The Hatchet

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Nicole Doan, Editor-in-Chief

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Senior Nicole Doan is the editor-in-chief of The Hatchet. Although she has been a self-proclaimed writer for the past eight years, she has one year of experience of journalism. However, she looks forward to this year as a Hatchet staff member and hopes to possibly continue journalism in college.

Amanda Nava, Features Reporter

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Amanda Nava is a little eccentric with an odd sense of humor. She is fluent in Sarcasm and knows a bit of Ignorant. On her spare time she enjoys doing a lot of nothing with the people she calls her “friends.” When she wants to ignore her “friends” you can find her vacuuming ceilings and lighting pools on fire. Like the strange person she is, she actually enjoys writing and reading.

Alejandro Montalvo, A&E Reporter

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Alejandro is a bona fide film geek. He knows tons of esoteric film trivia and writes screenplays in his free time. He enjoys playing guitar, writing, cycling, and referring to himself in the third person. He hopes that journalism will be a rewarding experience.

Alex Tyler, Opinions and Copy Editor

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Alex Tyler is a senior at Washington High School and involved in many clubs and activities. The foremost of these is playing tennis, as well as writing for the Hatchet. He is a copy editor and a news reporter, although he enjoys writing in all senses. If you have any comments about his writing please feel free to tell him.

Anterpreet Kaur, Opinions Reporter

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Anterpreet loves writing stories and is fond of bright colors as well! A great deal of her life is spent in arts and crafts and organizing. She loves decorating accessories with nailpolish and the glue gun is her best friend. She’s really enjoying journalism thus far and hopes to keep on enjoying the company of so many funny people!

Bach Phan, Features Reporter

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Bach is a reporter for the feature section of the news. He is currently a junior and is proud of it. He is an avid sports fan and likes to keep up to date with all of the standings and statistics. He also is interested in politics and likes to learn about issues affecting the country and the world.

Brian Jeon, Illustrator and Editorial Cartoonist

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Brian Jeon is the illustrator and editorial cartoonist. He is currently a senior and enjoys art, music, tennis, long walks on the beach, and dinner by the moonlight.

Briana Terry, News Reporter

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Briana is a senior here at Washington, who also happens to be a reporter for the Washington Hatchet. She hopes to fulfill her duties and to make the best of the Hatchet.

Chase Glenister, News Reporter

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Tall, blond, big feet, stick thin. Likes pina coladas and dancing in the rain. Loves anything nerdy/geeky and of poor humor. Has huge arsenal of lame jokes. Will laugh hysterically at Jane Austen movies. Not really, but will critique them relentlessly.

Christine Harms, Opinions Reporter and Copy Editor

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Christine Harms is currently a senior and is enjoying being a part of the Hatchet. She is a Features Reporter, Columnist, and Copy Editor. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing tennis, hanging with her friends, and referring to herself in the third-person. =p

Christelle Xu, News Editor

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Christelle Xu is a Parisian-born Asian Canadian, who has lived in America since 2002. She is an avid runner and dancer, and loves food.

Edin Cristofi, Sports Reporter

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Edin Cristofi is a 17 years young Sagittarius athletic male. He love sports, long walks and watching sunsets. Also, he can make 30-minute brownies in 20 minutes. Moreover, Edin finds himself making raps to instrumentals in his automobile. He loves basketball and fantasy sports, both in which he is extraordinary at.

Harris Afridi, news reporter

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Somehow Harris Afridi found himself transferred into Mr. Skillings’ sixth period journalism class at the beginning of the second semester. On the “first” day to his new class, he was fashionably late and didn’t know what to expect. The class perceived him as the rugged biker who was quite charming. To be quite frank, he had never taken a single journalism class in his whole high school career. Harris always had a passion for writing but that passion was never put in motion… All he can do now is expect the unexpected and cruise down the highway on his Harley. “Ride to live and live to ride.”

Htoo Htoo Lu, Clerk and Distribution Manager

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Htoo Htoo is a senior at Washington High School and is the clerk/distribution manager of the Hatchet this year. Yeaaa.

Jimmy Young, Advertising Manager

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Jimmy is in 13th grade who controls all the advertisements. He accepts cash only. He once performed heart surgery with a ball-point pen. He used 2 lamps,a chair,and a paper clip to save a village from a flood. He never sleeps but when he does sleep, he sleeps in a chair.

Oh yeah, he goes to high school.

