MSJ DECA Sweeps at SVCDC with 80 Top Awards
By Staff Writers Jessica Cao & Michael Qin Carpeted hallways buzzed with nervous energy as students in blazers clutched laptops and rehearsed presentations under their…
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Dear Diary: Hong Bao
By Staff Writer Eleanor Chen Introduction: Marked by the neighing of the horse zodiac —- on February 17th, a new Lunar year begins. A crumbled,…
Sabalenka-Kyrgios: Helping or Hurting Women’s Tennis?
By Staff Writers Veer Mahajan, Kelly Shi & Andy Zhang Top ranked women’s tennis player Aryna Sabalenka faced Nick Kyrgios in an exhibition match on…
Guide to Bay Area Photobooths
By Staff Writers Cecilia Cheng, Saesha Prabhakar & Andy Zhang Introduction For almost a century, photobooths have been used to capture memories and smiles. What…
Standing up to ICE, together
By the Smoke Signal Editorial Board Three gun shots. A car stopped. A woman dead. On January 7, 37-year-old US citizen Renee Good was fatally…
Staff Column: The lives I’ve lived
By Staff Writer Jessica Cao The digital clock on my nightstand reads 3 a.m., and there is salt on my tongue from where it crept…
Never again, again: why genocide awareness still fails
By Staff Writers Hamnah Akhtar, Amy Han & Erika Liu Bodies lie unburied in the streets. Families flee burning buildings, deprived of all their belongings…
A Winning Rally — Marty Supreme Explores the Journey to Greatness
By Staff Writer Eleanor Chen In a rapid-fire motion, a ping-pong ball flings across the screen, breaking the audiences’ necks in record speed in an…
CSU Direct Admission Program launches under SB 640
By Staff Writers Amy Han & Matthew Zhang The California State University (CSU) Direct Admission Program took effect January 1 as a part of Senate Bill…
My Mission As: A Musical Storyteller
By Staff Writer Abigaile Lei Hunched over a laptop in the corner of his bedroom, a middle schooler opened FL Studio for the first time,…