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GSA invites guest speakers to raise support for the LGBTQ community

by Aditya Varshney, Opinion Editor November 11, 2015

The Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club held its biannual assembly about sexuality awareness today morning in the gym in which two guest speakers addressed students about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

Ross Szabo speaks to upper school students about mental health

by Michael Sikand, Reporter October 29, 2015

Human Power Project CEO Ross Szabo spoke to upper school students at an assembly today about the management of mental health as an adolescent. Szabo spoke about issues teenagers face regarding their...

Students wore red to show support for the LGBT community. National Coming Out Day was on Friday.

Students wear red on National Coming Out Day

by Maya Valluru, Copy Editor October 11, 2015

Upper school students and teachers wore red in support of the LGBT community on National Coming Out Day on Friday. Flyers were posted around campus during the week leading up to the occasion to remind...

Senior Adele Li, Vice President of WiSTEM and Co-Preisdent of Research Club, holds up a poster with a "ILookLikeAScientist" hashtag, mimicking the Internet viral campaign of "#ILookLikeAnEngineer". The viral hashtag first appeared to combat stereotypes and the gender gap in STEM fields.

#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Fighting the gender gap

by Vineet Kosaraju and Brian Park September 6, 2015

When Isis Wenger, a 22-year-old software engineer at San Francisco-based tech company OneLogin, appeared in a company recruitment ad on Aug. 1, she probably did not expect to become a part of a viral campaign. After...

Fighting the Gender Gap at the Upper School

September 6, 2015

At the Upper School, STEM related fields often also experience a “gender gap” where specific classes that are related to science, mathematics, engineering and computer science are predominantly taken...

The majority of dominant industries employ men in greater proportions than they employ women, clearly signaling an overall gender gap.

Gender gap in business

by Ria Gandhi, Aquila Features Editor September 1, 2015

“You’re a girl. I can’t let a girl pitch the company to investors.” Those words were spoken by my male teammate nearly three months ago, yet they still echo loudly in my head even today. The...

With so many states setting minimum wage requirements, it is important to remember to respect the minimum wage worker.

Stop stigmatizing minimum wage workers

by Kaitlin Hsu, Aquila Assistant Sports Editor May 15, 2015

It was the end of a typical school day; I found all my friends, and we went across the street to buy drinks. After entering the air-conditioned haven of Tea Station and placing our orders, we began to...

The lens of a new language

by Praveen Batra, Reporter May 6, 2015

When I think, I think in English. It was the first language I learned and remains the only one in which I am fluent. Like a trend line through a set of data or a pathway on a map, English helps me form...

Senior Maya Nandakumar examines a piece of artwork from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The AP Art History class visited the museum yesterday to prepare for a class project.

AP Art History students visit Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

by Megy Appalaraju, Aquila Sports Editor March 11, 2015

Nine AP Art History students visited the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco today to view contemporary and ancient works and to select two pieces of art to compare for a course project. The museum, which...

Preparations for the salsa dancing is done as Abel Olivas talks to Karl Kuehn about what will be happening.

GSA club holds events during club week

by Maya Jeyendran and Emma Yu March 6, 2015

Several students attended the Gay-Straight Alliance’s (GSA) salsa dancing activity yesterday during long lunch. The event took place in the dance room from 12 p.m. onwards and consisted of dance teacher...

The Gender Gap: Why women in STEM get lost along the pipeline

The Gender Gap: Why women in STEM get lost along the pipeline

by Kacey Fang and Elisabeth Siegel February 3, 2015

She sits down in the last open seat of the Neural Networks computer science classroom in Nichols Hall—middle table, last row. The two adjacent tables and the three in front each have two to three of...

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show drew in 9.1 million viewers, according to the Los Angeles Times. The world’s most accomplished, highest paid supermodels, known as Angels, took to the stage along with musical performances from Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Hozier and Ariana Grande.

Fashion shows and feminism

by Megy Applaraju, Aquila Sports Editor December 7, 2014

Glitter, wings and 8-inch stilettos came together last week in London for the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. The show drew in 9.1 million viewers, according...

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