Richard Klinkner

Two students stride through the front of the room. Whispers among the audience members fade as the screen brightens at the click of a computer key, plunging the audience into the intricacies of the human mind.
Fighting against the high-stakes pressures of student life, the Palo Alto High School Clinical Psychology Club has emerged as one of the many campus resources aimed at supporting students’ mental health and well-being. The club meets biweekly on Wednesdays during lunch in room 858. 
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Nine months. That’s how long it took senior Keshav Vasudeva’s ACL to heal after he tore it playing soccer. He doesn’t credit his recovery to physical therapy – he credits it to peptides.
According to a New York Times article, peptides are short-chain amino acids that aid in regulating hormones, promoting tissue repair, and reducing inflammation. Use of peptides has recently been trending on popular social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, driving many people to try for themselves.
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When Palo Alto High School students submit an essay through Turnitin.com, their teacher can see two numbers attached to it – the first for plagiarism, and the second for AI use. While both numbers are important, the latter is becoming one of the most crucial numbers for the English department, and, according to Palo Alto Online, recently resulted in a 76% AI use flag that compromised a Paly sophomore’s semester of work.
According to the San Francisco Standard, a recently filed lawsuit against th...

The silence of the room is broken only by the clattering of keyboards. Students line the desks, their faces illuminated by the white lines of code on their screens. This is Computer Science Capstone, where students bring their focus to real-world applications of their projects.
CS Capstone is a year-long dual-enrollment course that prepares students to apply their computer science skills in a real-world setting, bridging classroom learning with career-oriented application. It follows a structure...

For most Palo Alto High School students, only one license comes to mind: the driver’s license. It takes practice, memorization, and a few trips to the DMV, which can be quite tedious, but the concepts of driving are simple. For a select few Palo Alto High School students, however, there’s a license far more difficult to get — the private pilot’s license. According to Junior Kento Stutz and Senior Brian Liu, the journey towards it is mentally, temporally, and financially demanding, but above all,...