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Summer Search Program Improves Academics

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By Sera Busse

Summer Search is a program designed to entice low–income high school students to become more interested and involved in higher education and to prepare students to assume leadership positions and take on responsibilities throughout their lifetimes. The program provides eligible high school students with a support network of college advisors and year–round mentoring. Summer Search works effectively to raise the number of high school students who graduate from a four–year university. Currently, the number is eleven percent, and dwindling.

Hips Align at Hipline, a Fun Way to Exercise

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By Ivy Oleson

Last Wednesday night, I found myself doing pelvic thrusts in a dark dance studio with a spinning disco ball above. And I wasn’t alone; there were women of all ages, shapes, and sizes shimmying right along with me. A sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare? No, it was Hipline, a Bay Area women–only dance fitness studio with locations in the Rockridge and Lakeshore neighborhoods.

Featured Faculty: Jessica Tello-Lopez

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By Tal Litwin

Every day, the attendance office is bombarded with hundreds of phone calls and students, all with different requests and needs. In the midst of this hectic environment is Jessica Lopez–Tello, calmly managing everyone’s requests with ease.

BHS Cafeteria’s Food Sources Revealed

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By Tom Battles

School lunches get a bad rep. Images of people in hairnets listlessly spooning piles of slop onto plates are exaggerated in the media. Let’s face it: School lunches cannot, in anyway, be glorified. They will never be perfectly nutritious, healthy, and delicious while simultaneously being easy on the wallet, but in Berkeley, complete with a Gourmet Ghetto and celebrity chef and organic activist Alice Waters, people sure are going to try.

Cal Art Magazine Begins to Publish Work of Berkeley High Students

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By Giulia Chiappetta

University of California, Berkeley junior Livia Maas has an idea. It’s a very ambitious idea, which will lead to a very ambitious project. If this project is successfully pulled off, Berkeley High School students will have the chance to release their work beyond the limits of our high school, and a chance to share it with the college students they aim to become. They will have the chance to publish their works in a magazine.

What Happened Today? 2/8/13

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By Maya Shen

On this day in 1586, Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots, was beheaded due to suspicions of her being a part of the Babington Plot. The Babington Plot was a Catholic plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, who was a Protestant, and put the Catholic Mary Stuart on the throne. The people involved with the plot wanted to restore the Catholic religion in England, through an invasion by the Spanish army of King Philip II and the Catholic League in France.

Green Academy Holds Exhibition

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By Shan Warren

Green Academy hasn’t been a small school at Berkeley High School for very long, but the camaraderie that its students feel will leave them with indelible memories when they graduate. Green Academy, previously named the School for Social Justice and Equality, is a relatively new small school. Four years ago, the school district decided that it wanted to add an energy component to the school’s curriculum. This new school, termed the Green Academy, gives students the option to focus their high school experience on ecology or energy.

Mental Health Care for Local Youth Examined

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By Maura Lynch

In the wake of the tragic school shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the state of the national mental health care system has come under scrutiny. Throughout most of America, mental health care is seriously lacking — though as with many things, the city of Berkeley is an exception, providing free or low cost mental health services to the public.

Colleges Embrace Creativity In Essay Prompts

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By Mindy Ng

“How did you get caught?” This may sound like a question a criminal may ask a fellow cell–mate. Or, “Where’s Waldo?” — an inquiry you’d expect to hear in a toddler’s bedroom. Instead, these are the questions that University of Chicago’s admissions officers are expecting prospective undergraduate students to respond to in their college essays.

Dear Batmen: 2/8/13

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By Batmen

We are the Berkeley High Batmen — saving the world by day, fighting teenagers’ problems by night.

Hey Berkeley High! We are two students who are very excited to be new Jacket columnists. When we heard this position was open, we both immediately knew we wanted the job.

We each gave some thought to what this column could be about, but nothing seemed quite right until we put our heads together.

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