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Senior Ellie Roth prepares to receive the ball during the staff-versus-student volleyball game. The staff defeated the students, 31-23, in Palo Alto High School’s annual students-versus-staff volleyball game on Tuesday in the Peery Center. According to junior William Yao, the volleyball match added to a growing sense of Paly spirit and is a way of community bonding. Spirit week is a good reminder to students to always have like faith and school spirit, Yao said. I feel like this match was really helpful to a general student body. (Photo: Veronica Qiu)
Staff win in volleyball match against students
Veronica Qiu and Allison Ma March 27, 2024

Staff dominated over students, 31-23, in Palo Alto High School’s annual students-versus-staff volleyball game Tuesday in the Peery Center Big...

Sophomores Lara Saslow (left) and Sophie Oshige (right) do their homework using school-issued Chromebooks in the Library. Loaner Chromebook check-outs stopped from the Palo Alto High School library starting March 18. Saslow said she relies on Chromebooks for schoolwork. Chromebooks are crucial for Paly students, Saslow said. I get all my work done on my Chromebook both in and out of school.
Library loaner Chromebooks temporarily unavailable
Ava Knapp and Veronica Qiu March 26, 2024

The library loaner Chromebooks at Palo Alto High School are unavailable for a second week following what staff members describe as a misuse of...

During last years Spring Spirit Week, Palo Alto High School students flaunted bold colors and glittery accessories in accordance to the Pop and Rock theme. This years Spring Spirit Week will be kicking off on Monday. According to Associated Student Body President Julian Hong, the events will include Quadchella concerts, where students can showcase their musical talents during lunch on the Quad. Last year, we didnt integrate Quadchella, but this year, its an addition that were doing because we want to fill up some more time and get student bands involved, Hong said. (Photo: Nathan Jiang)
Spring Spirit Week offers excitement, new activities
Kristine Lin and Ava Knapp March 24, 2024

Following a memorable Spirit Week last fall, Palo Alto High School students are looking forward to another round of dressing up to themes and...

2024-2025 Election Results
2024-2025 Election Results
Celina Lee, News Editor • March 18, 2024

The 2024-2025 Associated Student Body election results are out. ASB President: Julian Hong ASB Vice President: Amani Fossati-Moaine ASB...

ASB elections begin for 2024-2025
ASB elections begin for 2024-2025
Celina Lee and Veronica Qiu March 14, 2024

Voting for Palo Alto High School’s Associated Student Body is open to students from now until 3 p.m. on Friday. Students can vote through links...

Palo Alto High School Principal Brent Kline responds to questions during a conversation with The Paly Voice on Feb. 29 in the Media Arts Center. According to Kline, he plans to host a School Culture Workshop in April that will improve Palys student culture. There has been a plan into continuing providing our students with opportunities to be part of creating and maintaining a positive culture, Kline said. (Photo: Celina Lee)
Principal plans to host 'School Culture Workshop' in April
Celina Lee and Motoko Iwata March 13, 2024

Building upon student connections and feedback from the Breaking Down the Walls event hosted last month, Palo Alto High School’s Principal...

The Palo Alto ice hockey team play at the San Jose State Universitys hockey rink. These athletes will be required to wear neck guards while on the rink when their season begins in winter of this year. I have two teammates that decided to wear neck guards towards the end of the season because a former NHL player died because of a cut to the neck, Weimann said.
Ice hockey neck guard requirements to impact student athletes
Motoko Iwata, Reporter • March 21, 2024
Elizabeth Fetter, who graduated last year, prepares for her race at last years California Interscholastic Federation Central Coast Section. The Palo Alto High School swim team competed at the 2023 CCS competition and is hoping to do the same this year.  Llew Ladomirak is a junior on the swim team and competed last year.  Our team goals this year are to win SCVALs and CCS, Ladomirak said. (Photo: Evan Chien)
Students start spring sports season
Motoko Iwata, Reporter • March 21, 2024
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Avatar Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), and Sokka (Ian Ousley) looks in horror as a army of fire nation soldiers approaches them.
'Avatar The Last Airbender': The Avatar returns
Alex Chang and Joy Tan March 27, 2024

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago these four nations lived in harmony — but everything changed when Netflix’s latest live-action remake of...

Author Ana Homayoun presents her new book Erasing the Finish Line and the problems with college applications in a presentation last Wednesday night. Theres little you can do to guarantee college acceptance these days, Homayoun said. So things in your control, like time management, is critical to perfect. (Photo: Evan Chien)
Opinion: 'Erasing the Finish Line' from college applications
Evan Chien, Culture Editor • December 19, 2023

College applications are becoming less and less a result of the work students put into their application, and more of a lottery system. Factors...

The Paly Voice reviews 96th Academy Awards Best Picture nominees
The Paly Voice reviews 96th Academy Awards Best Picture nominees
Anna Feng, Editor-In-Chief • March 13, 2024

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the 96th Academy Awards (informally known as the Oscars) this past weekend. Here is The...

Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) participate in a television interview after his successful debut performance led him to fame. Netflixs new biographical movie Maestro focuses on the relationship between the two, capturing Bernsteins various musical talents and career aspirations that lead him in different directions throughout his life. (Photo: Jason McDonald/Netflix)
'Maestro': Bernstein's complexities artfully unveiled
Veronica Qiu, Reporter • March 13, 2024

"A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory...

Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler) in Dune: Part Two.(Photo: Warner Bros)
'Dune: Part 2': Modern take on a classic sci-fi story
Evan Chien and Kevin O'Brien March 13, 2024

There’s a lot to live up to if you’re going to attempt to put Frank Herbert’s 1966 award-winning novel “Dune” onto the big screen....

Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) comforts his wife Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) amidst the murders of her family in Killers of the Flower Moon. (Photo: Paramount)
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: A haunting tribute to an uncomfortable past
Sophia Yang, Editor-In-Chief • March 10, 2024

“In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts and black-eyed Susans, begin to creep over...

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