Opinion by Zaine Ahmed (Grade 10) Women are the most oppressed class in history, which is all the more surprising given they are an equal majority in the world. Women have been historically oppressed and beaten down, forced to marry for the right price. Marital rape was legal until 1994, meaning that you could watch Forrest Gump  before you could say no to your husband’s advances. This is just one of the incredibly disgusting things that happen to women, and honestly, most of

by Vera Lin & Elliott Chang ( Grade 8 )  Starting high school is a major move up for the eighth graders. For many students, this transition feels very exciting, but also scary.  Most of the students are looking forward to new opportunities such as sports teams, theater, clubs, and the variety of classes that they can choose from, but also at the same time having anxieties about grades, heavier workloads, fitting in, and every decision they make in high school starts building

Opinion by Benjamin Lo (Grade 9) At a time when State of the Union speeches act largely as a historical relic, a precedent set by George Washington, the SOTU speech this year was nothing less than a “State of the President’s Personal Ego” speech. California Governor, Gavin Newsom, posted this on his socials on the day of the speech The SOTU is supposed to be a constitutional ritual with a very specific civic purpose: an accounting of overall national conditions and an explan

Opinion by Jonathan Chen (Grade 11) Read the piece here.

by London Chang and Makayla Liao (Grade 10)

by Clarice Fu (Grade 11) On February 13, the KAS gym was filled with red shirts, spring couplets, and elements adding onto the unmistakable atmosphere of Chinese New Year. This year’s celebration, hosted by Ms.Gao and Ms.Lee, featured performances ranging from traditional folk dance to war drums, a lion dance, and more. But beyond the vibrant costumes and choreography, the event reflected weeks and in some cases months of preparation behind the scenes. The show began with a p

Q. Where do you live now? Why? What are you doing?  A: I’m a first-year at Bowdoin, a liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. As all other first-years, I am currently undeclared, but I’m thinking of majoring in Visual Arts and perhaps History. While I’m still finding my footing on campus, I’m in an anti-capitalist reading group and I write and illustrate for the Orient, the college’s newspaper. Right now, I’m also helping with set design for a production run by Masque and

By: Yuki Shibata (11) and Spencer Lee (12)

hosted by Worthing Bailey (Grade 12)

By: Yuki Shibata (11)

Q. Where do you live now? Why? What are you doing? A: I currently live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am a first-year student at the University of Toronto studying social sciences. Q. What are the biggest differences between there and Kaohsiung? What’s the biggest similarities? A: The most noticeable differences are the food and the weather. In Toronto, the food culture is more diverse, but it feels less home-like. This can be a good thing because we can try many different c

by London Chang and Makayla Liao (Grade 10) Episode 2:

by Worthing Bailey (Grade 12) Go behind the scenes and inside the visions for the Year 2 Art students, as they prep for their exhibition (40% of their grade), beginning on March 24.

By: Yuki Shibata (11)

with Worthing Bailey (Grade 12)

By: Vera Lin (Grade 8) On Monday, the 19th of January, the community came together to celebrate all the 8th-grade students' hard work these past months as they prepared for the annual Community Project Expo. As part of the MYP curriculum, this project allows students to extend the knowledge they have gained across all 8 classes and to identify the community's needs/issues they truly care about. Over the past few months, when students were introduced to this project, they st

By Noah Lindsay (Grade 12) & Jay Cheung (Grade 11) Opening Ceremony: “If we do not want to die together in war, we have to live together in peace,” quotes head of Kaohsiung American School, Jim Laney, during his speech in the opening ceremony of the first ever Kaohsiung Model United Nations conference. The room fills with tension and excitement as hundreds of debaters from Taipei, Hsinchu, Tainan, and Kaohsiung await to engage in debate that is not only riveting, but also un

by Oscar Lin (Grade 12) Amidst the scramble to study for exams, balancing school with life, while building a functioning and intricate machine, the members of the KAS robotics team, Laputa (Team ID: 19908), devoted countless hours every week for several months in preparation for the annual FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), which happened last week. This year, the theme was DECODE, where the robots are to not only score balls in their respective goals, but also sort the colors in t

Q. Where do you live now? Why? What are you doing?  A: I currently live in Tegucigalpa, the capital of my home country Honduras . Being back home has honestly been really special, it's a  beautiful tropical country with so much nature and warmth. I’m studying at UNITEC ( Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana ), a private university, where I am majoring in Business Administration and Business Analytics.  One of my favorite parts of this stage of my life has been making so ma

by Haru Shih (Grade 9) & Geoffrey Wen (Grade 12) Editors Note: This was the 58th Annual THIMUN The Hague in the Netherlands Conference . It is a four-day simulation of the UN and was from January 26 - 30th this year. Our school sent four students (Haru, Ben and Raysen from Grade 9 and Geoffrey from Grade 12) and two teachers ( Ms. Fidalgo and Mr. Q) . Haru: I attended THIMUN The Hague with Ben, Raysen, and Geoffrey. Ben, Raysen, and I participated as delegates representing an