Verbatim: New Year Resolutions
January 11, 2018
As Palo Alto High school students ring in the new year and prepare for second semester, students set goals, or resolutions, that they hope to accomplish over the coming year. The Paly Voice asked students what their resolutions were, academically, socially or traditionally.





![A protester in a chicken suit wearing a taco hat with the words “Cluck Trump” at the “No Kings” Democracy Fair in Palo Alto on Saturday. Protestor Mary Chan said she and her husband are horrified at the state of science and medicine in America. “What he [Trump] is doing by defunding scientific research is destroying our academic medical centers, and he’s [Trump] bankrupting rural medical centers,” Chan said. “We will have lasting negative impacts on American health for decades.”](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/11562FFE-9912-4152-BB01-582426B52ECB_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg)