[BHS etree] BULLETIN: Student Daily Bulletin for 11/08/05

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STUDENT DAILY BULLETIN
Tuesday, November 8, 2005


Administration


1.	Spend your day off with fellow students and Rebuilding Together to 
prepare a home for a family affected by Hurricane Katrina. Volunteers, 
including students needing to complete community service hours, are 
invited to work this Friday (preferably) and Saturday.  We will be 
sanding, painting, and doing other repairs to the home.  If you are 
interested contact: Rowan or Richard Spencer at 693-3127 or Amy Dawson 
at 644-8979.  Bring an old long sleeved shirt.  Pizza will be provided.

2.	Cody’s Books School Benefit Daze: Friday- Monday, November 11-14, 
2005. 25% of the proceeds of your purchases at Cody’s during this four 
day event will be contributed to Berkeley High.  Shop (2 Berkeley 
locations) at 2454 Telegraph Ave, and 1730 Fourth Street; 1 San 
Francisco location-2 Stockton Street at Market. Just save your receipts 
and mail them to Julie Wong, 1311 Santa Fe Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702   or 
call 528-8191.

3.	Got an assignment due?  Writer’s Café is open during lunch today in 
A101.  We have trained coaches to help you with your writing 
assignments. Come and see us.  We’re open from 11:30 to 12:10 
Wednesdays and Thursdays;  first come, first served.  Snacks available.

Clubs

1.	Health Fact of the Week:  Drivers who use cell phones while driving 
are four times more likely to crash than those not on a cell phone.  Be 
safe while driving by avoiding the use of cell phones.  This health 
fact was brought to you by the Berkeley High School Health Center Youth 
Advisor.

2.	The few, the proud, ITP’s:  Informational meetings November 9, 10th 
and 16th in room C213 at lunch.

3.	Calling all poets!  Enter the Poets Stomping Smoking poetry contest. 
Write a poem, rap or flow to express the truth about smoking.  Use your 
inner creativity to educate your peers, combat youth smoking and expose 
tobacco industry lies, exploitation and social injustice. Cool prizes, 
including $50 cash grand prize!  Pick up a submission form from the 
door of G202 and submit your entry by November 9th. Poetry 
reading/Awards reception on November 17th at 7:00 pm at the Hall of 
Health.  All are welcome.

4.	Speak on It meets every Wednesday at lunch in Conference Room A.  
Come join and be part of a group that helps makes a difference at BHS. 
All students welcome!  Food and drinks served.  See you there!

5.	Come to an APIC food sale today at lunch at the Community Theater 
steps.  Don’t miss out on some great fried rice, chicken and other 
yummy foods.

6.	Achtung! Achtung!  Come see “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, a 1919 
silent German expressionist movie.  Bring your lunch and come to German 
Film Club, which meets every Wednesday in C115.

7.	Are you ready for some extreme sport action?  Come to the Ping Pong 
club today at lunch for our first meeting of the year.  We will be 
meeting in the ping pong room on the upper floor of the old gym. Anyone 
interested is encouraged to attend.

8.	Having sex?  Thinking about having sex?  Come join Condom Club this 
Wednesday at lunch.  Bring your food and come to classroom G103 to
sign up.  Come once and get a sticker for the back of your ID.  Show 
your ID at the Health Center and receive 12 free condoms. There will be 
free food.


Sports

1.	BHS Crew: Looking for a spring sport?  The BHS crew team needs 
additional novice rowers, for men’s and women’s crew to fill out the 
team roster.  Rowers are conditioning over the winter in preparation 
for the spring race season.  No previous rowing experience required! 
Contact Coach Chris Dadd at 925-676-8025.

2.  Girls Volleyball   Tuesday,  Nov. 8   SENIOR NIGHT
Come out and support Girls Volleyball as they try to even the score 
against the Encinal Jets. A win by Berkeley High means an ACCAL 
co-championship and a trip to NCS post-season. It's also Senior Night 
and the last home match for Class of '06 Varsity players Stephanie 
Lowe, Yajide Yejide Najee-Ullah and Megan Hourula.
JV @4:30 pm, Varsity @ 5:30pm  Go Jackets!

3.	The final league football game of the year versus rival El Cerrito 
has been moved from Thursday to Friday at 5:00 p.m. at El Cerrito. 
Students/ Seniors $3 and Adults $5.  Come out and support your Yellow 
Jackets!

Senior / Junior Section

1.	Seniors:  If you are applying to any private schools which require 
counselor recommendations, your large envelopes addressed to each 
college along with a Transcript request Form and the Counselor 
Recommendation Form (also called the school report form), are due in 
the College/ Career Center no later than November 10th.  See Mrs. 
Abrams or Mrs. Harris in D221.

2.	Miss Teen Chinatown Scholarship.  Applicants must submit a recent 
photo, official transcript and application.  Applications are available 
in D221.  For more information, go to www.sfclcfoundation.org or call 
650-348-2333.


3.	College visits:
Tuesday, November 8
8:30     	Brandeis (MA)
10:35 	Cornish College of Arts
12:20 	San Francisco State (CA)

Wednesday, November 9
10:35   	California Maritime Academy

Events/ Performance
1.	Come to the BHS Poetry Slam: Tuesday, November 8, at 7 pm in  G210. 
Again, it is $1 to get in.  Poets who want to perform can start to sign 
up at 6:30 pm.  Judges are taken from the audience.  We go through one 
round of 20 poets, and then the top 3 to 5 contestants go to a second 
round.  Poem time limit: 3 minutes.

2.	The Berkeley High website is having a photo contest! Have your 
featured on the homepage, which receives 20 thousand visitors a month! 
Submissions will be accepted through November 18th.  15 photos will be 
chosen and the winners will be notified. Visit the Berkeley high 
website at <www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us> or see Mr. Hoffman in H102 for 
more information.

       2.  Sweeney Todd is coming!  Halloween will not be complete until 
you’ve seen “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, a story of injustice, 
bloody revenge and twisted humor.  Details and Advance tickets contact 
Longfellow school or go to <www.ymtcberkeley.org>.  Don’t miss it! 
November 10, 11, and 12 at 7:30 p.m.