Editorial: I am Drama and so can you
Sam Coats
June 6, 2019
When students think of the theatre, their minds go to choreography, or singing -- perhaps the overacting that sometimes shows up on high school stages. However, the flamboyance and negative stereotypes surrounding Drama can obscure the plus side: VHS’s program has changed many students’ lives (includi...
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Ryan King, Liliana Lara, Gavin Cross, Sam Coats, Tatum Luoma, and Sam Hicks
June 2, 2019
https://vimeo.com/339919027
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Gavin Cross, Miles Bennett, Sam Coats, Tatum Luoma, and Sam Hicks
May 27, 2019
https://vimeo.com/338808097
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Liliana Lara, Gavin Cross, Sam Coats, Caroline Marsden, Trinity Taylor, Saida Delgadillo, Julia Davies, and Jack Schatzman
April 15, 2019
https://vimeo.com/330434430
VHS under voluntary evacuation due to mudslide threat
Sam Coats
January 15, 2019
Ventura High School students are likely to be evacuated from school to to a threat of weather-related mudslides, per an email from Principal Carlos Cohen. According to the email, sent to VHS teachers and faculty, classes had a “high [likelihood]” of being cancelled and students evacuated from ...
VUSD appoints Dr. Roger Rice as new Superintendent
Sam Coats
January 10, 2019
The Ventura Unified School District Board of Education unanimously voted Tuesday, January 8, to select Dr. Roger Rice, the current Deputy Superintendent for Student Services at the Ventura County Office of Education, as VUSD’s next superintendent. The decision came less than a month after Superintendent David C...
Despite absence, Creswell looms over VUSD meeting
Micah Wilcox and Sam Coats
December 13, 2018
“We have to ask ourselves [in] what kind of society do we want to live in?” said retiring board member Mary Haffner. “Schools are a microcosm of our society, and societal responses to actions and words that signal bigotry tend to determine the acceptability of discrimination.” Despite ...
Community reacts to Creswell’s resignation
Sam Coats
December 6, 2018
Community leaders and school officials responded in a variety of ways to the Friday resignation of Ventura Unified School District Superintendent David Creswell. Creswell, who had held the position for just over a year, announced plans to leave his post under mounting public pressure driven by backl...
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Ryan King, Acacia Harrell, Liliana Lara, Archer Herring, Sam Coats, and Janelle Chavira
November 5, 2018
https://vimeo.com/299032138
Voting isn’t enough: try political volunteering
Sam Coats
October 29, 2018
If one can’t vote, there’s still plenty of stuff one can do to affect the election. There’s been a lot of humdrum around campus about the election. Who should control Congress? Our governorship? What about those nifty ballot propositions? But what’s perhaps even more pressing is the lack o...
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Ryan King, Acacia Harrell, Liliana Lara, Hector Heredia, Sam Coats, and Brooklyn Ross
October 29, 2018
https://vimeo.com/297648337
Election 2018: state of the race
Sam Coats
October 19, 2018
As the 2018 midterm elections close in, the races for control of the House and Senate are shaping up to be hotly contested as Democrats vie to take back Congress from Republican control. Democrats need to gain 23 seats in the House of Representatives to win control and two seats in the Senate. Republi...
