Like It or Not.. You’re Being Watched

As high school students, we become accustomed to being surrounded by hundreds of other students for hours at time. However, in rare instances we experience solitude. Whether it is when we are walking to the bathroom or doing a favor for a teacher, these moments are essential to keeping a cool head in a busy [...]

Every Fifteen Minutes Drives Home a Lesson to LCHS

On Thursday, April 12 the streets in front of the school were filled with a crowd of gloomy onlookers, shocked and frozen by the sight of a grotesque car crash involving eight LCHS students in two vehicles. While this was a fabricated collision, it is reported that every fifteen minutes a teenager loses his or [...]

Spartan Golfers off on a Good Foot

On Tuesday, March 20, Boys Varsity Golf quietly left their 5th period classes to ferociously battle the Temple City Rams at Eaton Canyon Golf Course in their first league match of the season. With their long drives and impeccable putting skills, the LC Spartans dominated Temple City with a score of 189-220, a major victory [...]

“Dracula” comes rampaging through the Playhouse

     Are you in desperate craving of a chilling play that will take you far beyond the horrors of our world and imagination? Well, lucky for you, the La Cañada Playhouse is presenting the creepy and thrilling classic horror production of “Dracula” later this month. Based on Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, “Dracula” will [...]

LCHS Speech and Debate Qualifies for State

On Saturday, March 10, the La Cañada Speech and Debate team qualified for the state championship inSan Francisco, April 27-30. Held atSchurrHigh SchoolinMontebello, 31 schools competed for the eight teams that could qualify for the state tournament. La Cañada was able to send two teams to state: one parliamentary and one public forum. Four parliamentary [...]

La Cañada High School hosts SCSBOA Festival

Sixteen music ensembles from local schools attended the District Southern California School Band/Orchestra Association Festival on Friday, March 16, at La Cañada High School. The SCSBOA Festival is a two-event competition: performance of a prepared piece and sight-reading new music. The groups perform more than one song for twenty minutes in front of a panel [...]

LCUSD Faces Teacher Layoffs

La Cañada Unified officials announced, during a board meeting last Tuesday, which teachers and district employees are going to be laid off this year. A major loss in funding has led to this streak of layoffs in our school district. Other school districts have not faced the consequences that ours has since most other districts [...]

Stuck in the Shallows

We’ve heard this just about everywhere. It’s in newspapers and magazines. Our parents talk about it, and even we talk about it too. The internet is changing how we think, and possibly in more negative ways than positive ones. Being the young tech-savvy generation born into this world, we may just dismiss these claims as [...]

Smile for Operation Smile Club

Through the efforts of students at La Cañada’s Smile Club, more kids are able to smile. The club’s aim is to help provide operations for kids with cleft lips. Juniors Gina Choi and Tiffany Chen, cofounders of Smile Club, first got the idea from a similar group at a different school. Since then, the club [...]

Marching to the Beat of La Cañada’s Marching Band

The year of 2012 looks auspicious for the La Cañada marching band. This past semester was a colorful progression for these Spartan musicians, as they received awards in several marching contests and were acknowledged for their efforts and talents. With their new clean-cut black and maroon uniforms, band members hammered out their routines on the [...]