Albany High School

Please join us for a celebration of student photography, studio art and graphic design this Thursday from 4:30-7pm! The show takes place in three locations: the Art Building, the atrium of the Main Building and the first floor hallway.

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Last fall, America’s most restrictive abortion law, known as Senate Bill 8 or SB 8, went into effect in Texas. Over the past six months there have been nation-wide protests, people seeking abortions out of state, and the Supreme Court hearing two cases, one of them challenging the law. With the Supreme Court having a 6–3 conservative majority, the stakes for Roe v. Wade couldn’t be higher.

In the spirit of Black-Asian-Allies solidarity, join us on Sunday, Feb. 27 at 3:00pm for a talk, “Black Love": Past, Present, & Future, co-hosted by the Asian Pacific Islander Parent Engagement Group (API-PEG) and Black Parent Advisory Group (BPAG). Before the talk, listen to part or all of the free Masterclass on Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love. Then, world-renowned writer Camille Parker will unpack these issues during our local event. Register for the event with Ms. Parker here.

The Albany High boys basketball team’s season had its share of success and struggle, and as playoffs begin, the Cougars ended the regular season playing, on average, an exhausting three games a week. This number has increased exceptionally because of a coronavirus outbreak among the varsity team. The outbreak postponed games, practices, and all other team activities for about a month, and the team had to hustle to make all those games up.

Editorial and infographic by Natalia Toledo While the holiday season has come to a close, the COVID surge has not. Cases are spiking, and due to omicron’s contagious design, the risk of contracting the virus has only increased. Like it or not, the world we live in now is our “new normal”. That is, a world where precautions must be adopted, and upheld, to protect the vulnerable. The coronavirus will not go away because we close our eyes and wish it to be. That’s just not how nature works.

Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney Black Food, by Bryant Terry A Court of Silver Flames, by Sarah Maas Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner The Hawthorne Legacy, by Jennifer Barnes Himawari House, by Harmony Becker The Korean Vegan Cookbook, by Joanne Lee Molinaro The Nobleman's Guide To Scandal And Shipwrecks, by Mackenzi Lee Our Violent Ends, by Chloe Gong Revolution In Our Time, by Kekla Magoon Roxy, by Neal Shusterman Sanctuary, by Paola Mendoza Squad, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

By Xinxin Duan Following a new law passed in the spring of 2021, Albany High School has begun to provide free meals to all of its students. According to Executive Chef Sabina Feinberg, the USDA requires that free meals be provided to students of all schools in the nation during the 2021-2022 school year due to the special conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, but schools in California will continue to do this in future school years.

You open TikTok and start scrolling through your “For You Page.” All you see are perfect girls with flawless hair, faces, and bodies. Before you know it, your thoughts are flooded with self-hatred and anxiety. These girls fit perfectly into the westernized idea of beauty, and you can’t help but compare yourself to how they look. This is something that many students experience on a daily basis, and they are slowly starting to realize how addictive and harmful TikTok can really be.