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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

Form Over Function: iPhone 5

Form Over Function: iPhone 5

Jun 10, 2013

It’s finally here. The phone you have been waiting for, Apple’s “most revolutionary product” ever: the iPhone 5. While thousands of people around the world stood in outrageous lines outside Apple...

New Lulu App Allows Women to Rate Men

New “Lulu” App Allows Women to Rate Men

By Natasha Harvey Jun 8, 2013

A new application called Lulu has struck the teenage world that allows girls to comment and rate their male Facebook friends. The app was originally popular among college students and has now made it to...

Learning Goes Social: The New Age of Teacher-Student Communication

Learning Goes Social: The New Age of Teacher-Student Communication

By Devon Stoeber May 31, 2013

One school night, sophomore Madelyn Lunder gets ready to begin her homework by checking her planner. After she realizes she forgot to write some assignments down she logs on to her Facebook. Lunder is...

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The “Rogue Texting” Epidemic

By Jonah Amargi-Levy May 21, 2013

My day was ruined and it was only 8 a.m. I had become yet another victim of the epidemic that I like to call rogue texting. A rogue texter is a person that is so self-absorbed that they can’t take the...

KELSEY NORTON, SOPHOMORE

Hawk Talk: Technology in the Classroom

Mar 24, 2013

Tam’s plentiful technological resources have grown in recent years. For some innovative teachers, this means supplying students with web-equipped devices, such as laptops and iPads, and making use of...

Computer Requirement Waived For Class of 2014

By Cody Duane-McGlashan Mar 23, 2013

The Tamalpais Union High School District administration has decided to waive its technology requirement for the second successive year. The requirement no longer applies to the class of 2014. Prior...

EMBLIDGE INSIGHT: Wesley vs. The Hobbit and 48 fps

EMBLIDGE INSIGHT: Wesley vs. “The Hobbit” and 48 fps

By Wesley Emblidge Dec 14, 2012

The way we see films is an ever changing, much debated, controversial topic. We’re in an age now where you can get any film instantly through the internet, where anyone can make a film if they have...

Technology graduation requirement suspended for the 2012-2013 school year

By Billy Butler May 9, 2012

Last night the Tam District Board of Trustees removed the technology graduation requirement for the 2012-2013 school year, exempting the class of 2013. According to a release sent out by district Superintendent...

Graphic by Emma Talkoff.

Letter to the editor: Is wireless the new lead paint?

By Lisa Miller Dec 8, 2011

Dear Tam News, I have been suffering from migraine headaches that began shortly after a wireless utility “SmartMeter” was installed on my home in the fall of 2010 by PG&E. I saw many doctors,...

Smartphones: Finding a Balance

Smartphones: Finding a Balance

By Aaron Newman Sep 29, 2011

Smartphones are prominent on campus nowadays. Devices such as the iPhone and the Blackberry are potent, versatile machines of interaction, information, and entertainment. But do they make us happier? Evolved...

Direct Light Leaves Weary Counting Sheep

Direct Light Leaves Weary Counting Sheep

Feb 14, 2011

It’s 11 p.m. on a school night: your breath is minty fresh, you’ve stripped down to your onesie, and the warmth of down feathers engulfs you.  However, your head is not quite enticed by the pillow...

How Facebook has made me into a creeper

By Hank Brown Nov 17, 2010

Keeping on task with homework, college apps, crafting fine pottery, brewing meth or whatever kids do these days is difficult, due to the fact that the procrastination machines we call computers and smart...

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