May – June 2000 Issue

A judge evaluates the penalties for certain crimes committed by teens.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars? Our annual art contest winners express how they would redesign one the country’s typically most-cherished symbols to better represent what America and being American means to them. w/ gallery of winners.

Readers send in their thoughts on stories that appeared in our March – April 2000 issue of the newspaper.

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How to evaluate School performance based on Cal State Tests, since half of Cal State freshmen need basic math and English classes.

Why would someone put a hole in their tongue? Julissa, 18, finds out.

Fed up with their crowded classrooms, a group of high school kids wrote a proposition limiting class size.

Why would someone put a hole in their tongue? Get some advice from a professional piercer.

We asked our readers from 1999 about political issues. Here’s what 521 of them had to say.