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The Viking Vanguard

The student news site of Puyallup High School

The Viking Vanguard

The student news site of Puyallup High School

The Viking Vanguard

School evaluated by admin

Kyle Smith, Editor in Chief // Published April 29, 2016

In the past three years, PHS has seen a change in its administrative team every year. Seniors graduating this year have not had the same high school principal for their duration at the school. Superintendent...

Campus security enhanced in spring

Keionna Newton, Freelancer // Published April 27, 2016

School safety is one of the top priorities of the security guards here at PHS.  According to security personnel Jim Jenkins, the increase in the number of students not following school campus rules...

Eating disorders, perceptions plague men as well as women

Kyle Smith, Editor in Chief // Published March 24, 2016

Eating disorders and body image issues (such as found in a body dysmorphic disorder) tend to be seen as female-based disorders. These kinds of disorders, however, are not exclusive to females. Dr....

Suppression Causes Damage

Shayla Jones, Staff // Published March 24, 2016

Rows of glossy magazine covers, lined up in grocery store shelves, some adorned with pictures of tan, muscled men. A nurse takes care of patients with practiced ease. He does not believe he could be...

Social media limits interaction

Keionna Newton and // Published January 28, 2016

Perhaps it is ironic, the idea that social media may only be serving to inhibit the social interaction people have with others in their daily lives. Psychology and APUSH teacher Willie Walker states...

Use of social media continues to prevail

Sierra Barrow, Staffer // Published January 26, 2016

Social media amongst today’s students has increasingly become more prominent and important to teens everywhere. PHS counselor Michael Sanchez offers his reasoning as to why social media is increasingly...

Girls challenge masculine sports stereotypes

Shayla Jones, Staff // Published December 18, 2015

“You hit like a girl.” “You run like a girl.” “You throw like a girl.” These are just a few of the statements girls may be confronted with when playing sports. Junior and Lacrosse...

Defining what it means to be a woman in society today

Keionna Newton, Staff // Published December 17, 2015

“Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less:” this was a famous quote from suffragist Susan B. Anthony during the Progressive Era. Though women’s roles in society...

Students reach out to suffering community

Students reach out to suffering community

Kyle Smith, Editor In Chief // Published October 21, 2015

Wildfires are devastating but communities they affect are not left without hope, several groups have gotten to work rebuilding scorched communities and helping hurting people. Red Cross turned Lake Roosevelt...

Community college considered

Published June 9, 2015

For students that want to obtain a college degree after high school, two main options come to mind: attend a four-year college or university or attend a community college and transfer to a four-year college...

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