After almost a year, the  new dance room has finally opened, causing many Oakmont’s students to become eager to come back to campus.  “This is something that I have been waiting for, for 13 years,”...

The past 12 months of the decade have flown by in the blink of an eye. It feels as if just moments ago we were merging out of 2018, looking into the new year of 2019 with hope in our eyes and joy in our...

Vaping could be deemed as the most widespread trend for highschoolers over the past five years. In 2014, a study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that around 13.4...

Anne Frank once said, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” The message is just as pertinent today. As the myriad of problems in our world...

Having family in the military can be difficult, as junior Sienna Pinney knows firsthand, since her brother is currently serving in the military and her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather previously...

Seniors Taylar, Mackenzie, and Tanner Schafer are one of the few triplets at Oakmont. Growing up, they have had to sacrifice the little things such as having a one-person birthday party, but agree that...

Oakmont’s professional drama company shares how their relationship between each other has become like a family during their time together. “Especially during tech week and close to the performances,...

To define family, it is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. However, family means something different to everyone, students of all grade levels around campus...

Through the 2019-2020 school year, the idea of the “Oakmont family” has been persistent. While the student body remains one big family, there are sub-families that form amongst the incredibly large...

Senior Vinnie Marquez lives with his family, just as any other child would. Unlike the conventional family, Marquez comes home to his two adoptive fathers, who are in a same-sex relationship. “[My...

According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. At age four, senior Justin Steed became one of these...

We have a proverbial elephant in the room here at Oakmont, and a roughly yearly tradition regarding it. This “elephant” is the seagull flock of unusual size.  Our tradition is to discuss it for...