Category: Collegiate

Mia Estrada Collegiate High School Sabah Mohammad remembers the Saturday morning vividly, abruptly awakened by the screams of her mother being viciously attacked. The 20-year-old Collegiate student recalls the shock of her and her younger brother standing in the living room, seeing their mother being stabbed by their father. Her other siblings were standing in terror. Mohammad saw blood gushing out her mother’s arm and ran to her father in an effort to stop the attack. “I ran to my dad and tried to take the knife away from him,” Mohammad said. “Eventually I got the knife away and tried…

Fire safety–it’s important By: Mia Estrada An overcooked bag of popcorn caused a fire alarm at Collegiate High School, releasing students and staff from the classrooms and out to the sidewalks. Where the 2017-2020 graduating students experienced their first evacuation during this alert, never having a drill before. Stella Serna, senior administrator assistant to the principle clarified that former students once practiced drills on campus. “We are on a college campus and in the past we had them on Fridays.” Serna said. “We have to follow Del Mar rules, it’s not like the other high schools that can say ‘we…

  Mia Estrada Collegiate High School   “Exes and Ohs” by Elle King led to the first place win by Gema Rodriguez at Collegiate High School’s 11th annual Talent Show. “I’m so overwhelmed, it’s my first year and the fact that everybody there was so amazing and had their own unique style was so overwhelming, I can’t actually believe I won,” Rodriguez said. Second place went to junior and third-year competitor Ferina De Vera and her father, who sang and played to “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars. “Just the fact that we can sing together, she’s a…

Mia Estrada Collegiate High School   Creamsicle, a small stray kitten, makes her way out of the branches near the Harvin Center with her two other feral friends, Schnitzel and Raven. “As we’ve learned, we have to give each little kitten their own little container of food or they’ll steal from each other,” said Allison Dozier, caretaker of kittens on campus. In recent weeks, as the feral cat population on campus has increased, students such as Dozier have been aiding them with food and water. Student organizations like Pet Pals at Collegiate High School have taken it upon themselves to…

Mia Estrada Collegiate High School Even after a seven-hour delay and a bus breakdown, many Collegiate High School students experienced historical events firsthand while attending the Inauguration. Student Heaven Lee, 16, expressed uneasiness as she was in a crowd full of mixed emotions during the swearing-in of the 45th president. “I felt very awkward, because I didn’t personally support him or his views on a lot of things,” Lee said of President Donald Trump. Lee stood far back in the crowd witnessing the transfer of power. “They were all cheering for him and excited that Trump was becoming president and…