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Take Care of Your Mind

Take Care of Your Mind

May 7, 2021

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | I remember talking to my friends in person back in March 2020. “This will blow over soon,” a couple of us said. We thought the coronavirus was just a hiccup...

Feel the Thrill with Among Us

Feel the Thrill with Among Us

January 22, 2021

By Alexandra Moss | Contributing Writer      Crewmate or imposter? Both have one thought in mind, defeat the other and win the game. This social deduction game where you use brains and strategy...

Postpone the NBA

Postpone the NBA

January 20, 2021

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | When all of us were told that we were going to be in quarantine back in March, some of us thought this whole thing was going to blow over. Little by little, things...

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Opinion: Biden, Harris have opportunity to fix America

November 11, 2020

By Madison McDay | Staff Writer | The election this year is very serious because of all of the issues in America. There's a lot of tension between Biden and Trump supporters. It may be dangerous...

I Went Back to Campus

I Went Back to Campus

October 23, 2020

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | It had been about more than half a year since I stepped foot on campus, yet it did not feel that way at all. For a split second as I walked through the gates,...

Pay Less Attention to the Outside

October 21, 2020

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | We’ve been so focused on the stories, especially the coronavirus, that are going on around us. We are being taken away from the idea that we all have our own...

We Just Had to Get Out This Summer

We Just Had to Get Out This Summer

October 5, 2020

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | The day before my senior year started, I was coming back from Corpus Christi. I was with my family and some other relatives. We spent the boiling hot weekend over...

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It’s still too soon for indoor movies

September 11, 2020

By Marcos Perales | Big Stick Editor | We as people trapped in quarantine miss a lot of things out there in the outside world. Places like comic book shops and music stores are still open and that’s...

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How To Stop COVID-19 From Ruining 2020

April 29, 2020

By Zakary Rodriguez | Advertising Manager | The coronavirus pandemic has been one that has taken the world by storm, causing global halts of normal everyday life for hundreds of thousands of people...

SAT unfairly compares students' aptitude

SAT unfairly compares students’ aptitude

March 2, 2020

By Gisselle Washington | Big Stick Editor | At the height of conversations around the legitimacy of college admissions, advocacy groups and a California school district sued the University of California...

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Why Kobe Bryant is The GOAT

February 27, 2020

By Marcos Perales | Staff Writer | A memorial service was held for the “Black Mamba” on Feb. 24, 2020, where friends, family and former teammates gathered together to remember the all time basketball...

School makes good move towards mental health awareness

School makes good move towards mental health awareness

November 20, 2019

By Gisselle Washington | Big Stick Editor | In the United States, half of all mental disorders begin at age 14 and 75 percent by age 24. A staggering 41 percent of people with a mental disorder in the...

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