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Professional Athletes Affect Youth

Professional Athletes Affect Youth

Dorsa Moslehi Mar 20, 2016

  On Monday, March 7, Maria Sharapova, a 5-time Grand Slam champion and the world’s highest-paid female athlete, announced that she had tested positive for the recently banned drug meldonium...

The underestimated menstrual cup

The underestimated menstrual cup

Oracle Staff Mar 17, 2016

By Katie Lan, guest writer It seems a bit troubling to me that menstruation and the use of feminine hygiene products is still overcasted by stigmatized notions of secrecy. It has become almost an archaic...

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Jason Greenberg Oct 23, 2015

Have you checked out a school Chromebook? If you are a student who has been swept up in Mountain View’s initiative to bring its curriculum into the digital age, you may have taken advantage of the...

BYOD pros and cons: traer su propio programa de dispositivos

BYOD pros and cons: traer su propio programa de dispositivos

Oracle Staff May 5, 2015

Disclaimer: This article was previously printed in English in our most recent issue of the Oracle and has now been translated in Spanish. If you would like to read this article in English,...

Creating a nation of helping hands

Creating a nation of helping hands

Chanti Holroyd Dec 9, 2014

On January 2, 2005, Shin Dong-hyuk became the first person to ever escape the highest security prison camp in North Korea. Shin was born and raised within the prison walls because of his grandfather’s...

The Road Less Traveled: A Career in the Arts

The Road Less Traveled: A Career in the Arts

Sheli Yaskin Nov 12, 2014

The number of students applying to major in art at universities has been on the decline. An article published in June 2014 in Harvard Educational Review by Bruce A. Kimball examines the prominent narrative...

Boyhood: A fresh take on adolescence

“Boyhood”: A fresh take on adolescence

Daniela Gonzalez Oct 1, 2014

I have always been an enthusiastic John Green fan. I attended the Redwood City Tour de Nerdfighting in 2012, met him, and he signed my copy of The Fault in Our Stars. In addition to TFiOS, I have also...

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