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California school systems have experienced struggles across the state as many students drop out and teachers struggle with teaching.

Students suffer in California school system

Nathaniel Valencia, Features Section Editor February 1, 2024

As we reach the end of this semester, students really settle into the repulsive public school system students are expected to put up with. Unfortunately, there is no escape from this in any U.S public...

Press Meet Post-Release, Jan. 4, 2024

Gypsy-Rose: internet’s favorite idealized criminal

Alyssa Angeles, Staff Writer January 30, 2024

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard was just twenty-three years old when she was sentenced to nine years imprisonment on charges of second-degree murder. Fast-forward to Dec.  28, 2023, her anticipated release from...

Viewpoint: When romanticization goes too far

Viewpoint: When romanticization goes too far

Brooklyn Carrillo, Print and Media Editor January 30, 2024

With the debut of the new Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, teenagers have once again proven they only care about a pretty face rather than  the story. Antagonist’s in media are...

Buena students dressing up for "Kooky Cougar Day".

Dear Foothill, leave the rivalry fun to the Bulldogs, Cougars

Naima Dickerson, News Section Editor January 25, 2024

A beloved tradition at Buena, stretching back to the early years of the crosstown Buena vs. Ventura rivalry is Ventura Nerd Day. This spirit day consisted of dressing up as a “nerd” in Ventura colors...

Disney's four most recent animated films, all record flopping in their respective opening weekends.

Disney is failing, it’s all their fault

Sierra Engel, Personality Section Editor January 11, 2024

Despite being Disney’s 100th anniversary film, and having almost ten years dedicated to its production, after premiering November 22 2023, Wish made less than half its predicted box office opening weekend...

Viewpoint: Block schedule blocks out distractions

Viewpoint: Block schedule blocks out distractions

Addison Bruno, Viewpoint Section Editor December 22, 2023

In the last quarter of the 22-23 school year, Buena announced they would be following in Ventura’s footsteps and taking up the block schedule in hopes to better our learning. Screams could be heard from...

The Marvel cinematic universe has been on the rise since the very "Iron Man" movie from 2008, but more recently it has only delivered movies that disappoint. 
Graphic by Brooklyn Carrillo

The MCU has taken a turn for the worst

Brooklyn Carrillo, Print and Media Editor November 21, 2023

The Marvel cinematic universe, MCU, is known for being a goldmine of superhero movies since the release of “Iron Man” in 2008. In reality, the MCU has become an overmined goldmine that only rarely...

Buena's spirit section during the football game against Dos Pueblos High School had four rows of students, looking not particularly excited for the game.

VIEWPOINT: Buena ‘spirit’ section lacks spirit

Reagan Berry, A&E Section Editor November 1, 2023

Buena is notorious in Ventura for our mediocre, and, honestly, extremely boring, student section. At all of the football games this season, the student section has had no more than four rows filled with...

The homepage to a website that every VUSD high schooler encounters.

A program we should sink, not study

Avery Buehner, Staff Writer October 30, 2023

Imagine sitting down, opening your Chromebook, reading a small excerpt, answering two types of questions, taking a quiz, and then writing a paragraph. Now imagine doing that over and over again, every...

Multiple teams fighting for space in the weight room.

Heavy traffic obstructs new weight room

Lily Bossoletti and Isabella Rodriguez October 18, 2023

With a brand new weight room, comes brand new problems. Most pressingly is that the “new and improved” facility is constantly overcrowded due to the fact that multiple sports teams are working out...

More resources and information about Gun Violence can be found on the Gun Violence Archive and The Sandy Hook Promise. Please note information in the article may vary depending on date read.

If I die in a shooting leave my body at Congress

Brooklin Barilone, Editor in Chief June 8, 2023

Six months into 2023 there have been 275 mass shootings in the US, that equates to about 45 shootings a month and by May 2,  2023, there were already nearly 14,000 people killed by gun violence.  With...

Photo Credit: Unrecord steam page

Are video games getting too violent?

Ethan Potter, Staff Writer June 6, 2023

The gameplay trailer for “Unrecord,” released April 19 caused controversy on Twitter. Unrecord is a hyper realistic first person shooter game where you play as a cop, imitating realistic situations....

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