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The Accolade

Then-sophomore Ayden Currier (left) and then-junior Kayla Choe mop and clean the drawings and messages in chalk left by the senior pranksters in the quad on May 24, 2024. Custodians also worked to clean other parts of the campus.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Senior pranks

Rose Park May 28, 2025

May 24, 2024, was unlike most school mornings at Sunny Hills. During zero and much of first period after that, instead of students being in their classrooms, most likely preparing for finals the following...

Senior Liam Weinreich talks about his high school career with his father as principal.

Q&A WITH A LANCER: Liam Weinreich

Emily Lee, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter May 14, 2025

In this last issue of the 2024-2025 school year, The Accolade’s staff reporter and social media team member Emily Lee interviews senior Liam Weinreich on his experience as a student here with his father...

U.S. News & World Report ranks Sunny Hills nearly 200 spots higher than previous year with campus breaking into Top 800 schools nationwide

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor January 16, 2025

Honors level classes. Advanced Placement [AP] courses. International Baccalaureate [IB] pathway.  These are among the options Sunny Hills offers its students who seek rigorous, academic assignments...

An artist’s rendition of a student graduating with a three-year degree displays the differences between the traditional college route and the newer, less conventional one.

More join ‘College-in-3’ movement though most SH students, parents remain skeptical about non-traditional degree pathway

Katelyn Ahn, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter January 7, 2025

As upperclassmen and their parents start looking at college options near the halfway point of the school year, they cannot avoid the following financial statistics: The cost of college tuition has...

Andrew Ngo (right), who graduated from Sunny Hills in 2021, holds his bachelor’s degree in business administration during his commencement ceremony at USC on Friday, May 10. Ngo earned enough college credits from passing scores in his International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement exams to help him graduate from USC in three instead of the traditional four years.

ALUMNI ARTICULATION: Some recent Lancer grads take non-traditional route of finishing college in three years

Soojin Cho, Copy Editor January 7, 2025

The Accolade continues with its feature that focuses on those who have graduated from Sunny Hills and how they are contributing to their community and beyond. In this second segment, copy editor Soojin...

Valedictorians sit in the library during first period on Monday, April 15, as they listen to principal Craig Weinreich talk about how the graduation speech candidates will be chosen.

Class of 2024 sets record with 39 valedictorians, surpassing previous highs in 2019, 2021, 2023

Ellen Hwang, Spotlight Team Reporter June 9, 2024

Thirty-nine. In math, that’s the product of one and 39 as well as two prime numbers: three times 13. In sports, that’s 10 fewer than the name of San Francisco’s football team — the 49ers...

To The Accolade, I sincerely thank you

To The Accolade, I sincerely thank you

Kate Yang, Editor-in-Chief June 2, 2023

Why do we seek knowledge? The International Baccalaureate [IB] Theory of Knowledge [TOK] students and I greeted the preceding question with a conversational investigation. Some postulated we sought...

The Class of 2009 celebrates its last day of school by wearing togas, which was part of the senior spirit week. Inspired by the toga scenes in the 1978 movie "National Lampoon's Animal House," the Class of 2004 started the senior tradition.

DID YOU KNOW? Toga and tutu tradition for seniors’ last week on campus spans 2 decades

Seowon Han, Web Editor-in-Chief May 31, 2023

For our last “Did You Know?” feature of the school year, The Accolade looks into the origins of some senior traditions — most notably, the wearing of togas and tutus as part of the Associated Student...

Assembly Bill 104, passed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, now gives students the ability to change their letter grades to pass/no pass grades, interim retention and exemption. Legislation enacted the bill to counteract the effects COVID-19 had on students who found it difficult to learn through online classes.

Staff editorial: Assembly Bill 104 provides students with a chance to academically redeem themselves upon coming out of distance learning

The Accolade Editorial Board September 7, 2021

The Accolade editorial board vote count: 16 consider Assembly Bill 104 to be beneficial toward students, 2 do not. To some, the two years spent away from live classroom instruction opened a gateway...

Head to Head: Senior Moments

Head to Head: Senior Moments

April 30, 2021

First-year transfer 12th-graders share reasons for attending school in-person or not

Zoom at home for me

Omar Mettwely, Cub Reporter April 30, 2021

I felt confused. My dad told me in April 2018, “ We are going to leave this country, and I’ll let you choose from the available options. The decision is yours. Your choice will determine your future....

Though many seniors have chosen to stay home instead of coming to campus four days a week, many traditional events like nominating a homecoming court are returning for them.

Seniors need to set example, come to school

Susie Kim, Web Editor-in-Chief April 27, 2021

“Maybe it is just my busy schedule with [Advanced Placement] and [International Baccalaureate] classes that it has not really sunk in that I have been missing all these [senior] activities,” senior...

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