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Road Trip! Holy Cross Spirit Week  

by Sungwook Yang (’26) and Anika Bastin (’23) | March 31, 2023 In late March, Saint Francis hosted its first annual Holy Cross Spirit Week, intended to ground the school’s spirit in Holy Cross values. Over the course of the week, Lancers embarked on a road trip to visit Saint Francis’s sister schools in the Holy Cross family. Lancers first stopped at New Orleans, with the theme of “Mardi Gras” to visit Holy Cross New Orleans. Students dressed in the colors purple, green, and gold and wore Mardi Gras beads to celebrate. Additionally, clubs had the opportunity to decorate doors…

Cracking the code: all-female hackathon AdaHacks IV

by Thanisha Kapur (’25) and Avi Gupta (’24) | March 31, 2023 On March 11, Saint Francis’s Girls Who Code (GWC) club hosted AdaHacks, its fourth-ever hackathon, in collaboration with YouTube. AdaHacks, a fourteen-hour hackathon aimed to encourage girls to pursue STEM, provided participants with the opportunity to attend workshops,…

Food & Dining

Dumplings: small vessels of love

by Sandra Ximen (’26) | March 31, 2023 We all have our childhood nostalgia, moments in time we wish to freeze and experience all over…

Who takes the (cup)cake?

by Akshara Panchumarthi (’26) and Coco Rothenberg (’26) | March 31, 2023 What is better than a cake that is shaped like a cup? Literally…

Battle of the boxed cake mixes

by Shriya Manchanda (’25) | March 31, 2023 Baking is my love language: I love seeing people’s faces light up when they receive their favorite…

Science

FBI collects app user locations

by Rohan Sinha (’23) | March 31, 2023 In a hearing before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on March 8, director of the Federal Bureau…

Opinions

Trend Z: modern celebrity culture

by Semira Arora (’25) | March 31, 2023 Nowadays, when scrolling through Instagram, it’s becoming more difficult to differentiate who…

Rethinking diversity training

by Sarav Desai (‘24) and Semira Arora (’25) | March 31, 2023 Recently, terms like “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are…

Sports

Sports culture at Saint Francis

by Katherine Winton (’25) | March 10, 2023 Named Cal-Hi Sports’ State School of the Year for the 2021-2022 school year, Saint Francis High School…

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