Category: Opinion

By Cindy Venegas As a child, I learned many stories from history, but one that stood out and inspired me, was about a boy named Johnny Appleseed, who planted thousands of apple orchards throughout different states in the early 19th Century. Little did I know, it was based on the life of a generous and […]

By Julissa James Staff Writer At the start of this semester, when I learned our school’s fitness center had been renovated, I was ecstatic. Being active is a crucial part of my existence, not only as a human being, but a student. It relieves heavy amounts of stress I store in my body, releases happy […]

By Tanisha Bell Editor-In-Chief After its cumbersome stories of defeat and neglect, Compton Unified has risen to a higher level of improvement. I grew up in Compton and attended four different schools there. Although I was a child, I noticed many teachers were not teaching; they were discussing who’s the smartest, worst-behaved, cutest or who […]

By Tanisha Bell Editor-in-Chief The stakes should be raised when it comes to protecting the public from violence in targeted locations such as schools and shopping centers but not at the expense of civil liberties. Too many innocent lives have been taken, and there is no telling how many more innocent lives will be taken […]