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Written by Logan Weir and Jen Lee
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Three seniors and one junior have exercised their creative writing skills to produce three one-act plays, which will be performed at the citywide premiere for the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival on May 26-28. The festival focuses on developing and presenting new works created by city youth.
Seniors Jane Reynolds, Chloe Jenkins-Sleczkowski and Sacha Mount and junior Hallie Schefflin entered the playwright competition, which called for plays no longer than 30 minutes long, after learning about it last fall from English and drama teacher Teresa Bookwalter. “I heard about the contest through Mrs. Bookwalter, and it was a $300 prize,” Mount said. “I was like, ‘I’m down.’”
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Written by Laura Fong and Fiona Wozniak
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Dreamworks Pictures' new movie, She’s the Man, is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s cross-dressing comedy, Twelfth Night. The movie stars teen actress Amanda Bynes, former model Channing Tatum, Robert Hoffman from You Got Served and relative newcomer Laura Ramsey. David Cross from Arrested Development also appears as a comically misguided headmaster.
The basic premise reflects the gender-bending confusion of Twelfth Night but sets it in a modern high school. A girl poses as her twin brother at his new school to cover for his absence and to prove to her ex-boyfriend that she can play soccer with the boys.
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Written by Eliza Hidalgo
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Victims of psychological disorder face daily struggles against crippling fears
Eliza Hidalgo
Germs on the door…Have to wash hands, again and again and again... Did I close the door?... Drive back home and check, check again and recheck…
This sort of repetitive thinking can be a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, a disease in which sufferers repeat actions or words for relief from unwanted thoughts.
About one in every 50 adults in America is affected by OCD, and twice that many have had the disorder at one point in their lives, according |
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Written by Walker Weir
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Have you ever heard of Film Noir? Do you know who Kiki Smith is? If not, then Art & Film, a program dedicated to giving teens free admission to museums, art galleries and movies almost any day of the week, can fill in those educational gaps. Students involved learn about all types of art forms, and in the process become more mature, sophisticated art critics.
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Written by Heather Hammel
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With its rich history and diverse mix of cultures, San Francisco draws tourists from all over the world. Yet most young residents have not explored all the city has to offer. For those wishing to see what they are missing, several organizations offer free tours of a variety of neighborhoods and city attractions.
Senior Calvin Yan volunteers for one of these organizations, giving tours of Chinatown for the Chinatown Community Development Center. For the past year and a half, Yan has been conveying a rich sense of local Chinese-American history and combating the stereotype that Chinatown is simply poor and dirty. “I used to live in Chinatown and my friends used to laugh,” he said. “People always have these stereotypes of Chinatown.”
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Written by Logan Weir
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To the average onlooker, dragon boat is a peculiar yet intense sport. A boat pierces the edge of the water with a dragon head mounted on the front, a scaly tail in the back, 20 people rowing and a Viking-like drummer at the front of the boat keeping the rhythm. The 20 paddlers propel the 44-foot boat as fast as 13 feet per second, for races from 250 to 5,000 meters.
A relatively new sport in the United States that originally came from China, dragon boat is growing increasingly popular up and down the coast, with eight Bay Area high school teams, including Mission, Lincoln, Washington and, of course, Lowell, as well as over 10 Californian college teams competing.
“New teams and competitions are popping up,” said sophomore Alex Louie, a member of Lowell’s dragon boat team. “And the waiting list on the Lowell team keeps getting bigger.”
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Written by Fiona Wozniak
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Written by Alana Kivowitz
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Nina Rosenberg
‘05 alumna Nina Rosenberg has showcased her artwork and now studies film at NYU.
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Every Lowell student can honestly say that they have stopped to look at the Lowell Wall of Fame, located across from the Book-to-Book store. Who will be the next graduates to join the framed faces of Benjamin Bratt and Naomi Wolf, as well as dozens of other successful Lowell alumni?
The class of 2005 was made up of many talented students, skilled in various fields. Even though they left Lowell just eight months ago, we can expect to hear about some of them in the near future. Just a few months after the start of their college careers, a few of last year’s seniors have stood out.
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Written by Noey Neumark & Glenn Mercado
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Haguy Wigdor
Class of ‘94 alumnus Haguy Wigdor recently appeared in Munich as an Israeli athlete.
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An Alumni is appearing in the current movie Munich.
Class of ’94 graduate Haguy Wigdor portrayed Ze’ev Friedman, one of 11 Israeli athletes who were taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group at the 1976 Munich Olympic games in the movie, which is directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Written by Eliza Hidalgo and Jasmin Libatique
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President George W. Bush recently referenced America’s lack of math skills in his State of the Union address. This deficiency may soon change — and not because of any new federal educational policy. A newly popular puzzle just may save the day.
At home, on buses, in classrooms, at work, on computers and everywhere in between, people of all ages are testing their craniums with sudoku puzzles.
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Written by Christine Lin
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Dance classes showcased a semester's worth of hard work at the 2006 Winter Dance Concert Mods 6-7 and 11-12 on Dec. 13 in the Carol Channing Theater.
The performances began with the Lowell Dance Company's rendition of the song "Bomb the World," by Michael Franti and Spearhead.
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