October 2021 Issue

Something’s wrong when dead fish and birds begin to wash up on the shore of a beach, which is exactly what happened on Saturday, October 2nd. An oil pipeline leak off the coast of Huntington Beach in Orange County caused more than 120,000 gallons of crude to spill into the Pacific Ocean, extending a...

Our Gmail inboxes and school announcements hold unfortunate news - the annual Turkey Tussle has been canceled. In a stark reminder of the continuing presence of COVID-19, the sudden cancellation owes itself to a participating athlete's positive COVID-19 test. Potential exposure to other students (bo...

The Ig Nobel prizes are the opposite of the Nobel prizes. The Nobel prizes celebrate genuine scientific, artistic, and humanistic achievements. While the Ig Nobel also celebrates human achievements, they tend to reward the more bizarre and silly endeavors out there. For example, in this year’s 31st ...

When you think of time travel, you think it’s only something you see in movies. It hasn’t been done and never will be. But, did you know we can look back in time? In the field of astronomy, many deep-space images are taken by a very famous telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched into s...

Recently, engineers at Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies created a robot named Leonardo. Leo is a bipedal robot, meaning he has two legs and can walk. Well, walking isn’t all Leonardo can do, he can skateboard too. The robot’s unique design enables it to do a variety of activi...

In the White Sands National Park in Southern New Mexico, new evidence, reported in Nature magazine and originally published September 23 in Science Magazine, has been found to suggest that the first Americans could actually have arrived as early as 20,000 years ago. For a long time, archaeologists b...

On average, each student at PHS walks through the quad and canteen five or six times a day. On top of that, most make two trips to the locker rooms, and one more across campus while exiting at the final bell. This evens out to roughly eight or nine trips around campus throughout the day. That’s eigh...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have most likely heard of TikTok trend of committing “Devious licks”. You might be wondering what exactly a “Devious lick” is - the answer had no correlation to what the name suggests. A “Devious lick’ is an action in which a student will steal school pr...

Located on 100 North Garfield Avenue, right in heart of our city, Pasadena City Hall first started construction in the late 1920s. In 1923, the city approved a bond issuing $3.5 million for the creation of a civic center. Around $1.3 million went towards the making of the city hall, the rest being u...

As we walked into G208, the first thing we noticed were the many maps on the walls. What regions do they show, exactly? There’s one of Europe, of Europe during the Cold War, of the USSR, and not one, but two world maps. It’s exactly the place where you’d expect to find PHS’ Mr. Michealsen, our AP Hu...

On September 28th, The Chronicle had the pleasure of interviewing the Black Student Union cabinet, including President Trinity Taylor, Vice President Kennedy Harmon, Secretary Zoe Williams as well as Advisor Ms. Cauley, to gain their insights as to what BSU is about and what we can learn from their ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was an impetus for many people to take up various hobbies. Morgan Gaskell, a sophomore at PHS, took this time to explore the depths of ornithology, the study of birds. “I’ve always been a big wildlife enthusiast,” she said to me. “When I moved to my home in Southern California,...