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By: Allan Ko On March 4, 2011, sophomores Sonali Toppur and Sherry Xiao won first place in poetry and second place in art, respectively, in…

By: Courtney Tam   On Monday, March 21, 2011, approximately 12 MSJ students gathered along Palm Avenue to hold a rally to raise awareness about…

By: Maya Ramachandran The Intel Science Talent Search, an elite high school research competition, announced its top 10 winners out of 40 finalists on March…

By: Vishal Bajpai   On Friday, March 11th, a terrible earthquake hit Japan. At 9.0 on the Richter scale the earthquake produced over 50 aftershocks,…

By: Alekya Rajanala and Matt Farberov Late on Friday, March 18, MSJ was vandalized by an unknown number of suspects. The suspects broke a window…

By: Megan McLaughlin Around 11:30 AM today (Friday, March 18), Principal Sandra Prairie announced a weather lockdown for MSJ.  It was later learned that the lockdown was…

By: Alice Zalan On February 24, Ethnic Studies teacher Risha Krishna’s students spent their fourth period in the A-Wing cafeteria, listening to Dr. Clayborne Carson….

By: Alekya Rajanala Congratulations are due to MSJ students for placing second at the Bay Area Regional Science Olympiad (BARSO) on Feb. 19, 2011 and…

By: Vaishaal Shankar Disclaimer: Both the CR-48 and Google’s Chrome OS are essentially prototypes of future products, so the opinions expressed in this preview are…

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