“Save the Bay” tackles issue of environmental pollution
March 2, 2019
As the sun rises over Livermore in the morning, a group of volunteers can be seen starting their day by pulling out weeds, picking up trash, and cleaning up the Alameda Creek watershed. These volunteers are not part of just another typical volunteering club. Rather, as close-knit members of Sa...
Music therapy program could aid DV special needs students
Riya Mehta and Helen Kang
December 24, 2018
In order to help special needs students focus and retain information, the Dougherty Valley special needs department is trying to implement music therapy into their curriculum. Music therapy is designed to manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication and prom...
Breaking Down the Walls builds human connection
Sarah Kim, Elaine Park, and Harshita Neralla
December 17, 2018
This month, the DVHS Leadership team organized its second Breaking Down the Walls (BDTW) event, a four-day program meant to encourage a united and open-minded community on campus. According to Learning For Living, Inc. — the organization that offers BDTW — the event is a “comprehensive prog...
Nonstandard deadlines equal later sleep times
Michael Han, News Editor
October 19, 2018
It's 9:58 p.m. You browse through the row of green check marks across the top of the screen, and you only need one more. As your anxiety rises, you double your efforts to finish the question. However, you’re inexplicably unable to submit your answer. You glance at the clock in the corner of your scr...
DV breaks traditional barriers surrounding Homecoming
Amruta Baradwaj and Sheyda Ladjevardi
October 15, 2018
As the 2018 Homecoming dance comes to an end, we are prompted to reflect on a time of deep emotional stress and social judgment. Homecoming can often be perceived as a rather taxing event, placing a high standard in regards to the reputation of DV’s student population. In this field, Dougherty persev...
“Lights,” camera, Homecoming
Sarah Kim, Elaine Park, and Harshita Neralla
October 4, 2018
Featuring a theme of “Lights,” 2018 Homecoming will take place on Oct. 6, promising unique features in the form of vendors, video game stops, and more yet to be uncovered at the event. The theme was announced at last year’s Summer Rally, and preparations for the dance have been going on ever s...
SRVUSD implements pilot program for multi-gender multi-stall bathrooms in district high schools
Armaan Rashid, Amanda Su, Anumita Jain, Elisa Fang, Megan Tsang, and Vikram Balasubramanian
June 8, 2018
On May 22, at a district board meeting, a pilot program for the conversion of one multi-stall bathroom at each high school to an all-gender restroom was approved with a 4–1 vote; at DV, the downstairs 2000 bathroom was converted during the last week of the 2017-18 school year. Assistant Superintendent...
Another memeingful club created at Dougherty
Steven Deng, Copy Editor
May 27, 2018
Amidst a jumble of volunteering, science and math clubs at Dougherty, the new Meme Culture and Internet Safety Club will be charting a new path into Dougherty at the start of the 2018-2019 school year. Founded by sophomores Andrew Cheng, Shady Henry, Nirmal Ayyagari, John Pluth, Zackery McCrann,...
An in-depth view of the vaping epidemic
Amanda Su, Elisa Fang, and Anumita Jain
May 27, 2018
It was 10:43 a.m. on May 16, around the end of brunch. The AP English Language and Composition exam was taking place in the Auxiliary Gym. I [Amanda Su] was waiting outside of Officer Katie Williams’ office, hoping to conduct an interview with her about the vaping epidemic that has spread across hi...
Destigmatizing DV mental illness
Riya Bindlish, Features Editor
May 15, 2018
The hallways look a lot different now — at least to me. I see something that I didn’t see before. It prowls around, consuming us, slowly, and attacking us at our weakest moments. Yes, there’s a creature hidden in the shadows. One that is constantly overlooked, yet omnipresent and deadly: mental...
A few tips for your AP exams
Daniel Shen, Editor-in-Chief
May 4, 2018
Even though there’s only 19 days left in the DV school year, so much has yet to happen — prom, spring concerts, the end-of-the-year rally, Powderpuff, finals, my birthday, and, of course, AP exams. Over the course of two weeks (May 7-11 and May 14-18), just under 3,000 individual AP tests of the...