January 19, 2012 • Shweta Sugnani
Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman was pronounced dead on Thursday, Dec. 29 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. Mayor Wasserman died at the age of 77 due to a pulmonary heart disease. Wasserman had served on the City Council for 20 years and was the mayor since 2004. Before he served for the council, Wasserman...
January 12, 2012 • Meilin Liang
On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill declaring that the third Monday of each January would be celebrated as Martin Luther King Day; this year the holiday lands on Jan 16. Martin Luther King Jr. was an active leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. He believed...
January 10, 2012 • Meilin Liang
The annual winter assembly was held on Dec. 21 to celebrate the cheerful and festive holiday season. To get the crowd in a cheerful mood, Mrs. Paris pumped up the crowd with class cheers, ending with a combined cheer from all the “Huskies in the house.” Instead of having a fellow Husky sing...
December 20, 2011 • Janel Quoc and Ninon Becquart
The Santa Claws event, hosted by Petsmart, benefitted Furry Friends Rescue. Owners brought their pets on the weekend of Dec. 10 and 11 and dressed them up to take a picture with Santa. Money raised from the sale of these photographs went towards funding veterinary bills. Video taken by Janel Quoc...
December 16, 2011 • Meilin Liang
Christmas is around the corner here in the United States and Americans are putting up Christmas trees and decorative lights, but what are other people in different countries celebrating amid the winter season? In November or December for eight days each, Jews celebrate Hanukkah. During the eight days,...
December 14, 2011 • Shweta Sugnani
The annual Fremont PTA Reflections was held on Dec. 3 from 3 to 5 PM at American High School. All schools in the Fremont district, including preschools, participated in this event. Many students from WHS’s AP Literature class participated in an effort to gain extra credit. However, only three students...
December 13, 2011 • Trina Lazzara
Another fire alarm went off on Friday, Dec. 2, one of three that have been triggered so far this school year. We all participate in these evacuations, but many students don’t actually know why they are leaving their classrooms. It is natural to assume that a fire alarm is a drill, but of the three...
December 12, 2011 • Anmol Mathur
Two Lucky supermarkets in Fremont, along with more than 20 other of the Bay Area chain stores, discovered a severe problem in their self-check-out lanes on Nov. 11. It appears that thieves have tampered with the card-readers, secretly attaching card-skimmers that store the card and PIN numbers of any...
December 9, 2011 • Anmol Mathur and Meilin Liang
Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving, made its debut on Nov. 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release called “Cyber Monday’s Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year.” It’s often referred to as the “online equivalent of Black Friday” because it gives shoppers...
December 4, 2011 • Shweta Sugnani
Two bills proposed by the Congress, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), when passed, will put restrictions on the usage of internet. Not only will this bill change decades of US policies, but also bring change to technological development. Many students at our school oppose this...
