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Students take advantage of the recently improved study space provided by a new set of chairs in the library
Students take advantage of the recently improved study space provided by a new set of chairs in the library
From: Current News

ROTC restored district-wide (5/09)
On May 12, the school board announced that it had passed two resolutions that will maintain the Junior Reserves Officers’ Training Corps program.
    Students from the seven high schools in San Francisco that offer JROTC have fought alongside the JROTC instructors and Fiona Ma throughout the whole campaign and now have been successful in the first step — keeping JROTC. “It’s good that we have Fiona Ma on our side,” junior JROTC member Jane Ou said. “But Ma needs people to back her up too and that’s us.”
   
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Student's language skills wins him a trip to Germany (5/09)
    A student is traveling to Germany this summer on an all-expenses-paid trip after winning a language contest last month.
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Students find carbon footprint (5/09)
A group of 10 freshmen science students are participating in an extra-credit project, using cell phones to track their carbon emissions over a three-week period to learn more about their impact on the environment.
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Teen decides that people should not be labeled based on college (5/09)
Definition of College: Noun. 1. College is what adults call “IMPORTANT,” a word always displayed in large, red, pulsating capital letters in their mind’s eye. That’s the reason why, at nearly every family function you’ve attended since you’ve been in high school, the topic of college has come up. 2. College is the end all, be all of not only your high school career, but your entire cognitive development since the day you were thrust out of your mother’s pelvis. 3. College is a status symbol, and battling your way into college is, without a doubt, a war with an outcome that will strengthen or ruin your life forever.

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"Apocalyptic" virus worries school, city, nation, world (5/09)
Just days after news broke that a potentially dangerous pandemic had begun, every major newspaper and network were plastered with images of masked people in the streets of Mexico. “U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu,” crowed an April 27 New York Times headline. “WHO Raises Global Threat Level As Reports of Swine Flu Increase,” then announced the Washington Post on April 28.
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Summer reading list revised (5/09)
This summer’s reading list, announced on May 5, includes revised titles for freshman classes, sophomore honors, expository writing and junior and senior electives, as a result of teacher consensus.
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Baseball takes early exit (5/09)
Walking off the field after the last inning of the game, the boys of the varsity baseball team realized that their legacy had ended for the season.
    Senior pitcher Eitan Neumark said he knew it would be tough for the team to succeed with only a trio of seniors: Harlan Hamakawa, Narin Leininger and himself.
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Buccaneers sink Cards (5/09)
Up until a most-anticipated championship game, the boys’ volleyball team was clearly the king of the court — but what was its secret?  It was stacked with solid players and a solid bench.
     The boys’ volleyball team dreamt of winning the AAA championships again, but that dream slipped away. Next year, it can be renewed with another chance, another season.
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Library welcomes new sections (5/09)
The library welcomed new books and furniture as a result of grant money.
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Science team places in science competition (5/09)

A science team consisting of five seniors from the school took third place at an annual environmental competition held on April 29-31.

Science teachers James Carmack and Kathy Melvin supervised and counseled the Serpentines, a team composed of Advanced Placement Environmental Science students Jason Lo, staff reporter Karyn Smoot, physics students Ravi Patel, Jasper Wu and Advanced Placement Biology student Alice Zhou. The team competed with 15 other schools across the state.
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Classes to be cancelled due to enrollment issues (5/09)

           Some courses will cut back or even stop being offered next school year due to low student enrollment or staffing issues. For a few other classes, students were advised to consider an alternative course due to over-enrollment.

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Language class exposed to culture through film (5/09)

Stomping into her bathroom wearingoveralls and rubber boots, long hair flying, a young French-Moroccan womanfumes with anger. The woman, Sofia, glares into the mirror as she grasps thehandle of an old-fashioned razor, contemplating its blade.

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Medical show junkie stars in real-life heart-pounding drama (4/09)
“Push me off!” yelled the scrub-clad male nurse as he placed his hands on my sternum, shifting all of his body weight onto my chest. In a bout of confusion I strained upwards, unsure exactly why the nurse was assaulting me or how fighting him off was going to lower my heart rate.
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