The Paper's opinion page ran on conviction more than polish. Reread today, six of its pieces make a practical lesson in how an argument is built, and where it gives way.
Written for the archive, 2026
Harbor Desk
The stories in this archive were written by Dana Hills students between 2019 and 2021. The Harbor Desk is different. These essays are written today by the people who keep the archive, and each one rereads a handful of the original stories to pull out something useful: how an argument is built, how a game report works, what a strange school year looked like from the inside.
Every story an essay discusses links back to it, and the original pieces carry a short note pointing here.
Game reports are the most repetitive thing a school paper prints and often the most read. Six stories from the Dana Hills sports desk show how the good ones were put together.
The Paper covered college admissions before the pandemic and distance learning during it. Read together, six stories show how a grade dip, a test policy and a laptop screen ended up inside a college application.