#Emma Pearson Archives - The Tam News

Tam students participate in nationwide student protests following Nashville school shooting

By Emma Pearson, Reporter and Lifestyles/Sports Editor • May 9, 2023

Tamalpais High School students left their sixth period classes to engage in a nationwide walkout protesting gun violence at approximately 11:30 a.m. on April 5.

Call Ski Week whatever you want.

By Emma Pearson • Apr 3, 2023

I couldn't care less what Ski Week is called. Its existence is elitist, changing the name doesn’t erase that.

Tam nutrition services reinstates “ala carte menu”

By Emma Pearson • Mar 23, 2023

The $1 chocolate chip cookie, in particular, is remembered fondly by Tam seniors from their freshman year experience.

Dianne Feinstein is the last thing you should be worried about in congress right now – Here’s why

By Emma Pearson • Mar 6, 2023

I read an article today in my American Government class about California Senator Dianne Feinsten. The class is a state-required course in which we are supposed to learn and understand the systems and inner-workings of the American government system so that we may navigate citizenship.

What happens when the drought ends?

By Emma Pearson • Feb 3, 2023

Recent extreme weather has exposed structural weaknesses that must be addressed with the uprise of climate change.

Profile: Eleanor Octavio

By Emma Pearson • Feb 1, 2023

There’s more than a little extra community at the Mill Valley Community Center on days in which Tamalpais High School senior Eleanor Octavio leads Southern Marin Aquatics (SOMA)’s lessons.

Seasons in California

By Emma Pearson, Section 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).

Yerba Mate: Tam’s Drink

By Emma Pearson • 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.

Tam Students protest against climate change and for abortion rights

By Emma Pearson • Jun 7, 2022

Multiple Tam students attended two separate protests in Marin, using their voices and presence to advocate for what they believe in.