Jenae Lee, A&E Reporter

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Jenae Lee is obsessed with fashion. Not even kidding. She has
memorized pretty much any designer’s newest collections and their
styles, and she always knows what’s coming next. Jenae enjoys being
fashionably late, music, films, art, and fashion, of course! Jenae is
a junior this year and this is her first year on The Hatchet. She is
excited to spread her ideas and knowledge around to her peers. Don’t
be afraid to talk to her! She knows that this year will be crazy, but
she’s ready for the ride. Jenae is today, yesterday, and tomorrow.
Remember that.

Jordan Brahaney, Sports Reporter

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Joshua Das, Opinions Editor

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Judy Wu, Copy Editor and Reporter

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Judy Wu is a senior at Washington High School. She is the copy editor for features and reporter. She loves to write and write short stories during her freetime.

Kaylee Miu, Sports Editor

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Kaylee Miu, the 2009-2010 Sports Section Editor, is a senior at Washington. She has a passion for sports and plays for the school’s varsity tennis and swim team. She’s classified as an ENJF, according to the Meyers-Brigg test.

Keerthika Ramakrishnan, Opinions Reporter

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Keerthika is currently a 12th grader and is curious to learn more about Journalism. Outside of school, she is a marathon runner, who recently participated in the SF half-marathon, and she has also been dancing since the age of five. Her dream is to attend UC Davis straight out of high school and to pursue her major in psychology.

Marcy Shieh, A&E Editor

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Marcy is a senior this year at WHS. She feels incredibly honored to be part of The Hatchet staff as the Arts & Entertainment section editor.

Matthew Moore, News Reporter

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This is matt. Matt is learning German in 10 minutes a day. Sie sind alle Wohnungslosen. Oh and he is copy editor for the sports section as of 3 hours ago. He is currently writing about boys water polo. I occasionally tweet. chuse…

Michaela Go, Features Editor

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Michaela is…

Photo editor of the

Hatchet

Only

Thinking

Entertaining ways to

Decorate the Hatchet

In case

The

Ordinary articles are

Really boring…Just Kidding ;D

Nicole Pham, Online Editor-in-Chief

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Nicole is currently a senior at Washington High School. She loves vibrant colors, whether they be found in food, clothing, or the sky. Right now, she knows that she will be missing summer and all the peaches and sunshine that leave with it, but she’s also excited for what this school year will hold. College apps are on the loose and the seniors are going crazy. But it’s okay, we’ll be all smiles along the way!

Noelle Fujii, A&E Reporter

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Noelle is a sophomore and is an A&E reporter. She loves to read and write in her free time and is completely random at times.

Paige Castren, News Reporter

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Paige is a junior this year, and she is excited very excited to be a part of The Hatchet. In her spare time, she teaches dance classes, takes her own dance classes, reads, plays soccer and listens to music.

Raphael Ghieuw Sien, Photo Editor and Videographer

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Raphael, born in Hong Kong and moved to Fremont around five years ago. Even though he’s 17 years old, he acts like he’s 6. He loves driving, but unfortunately he only has a 126-horsepower Japanese car. He named his beloved cameras “Skinny Bear”, “Fatty Bear”, and “Bear Mama”. He’s loud and talkative. In his free time, he likes to play Xbox360 with his Indian friend, mess around with a guitar (even though he can hardly play) and talk on AIM with random people. You should really say “Hi” to him if you see him around.

Rico Jones Donelson, Sports Reporter

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Rico is a senior and is a sports reporter for our staff. He is very cool and is going to win best dressed this year : )

Sarah deLanda, Copy Editor and Reporter

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Sarah deLanda is a Senior on The Hatchet. She has managed not to severely maim herself for 17 years now. She wants to be a writer, because, she figures, that’s her best shot at continuing the streak. Knock on wood.

Shelmi Liang, A&E Reporter

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Shelmi Liang is a senior at WHS and is a reporter for A&E. She enjoys playing tennis, reading, listening to music, and watching films.

Simoneel Czar, Features Reporter

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Simoneel is a senior at WHS. She is very cool and LOVES chocolate truffles…..one day she hopes to be the greatest writer ever!!!!!! And she is totally in love with Shia LaBeouf!!!!!

Simrundeep Kaur, Features Reporter

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Simrundeep Kaur, the section editor for Features is a senior at Washington High School. She is looking forward to an exciting year as part of the Hatchet staff!