Opinion Archives - Page 16 of 41

The Best Ways to Ask Someone to Homecoming

By Adam Tolson and Adam Tolson ♦ Oct 26, 2017

For most schools around the United States, Homecoming is an exciting time in the school year. However, this tradition seems to be lost at Tam. The dance is even being moved to a Friday night this year...

Why You Should Pack a Lunch

By Shane Lavezzo ♦ Oct 26, 2017

Sprinting out of the car, slamming the doors, and leaving the windows open, my friends book it to the day’s choice of lunch. Whether it is Rocco’s, Joe’s Taco Lounge, Harmony, or Mill Valley Market,...

A Collection of Advice for Incoming Freshman

By Griffin Barry ♦ Sep 23, 2017

An Appeal to be a Smarter Consumer by Jimmy Neutron, Sophomore and science prodigy Going back to school means a lot of things. Backpacks, binders, bins, binoculars – you name it. Starting high school...

Different is the New Normal

By Dahlia Zail ♦ Sep 23, 2017

These days, walking around campus, I cannot help but notice the trends in girls fashion that are taking a turn towards conformity. This conventionality is different. In the case of Tam, it stems from a...

Homework is Killing Sleep

By Ava Finn, Editor in Chief ♦ Sep 22, 2017

After receiving all your homework from all your classes, you go home, take a little time to relax and as you glance over your phone, you find that three hours have gone by and it's five. Seven classes,...

EDITORIAL: Dreams Deferred

Sep 22, 2017

DACA, an Obama-era immigration policy may be revoked. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA, was an executive order put in place in 2012 by the Obama administration. DACA protects...

EDITORIAL: The Vicious Cycle

Jun 5, 2017

Casual followers of the news could be forgiven for thinking that Donald Trump’s 3 a.m. tweets were the most important event of the day. But with this evaluation, they’d be forgetting three separate...

Yes, Liberals Can Be and Are Racist

By Jessica Fuentes Vazquez and Jessica Fuentes Vazquez ♦ Jun 3, 2017

Submitted by a student not in The Tam News. Ignorance is bliss, and the best recipe for ignorance is the type that tells you that you’re not ignorant. To be aware of overt and macro aggressions...

My Experience at Tam as a Student of Color

By Jody Rome Thompson and Jody Rome Thompson ♦ Jun 3, 2017

This was submitted by a student not in The Tam News. One foot in front of the other I keep telling myself, don't trip and embarrass yourself. The big yellow bus I will call my second home for the next...

When You Can’t Sleep (On These Redhawks)

By Abby Frazee and Abby Frazee ♦ Jun 3, 2017

Once in awhile, you may desire to have an “early night.” At 10 P.M., you have the power to overcome your addiction to Netflix and instead hit the hay. Why is it, for me at least, that these are always...

The Modern Addiction to Cell Phones

By Ryan Leake and Ryan Leake ♦ Jun 2, 2017

I wish I grew up 30 years ago. Not because I want 50-cent Coca-Colas, or because I want to watch Larry Bird go up against Magic Johnson (though that would be a plus), or even because I wouldn’t have...

EDITORIAL: Hunting for New Ideas

Jun 2, 2017

The annual scavenger hunts, referred to by those involved as the “scav hunt,” is a high school tradition that takes place in late May. This year’s junior scavenger hunt took place on May 26, with...