The Oarsman Venice High School Los Angeles, CA
Issue Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Issue: Volume 90/No. VII Last Update: Monday, April 10, 2006
  • Drama Cast Given Highest Rating in NYC

    Thursday, March 16, 2006 By: Paola Segura

    Judges gave Venice High students the highest rating in the National Performing Arts Festival on Broadway, a high school performing arts competition in New York City, Feb. 17-20. The cast of "The Diary

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  • School Now Equipped with Drug Testing Kits

    Thursday, March 16, 2006 By: Paola Segura

    Venice High's nurse's office is not just for the sick. Now drug tests are being administered there. They have been available in the nurse's office since December 2005.For the drug test, a urine sample

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  • Is Myspace Overrated?: Internet users flock to this popular, yet flawed and time-consuming, website

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Alyssa Aguilar

    The question I hear almost everywhere I go is, "Do you have a myspace?"My younger siblings have ones. My favorite bands have ones. Even some of my teacher have ones.myspace.com is a website where peop

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  • LAUSD Officials Considering a Ban on Cell Phones

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Melina Flores and Jesse Vasquez

    Today, many teenagers bring the latest cell phones to school, but the LAUSD Board of Education is reconsidering allowing cell phones at school. "Many cell phones have been stolen at school. The board

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  • Oarsman Editors Selected for Workshops

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Oarsman Staff

    The Oarsman's editor in chief, senior David Durston, was one of only a few students to win a $1,000 scholarship in a highly competitive Los Angeles Times journalism workshop in February. The two-day w

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  • Foreign Languages Celebrated at Venice

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Jessica Daniel

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  • New Officer at Venice

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Pamela Gonzalez

    Venice has a new police officer, Celia Lavender. Officer Lavender has only worked as a school police officer for a year and a half. She just started working at Venice. In her opinion, Venice is a grea

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  • World Class Italian Ice Cream at Mondo Gelato

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 By: Isaac Rosenthal

    Over the past few weeks, much of the world's attention turned to the 20th Olympic Winter games in Torino, Italy. My attention, though, has been focused on another world class product of Italy: gelato.

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  • Students Go to New York

    Sunday, March 19, 2006 By: Oarsman Staff

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  • The History of Saint Patty's Day

    Sunday, March 19, 2006 By: Jessica Daniel

    St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain about 390 CE. As a child, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold into slavery. Six years later, he escaped and fled to Gaul. After several years of monastic l

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The Lady Gondos basketball team endured a season filled with success and improvement, winning the Western League championship for the second straight year. Unfortunately, its success came to an end wi
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The boys varsity basketball team was defeated in the second round of invitational playoffs losing to Pacific Palisades 77-56 on Feb. 22. The team finished third in the Western League, the highest fini
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There are only two sessions of Teen Court left this school year. Teen Court is a program held at some high schools in which minors are tried for disobeying the law. Students from Venice High School ge
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Venice High girls began practice this week for Flag and Drill Team try-outs.
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Even though the Venice boys soccer team was much better than last year's, it could not beat Hollywood in the first round of city playoffs on Feb. 16. The game at Hollywood ended with a score of 2-1.Ve
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Commercial hip hop is a dying genre overrun with talentless artists and repetitive marketing schemes. However, Dilated Peoples are among the few artists who still produce true hip hop at a commercial
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German Band Grasps Americans
Being one of Germany's few homegrown bands to sing in their native language, American listeners may have been a bit skeptical of Rammstein's potential for success. But according to Wikipedia, a free o
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The "No. 1 Paying-for-College Company," student loan provider Sallie Mae, has just come out with the book How to Pay for College: A Practical Guide for Families. This is the first college-financing gu
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Students enjoyed the amateur singing by Venice students at possibly the first Karaoke Idol competition on Tuesday, Feb. 21, during lunch in the cafeteria. The Mabuhay Club, Venice High's new Filipino
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St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain about 390 CE. As a child, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold into slavery. Six years later, he escaped and fled to Gaul. After several years of monastic l
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