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The Student News Site of Buena High School

Buena Speaks

The Student News Site of Buena High School

Buena Speaks

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....

OPINION: Colleen Hoover's problematic romance is not worth the read

OPINION: Colleen Hoover’s problematic romance is not worth the read

Sierra Ruiz, Staff Writer April 27, 2023

[CW: Adult themes, sexual assault, and abuse] With the growing popularity of the video platform TikTok videos of every genre are shared and a popular search on the app is “#BookTok,” with over two...

A journey through depression

A journey through depression

Alexandra Garcia, Staff Writer April 27, 2023

Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.  These are just words though, depression is more than words it's more than just being sad. Depression...

Critical thinking is a neccesity in life, but our generation is losing the skill, and it shows. Graphic by Brooklyn Carrillo

VIEWPOINT: Gen Z’s critical thinking is dying

Brooklyn Carrillo and Madysen Hawley April 25, 2023

If I were to ask you why the curtains are blue in a scene of a novel, could you answer me with something original, not an interpretation you remember vaguely from a middle school English class? Blame it...

The image shows a mural, created in 2008, dedicated to the Tortilla Flats, a Hispanic community torn by the construction of the 101 freeway.

OPINION: Why we should move away from car dependency

Ethan Potter, Staff Writer April 13, 2023

During Covid-19 the downtown area of Ventura was made more walkable with the closure of Main Street as a part of the Main Street Moves program and was extended to 2024, moving the downtown area towards...

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