June 11, 2010 • Judy Wu
Fremont’s Earth Day Fair celebrated Earth Day’s fortieth anniversary, April 24. It also featured the WHS New Leaf Club as one of the eco-friendly exhibitors. The fair was held at the Teen Center in Central Park. The fair offered free admission and was coordinated by Fremont environmental specialist...
June 4, 2010 • Jimmy Young
There was wider participation at the third annual ecology fair. Environmentally conscious venues such as Bamboo Apparel, TOMS shoes and Tri-City set up tables. Environmental Club hosted a booth to inform students about composting. Compost can be used as fertilizer for plants, and it contains decomposed...
June 2, 2010 • Amanda Nava
Hnin Ookhin was announced as the LAM scholarship winner during the Senior Awards night, May 20. Ookhin didn’t expect the scholarship because the organization chooses only one person from WHS. Along with her transcript, general information and teacher recommendations Ookhin had to write an essay to...
May 10, 2010 • Paige Castren
ASB elections committee decided to do something different this year for ASB elections: record speeches and interviews instead of having an assembly. “It [the assembly] was totally useless. Nobody could hear,” elections committee member junior Tessa Thym said. The week before spring break, Thym...
May 6, 2010 • Simrundeep Kaur
Last month, the Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) board of education approved Board Policy 6154, which requires teachers to only assign a certain amount of homework each night. According to board member Ivy Wu, superintendent Parvin Ahmadi proposed this new homework policy after hearing frustrated...
May 5, 2010 • Harris Afridi
Washington had its very own garage sale, hosted by PTSA, to raise funds for Grad Nite, April 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. The crowd started coming in at 9:30 a.m. to check out the variety of items up for grabs. Among the many things for sale were clothes, paintings, vintage Christmas accessories, wooden...
April 29, 2010
Junior Kevin Luo took the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), March 16, at the American Mathematics Competition 12 (AMC 12). Kevin has qualified for the AIME every year since his freshman year. However, he did not qualify for the next round, United States of America Mathematical...
April 23, 2010 • Christelle Xu
A false alarm disrupted the STAR testing run-through during read period on April 23. “We were washing the floors with the pressure washer and it the smoke set off the alarm,” ROP Auto Teacher Doug Nahale said. Despite the sudden interruption during brunch, vice principals and experience kept student...
April 16, 2010
Link Crew hosted a movie night for the freshmen, March 26. Since the event was organized at the last minute, it wasn’t widely advertised. Around twenty freshmen watched “Up” and munched on popcorn with Link Crew student leaders. Link Crew coordinator Elizabeth Dewitt projected the movie “Up”...
April 16, 2010 • Shelmi Liang
Students will have to find other bus routes to take now that the AC Transit has executed a major service change in Alameda County communities. Due to the California budget cuts, declining sales-tax revenues and other economic factors, there will be an 8.4% reduction in bus service around the Bay Area. Eight...