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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

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News, Opinion, & Multimedia for Tamalpais High School

The Tam News

A Diabetic's Halloween

A Diabetic’s Halloween

By Max Goldberg, Website Editor Oct 18, 2018

When you have Diabetes, life finds a way to remind you every day that you have to deal with Diabetes. And me having it is not as much a tragedy as it is just annoying. On my flight home from Taiwan, when...

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EDITORIAL: The Tam News on Kavanaugh

EDITORIAL: The Tam News on Kavanaugh

Oct 18, 2018

In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, many Tam students are feeling disillusioned with the current state of our political system. A trial held in the Supreme court should not be subject to senseless...

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Too Many Private Tutors?

Too Many Private Tutors?

Oct 16, 2018

We live in a community where being the best is less of an option and rather a requirement, a mindset. Conversations can be overheard of parents normalizing the use of unprescribed adderall or students...

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How To Make Friends

How To Make Friends

By John Overton, Reporter Sep 24, 2018

Do you have trouble making friends, being friends with humans, having friends, or playing funny pranks on friends? So did I until I didn’t! Wanna know how? Here’s how: One: Be good, be kind. Friends...

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Editorial: We Can Do Better

Editorial: We Can Do Better

By Staff Sep 20, 2018

(Above) The Faces of Willow Creek is a magazine produced by Willow Creek Academy 8th graders with the help of The Tam News, in an effort to recruit a more diverse staff. The Tam News needs to do better....

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9066

9066

By Josie Spiegelman, Editor in Chief Sep 20, 2018

My grandma stands at four feet eleven inches and sports a short, close-cropped salt and pepper haircut. Her skin is darker than most other Japanese Americans, a reminder of her upbringing on a small farm...

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Microaggressions: Not so Small

Microaggressions: Not so Small

By Niulan Wright, Design Editor Sep 17, 2018

An Asian, Mexican, and an African-American sit in a boat. Suddenly the boat springs a leak and the three start to drown. Who wins? America. I am Asian American. When I was in the sixth grade I performed...

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Editorial: Because We Don't Talk About College Enough...

Editorial: Because We Don’t Talk About College Enough…

May 22, 2018

We could spend this editorial proving the obvious: that Tam students are drowning in college talk and it’s making us miserable. But despite frequent hand wringing, it only gets worse every year. What...

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Autism: No Laughing Matter

Autism: No Laughing Matter

By Skye Schoenhoeft, Editor in Chief May 22, 2018

It’s a Friday night, and again I find myself living out the teenage stereotype; eating crackers and scrolling through Instagram in my bed after a long week of school. Everything is going just fine until...

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Breaking Through Breakthrough Day

Breaking Through Breakthrough Day

Feb 9, 2018

In February 2017, Tam had its first ever “Breakthrough Day,” which commemorated the 50th anniversary of Operation Breakthrough, an event intended to promote racial understanding and organized by students...

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Let's Have The Talk: #MeToo

Let’s Have The Talk: #MeToo

By Abby Frazee Feb 9, 2018

It’s been four months since news broke that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein paid off dozens of actresses to remain silent about their sexual assault accusations against him. Thank God they didn’t....

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A Dystopian Present

A Dystopian Present

By Jake Paz-Priel Feb 8, 2018

August 12, 2039 Beginning this academic year, parents are sending record numbers of applications for their unborn children to participate in internships in order to have a competitive edge. Selective...

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