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The Person Behind the College App Workshops
What comes first, class or college?
Just four days before University of California college applications were due, students received an email inviting them to skip class periods over the next three days to work on their applications in the library. To most students, this was a godsend, but to some teachers, the workshops stung, relegat...
To Eat or Not to Eat?
PHS students and teachers clash over the right to snack
Tuesday afternoon. Sixth period. 2:15pm. Math. Your worksheet? Forgotten. Your stomach? Empty. The person to your right pops open a bag of Takis, and the mouthwatering smell of the spicy, crunchy snack wafts straight to your seat. What is the only thing you’re thinking right now? “I want some,” soph...
PHS's Student Wellbeing Center
A welcome, confidential space for all students!
As students are finally getting settled into a rhythm with our new school year, many have noticed and taken advantage of the up-and-running Student Wellbeing Center. This humble and welcoming space, located in G202, is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until 4 pm for every student at PHS. Brittani,...
The AP Dilemma
Worth taking, or not?
Many ambitious students turn their attention to the AP curriculum, which provides a more rigorous, college-level learning experience for a variety of subjects. With the college application process getting increasingly competitive each year, students are striving to enroll in more AP classes—to the p...
Toilet Taboo
Campus-wide bathroom closure leaves students in a tailspin
When’s the last time you used the bathroom at PHS? Were you willing to suffer through walking across 3 buildings to reach the nearest open one, or was the grimy state of the sinks not worth the risk? It’s no secret that during this semester, bathrooms all across campus have been closed. This phenom...
Where did all the plants go?
A history of greenspace at PHS (and why we don't have any)
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...