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The Tam News
News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News
News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

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New Years 2023: Are resolutions really helpful?

New Years 2023: Are resolutions really helpful?

By Chloe Bowman, News Editor ♦ Jan 5, 2023
New Year’s resolutions: Some people choose to make them, embarking on an often week-long journey to try to change their whole lives, and others elect to skip out on the mindset that just because the year has reverted back to January, their lifestyle isn’t working. 
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The Assembly

The Assembly

By Savy Behr, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Jan 5, 2023
Along with presumably all Tamalpais High School juniors and seniors, I attended the mandatory meeting during tutorial on Nov. 18. As stated in an email sent out to junior and senior families by Tam principal, Dr. JC Farr, the purpose of this meeting was “resetting behavioral expectations.” 
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Valentine’s Day for Singles

Valentine’s Day for Singles

By Siobhan King, Reporter ♦ Jan 5, 2023
Love is most definitely not in the air at Tamalpais High School. 
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Fantasy Football: We Take it Seriously

Fantasy Football: We Take it Seriously

By Gabe Schwartzman, Features Editor ♦ Jan 5, 2023

With the temperatures dropping, dead leaves falling, and sweaters being brought back into the rotation, it only means one thing…  No, not the seasons changing. Football is what it means. Not only...

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Seasons in California

Seasons in California

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Nov 25, 2022
It’s fall in northern California! There is a brisk chill hanging in the air (as long as you are within 100 yards of a coastline), the dark embrace of fog in the first and last four hours of the day, and brown and orange leaves leisurely falling from tree branches (the 10% of them that aren’t evergreen).
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American Education and the Fate of Affirmative Action

By Sophia Weinberg, Editor-in-Chief ♦ Nov 17, 2022
Affirmative Action should be banned, but only once America's systematic racism is no longer prevalent in society. In order to reach this point in society, we need policies like Affirmative Action as a safeguard against already existent systematic racism.
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Halloween ‘too scary’ for Mill Valley residents to celebrate

Halloween ‘too scary’ for Mill Valley residents to celebrate

By Anika Kapan, Features Editor, Graphics Editor ♦ Nov 3, 2022

As All Hallow’s Eve looms on the horizon, Mill Valley residents avert their eyes, hide under their blankets, and tremble at their festive responsibilities. The houses are bare of jack-o-lanterns, spiderwebs,...

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Why Tam's College Culture is Toxic

Why Tam’s College Culture is Toxic

By Siobhan King, Reporter ♦ Nov 3, 2022

As early action deadlines near for many colleges, you can practically see the stress seeping out of almost every senior at Tam. Blood pressures rise at the thought of getting your counselor letter of recommendation...

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Editorial: Tam's Lack of Knowledge on Opiods and Fentanyl Use

Editorial: Tam’s Lack of Knowledge on Opiods and Fentanyl Use

By Editorial Staff ♦ Nov 3, 2022

Electronic vapes and alcohol have become normalized among the substances that students who attend Tamalpais High School abuse. But more serious drugs are affecting our broader community, and there seems...

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Editorial: P.E. As a Required Course

Editorial: P.E. As a Required Course

By Editorial Staff ♦ Oct 4, 2022
While Tamalpais High School students are required to get two years worth of credits for physical education, we looked into reasons why Tam should discontinue the class, at least for Tam student athletes.
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The Meticulous Art of Free Perioding

The Meticulous Art of Free Perioding

By Gabe Schwartzman, Features Editor ♦ Oct 2, 2022
Obtaining as many free periods as possible is a goal for many Tamalpais High School seniors.
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Graphic by Anika Kaplan

Yerba Mate: Tam’s Drink

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Sep 29, 2022
For some it’s a hot latte, for others it's a cool glass of lemonade, but there is only one drink that is enough of a delicacy to satisfy the refined palettes of Tamalpais High School students: the Yerba Mate.
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