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5th period Engineering Projects students prepare to race their final projects of the year Thursday afternoon.

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Students get down at the Back to School Dance, one of the biggest events of the year, on Friday, Aug. 24. The date of next year's dance is being debated right now.

UPDATED: Stricter rules for next year’s Back to School Dance likely to be implemented

Due to drinking and fighting at this year’s Back to School Dance, the administration is developing a new set of rules for next year’s dance, which will likely include additional sobriety testing, a stricter dress code, and extra security. The set of rules is being put together by Principal David Sondheim and Assistant Principal Katy [...]

Certain senior dominated classes like AP Economics  were vacated on Tuesday

Significant number of seniors participate in Ditch Day

Earlier this week, an unusually large number of seniors were absent from school.  The cause – an unsanctioned senior tradition fondly called “Senior Ditch Day.” Senior Ditch Day, which occurred this past Tuesday, is an annual event organized by the senior class during which they do not come to school for a day. While not [...]

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Commentary: The Social Addiction

We as humans have a finite attention span, like a river that flows with a specific force. It may change direction or be split up among multiple activities, but the net sum of those activities may never exceed the river’s specific force. What happens when that river is interrupted, split among many streams and tributaries? [...]

Senior Henry Mesker runs upfield with the ball. Mesker, who has trained through high school for a military future, excels with his conditioning.

Stellar defense leads lacrosse team

It is 6:30 on a Friday evening, the soft hazes of dusky pink and purple creeping ever so slowly across the Corte Madera Creek and swirling around the goal posts of Bob Troppman Field. “Lift! Lift!” Patrick Brown is screaming. A stout, muscular man about 15 years removed from an illustrious college career as a [...]

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The Route of the Problem

Check out the Bark's first interactive online feature story!


Sports


Preps of the year: Peter Woolley

Entering his freshman year, senior Peter Woolley was planning on mountain biking year round. His parents, however, had other plans. “My parents were like ‘You need to find a fall sport,’” Woolley said. “So my parents forced me into trying out for the rowing team and then I just totally fell in love with it [...]

Opinion


Societal pressures limit personal choices

A still pool of water. It’s so cloudy from the muck and the mire of certain obligations and decisions, of certain emotions and contradictions, that I can›t even see myself in the reflection, and only the depth of the darkness is discernible. Looking back, the word I would use to describe these past four years [...]

Culture


Paying for college causes seniors to reevaluate decisions

Senior Olivia Kontinnen thought she had the whole college process figured out. Committed to playing soccer at the University of Miami, Kontinnen applied to other schools as an afterthought and was singularly focused on attending Miami. However, when Miami’s financial aid office did not offer the aid she had expected, she soon found herself looking [...]