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Teacher awarded certification

By Lei Fisiiahi, Jesus Medina & Guadalupe Hernandez     As Steven Moreno, a social studies teacher, attempted to check his application status on Friday, Nov. 8, his mood wavered from happy and excited to completely [...]

Sweeps reduce tardies

Sweeps reduce tardies

New AP Rogers and OHS students find newly aggressive tardy sweeps effective By Thanh Nguyen, Yvonne Tran, and Linda Saechao Under the leadership of the new assistant principal Jeffrey Rogers, Oakland High is implementing aggressive new [...]

Kids having kids

Kids having kids

Teen pregnancy still an issue at Oakland High By Tommy Tran, Vanice Rutherford, and Rita Krouch Some teachers at Oakland High have noticed an apparent increase in teen pregnancy rates and are becoming concerned about the [...]

Lunar New Year celebration at OHS

Lunar New Year celebration at OHS

Tommy Tran Oakland High will celebrate the new year with a Lunar New Year Dinner in February, hosted by the Cantonese club. Every year Oakland High has a Lunar New Year dinner to celebrate the Chinese [...]

5 year old shot in Oakland

Taliyah Campbell   On Friday, December 30, 2011, just before the beginning of the new year 2012, a 5-year-old boy named Gabriel Martinez, Jr. was shot at his family’s burrito truck, “Los Amigos” at 8:40 p.m. [...]

Time to swim!

Time to swim!

By Rita Krouch   Oakland High’s Swim Team has just began its conditioning on Jan. 3. The past few years the swim team has only gotten an hour of practice, this year things have changed. Starting [...]

Child slain in West Oakland shooting

Child slain in West Oakland shooting

Vaniece Rutherford An innocent one-year-old and his father were attending a music video shoot around 6 p.m on Monday, Nov. 28. The parking lot was occupied by at least 20 people when the most unexpected thing [...]

Catching code

Catching code

Where are these school codes hiding? Tommy Tran Do you know the school code? Do you know your social security number? Do you know the code to the community college where you took summer courses? Are [...]

Oakland high alum suspected of shootings

Vaniece Rutherford A former Oakland High student has been arrested on suspicion of committing a triple homicide and quadruple attempted murder in San Leandro in early October. Paul Arthur Stevenson III attended Oakland High in 2010; [...]

OHS New Entrance

OHS New Entrance

    Guadalupe Hernandez & Jesus Medina With the renovation of the Oakland High’s new buildings and basketball courts also came a new entrance. For several years, Oakland High had been entering school grounds from the [...]