Spotlight: Senior Night

By: Abigail Pidazo With Winter sports coming to a close in the league season, varsity sports celebrates their seniors for their last time on the home court. Senior Night is a night where senior student athletes on varsity teams are recognized for their final year on the program at their last home game. Last week…

The Observatory, OC

By Jocelyn You, Local Trends Editor Located in a small business center in Santa Ana, of our very own Orange County, is a venue used for adrenaline junkies and music connoisseurs. The venue hosts everyone from underground bands made in family living rooms to big name rappers such as YG and Schoolboy Q. The setting is intimate, as there…

Valentines Day Just Got Sweeter!

By Viviana Altamirano  With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, many people struggle finding cute and affordable ideas to celebrate the day of love and friendship. Valentine’s Day is not all about the gifts and the dates, it is about demonstrating your love to your significant other. You can demonstrate your love to that special…

One Drop Away

By Yazalex Lopez, Staff Writer  While in the bathtub enjoying a 30 minute shower, or deciding whether to give that dirty plate another wash, our entire state, California, is hitting a drought  of which not all residents are even aware.  A drought? Yes. A drought. Don’t worry, nothing to be alarmed about. Just something to…

Girls Can’t What?

By: Julie Moreno Tustin High’s 2014-2015 girls’ wrestling team has skyrocketed due to the increase in girls who joined over this past year. The girls’ team tripled in size over the last couple of years with more and more girls joining each season. There were only about 100 high school girls in wrestling during the…

Living With The Disease

  By Amanda Zamora In November of 2012, my mom was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. She had a lumpectomy in the right breast. She has to go through four-five hour chemotherapy sessions with the strongest medicine, along with 40 radiation treatments. The hardest thing for me was watching her lose all her hair….

Yeezy Season Approachin’

By Jocelyn You Kanye West. Father. Rapper. Designer. Artist. Icon. A man of lush style and a notorious mad-dog, Kanye West is the embodiment of rap within the last decade or so. Being the “god” of rap, Mr. West (aka his stage name Yeezy) went from being “The College Dropout” to “Yeezus.” The style of his music has…

The Big Day

By Katelyn Merrell Sports Editor Today, February 4, 2015, three of Tustin’s finest athletes, Allie Zwerling, Kelsey King, and George Wilson signed their letters of intent to their dream schools. The whole school gathered together in the plaza to watch the three athletes make life changing decisions. Family, friends, classmates, and coaches joined together to…

Ska, Saxophone, Teaching?

By: Tanya Soto Touring around the world and living a rock star life sounds like the ultimate dream for many people. It was time to leave the fun and games and make the next career move for Mr. Eric Zamora.  Zamora, who was in a Ska band named Save Ferris eventually left the beloved group…

Your Life, Your Choice ?

by Vanessa Tang Cassandra C., a 17 year-old girl from Connecticut, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in September. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a type of cancer in the immune system. She wanted to avoid treatment even if it meant an 85% chance of being cancer free in five years. Cassandra also said that she understands that,…

10 Clever, Cute Ways To Win Yourself A Winter Formal Date

By Kassandra Ferrer Winter Formal is coming up. How are you going to ask your possible candidate to Winter Formal? Here are ten creative yet cliche ways to be win a date to Winter Formal: 1. “Você quer ir comigo ao baile de gala?” (“Would you like to go to prom with me?” in Portuguese)…

21 Life Hacks for Girls

by Kaylee Hanzich I give full image credit to Pinterest along with all of these ideas. We girls all go through life with mild inconveniences but little does anyone know that life has provided us with hidden hacks to make everything easier. All of these ideas come from Pinterest. I do not own any of…

The Awakening of Grunge Transpired by Nirvana

By Karley Bailey Two decades ago, in the early 1990’s, grunge emerged from the depths of Seattle as a musically proclaimed phenomenon. Depending on your perspective, you might perceive Grunge as a type of fashion, a way of living, or a type of music. Grunge originated as a sub-genre of alternative rock from the suburban…

Wrestling’s Big Moment

By Amanda Zamora and Jacob Rivas Friday, January 11, 2015 Tustin High School hosted wrestling’s varsity ASICS tournament for around 50 schools in the surrounding area. Junior varsity and frosh-soph wrestlers combined with parent volunteers ran the event. Thanks to generous donations, the wrestling team raised over $3,000 for their program.  KTLA 5 news reported…

Just Like You

By Daniel Ross In the first couple weeks of 2015, Falling in Reverse has already announced their upcoming album, “Just Like You” expected to be released on February 24. With Ronnie Radke on vocals, Jacky Vincent with guitar, and vocals accompanied by Derek Jones and Ryan Seaman on the drums, the band is taking a…

Discount At Friar Tux Shop For THS Students

By Matt Gaddis High school students look forward to major events such as getting a drivers license, getting a first car, applying to college, getting a job, and of course attending high school dances. We may not all want to admit that we want to go to dances because we like to think that we’re…

It All Comes Down to Finals Week

By Karli Stichter For the past 16 weeks, Tustin High School students pushed through the beginning of their school year. Between learning the new schedule, how teachers teach their subjects, and what the various new bell schedules are, it has been tough. Eventually everyone got into their own routine and eased into the school year….

