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The Clarion

The Student News Site of Selma High School

  • April 2025
  • “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring!” - Lilly Pulitzer
  • “Come the spring with all its splendour, all its birds, and all its blossoms!” - Christina Rossetti
  • “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet “Here comes the sun, and I say, It’s all right.” - The Beatles
  • “A kind word is like a spring day.” - Anonymous
  • “In the springtime, the heart regrows hope.” - Angie Weiland-Crosby
  • “The world laughs in flowers.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.” - John O’Donohue
  • “I must have flowers, always, always.” - Monet
  • “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat” - Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • 'The beautiful spring came, and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.' - Anonymous
  • 'In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.' - Mark Twain
  • 'O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 'Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.' - Thomas Tusser
  • 'Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.' - Anonymous
  • 'The world laughs in flowers.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 'If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.' - Anonymous
  • 'The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.' – Anonymous
  • 'Blossom by blossom the spring begins.' - Anonymous 'A flower blossoms for its own joy.' - Anonymous
  • 'Spring will come and so will happiness.' - Anonymous
  • 'In the springtime, the heart regrows hope.' - Angie Weiland-Crosby
  • “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” - Anita Krizzan
  • “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!’” - Robin Williams
  • “Colours are the Smiles of Nature.” - Leigh Hunt
  • “Spring: the Music of Open Windows.” - Terri Guillemets
  • “Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.” - Matshona Dhliwayo
  • “Spring is best celebrated by going out and enjoying nature.” - Anonymous
  • “Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” - Gustav Mahler
  • Compiled by Jazmine Villar

The Clarion

The Clarion

The Rewinding Tape of Life
Kaylie Pineda, Reporter • April 11, 2025

The rustic, cyclical pendulum swings back and forth, vacillating somewhere in the world just as the tarnished flicker of resolve rises from the faded bedsheets. The figure...

Boys Tennis Striving Towards Success
Boys Tennis Striving Towards Success
Jasleen Ganger, Feature Editor • April 11, 2025

The Selma High boys’ tennis team players are hoping to develop further in their skills. The Bears recently suffered a 6-3 loss to Hanford West High School, a close match...

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BearDayz team, “The Big Booms,” performing their hearts out at the Bearchella rally.
Photos by Yasmine Abdulla
An Unforgettable Bearchella Rally
Yasmine Abdulla and Aneka Zamora April 11, 2025

Capturing vibrant inspiration from the yearly music festival Coachella, Selma High held its  annual spring rally as “Bearchella.” During...

Art by Maya Grewal
Violent Love: Why Mafia Romance Isn’t The One
Maya Grewal, Reporter • April 11, 2025

Many stories follow different stereotypes, and with those stereotypes we find tropes. Tropes are commonly used plot structures, themes, or storylines....

Art by Yarektzy Navarro
Love on the Line: Fake Dating
Yarektzy Navarro, Co-Editor in Chief, Kaleidescope Editor • April 11, 2025
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Brenda Vasquez, Copy Editor • April 11, 2025
Urkun 1916: A Tragic Chapter in Kyrgyz History
Urkun 1916: A Tragic Chapter in Kyrgyz History
Malika Basylbekova, Reporter • April 11, 2025
Ask Klarissa: April 2025
Klarissa April 11, 2025
Archives
See You Never
Senior Farewells
See You Never
Ana Rodriguez, Reporter • May 23, 2024

“I hate school.” I say that basically everyday and although it's true, I hate to give a farewell. I can’t imagine saying goodbye to some...

Oh, It’s Time To Go
Senior Farewells
Oh, It’s Time To Go
Karissa Valdez, Reporter/Photo Editor • May 23, 2024

Graduating high school is not the end. I once thought it was, but I see all the places my friends are going, their dreams, aspirations, and I...

Alas, The Chapter Finally Closes…
Senior Farewells
Alas, The Chapter Finally Closes…
Palak Tohan, Co-Editor in Chief/Co-Sports Editor • May 23, 2024

The ever-so-famously awaited high school goodbyes are finally here. The final lasts of high school are passing day by day; the last of the dreaded...

Senior Giselle Luna wearing one of her winter outfits, paired with her Uggs.
Fashion Column
Bundled Up In Style
Aneka Zamora and Yasmine Abdulla December 12, 2024

As temperature drops, the outfits we see in our very halls begin to radiate in warmth. The shift of the weather hits our closets the hardest,...