When you think about being in a classroom, the first thing that comes to your mind might be sitting at a desk and being able to comfortably do your work; well this isn’t the case for many students in...

Senior Kaja Boas, back in Ventura and missing the craziness of New York gets back into the swing of things the week before school starts. Photo by: Charlotte DOrsi

Vacay or stay-cay? What were students up to this summer?

Charlotte D'Orsi September 2, 2019

Well, Cougars, the time has come—the time to go out and buy paper, take our backpacks out of their dust filled corners, and fix our seriously messed up sleep schedules—this time is called “back to...

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