2012

Bay Area Pizza Restaurants Fill Bellies With Cheesy Goodness

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By Miranda Taylor

Pizza. Like puppies, brand new packs of gum, and videos of Kim Kardashian crying, it was invented to make us smile. It’s also one of the most wonderful foods ever invented. It’s suitable for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; it can be fancy and made with upscale imported ingredients, or it can be simple and worthy of your comfiest sweats. With the right amount of this and a dash of that, it can be absolute perfection. How can you go wrong with carbs and cheese? You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy pizza, and that’s basically the same thing.

A Serial Story: 12/7/12

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By Noah Hardy

Update on Norman Donning’s Journal: October 15–29

I might as well, in keeping with tradition, begin with what I know about the infection in international news, but it’s not much today, and will be even less next time, for reasons that I will explain momentarily. China has fallen to the plague, along with numerous other Asian countries. All African countries but South Africa and, I think, Egypt, have ceased contact. Europe is over. It no longer exists as a recognized continent. The worldwide infection percentage, as of October 19, is around 68 percent.

Berkeley Residents Fight Post Office Relocation

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By Maura Lynch

Scattered pieces of paper covered with numbers litter the floor. Here and there, a key turns in a lock as Berkeley residents check their P.O. boxes. People huddle on benches, waiting their turn at the counter to send packages to their loved ones near and far, while up above, a mural — a marvelous remnant of a country’s effort to save itself from the depression — looks down benignly, reminding us all that our post office is no ordinary building; it is a historical gem, hidden in the heart of Berkeley.

Money Management Club is Rich in Potential

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By Nick Rio

Money is everywhere. In politics, education, even recreation, money comes into play. The world is in a condition where it’s impossible to live well or safely without managing your money wisely.

Lily Bowman, Thomas Ma, and Nora Jang, three astute Berkeley High School students, this past fall founded the BHS Money Management Club.

Facebook Use Declines in Face of Competition

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By Ariel Gizzi

Walking through Berkeley High School on a typical school day, one may see hundreds of smartphones open to social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram. These two different social networks are some of the most popular in today’s modern world. However, Twitter and Instagram may experience a declining trend which in the future — something that MySpace already experienced, and Facebook is encountering right now.

Uncovering the Campus Green’s Unusual Past

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By Shan Dhaliwal

The Campus Green, the beautiful addition to the southern courtyard of Berkeley High School, has been around for what seems like forever. Hundreds of students traipse across it each day, focused on getting to their next class on time. Like almost everything at BHS, the Green has an interesting story. It starts with a man whose name is on a small brown plaque on the west side of the green that no students ever notice: Bradley Johnson.

Featured Faculty: Taj Malone

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By Justine Cullinane

Five days a week, Taj Malone, more commonly known by students as “the cookie guy,” runs the ever–popular Healthy Snack Bar in the Berkeley High School cafeteria.

The Healthy Snack Bar offers a number of tasty and healthy items ranging from cafeteria–made berry smoothies and coffee to outsourced items such as Kettle’s potato chips, Luna bars, and pita chips. By far the most popular items available at the snack bar are Malone’s chocolate chip cookies, freshly baked daily. Priced at fifty cents each, these hot commodities run out almost as soon as they are out of the oven.

Dance Club Is On Point

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By Celia Alter

On Tuesday, November 13, as the Berkeley High School wrestling team set up their mats on the floor of the Afro–Haitian dance studio, four girls sat in a circle in the corner discussing their dance experiences. While exchanging dance stories and Facebook names, they held the first meeting of the new BHS Dance Technique Club.

Teen Blogger Gevinson Blazes Trail

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By Louisa Mascuch

Tavi Gevinson, a slightly unusual teenage girl, got her start in fashion at the age of eleven, when she created her own blog, The Style Rookie. Gevinson used the blog as a creative outlet throughout her journey in figuring out what it means to call yourself a feminist, feeling different from other kids your age, and most notably, experimenting with, creating, and analyzing fashion. She didn’t even tell her parents she had started a blog until she had to ask for their permission to be interviewed for The New York Times.

Borz-lyfe: 12/7/12

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By Alborz Yazdi

After a successful revolution last year, demonstrators once again broke out in the streets of Egypt this week, protesting the new president, Mohamed Morsi. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi recently announced a declaration of absolute power, essentially making himself dictator. This reminds us that when we in the West support revolution in foreign countries, we won’t always get what we want.

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