Joanne Park
August 3, 2020
Co-Arts & Entertainment Editor Senior Joanne Park is the co-Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Smoke Signal, making this her second year serving this section as an editor. Aside from the paper, she is involved…
MSJ Impromptu Inspires Through Music
June 11, 2021
By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Larry Shi Throughout the 2020-21 school year, MSJ Impromptu has hosted various online concerts, featuring some of MSJ’s most talented musicians, with the last concert published in the first…
Special Coverage: Sexual Assault and Harassment
May 27, 2021
Trigger Warning: SA/SH The coverage below focuses on sexual assault and sexual harassment, and because of the sensitive nature, they may trigger strong emotions in some students. Please reach out to MSJ counselors or a…
By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Helen Tian MSJ recently hosted its ninth annual Relay for Life (RFL) event from 12-6:30 p.m. on April 24 over YouTube, raising $48,113 to support cancer research. The RFL…
Multicultural Week Coverage
April 28, 2021
By Staff Writers Anvi Kalucha, Maggie Lai, Joanne Park, & Nithika Valluri MSJ held its first ever virtual Multicultural (MC) Week from April 12-16. From cultural days to airband performances and club fundraisers, Leadership 2’s…
Raya and the Last Dragon: On Trust and Moving On
March 23, 2021
By Staff Writer Joanne Park Armed with an exceptional animation style, unique comic book-type transitions, and a heartfelt storyline about trust and culture, Disney’s latest animated feature film Raya and the Last Dragon premiered on…
Club Spotlight: MSJ SportsHi
March 16, 2021
By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Varun Upadhyay SportsHi was founded in 2018 to encourage high school students nationwide to participate in sports as well as network with college coaches and other student-athletes. In December…
By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Helen Tian The question, “Is jazz dead?” is not a new one. As new styles have come to replace older ones, the genre has slowly faded in recent decades….
Black History Month
March 1, 2021
By Staff Writers Kruthi Gollapudi, Isabella He, Joanne Park,& Jackie Wong February is Black History Month, and with the Black Lives Matter movement and the monumental presidential election that occurred this past year, it’s more…
By Staff Writers Sabrina Cai, Tavish Mohanti, Joanne Park, & Tanisha Srivatsa Multiculturalism is defined as the presence of several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society, but what does it mean to you?…
