Samo Girls’ beach volleyball set for comback season
The Samo girls’ beach volleyball team has kicked off the season 1-0 with a 5-0 win against Beverly Hills. After failing to qualify for CIF playoffs last season, the team is back for redemption.
Senior Assassin Brings Eliminations and Entertainment
On Feb. 17, the seniors began their game of senior assassin- attempting to spray each other with water to “assassinate” a target given.
Club Day funds clubs one bite at a time
On Feb. 19, Samo hosted its second club day of the year to support students who need fundraising for their clubs.
Assessing the environmental toll on LA
As of Feb. 3, the Palisades and Eaton fire have been 100 percent contained. With the fires finished, many in the Los Angeles County Community are now faced with challenging environmental changes that have followed as a result.
Institutionalized Starvation and Its consequences
It's common knowledge that adolescents have poor eating habits. Eating disorders, economic disadvantages, general lack of appetite, illness — the list of factors in teen hunger goes on. Studies have proved time and time again that the absence of food is extremely detrimental to the human body. But what exactly happens with each meal missed?
Samo Students win award at first Model UN conference of the year
On Nov. 9 and 10, Model United Nations (known as Model UN) had its first conference of the 2024 school year.
Study finds: Santa Monica is bad for business
Santa Monica is the most expensive city to conduct business in, according to a recent study performed by Claremont McKenna College’s Rose Institute. The study analyzed a set of cost-related factors in 216 cities all across the nation. There were seven sections of the study- business license fee, utility tax, sales tax, minimum wage, average community rent, crime index and housing affordability index. Each city was ranked on a scale and Santa Monica placed the worst within every section of the study.
Bandaids on Bullet Wounds: new UC Weaponry
Our First amendment is at risk as weaponry has been let into UC campuses, in the face of protesting about the Israel-Hamas war. Non-lethal weapons such as pepper balls and sponge rounds, projectile launchers and new drones have been admitted for usage. Such an interesting way to remove our rights.
Project 2025’s proposed educational changes
Project 2025 is a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation, a playbook for the first 180 days of the next president's administration. One of the many changes outlined in the document is a shift towards more conservative processes within the education system. If passed, the Samo community and their families may feel the effects of many of these policies.
Samo teachers begin to crack down on phones
Students may have noticed that more of their Samo teachers have implemented cell phone pockets in their classrooms this school year. This practice is one way that teachers can uphold the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s (SMMUSD) electronics policy that students may only use their devices for academic purposes during class.
Smmusd and Malibu finalize school separation agreement
On Sept. 12, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) and the City of Malibu announced they would finally separate, allowing Malibu to become an independent district. The current separation package is ready for public review.