To those who keep our campus safe, seasoned, and sanitary
Everyday, you endure cleaning up food fights, breaking up angsty teen aggression and dealing with a non-stop stream of peckish students. Your significant efforts as Samo’s security, custodians and cafeteria staff go overlooked too often. With your consistency, students can easily forget that it’s hired hands, not magic, that keeps the campus so well tended to. It’s not absurd to think that without your management, much of Samo would fall into chaos. Bathrooms would soon turn into biochemical hazards and lunch lines would transform into a high school edition of “The Hunger Games”. The impact that you have made on our school is beyond comprehension.
Holiday helper: a gift guide for all your special someones
Whether it’s a gift for the hardcore gym bro, an aspiring pâtissier or a self-proclaimed fashionista, finding the perfect present during the holiday season can be difficult. From the personalized products on Etsy cursed with long delivery times, to Amazon’s overwhelming amount of items, to thousands of small shopping sites that end up being scams half the time, it’s hard to know where to start. Rather than stuffing stockings with last-minute cards and candles, take a trip down to one of many local mom-and-pop shops all around Santa Monica.
Breaking news: Help Us Find The Mystery Mechanic!!
As of today, Oct. 31, a donated red Chevrolet Corvette C1 in the Samo autoshop has been reported missing. A search warrant has been placed to gain access throughout campus to identify the missing vehicle.
Bewitching Beldams: The horrors of an aging woman
For as long as the horror genre has been around it has relied on the grotesquely supernatural, over the top and barely believable. Witches, vampires and axe wielding psychomaniacs have graced the silver screen for decades, producing gory scenes that commentate on societal issues like race, class and prejudice. However, in recent years the horror genre as a whole has shifted further away from supernatural sugarcoating to instead confronting real-world issues in a more realistic setting, which has made way for the ‘scary old wench’ character to make its return.
Why buy when you can diy?
The art of the creative Halloween costume fuels the spirit of the holiday as a fun and essential tradition that can be enjoyed by all. The individuality that comes from developing an ensemble allows one to bring their vision to life while expressing their interests and ingenuity in a joyous way. The modern day rarity of these do-it-yourself, or DIY, costumes comes with the rise of a commercialized approach to the festivities, forgoing the inventive process of fabricating a costume with the quick fix of buying one online.
HOTLB: What Does Samo Think About AI?
Across the world, the subject of artificial intelligence(AI) has been a hot topic. With language learning models like ChatGPT or image generators like DALL-E becoming increasingly popular, it's hard for anyone not to form an opinion on them, and Samo’s campus is no exception. Considering all of the nuances that come with AI, there are a million different takes a person could have. This could range from thoughts on where and when AI should be used, whether the writing and imagery it produces are real art, how it impacts the environment, humanity, and more.
Even though the sport is prone to single team superiority, the races themselves can still end up highly entertaining and the 2025 season is a perfect example of this.
Mental Health Tolls, Climate Costs and more; the Untold Truth of AI’s Impact.
Now that Artificial Intelligence (AI) software has been in the public eye for almost three years, the conversation has begun to turn from short-term effects–ease of its usage, inaccuracies on AI chatbots’ parts and inauthentic submissions of work–to issues regarding long-term effects on humanity. Younger generations’ brain development is especially at risk, as well as the speeding issue of climate change worldwide, if AI usage progresses as it currently is.
Modern Art Preservation and the Importance of Collecting Physical Media
The digital era has fully consumed this generation and ushered in the desire for extreme convenience. Food delivery apps, online shopping and Artificial Intelligence (AI) overviews were all made with the intention of saving time and effort, but most of all, streaming platforms allow access to thousands of movies, TV shows and music on demand at any time. All this entertainment at our fingertips has created this illusion of security, that art can no longer be lost, as it lives forever in digital form. This infinite record of media that the internet has allowed us to generate appears to be clean, compact and convenient. But this doesn’t invalidate the importance of collecting and preserving art; if anything, it enhances the value of physical copies.