Staff members of The Lowell won a cornucopia of awards this year at a contest for high school journalists in Northern California.

In the face of severe cuts, the school advisory board passed a reduced budget bolstered by funds raised by parent and alumni associations. Despite protests that the cuts may be unfair to the school, the district decided not to make adjustments to the budget allocation.

The principal chose a new daily schedule for the fall that is intended to maintain a modular plan but will require certain A-code classes to change to B/C.

Eligible students can now choose from a new menu of free or reduced price school lunch from the beanery lines as well as the cafeteria, using new lunch cards distributed on April 9.

After reviewing four proposals to add instructional minutes to the school’s daily schedule for next year, the principal has chosen the one most similar to the school’s current mod schedule.

“A right unexercised is a right lost.” This is the message many open carriers—gun rights activists who holster their arms visibly—are attempting to get across.

Every day, dozens of backpack-laden Lowell students trudge up Eucalyptus Drive and wait, sometimes for as much as a half-hour, to catch the bus home. They fork over their Fast Passes or change only to watch, at almost every stop, more and more people jump on the bus through the back door without paying proper fare.

In 1969, principal Barton Knowles believed that it was necessary to create a system in which Lowell students could be free from the standard schedule.

The pressure’s on. Don’t choke. But this thought doesn’t worry senior swimming champion Nick Kwan as he strokes quickly through the water, tags the next swimmer in, cheers for his teammates in the varsity boys’ 200 freestyle relay for his team and yells in victory as senior anchor Stanton Huang breaks the All-City record at the AAA Swimming Championships with a time of 1:32.11.

The Cardinals walked into the gloomy, rainy weather at Lincoln Park on May 17 ready for redemption, and walked out of the golf course later that day with the well-deserved title of champions.

Filling up bleachers with excited fans wearing “Property of Lowell VB” V-neck T-shirts, a rowdy crowd from schools all over the Bay Area watches the intense and highly-anticipated AAA boys’ volleyball championship game.

In last Friday May 7’s championship game, the boys’ varsity volleyball team beat the Lincoln Mustangs, winning the AAA/CIF-San Francisco Section title, 3-2.

The Cardinals wiped the courts with the Galileo Lions at the championship 5-2 on Thursday.

I am white-washed. Yes, it’s true, I am Chinese, but those who know me recognize that I lack certain cultural characteristics, like being fluent in any one of the eleven major Chinese dialects. Though to the untrained eye, I might look like your average Chinese girl who eats rice three times a day and feels constantly stressed out from the heap of soon-to-be-finished homework piling up in her backpack, I have another side entirely: white Kimmie.

I always jump at the chance to dress in festive garb on holidays, like wearing a green felt clover pin on St. Patrick’s Day. I break out my red, heart-covered shirts and hand out pink Hershey’s Kisses taped to children’s Harry Potter Valentine cards on Valentine’s Day. I fill plastic pastel eggs with bunny-shaped chocolates on Easter. Especially, I distribute candy to my friends so I can spread my holiday joy by activating everyone’s sweet tooth.

Circus music blared as a ferocious lion, a gaudy clown, a mime, an intimidating bearded woman and a brawny woman appeared from behind the red velvet curtains. The starry stage backdrop lit up while a shadowed figure emerged from a trapdoor invisible to the audience. Top hat on and hoop in hand, the ringleader took center stage. The stage lights flashed on.

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