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Club House:

Mud Club

by Kathleen Robinson

Fresno High’s ceramics club, known as Mud Club, is an organization that both promotes and allows students to enjoy the art of ceramics in a relaxing environment that raises money for upcoming field trips or events for the members.  

The club’s upcoming plans for this quarter is to participate in the Fresno High Flea on February 11. The group plans on helping the organizers with setting up and cleaning up the Flea, in addition to selling their projects. Another larger project the club is participating in, is a collaboration with the City of Fresno as well as the Fresno High Historic Home Tour Association to design and decorate trash receptacles in the Weldon and Van Ness Park, which is located across the street from Ampersand Ice Cream.  

The club is always open to new members. Meetings take place in N83 on Fridays at lunch. If you would like to support Mud Club without joining the group itself, always feel free to purchase the clubs’ projects that are for sale at the Fresno Flea. 

Breaking Down the Walls

By: Catherine Spears

Breaking down the Walls has come back to Fresno High, and this year it was open to everyone. The program was on campus from February 1-3. Breaking down the Walls is a unique opportunity for students and staff to connect and share their stories with each other. 

 Students were given a pass and were then recommended to meet in the gym at 9 am. “From the perspective of a leader breaking down the walls was eye-opening, and it created awareness of my peers’ emotions that they wouldn’t usually share,” said Destiny Edwards.  

 The students were in the gym from 9 am to 2:17 pm. Cold sandwiches were provided to them for lunch. Leaders were trained for their role a day before the program started. “I feel I was prepared enough mainly because it was not my first time doing something like this, I was a web leader in middle school,” said Mariah Andersen-Price.  Everyone started by introducing themselves and then got into groups to start doing activities like 2 truths and a lie, crossing the wall and name ball. “Breaking down the walls made me realize how much people go through, and I feel like it closed some of the gaps between diversity,” said Zariah Skinner.  

“We were told that students can change the culture and how this school is viewed,” said Erika Hernandez. Breaking the Walls is intended to let students know that they can help change their community through simple kindness and honesty.