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Working beside her coworker Kristian Shirallie, Unity Aldaco makes a drink for one of the mobile orders. According to Aldaco, mobile orders are typically larger orders and include more than one drink or food item.

The Teenage Face of Essential Jobs

Alyssa Garcia, Reporter June 24, 2020

Walking into Walmart, new requirements resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are unlike anything before: everybody has masks and gloves on. Customers feel the wet disinfected shopping cart through their...

UPA: Was the Move Worth It?

UPA: Was the Move Worth It?

Akshara Kollu, Copy Editor June 7, 2020

Should I go to UPA? The simple yet complex question echoed in my mind throughout the entirety of my sixth grade year.  Torn between a future at UPA and Santa Teresa High School, I made the most detailed...

Behind a Mask of Insults

Behind a Mask of Insults

Britney Stout, Reporter June 7, 2020

During their one year of playing lacrosse together, junior Adam Lawson finally got the chance to play against their biggest rival: Josh, their older brother by two years. Josh was extremely experienced,...

Taran Kollu (5), Alta Vista Elementary, wears a mask made with a sewing machine.

Making a Mask

Akshara Kollu, Copy Editor June 2, 2020

The cover art for Kate Fengs original song Im Just Okay is pictured on the left and the cover art for Dramatic Life is pictured on the right. Cover art courtesy of Kate Feng (9).

Student by week, YouTuber by weekend

Faith Montes de Oca, Reporter May 30, 2020

Thoughts ran through her head and were then transferred to a pen scribbling down words that eventually became song lyrics.  Since June 2019, freshman Kate Feng has streamed two original songs across...

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

Alyssa Garcia, Reporter May 28, 2020

As I embark on my own adventure to Santa Clara University as a marketing major and communications minor, I wish you all the best on your own college journey.

A senior’s advice on applying to college

Betty Nguyen, Creative Director May 20, 2020

While college is pushed as the ultimate end-goal at UPA, it can be a tough and rigorous journey to apply to one. As a graduating senior of the UPA class of 2020, I have come to the end of my college application...

English teachers Kathryn Gong-Guy, Kristin Moore and Claire Ballard discuss possible summer reading options during an English department meeting on Feb. 13.

Experiencing UPA: Teacher’s Edition

Joe Shem, Reporter April 1, 2020

From Monday to Friday in the packed and diminutive classrooms of UPA, teachers complete many feats both in front of the class and behind the scenes. Although the size of our school has been a key feature...

Sanitation officers are stationed at the doorway to a vegetable market in Shanghai, China.
Courtesy of Wang Xiu Ying (name changed)

COVID-19 from the Chinese Perspective

Jenna Mi, Reporter March 19, 2020

Driving down the desolate streets of Shanghai, few people linger by bus stops and closed storefronts. Only their eyes are visible, their mouths covered by thin films of paper. Chinese New Year seems different...

Photo illustration of Susannah Jakkula (10).

All Homework, No Play

Akhila Ayyadevara, Editor-in-Chief February 25, 2020

In eighth grade, I stayed up until almost 1 a.m. for three days straight. I had an English project assigned and due that week. There was research to be done and a poster to be made, all the while trying...

Buchanan fishes on a riffle in Pit River.

Changing Tides

Arielle Rose-Finn, Copy Editor February 24, 2020

“When you see the surface of the water,” science teacher Matt Buchanan said while glancing over the empty stools in his classroom, “or if you were floating on the surface and you think, ‘Oh my...

2020 Vision of Rallies

2020 Vision of Rallies

Greg Haessner, Multimedia Manager February 14, 2020

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