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Editor's Note
Ben Thom, Arts & Entertainment Editor • November 1, 2024
Editor's Note
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor • September 30, 2024
2024 Homecoming Schedule + Spirit Week Themes!
2024 Homecoming Schedule + Spirit Week Themes!
Max Knight, Editor-in-Chief • September 9, 2024
Smile 2 Made Me Pull A Muscle In Fear
Smile 2 Made Me Pull A Muscle In Fear
Max Knight November 1, 2024

At a certain point in time, horror was perhaps one of the most infamous genres when it came to unnecessary sequels. Horror franchises like Friday...

The Cast of Lend Me A Tenor  (from left to right), Daniel Mueller, Nylah Kleiss, Lars McKillop, Zane Yeazel, Benjamin Thom, Marguerite Penning, Mable Miller, Varnika Arianathan.
Getting to Know the Cast of Lend Me A Tenor!
Max Knight November 1, 2024

The fall play, Lend Me a Tenor, will soon begin its two-night run in the VPM auditorium on Nov 8 and 9th. The play centers around an Opera company...

"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice-06550" by Harald Krichel is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
BeetleJuice, BeetleJuice. Fun or Flop?
Ben Thom and Max Knight September 30, 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was one of September's hottest movies, and Max and Ben both had conflicting opinions on the movie, but they decided to...

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Results of Student Council Election
Patrick Mulkey, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Sports and News Co-Editor • November 1, 2024
End of First Quarter
Nina Zhu, Student Life Editor • November 1, 2024
Join VPM's Student Literary Journal!
Amalia Weix, Opinions Editor • November 1, 2024
Winter Musical Announcement
Ben Thom, Arts & Entertainment Editor • November 1, 2024
Ohtani examines his bat against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park.
Shohei Ohtani: 50 for 50
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor • November 1, 2024

 Shohei Ohtani became the first member of the fifty fifty club on September 19th. The fifty fifty club is representative of his fifty home runs...

Daniel Ricciardo Career Recap
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor • November 1, 2024
Girls Tennis Schedule 2024
Nina Zhu, Student Life Editor • September 30, 2024
Formula 1 Redbull Domination to Deflation
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor • September 30, 2024
Memorial Football Starts Off Strong
Henry Riley, News Editor, Co-Sports Editor • September 30, 2024
Paralympics, Why The US Isn’t Doing As Well As The Regular Olympics
Patrick Mulkey, co Editor in Chief, Sports and co News Editor • September 30, 2024
Liam Payne's Death
Liam Payne's Death
Nina Zhu, Student Life Editor • November 1, 2024

For many who were around in the early 2010s music scene, One Direction is a source of nostalgia and classic boy band pop music. Liam Payne, one...

Left: Tim Walz (D-MN), Right: JD Vance (R-OH)
Vance & Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate
Henry Riley, News Editor, Co-Sports Editor • November 1, 2024

On October 1st, the sole vice-presidential debate between Democratic nominee Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota and Republican nominee Senator JD...

2024 Hurricane Season
2024 Hurricane Season
Nina Zhu, Student Life Editor • November 1, 2024

With November comes the end of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. This year, the Atlantic region was hit with several tropical storms, and in...

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Opinions
On the Importance of Children's Horror
Amalia Weix November 1, 2024

When I was but a wee lad, I was utterly terrified of the undead. Zombies, ghosts, ghouls of all sorts—even vampires, which aren’t especially...

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