Catch up and get ahead
Caroline Marsden and Greta Pankratz
March 13, 2020
The VUSD district has released summer course schedules and opened applications. With schedule planning for the 2020-2021 school year approaching, many students are looking for options of acceleration or redemption in the summer semester. Some students may recall how in previous years, Ventura High S...
Cougars conquer Carpinteria
Charlotte D'Orsi
December 16, 2019
Varsity boys soccer earns their second victory of the season "Just slow it down and keep it simple,” head coach Claudio Lonardo explained to the Ventura High School varsity boys soccer team after the first half of their game against Carpinteria High School. The Cougars started off with strong defense ...
Cornwell may be watching you
Leon Naranjo-Elizarraras and Tyler Andell
December 3, 2019
New Security Systems coming into VHS After 15 years of no change in school security systems, the 2019-2020 school year administration has decided to introduce a brand new, high resolution security system which consists of a completely modern set of new cameras with nearly double resolution quality of...
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 a result of a bomb threat being commented on the Associated Student Body Instagram page. As well, so...
Nuclear debates: Deciding our future
Tatum Luoma and Sam Hicks
June 6, 2019
Nuclear power has been a divisive topic ever since its conception decades ago. It provides a clean source of energy and releases no harmful emissions. But the fear of the negative effects of radiation and possible nuclear disasters has created an opposition to this energy source. As a result, nuclear en...
What’s with the blue clocks on the classrooms?
Garrett Jaffe and Douglas Sandford
June 3, 2019
This article looks into what the unused clocks that are built throughout Ventura High School’s campus are used for. If anyone has noticed there are out-of-function clocks placed high up on the school buildings. What the clocks are for, at first appears to be somewhat of a mystery, as they appear to...
A walk through the chalk
Sarah Clench and Caroline Marsden
April 25, 2019
The annual Ventura High School Chalk Festival took place on April 17 and 18 on the Catalina lawn at VHS. According to art teacher Lauren Minadeo, around 35 students participated this year. In past years, Minadeo said, there have usually been around 75. “I think even though it’s small, all the...
Pie a teacher to quench thirst
Jezel Mercado and Tanya Turchyn
March 20, 2019
On Friday, March 15, the Ventura High School Thirst Project Club hosted an event on Ventura High School’s senior lawn called the ¨Pie-A-Teacher Fundraiser.¨ This fundraiser allowed for students to purchase tickets to be entered in a raffle, from which one winner was chosen to pie the teacher they ...
Where is Weber spending his sabbatical?
Lola Bobrow and Douglas Sandford
March 18, 2019
Ventura High School AP Government and history teacher of 10 years Justin Weber will be taking a year long leave of teaching at VHS to pursue education that will allow him to teach a new mapmaking course that VHS does not currently offer. In August of 2021, Weber will begin his first year of teaching this class...
The 2020 election: VHS students’ take
Micah Wilcox
March 18, 2019
[cvm_video id="7134"] Seniors in Christian Gallo's AP Economics class, Justin Weber's AP Government and Politics class and juniors Mark Schmidt's AP US History class took the Cougar Press's 2020 election survey to share their thoughts in the lead-up to the next presidential election. [huge_it_slider id=...
Scoring A’s: athletes and grade checks
Sailor Hawes and Sailor 2 Hawes
March 9, 2019
According to a Twitter poll conducted by The Cougar Press, out of 24 total votes, when asked if students had to get quarterly grade checks by teachers in order to compete, 29 percent voted “yes,” while 71 percent said “no.” When asked if all athletes have to get quarterly grade checks, A...
