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Cora Reyes-Castelloe

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor

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What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor May 31, 2024

Ordinarily, when I’m seeking out a word for the next issue’s What a Wonderful Word, I turn to my recent life. Sifting through moments both remarkable and quotidian, I attempt to find a feeling, descriptor,...

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor March 15, 2024

I am many things, but an optimist is not one of them. To label myself an outright pessimist would be an overstatement, but as anyone who knows me can attest, I tend to dwell on the morbid. Perhaps that...

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor January 26, 2024

As a senior, I’ve tried this year to attend as many school events as I can while I’m still local. Among these events are sports games, of which there is a steady flow throughout the year, that always...

Gift cards are generous, not grinchy

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor January 16, 2024

I've heard a great many people assert that they'd rather receive no gift at all than something so "thoughtless" as a gift card. Gift cards, though, are neither. They still take time and money to obtain,...

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor January 16, 2024

It has been alleged on the internet that dust consists of 80% dead human skin. This is false. What is true, however, is that, regardless of what dust is made out of, around 30% of the population, including...

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor November 17, 2023

I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of a hoarder. Walk into any space that I occupy, and you’ll find it overflowing with things.  Well, one thing, really: books.  For those of you who know...

One bad apple spoils the barrel

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor October 6, 2023

One of the things I’ve always found inspiring  is the ability of an individual to create change. Gandhi, Marie Curie, Harvey Milk, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman– all of them propagated their ideas,...

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor October 6, 2023

One Direction, British boy band extraordinaire, hasn’t popped up into my playlists in some time. For a few years now, I’ve taken a liking to instrumental music: classical, neoclassical, string quartet...

Montana leads, and we must follow

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor August 25, 2023

  We, as minors of all ages, have been told to “do our part” to save the environment: to recycle, to plant a tree, to walk or bike to school instead of driving. That’s all well and good,...

What a Wonderful Word

What a Wonderful Word

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor August 25, 2023

  As of late, the main thing on my mind has been, to no one’s surprise, the start of school. Depending on who you are, this can arouse different reactions. Some years, the idea brought me joy....

Noah Kahan Stick Season tour

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor August 25, 2023

I must echo the sentiment of Noah Kahan’s fandom: we made the right person famous. Kahan’s cathartic set August 9 at SDSU’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theater left no heartstring untouched and...

Raising the Bar

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor April 7, 2023

Once you’ve hit perfect, it’s hard to know how to move up, especially for the gymnastics team, which comes into the 2023 season having been as close to perfect as anyone could’ve been last year....

E-Bike riders need to be licensed!

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor March 17, 2023

We’ve all seen them. Armies of e-bikes, whizzing through road lanes in metallic, screaming waves straight out of a war film. Rather than tattooed, grizzled motorists, though, these wheels are manned...

Fantasy Worlds & Real Connections

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor January 25, 2023

Kevin Wetherell (12) said he wasn’t exactly the most popular kid as a sixth grader at Mesa Verde. He didn’t have many friends, and he had a hard time making them because he didn’t know what friends...

Jack Hubschmitt (11) and Vanessa Smith (12) duel on stage during a dress rehearsal before the theater production, Nov. 2. Weeks before, actors had trained dueling sequences to prepare for their performances. Photo by Ethan Woelbern.

The Three Musketeers

Ethan Woelbern and Cora Reyes-Castelloe November 18, 2022

On opposing sides of the theater, David Azcona (12) and Kyle Dillon (12) squared off with swords in hand.  Dressed in a black and gold cassock, adorned with a white Fleur-de-lis, Dillon exuded the...

Stop belittling cursive, please

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor November 18, 2022

Cursive is for dead people. That’s the first thing I remember a classmate of mine remarking in third grade when our teacher informed us we’d be entering a unit on cursive, which we’d need to produce...

California Supreme Court Justices

Cora Reyes-Castelloe, Features Editor November 1, 2022

While it may not be the US Supreme Court, elections for the Supreme Court of California are still important. California’s Supreme Court Justices see appeals from inferior state courts, such as the district...

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