Dear Hoover Families and Supporters, First off, I hope you are well and healthy. Computer distribution for Hoover High School students will begin on Tuesday, April 7, through Thursday, April 9.  The distribution center will be located in the Hoover HS Small Gym, which can be accessed through the Chamoune Ave gate, which...

The 2020 yearboook theme is "We ARE."  Over the course of the four years, much has changed on campus and the yearbook staff hopes this will be reflected in the book.  The bottomline though is that even though things have changed, We ARE Cardinals always. "It has been challenging," said senior Editor-in-Chief, Rose Yem. ...

"A huge congratulations to the girls basketball team on winning and energetic, back-and-forth high intensity game last night against Vincent Memorial. They won by a score of 63-61 on two free throws by our senior Jurnee Harnage. The girls made history last night as they bring home their first CIF championship win for the girl’s...

Messeker Bassa is a 16 year-old sophmore attending Hoover High School. Messeker takes part of the Brothers of Excellence Club, where African American students come together to make positive connections and be able to meet African American role models in the community. Messeker says he enjoys the club because he can have lunch,...

Out of 393 California Partnership Academies, the Sustainable Academy of Building and Engineering (SABE) is one of the six academies that has been bestowed the honor of "Distinguished Academy," which was awarded to them at the annual Educating for Careers Conference 2020, in Long Beach. In order to be selected, the California...

In 2003 it was SARS, and in 2009 it was H1N1. Currently, the coronavirus, COVID-19, has caused a worldwide panic that also has affected California with 69 positive cases and one death in Placer County in northern California.  There are ways to prevent this illness and others. According to the Centers for Disease Contol and...

According the the World Health Organization, there are many myths associated with the coronvirus outbreak.  However, many of these are false and really ignorant.  Anyone who follows some of these myths needs to read the following. A mask will protect you The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has said that Americans...

I think students ditch class because they do not care about class and want to be with their friends who are also ditching. I have friends who ditch because they do not like their class or teachers so they decide to make bad choices and risk getting caught and getting into trouble. I have never ditched class. There have been...

As we round Black History Month, The Cardinal staff would like to honor one of our own. Mr. Faisal Bihi is a teacher here at Hoover High School and teaches math. He is from East Africa and has lived in Somalia, Kenya, and Djibouti. He first came to the United States in 1996 when he was 17, and came to live in San Diego. Mr....

My name is Catherine Arrieta Reynoso and I’m 17-years-old and was born in Tijuana, Mexico. In less than three weeks, I will become a citizen of the United States of America. I was able to do this a lot easier than others because my dad did most of the work. Although there was also a lot of work involved. When I was little,...

Throughout my four years at Hoover High School, I have witnessed the lack of  school spirit, however also noticed spirit is only shown depending on the activity occurring as well as only showing school spirit when students are rewarded. I also feel it is the same group of people in specific sports who show spirit to support...

Bullying is not a major problem here at Hoover High School as it is in other schools. At Hoover,  the students aren’t bullying another so the issue itself is not an issue. The most bullying done here is students insulting each other among friends and even then it's not that big of a deal. In this school, many of the students...

Bessie Virginia Blount, also known as Bessie Blount Griffin was born on November 24, 1914 and she died on December 30, 2009. Bessie was a writer, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. While working at the Bronx Hospital in New York, Blount invented an electric self-feeding apparatus to help amputees feed themselves....

Matthew Henson was born in Maryland just after the Civil War and had a hard-luck childhood. Both of his parents died when he was a boy, and Henson lived with an uncle in Washington, D.C. before striking out on his own at the age of 11. He traveled by foot to Baltimore, where he hoped he could get work on a ship. He succeeded,...

Mary Ellen Pleasent was born in the 1810’s, and we are left unaware of whether she was born free or into slavery. We do know that she was indentured early in life to a Nantucket shopkeeper from whom she learned the basics of running a business. She also learned about the abolitionist movement, since the shopkeeper’s family...