Opinion: Legality, Morality, and Police Brutality
By Parker Scarpa, Clarion Staffer On March 18, 2018, Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22 year old man, was shot and killed by Sacramento police officers. Almost a year later, Sacramento […]
Her Own Did Not Receive Her: Actress Yalitza Aparicio Slighted After Roma
By Hana Ruiz and Liliana Lopez, Clarion Staff In the Netflix film “Roma” lead actress Yalitza Aparicio plays Cleo, a domestic maid who works for Sofia and Antonio to take […]
Album Review: 70’s Jazz Fusion Powerhouse Delivered Heavy Weather
By Andrew Ely, Clarion Staff Weather Report, Heavy Weather (1977) Weather Report a distinguished jazz-fusion band of the 1970’s and 80’s expanded jazz audiences when musical genres were emerging and […]
Juniors To Be Served Up Free SAT (With Breakfast!) March 6
Brandyn Matsumoto, Clarion Staff Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), designed by the College Board, is very pricey — with costs starting at $47.50 and up to $64.50 with the […]
Emergencia Nacional
By Liliana López, Clarion Section Editor If you’ve been watching the news lately, you probably know that high school isn’t the only place with over-the-top drama: the White House itself […]
50 Years of BSU at Kennedy: Inside Black Student Union
By Parker Scarpa, Clarion Staff The Black Student Union (BSU) is an on-campus organization dedicated to providing a safe place for students to express their ideas and opinions on controversial […]
EQ Ambassadors: Positivity Reigns on Campus
By Adrianna Iorio, Chief Editor In recent years, Kennedy has adopted a variety of programs that aim towards making our campus a place of positivity. From Club Smile to Link […]
La Frontera
By Hana Ruiz, Clarion staff
Memorial for Courageous Officer at UC Davis
By Hana Ruiz, Clarion Staff On the morning of January 18, 2019, the memorial service for Officer Natalie Corona, 22, who died in the line of duty a week before, […]
Winter Guard’s Combined Destiny
By Desiree Leong, Managing Editor A shorter show. Indoors. Performing without the band. The transition from fall to winter is what happens every year after Thanksgiving break for Kennedy’s award-winning […]
Tropel Recites Her Way to Victory
By Arooba Muqaddor, Clarion Staff Just before winter break in late 2018 in the school auditorium, Bernie Tropel (Class of 2019) won first place out of 60 contestants in Poetry […]
Write or Wrong: On Kennedy’s Literacy Lab
By Hana Ruiz, Clarion Staff Writing, spelling, grammar — these are all subjects Kennedy students may struggle with and that’s what Literacy Lab is here for. The Literacy Lab has […]
Way Back Machine – 30 Years Ago
Vol. 22 No. 4, Feb 1989 By Liliana Lopez, Sections Editor Help!!!: Written by Wilson Wong and Gary Gee, “Help!!!” is a brief story that is written in script form. […]
One of Kennedy’s Newest Clubs: Bob the Builder Got Nothing on Jenga Club
By Hana Ruiz, Clarion Staff A tower of blocks, shaking hands, one small mistake and everything comes tumbling down. That’s how most of the members of the new JENGA Club […]
6th Period, No Early Release
By Wendy Xiong, Clarion Staff False information has spread among students at John F. Kennedy High School. Many students believe that seniors are no longer getting early release after fifth […]
Can Humanities STEM Job Security?
By Sid Slesicki and Liliana López, Clarion Staff STEM Majors If you’re a senior or junior, chances are you’ve been contemplating the next stage of your education – more specifically, […]
Boys & Girls Basketball: Heads Held High
By Isabella Wolfe, Sports Editor The Kennedy Boys and Girls basketball 2018-2019 season has officially ended, Kennedy Cougars (Varsity, JV, and Freshmen) can now look back over the season and […]
