March Madness
As the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One men’s and women’s basketball tournaments begin on March 19, all types of basketball fans, from students to international fans, are gearing up to fill out a bracket, yearning for the ‘perfect bracket.’ With selection Sunday out of the way on March 17, basketball enthusiasts finally fill out their brackets. In every bracket, you have the ‘blue bloods,’ consisting of Duke, University of North Carolina, Kansas, etc., but don’t forget to add your sleeper picks; some notable names to include are Northwestern and Grand Canyon University.
Photo Illustration by Ava Stephens
Senior Assasin
Senior Assassin has been a tradition at Redwood and many high schools across the United States. It began last Monday, March 18, with over 300 senior participants. To participate, each player has to pay $15 and the winning team is awarded approximately $1,000 per person. The rules to play are simple: you choose a team of four students with one member as the team captain. You must use water guns to ‘assassinate’ your opponents assigned to your squad weekly while protecting against an unknown team attempting to ‘assassinate’ you. If your captain is shot, your dreams of becoming the champion of senior assassin are over. To keep the game contained, there are so-called safe zones where players can not be shot; these areas include sports practices, a player’s job, inside of a player’s household unless permitted by someone else living in that household and more. Let the games begin!
Photo by Mia Ginsburg
TikTok Ban
The United States House of Representatives passed the H.R. 7521 bill to ban TikTok. The bill claims this act “protects Americans from foreign adversaries and safeguards data privacy.” The House needed two-thirds of the majority for this bill to pass, and they quickly hit the number, voting 352-65 in favor of the ban. But Tiktok isn’t going anywhere yet; it still needs 60 votes in the Senate and President Biden’s signature. Biden has already agreed he will sign this bill if it passes the Senate, but the Senate majority leader has already stated he is in no apparent rush to fast-track this bill as the House did.
Photo by Nadia Massoumi
City Council Election
Stephanie Andre won the City of Larkspur Member City Council short-term seat. She received most of the town of Larkspur’s votes, with 2,512 or 60.3 percent of the total votes. Claire Paquette was the runner-up with 1,006 votes or 24.1 percent. Andre will only be in office for a short time until another election takes place for this seat in November 2024. Andre has an outstanding resume. She was the former president of the Calvary Foundation of San Francisco, a finance executive and investment banker for a decade and has her Masters in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Photo courtesy of Marin Independent Journal
