Ruhi Samudra, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ruhi Samudra is an Editor-in-Chief for her third and final year on the Portola Pilot. She’s looking forward to being her best social butterfly self this year and getting to know all sorts of people on campus. When she’s not debating over which juicy quote best ends off an article, you can find creating bouquets out of Trader Joe’s flowers, listening to the Magic Happens Parade soundtrack on repeat or investing her entire life into memoirs just to avoid accepting her own bewilderment.
![The Irvine Unified Board of Education heard public comments on whether to ban LGBTQ+ flags in its most recent meeting on Oct. 7. “This meeting being perhaps an eye opening moment for students and teachers alike to realize, ‘Wow, there are still a lot of prejudices and misunderstandings about the LGBTQ community,’ and we should talk about that to move forward,” English teacher Doris Schlothan said. “But in terms of coming back to this flag policy, I think [this conversation] is done.”](https://portolapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_4539-1.jpg)
![While artificially generated art can be produced at a faster rate, it is not comparable to the beauty of human-made art. “I think that [art] often ties into self expression and ties into processing how you're feeling or what's going on in the world and being able to communicate in that way, and those are pretty complex, big things to do,” visual arts teacher Kearci Thompson said. “So it's not as interesting to most people that study art because we're like, okay, [the AI] can do some of the things kind of well, but it doesn't have that human aspect that draws you in.”](https://portolapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-03-at-9.25.15-PM-900x556.png)
