Towards the end of this past summer, San Diego Border Control found an eighteen-week old Bengal Tiger cub under the passenger seat of a car trying to come into the US through the Otay Mesa crossing. The smuggler was twenty-one years old; he is from California and drives a Chevy Camaro. On August 21, 2...

Fans crowd the box office at five in the morning and line the sidewalk for the next few blocks. Within a couple of hours, the show is sold out, and fans turn to resales with front row seats selling for $849 a ticket. Hamilton has quickly become Broadway’s most cherished and sought after musical for theater buffs...

What is Time’s Up? Time’s Up is a movement created on January 1, 2018 protesting sexual harassment in the workplace. It was founded in response to the #metoo movement and the sexual harassment cases in Hollywood that have recently been brought to light, as well as a letter written by the Alianz...

Before Monday, January 1st, 2018, it was illegal to pump your own gas in the state of Oregon. In preceding years, you would drive up to the gas station, and a gas-station attendant would put gas into your car for you.   The removal of the gas-pumping law is only in effect in counties with under 40,000...

The Torrey Spirit Shop is your one-stop online store for all your favorite Country Day gears. I had the pleasure to ask Mrs. Laws and Mrs. Twomey - who put together this amazing website - some questions, the answers to which many of you are dying to know. So let’s get to it!   Yuqi: P...

Calling all Country Day artists! At last, your wish for a new gallery space has been granted - and it is officially launching this year (the exact date is still unknown at this point). As the student chief-editor of The Gallery website, I am beyond thrilled to introduce you to La Jolla Country Day’s...

Adding more languages to the school curriculum can be beneficial to the whole student body. Right now we have three languages on campus: Spanish, French, and Mandarin. These are the main languages that English speaker would typically learn throughout their education. There needs to be a program that enri...

Kathryn Mills A false alarm of an imminent arrival of a ballistic missile was sent earlier this month on Saturday, January 13th to the people of Hawaii and asked them to take shelter. “Ballistic missile on Hawaii." Take shelter immediately, this is not a drill, "received the inhabitants of the arc...

The world as we know it revolves around technology. Whether it is doing homework with the aid of an online textbook or scrolling down your Instagram feed, the internet really is the foundation of most students’ lives, especially with the BYOD program at Country Day. The freedom of the internet is ...

Sleep deprivation is plaguing students across the U.S. even after numerous studies have shown that teenagers would excel more academically and have better mental health with later school start times. Teenagers have sleep cycles two hours later than adults, meaning that the majority can’t easily ...