News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

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EMBLIDGE INSIGHT: Texting in Movie Theaters and How Apple Might Force People to be Decent Human Beings

By Wesley Emblidge Oct 9, 2012

As an avid movie fan, there aren’t many things I hate as much as someone pulling their phone out in the middle of a movie. Using your phone during a movie is so disrespectful, it’s second only...

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“Being drunk at school is like doing homework at a party.” -Junior Saam Maroofi

Unclassy in Class

By Veronica Russell Oct 5, 2012

As the stench of alcohol surrounded me, I imagined sitting in a ship full of drunken pirates. I looked around in my classes on the first day of school and saw seniors with disheveled clothes, messy...

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by Andrew Cutraro, White House photographer. http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hi_res/vp_portrait_hi-res.jpg

Confidin’ in Biden: An Open Letter to Our Vice President

By Cassie Jeong Oct 2, 2012

Dear Mr. Biden, What a month you’ve had. According to your newsletters (which I, of course, read devotedly), the Republican National Convention (RNC) was also the Obama campaign’s biggest fundraising...

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EDITORIAL: Tam High Gossip

EDITORIAL: Tam High Gossip

Sep 26, 2012

A new blog struck a nerve this month with posts of gossip about Tam students. This type of blog is detrimental to the accepting atmosphere that Tam promotes, and harms student reputations with potentially...

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Boy bands: Back with a vengeance

By Veronica Russell Jun 12, 2012

Boy bands. The phrase should conjure up images from the 90s, N*SYNC and Backstreet Boys, teens with funny clothes and frosty tipped hair. It should remind us of a young Justin Timberlake, whose voice...

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EDITORIAL: What are AP classes really for?

By Tam News Staff Jun 12, 2012

It’s easy to get caught up trying to determine which classes will give you the upper hand, but the rush to dazzle colleges with impressive schedules may make you lose sight of what you actually want....

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Texting while walking: Worth the ticket?

By Anna Vandergriff Jun 3, 2012

It's quite understandable that texting while driving was banned, but texting while walking? In the New Jersey town of Fort Lee, city police are now issuing $85 tickets to any who is texting while walking....

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Fundamentalism at its finest

By Billie Mandelbaum and Billie Mandelbaum May 31, 2012

Something is rotten in the state of Tennessee. In mid-April, the Tennessee state Senate passed a bill banning the demonstration or promotion of “gateway sexual activity.” The bill, which does not...

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Dont just chuck it, wear a brain bucket

Don’t just chuck it, wear a brain bucket

By Max Shulman May 31, 2012

Contrary to a belief specific to 16-18 year old boys that we are invincible, I have found through both personal experience and the obseervation of others that this is not true. Take the helmet equation....

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After a week-long suspension, Young returns to his team, the Detroit Tigers. Photo courtesy of MLB.com

Delmon Young: Poor choices, poorer consequences

By Declan Katz and Declan Katz May 29, 2012

On April 27, Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arrested for aggravated harassment and public intoxication in New York City. Reports indicate that Young came out of a bar where a homeless man...

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What’s Up: the Unanswerable Question

By Julia Kligman May 9, 2012

Human encounters tend to inevitable. As much as I would love to reside under a rock, hidden from the sun, living off of Top Ramen for all of eternity in order to avoid concurrences such as this, it simply...

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Phylum Nerdus: which are you?

By Casey O'Brien May 8, 2012

You all know us. Many of you are one of us. If you are not, you make fun of us, you joke with us, you secretly envy us. The nerds. Oh yes. Those kids with the confident air of dorkiness, unafraid to be...

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