[BHS etree] BULLETIN: Student Daily Bulletin for 12/11/08

Wed Dec 10 17:51:00 PST 2008

STUDENT DAILY BULLETIN
December 11, 2008

*New to the bulletin today

ADMINISTRATION

1.  Do you have a paper due?  Want to make it better?  Come see Emily Shirk on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in C204.

2.  Yearbooks will be on sale for $65 dollars until Dec. 26.  Books can be purchased at school or on myyear.com or in H102b during 7th period.  If you have questions or concerns about buying a yearbook please email:Gabriel_berent at berkeley.k12.ca.us.  Senior Parents:  Celebrate your students' achievements in the yearbook with a senior page.  Space is as cheap as $65 dollars for a quarter of a page, or $180 dollars for a full page.  If you order before the winter break we will give you a $10 off the full page.

3.  CALENDAR SALES -- The annual fundraising calendar sales for the CAS video program are starting.  These are 2009 wall, page-a-day and engagement calendars that are selling for only $5.  They make great gifts.  Saturdays from noon until 4 pm on December 20.  2310 Valley St.  This is 3 blocks west of Sacramento St. off Channing Way.  Rain or shine!

CLUBS

*1.  Chorus Club meets again this week with our new director. Today at 11:45 in the Band Room (A201). After a spirited discussion and vote on Tuesday, students voted to hire Trelawny Rose, an experienced vocal coach and faculty member at the Jazz School. Trelawny also directed the BHS choir that opened the Bring Down The House Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir concert on October 4th.  Meetings from now on will be Tuesdays after school in A5, and Thursdays at lunch in A201.  That is, TWO meetings a week.  For more information, contact Ian Farnkopf, ianfarnkopf at pacbell.net (510)526-4506, or at BHS Chorus on Facebook.

2.  Want to tell someone that they are special?  Want some tasty treats at a low price?  Come to the gallery on 2nd floor C at lunch on Friday 12/12. Holiday grams and baked goods will be on sale. See Ross Parker in G204 for questions.

3.  The first Condom Club of the year is this Thursday, December 11 at lunch!  Please join us in room H114 and learn facts about HIV, STi's, and how to be safe.  You must attend the entire lunch period to get a sticker on your school ID, which is good for the rest of your time at BHS!  Food will be served.  Brought to you by PASSHEN.

SPORTS

This past weekend 6 Berkeley wrestlers competed in the Peninsula Wrestling Tournament in Half Moon Bay and brought home 3 medals. Congratulations goes out to Junior Miya Sommers for winning 3 matches and taking home the Gold in the 126 pound Girls Division. Junior Aida Marin wrestled at 165 pounds Girls Division and captured the Silver, making it to the championship match by pinning her first 2 opponents. Junior Ethan Jones wrestling in the JV 160 pound weight class went 2-2 and placed 4th out of 19. Good job!

Thursday, December 11 - 13
    Girls Soccer @ Richmond HS -- 4:00, 5:30 varsity
    Girls Basketball, Varsity Tourney at Amador Valley -- times TBA
    Girls Basketball, JV Tourney at Carondelet -- times TBA
    Boys Basketball, Frosh Tourney at San Leandro High -- times TBA
    Boys Basketball, JV Tourney at Fremont Christian -- times TBA
    Boys Basketball, Varsity Tourney at Granada High -- times TBA
Friday, December 12
    Boys Soccer, JV & V vs. Logan at BHS -- first game 4:00
Saturday, December 13
    Girls Soccer, JV & V vs. Cal High at BHS --  first game 10 am
    Boys Soccer, Frosh at Logan -- 12:00 pm
    Boys Soccer, JV & V at Livermore -- times TBA

FOR ALL STUDENTS

Princeton Prize in Race Relations -- Princeton is sponsoring an awards program for high school students to recognize, support and encourage young people who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the cause of relations among the races.  Cash awards of up to $1,000 will be awarded. The deadline is January 31.  For more information, an application and examples of previous winners, go to www.princeton.edu/PrincetonPrize.

FOR JUNIORS

Discover Card Tribune Award Program -- Students with a minimum cumulative GPA for 9th and 10th grades of 2.75, who demonstrated leadership, are actively contributing to their communities and have experienced and overcome a significant obstacle are eligible. Apply at https://www.applyists.net/.  Use access code DISC.  Postmark deadline:  January 31. More information available in the College/Career Center.

FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS

Morris Weiss Scholarship -- Open to 11th and 12th graders from the Bay Area.  Scholarship awarded based on an essay discussing Acts of Kindness during the Holocaust.  The entry will be judged on both the quality of writing and research, and the ability of the author to meaningfully connect the essay topic to the lessons of the Holocaust.  The student with the winning essay will be awarded a $1,500 scholarship to be used towards their post-secondary education.  For more information, go to www.hcnc.org/scholarship.html. Deadline:  February 26.  If you need help researching information for this scholarship, our librarian Ms. Goldstein-Erickson, will be happy to help you.

FOR SENIORS

1.  Common application workshops.  All workshops will be held in the BHS library.  Sign up in D221 to attend so that we have enough computers for all students.
Wednesday, December 17, 7:30 am
Thursday, December 18, 3:30 pm

2.  Berkeley Community Fund Scholarship -- Come to a meeting on Tuesday, December 16, third period in the College/Career Center to find out how to apply for this scholarship.  At least 10 scholarships of $4,000 per year for four years will be awarded to Berkeley High students.  In addition, other one-time scholarships may also be awarded.  Sign up in D221 to attend. 

3.  UC Merced is still accepting applications.  Their new deadline is December 15.  This is an excellent new and growing campus, one of the most diverse of the UC's with a variety of majors.  You can attend a small school at UC prices!

4.  There are many new scholarship applications in the Scholarship box in the College/Career Center.  Come by and pick them up!

5.  CSU APPLICANTS -- If you are applying to any Cal State campuses, you are required to take the ELM and the EPT tests (assessment tests in math and English).  You are exempt from the EPT (English assessment) test if your SAT Critical Reading score is 550 or above, if your ACT English score is 24 or above or you have a score of 3, 4 or 5 on either the AP Language and Composition or AP Literature and Composition test. You are exempt from the ELM (math assessment) test if your SAT math reasoning test score or SAT subject test math score is 550 or above or your ACT math score is 23 or above or your AP test score in AP Calculus or AP Statistics is 3 or above.  You can take these tests at any Cal State campus.  The website at CSU East Bay is http://testing.csueastbay.edu/eptelm/eptelmwho.php and the SF State website to sign up for testing is http://www.sfsu.edu/testing/eptelm.html .  You can also find practice materials and other helpful information at
http://www.csumentor.edu/planning/high_school/ept.asp and http://www.csumentor.edu/planning/high_school/elm.asp.

CSU applicants must send official test scores from College Board or ACT.

PERFORMANCES

1.  Come hear the BHS Band and Orchestra in concert on Thursday at 7:30 pm in the Community Theater.  Free concert!  Support live music!

2.  The fall play is here!  Come see Shift Theatre's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" at the Little Theatre this weekend.  A poetic and social commentary from 1940's Paris.  Shows are Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13 at 8pm.  $6 for students/teachers/seniors, $12 for adults.  Directed by students Minna Toloui and Eric Chiang. Don't miss it!

3.  December 18 -- "Breaking the Chains of the New Generation." This show you don't want to miss!  Come support BHS Afro-Haitian Dance Classes. Show starts 7:00 pm sharp in the Community Theater at BHS.  Tickets can be purchased online at tickets at brownpapertickets.com or at the BHS African American Studies Department.