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Go Club tournament tests strategy and wit
Go Club tournament tests strategy and wit
Kieran Hau, Staffer • April 28, 2025

Lynbrook’s Go Club held a tournament starting March 27 and ending on April 24 Contestants started with small boards and went up in size as they progressed The...

Notable recent events include Lynbrook winning the AP Computer Science Principle Female Diversity award, the VTA strike, a national "Hands Off" protest and the increasing international tariffs. Top left: Photo used with permission from Vincent Varletta/Wikimedia Commons
Top right: Photo used with permission from Grendelkhan
Bottom left: Photo used with permission from Patou Ricard/Pixabay
Bottom right: Photo used with permission from Mahmoud Sulaiman/Unsplash.
Campus, community and world events
Brian Lee, Staffer • April 28, 2025

OPINION


Machine Learning systems such as ChatGPT require scraping the web to improve its capabilities. Websites hosting illegal pirated and copyrighted materials such as Anna's Archives or Library Genesis, thus have its copyrighted materials used to improve AI material.
Unlicensed materials in AI model databases undermine original works
Isabella Chiu, Staffer • April 28, 2025

Seven million books. Eighty-one million research papers. Millions of unlicensed copyrighted works on the online shadow library Library Genesis. When The Atlantic released...

FEATURES


Sylva Scott cares for her alpaca and other animals at McClellan Ranch. Photos used with permission from Sylva Scott and with Creative Common Licenses.
Caring for alpacas with Sylva Scott
Robert Yu, Staffer • April 28, 2025

As they drove across California, the Scott family carried an unconventional passenger: Max the Alpaca. This road trip was the culmination of many months of campaigning, based...

IN-DEPTH


Aside from the hefty expense of a seat, space tourism also comes with another astronomical price tag: environmental sustainability.
The environmental price of reaching for the stars
Stuti Jain and Taek Kim April 28, 2025

Since the mid-1900s, space travel has advanced rapidly, with space tourism evolving into an industry of its own. As space tourism breaks new barriers, it has become apparent...

SPORTS


Track athletes from different high schools leap over hurdles while bounding toward the finish line. Photo by Akash Anand. Graphic illustration by Anna Cen
Setting track athletes up for success
Yvonne Wu, Web Editor • April 28, 2025

Rows of tents and tables stand orderly near the path, and beneath the shade, a plethora of snacks, sports drinks and refreshments wait for the athletes to round the corner....

WEB-EXCLUSIVE


Teachers embrace new classroom environments
Teachers embrace new classroom environments
Amanda Jin and Meadow Shen April 28, 2025

Epic staffers Amanda Jin and Meadow Shen take a look at how teachers are adapting and navigating the move to different classrooms around campus after the recent construction.

Both Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts allow users to create and post videos up to 60 seconds, which caters to the growing demand for quick and absorbable content. Graphic illustration by Cecilia Wu.
The quick content showdown
Alexandra Wu, Staffer • April 28, 2025
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