What to Wear to Winter Formal

By Jocelyn Cervantes Winter Formal is right around the corner and you worry about finding a date. You get a bit nervous asking the girl in biology to go with you, or the boy in English, but it’s nothing to stress about. Either going solo or with a group of friends is great. You don’t…

Compton, Powers Repeat as National Champions

By Dylan Allen  (originally featured on The Competitive Cyclist) Cyclocross is a winter cycling discipline, which takes place on a enclosed track, covering adverse terrain: often in mud, sand, over tree roots, rocks, off-camber surfaces and man-made barriers. However, racers use bikes that most closely resemble road bikes (with wider tyres), rather than mountain bikes (the rules…

The Netflix Age

By Jocelyn You The Netflix Age Netflix, technology’s version of Blockbuster, boomed since its founding in 1997. The Internet has opened up an online world that was once only lived “in real life.” Netflix users who subscribe monthly are able to browse through a virtual movie rental store and watch movies whenever they want. It is a…

Journalism Lives

by Zachary Apperson and Alec Ortega We’re well into the 2015 school year and with this comes changes, some for better and some for worse. One of the newest implementations into Tustin High School’s curriculum is Mrs. Robinson’s journalism class. Mrs. Robinson, a University of California, Berkeley graduate and accredited writer of the non-fiction book…

Boy’s Basketball: TIP OFF

The Tiller varsity squad after taking first place in the Tustin/Estancia tournament. By: Katelyn Merrell and Abigail Pidazo With league beginning today, this year’s Tustin High varsity basketball team hopes to deliver an unforgettable season. During an interview with some of the basketball players, they spoke about team goals and expectations for the 2014-2015 season….

Reflecting on Ferguson

By Jacob Rivas             With the upcoming holiday celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it’s important to remember why we have the day off. The recent events in Ferguson work as a reminder that King’s “Dream” may not be fully realized.   Most people have turned on…

JV Basketball

By: Amanda Klotz  As we reach January, Tustin High School’s Girls basketball program begins their season with aspirations of winning games and bringing pride to their school. The girls have been practicing and preparing for season games all summer and fall, including entering tournaments at local high schools. The girl’s JV team won 6-0 at…

Shady Addiction

By Destiny Gomez I’m sitting in the car mindlessly staring out the window, when out of the blue I hear a voice I am never going to forget. The very first time I heard Eminem I was unsure of who he was and what he represented. As his acclaimed song “Stan” played on the radio,…

New Year, New You?

by Vanessa Tang Let’s face it, New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep and easily broken. The University of Scranton states that only 8% of people achieve their goals.  Resolutions are usually hard to keep because of how hard it is to self-motivate and set realistic standards. Researchers have found that the idea of “putting…

The Barn vs. The Dungeon

“The Barn” – Tustin’s spirited, loud, respectful student section, met “The Dungeon” – Foothill’s passionate and proud student section, for the Tustin versus Foothill basketball game – the biggest rivalry in the city, maybe in all of Orange County. Students dressed in school colors and prepared for the battle in the stands. Tustin succeeded in…

Tilled The Hill

By Katelyn Merrell On Wednesday January 7 the Tustin Tillers varsity basketball team invaded the “Dungeon” ready to compete in the classic Tustin vs Foothill Rivalry game. One side of the gym exploded in a sea of white and the other in a sea of red. The roar of the crowd rang in the ears…

Music Tech. Rocks Tustin High

Arts are one of the most underfunded electives in any school system. They have to fight to get funding, and even when they do, it may not be enough for new supplies. Luckily for Tustin High, Mr. Jones has stepped in and has taken over the task of Music Tech. Music Tech is an exploratory…

Where’s My Smile?

By Cristobal Segura It’s 3 a.m. and you’re awake. You’re not happy at all.  You feel empty, dreadful, hopeless and worthless. This is what depression feels like.  Sleepless nights are spent hiding in the shadows of your room trying to think about something to make you feel worthy of being alive. It’ doesn’t work. You…