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Jerry Fan

Jerry Fan, Managing Editor

Jerry Fan is a senior at CVHS in his third year of involvement in scholastic journalism. Passionate about public transportation and education alike, he covers school policy and student affairs for Upstream News. Outside of school, Jerry works on robotics, watches TV comedies and deletes those pesky Oxford commas — especially after serving as Upstream News’ 2022-2023 copy editor.

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CVHS seniors Eva Marsden (left) and Sid Dasari (right) pose with their gold medals at the Bellaire Open Ping Pong Tournament on March 20 at Bellaire High School. The duo won first place in the “consolation” bracket for eliminated teams in the Open Doubles division. (Photo courtesy of Eva Marsden)

Going for Gold

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
April 28, 2025
Senior L Nguyen (right) pours a cup of milk tea for a guest at I-Fest on April 4, 2025. Nguyen made 22 gallons of the drink for the event.

Food for Thought

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
April 15, 2025
An artist's rendition of the chaos at College Board printing and storage facilities.

Termite infestation forced exams to go digital, College Board says

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
April 1, 2025
A graphic illustrating the two perceived sides and seasons of college applications, created using PowerPoint.

Personal Column: Worth it in the end

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
March 26, 2025
Stephanie Chen spins a diabolo at Harvard Yard in the summer of 2024. Chen was in the New England area to watch the 2024 USA National Diabolo Competition. (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Chen)

Flying Colors

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
March 24, 2025
Papers explaining containment and other key terms hang against the lockers. Nathan Wendt uses the gallery walk activity to review vocabulary.

Living History

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
February 24, 2025
Copies of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley are laid in a pile. Shelley's novel is one of the required readings for CVHS' AP English Literature class.

“Frankenstein” Review: The best required reading at CVHS

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
February 7, 2025
Chromebooks (lower) replaced the old Windows laptops (upper) at CVHS, starting with the 2024-2025 school year.

Chromebooks make debut at CVHS

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
December 19, 2024
HISD's new policy is to only offer on-level and AP courses for classes with an AP but no Pre-AP equivalent.

‘Oh, you’re joking’: AP Physics 1 to replace HADV class

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
April 24, 2023
HISD unveils a prototype of the new potato laptops set to debut in the 2023-2024 school year.

New potato powered HISD laptops to ‘make dollars and sense’ at CVHS

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
April 1, 2023
College Board's AP Precalculus is set to debut next year, replacing Precalculus AB and BC.

AP Precalculus comes to CVHS: new curriculum, unexpected changes

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
March 10, 2023
Google Trends shows that interest in chess has rapidly climbed in the past few months.

Why chess is suddenly popular again

By Jerry Fan and Natalia Nguyen
February 19, 2023
The district's "Page Blocked" and "reset" pages are infamous among students.

Behind the Firewall: Why HISD blocks websites

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
January 27, 2023
CVHS's policy of student autonomy is a far better one than that of other schools.

Editorial: Preserving CVHS students’ autonomy

By Jerry Fan and Ava Manchac
December 13, 2022
A school laptop shows its scratches and scuffs, its scars of war .

The school laptops actually aren’t terrible

By Jerry Fan, Managing Editor
November 14, 2022
Harris shows off his famous cat mask, paired with another daily cat shirt.

Micah Harris and the “Furry Faces of Innocence” on his phone

By Jerry Fan and Ava Lim
October 20, 2022
CVHS proudly displays a sign celebrating their "fully staffed" status.

CVHS experiences low teacher turnover, while HISD faces staff shortages

By Brooke Bushong, Jerry Fan, and My-Tran Vo
September 23, 2022
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