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Southern California: A Deep Dive into the January Wildfires
By Violet Monda '27 In January of 2025, a series of wildfires erupted throughout Southern California. Over 55 wildfires affected people's lives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, San Diego County, and the Palisades area. These fires separated into the larger groups called the Palisades, Eaton Canyon, Kenneth, Hughes, Hurst, Border 2, Gap, and Green Fires. Over 48,268 acres of inhabited land across Southern California were burned. While this burn area is not unprecedented,
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Trump Proposes Reopening Alcatraz, Experts Raise Alarms
By: Rose Schreier '27 Alcatraz sits on an island 1.2 miles from San Francisco, rusting as its paint tears, and Seagulls claim the prison...
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Political Tensions Impacting Cate: Connections, Society, and Immigrant Deportation
By: Henry Chen '27 and Oliver Zheng '27 Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025, several policies have...
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Southern California: A Deep Dive into the January Wildfires
By Violet Monda '27 In January of 2025, a series of wildfires erupted throughout Southern California. Over 55 wildfires affected people's lives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, San Diego County, and the Palisades area. These fires separated into the larger groups called the Palisades, Eaton Canyon, Kenneth, Hughes, Hurst, Border 2, Gap, and Green Fires. Over 48,268 acres of inhabited land across Southern California were burned. While this burn area is not unprecedented,
Trump Proposes Reopening Alcatraz, Experts Raise Alarms
By: Rose Schreier '27 Alcatraz sits on an island 1.2 miles from San Francisco, rusting as its paint tears, and Seagulls claim the prison...
Political Tensions Impacting Cate: Connections, Society, and Immigrant Deportation
By: Henry Chen '27 and Oliver Zheng '27 Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025, several policies have...
In the Wake of Fire: Cate Students Come Together for Los Angeles
By: Henry Chen '27 and Oliver Zheng '27 Blazing, vivid, intense: a huge cloud of crimson red was clearly visible through the small...
Post-election Debrief and the Presidential Inauguration
By: Karina Strofs '27 Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/AP Photo As the nation watched with anticipation, the 2024 U.S. presidential...
Who’s Calling The Shots? - Investigating Gen Z Representation In Politics
By: Fiona Pan '27 and Violet Monda '27 As the clock ticks to the election on November 5th, questions about what will most benefit the...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration 2024(Lucy Guilbert-Neal', Junior Editor)
On Monday, January 15th, the Cate community celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by delving into this year’s theme, “The Power of...
Navigating a New World – the Immigration Experience of Nicole Teh ‘23
Tatiana von Bothmer '23 In the fall of 2019, Nicole Teh ‘23 immigrated from Hong Kong to California in pursuit of a boarding school...
Grub and Nibbles-- Guicho's Review
Alison Wang '25 and Zoë Flint '25 Guicho’s ZA Critics' Pick ★★★★★ 901 Linden Ave., Carpinteria Phone: (805) 334-1008 Atmosphere: Calm...
Valentine’s Day: The Price of Love
Jeeyou Jung '25 Every year on Valentine's Day, lovers spend $23.9 billion for their significant others, making Valentine's Day the third...
China and COVID-19
Everest Schipper '24 After three years of secrecy, mandated quarantines, city-wide lockdowns, and some of the lowest reported rates of...
The Devastating Impacts of California’s 2023 Flooding
Lain Biles '24 Over the course of the past month, California residents from across the state have been affected by record-breaking...
Cupid to Consumerism
Mia Groeninger '25 As soon as February rolls around, heart-shaped boxes filled with assortments of delectable chocolates, blushing...
Holiday Traditions Around the World
Addie Bracher '25 Holiday traditions are celebrated in different ways around the world. Cate is a place that values the incorporation of...
Dementia Villages
Maggie Albrecht '25 The Netherlands is taking a new approach to supporting people with dementia. In the United States, there were about...
Long Lived the Queen
Addie Bracher '27 “What if something absolutely crazy happens while we’re in the woods and we don’t find out about it because we don’t...
Valentine’s Day Internationally
Caroline Keohane '24 Celebrating significant others is important, and the whole world seems to agree with me. Days dedicated to love are...
Why The Ending of HIMYM Makes Sense (Sort Of)
Cathleen Chow '23 WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD It is hard to think of American romantic sitcoms without thinking of How I Met Your Mother,...
Love Languages
Eswyn Gray '23 It is a common question that many of you have probably been asked: what is your love language? Love is such an abstract...
Valentine’s Day: Across The Globe
Mia Groeninger '25 In America, Valentine’s Day is widely believed to have been established for the purpose of profit by the Hallmark...
A Confederacy of Dunces: The Paradox of Ignatius Reilly
Thomas Paige '24 Titled A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kenedy Toole’s “Commedia” essentially does as the title suggests: narrates a group...
How the Ski Industry is Being Impacted by Current Events
Everest Schipper '24 Skiing, one of the most beloved and popular sports in the world, is being threatened by current events. Skiing has...
A Call to Take Back Valentine’s Day
Kate Ragatz '25 The countdown to Valentine’s Day begins once again. For some, Valentine’s Day is a day to look forward to; yet for many,...
Mistreatment of Autistic People
Muhsin Abdul-Hakim '24 Autistic people have always been misunderstood and mistreated by people and it has not really been covered by the...
Ms. Bond on Black History Month
Daanish Ahmad '22 Black History Month is an important time to celebrate and reflect on the progress, hardships, and accomplishments of...
The Oil and Gas Industry; Past, Present, and Future: So Many Questions
Nikita Nautiyal '23 In 1969, the largest oil spill ever to occur (by that time in the United States) took place off the coast of Santa...
Hangul Day
Ryan Lee '24 This past October 9th was Hangul Day. While Hangul Day probably sounds unfamiliar to many of you, it’s actually one of the...
The Texas Abortion Law and Cate at the Reproductive Rights March
Claiborne Beurle '23 & Liz Stutter '23 The Supreme Court didn't block the recent Texas Senate Bill 8, a law that makes most abortions...
In-Person vs. Online Communication: Is There a Generational Gap in Their Perception?
Ryan Suh '21 I N T E R S E C T I O N S A vast global network connecting billions of electronic devices all around the world, the Internet...
The Question as Old as the Big Bang (or Genesis?)
Ryan Suh '21 I N T E R S E C T I O N S Science and religion—are they two independent planes of thought addressing fundamentally different...
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