Technophobia: Data and the Market

In the previous article, I went over how net neutrality is imperative to modern media and communications. In this article, I will talk about the role of ISP’s today, as well as their pros and cons in handling the internet as a medium.
Let’s start with something local. Do you know who your ISP is? The [...]

Is music today sending the wrong message?

June 6, 2010
By David Vu, Staff Writer
I was driving the other day and decided to turn on the radio. Like many other drivers, I had KIIS FM, Amp Radio, Power 106, etc. saved as my speed channels. A quick push of a button and, BAM, MUSIC! I heard the song, Rude Boy by Rihanna, a [...]

Technophobia: Net Neutrality

By Sami Yerunkar, Student Life Editor
In this part of the column, I explore the meaning of net neutrality and the internet’s place as a medium and as a public utility. Net neutrality describes the current state of the internet: it is neutral and unregulated by any single entity. Every ISP (internet service provider) in the [...]

A Lack of STARS: A Reflection on Senior Assemblies Part II

By Peter Tran, Staff Writer
The second day of senior assemblies brought forth a new spin on the joyous occasion of senior assemblies.  The next day consisted of rotations of motivational speakers.  The first was a legless surfer that spoke of his trials and tribulations as a passionate surfer who lost a part of himself and [...]

Reading is So Last Year

By Marwa Aboubaker, Staff Writer
Have you ever read a book and thought “This sounds familiar“? Chances are you’re actually right. So many teen books nowadays tend to copy each other’s story lines “coincidently”. It all started off half a decade ago with Twilight, or so everyone thought. Until the Age of Romantic Books came and [...]

A Lack of STARs Part I: A Reflection on the Senior Assemblies

By Peter Tran, Staff Writer
While our juniors and sophomores were hard at work STAR Testing, FVHS seniors were treated to two assemblies courtesy of our fellow brethren ASB and BBN.  The assemblies were split up to two days which were in turn split up to four sessions; the first day consisting of one long three [...]

Miss USA killed Chivalry

By Jane Smith
Everybody has heard of the Miss USA pageant show, many of us might also be great fans. But the truth is pageant or not, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Somebody please explain to me how fifty young women getting judged by their looks all the while spitting out superficial and unoriginal [...]

Technophobia: the Silent War

By Sami Yerunkar, Student Life Editor
What is technophobia? It is the fear of technology or its advances. It is probably also the best-documented ideological war of the modern age. Who are the belligerents? The FCC, Senate, Australian Government, Cable News, Cable Companies, you, me, and probably every person you know who has played a video [...]

Humanitarians Under Siege: Tragedy strikes in the Mediterranean

By Hassan Rassmy, Staff Writer
It was dark over the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean late in the evening of May 31st, 2010. A convoy of ships sailing from Cyprus and bound to Gaza were met with fatal, and deadly force. The convoy, a part of theFree Gaza movement, was attempting to break the blockade over [...]

What the Fakih is going on? Rima won Miss USA

By Hassan Rassmy, Staff Writer

One student’s take on this year’s Miss USA winner

Rima Fakih, a Lebanese American, recently won the title of Miss USA this month at the Planet Hollywood Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rima is thought to be the first Arab American and immigrant winner of the pageant, as past records are [...]

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