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MAY 26, 2021 VOLUME XXXIX ISSUE IX ONLINE AT DBBULLSEYE.COM
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Staff’s final chapters at DBHS
School to add unisex restrooms New DBHS buildings will include gender-neutral facilities.
Bull’s Eye adviser List and Photo teacher Foley are among those retiring.
Marykate Palaris Asst. a&e editor As a means to help nonbinary and transgender students feel more comfortable at school, Diamond Bar High School will be adding three gender neutral, and by extension, single-use restrooms. The new facilities will be located in the current nurse’s office, near the portable classrooms, and in the new 500 buildings, according to operations manager Mike Bromberg. At the end of last semester, the Gay-Straight Alliance club began an effort to persuade the school to build said bathrooms. “We decided that the best way to support the LGBTQ+ community at DBHS would be to install gender-inclusive restrooms,” GSA member junior Maya Mehta said via Instagram. GSA ended up contacting Bromberg, who said that the restrooms were already being implemented in the new buildings. “We reached out to Mr. Bromberg and he told us that the school was already planning them,” she
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Ethnic studies raises debate Some districts and colleges are adding controversial course. somiya jajieh asst. feature editor Throughout the past year, ethnic studies has begun to be included in high school and college curriculums. Although the introduction of such a class has often been met with criticism, several Diamond Bar High School Students are open to the idea of having such a curriculum available at DBHS if the school were to offer it. Ethnic studies teaches students about the histories, contributions and struggles of marginalized Americans throughout history.
Last year, California required the Cal State University system to include ethinic studies as a mandatory course. Earlier this month, Los Alamitos Unified School District, located in Orange county, decided to approve ethnic studies as a required course for high school students. In addition, the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education aims to make ethinic studies a graduation requirement by the 2023-2024 school year. Those against the establishment of the course claim it may produce anti-white rhetoric, with opponents, in an open letter to the Los Alamitos community, stating that the class will “[teach] children America is based on white supremacy and that white people are racists.”
On the other hand, many Brahmas are on board with the course, like junior Hilary Wang, who thinks an ethnic studies class would positively impact students since it offers them a wider perspective of American history. Wang said she disagrees with the claim that the class will promote anti-white rhetoric since the course is just teaching students about history through the eyes of people of color. “If learning about regular history courses like European History or U.S. History isn’t labeled as anti-POC when students learn of the horrible ways white people have oppressed people of color, I don’t see how others can call this informative course ‘anti-white,’” she
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Graduates to attend prestigious institutions Several students will be heading east to attend top universities in the fall. Kelsey wu Asst. feature Editor After completing the arduous college admissions process, a handful of Diamond Bar High School seniors will be attending some of the nation’s top universities to pursue their dream majors. Both Ryan Real and Daniel Min will be heading east to the University of Pennsylvania, while Jack Coursen has committed to Johns Hopkins. William Chang and Yifei Hu are heading to Cornell while Wilson Zhu will study at MIT and Luke Zhou will be attending Caltech. In addition, Breanna Yang will be going to Washington University and Chelsea Wu will be attending the University of Chicago. During high school, Min was the lieutenant and district governor for Key Club, class president for four years and Den Chief of his
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Boy Scouts troop. He was accepted into UPenn’s Wharton School of Business, where he will pursue a concentration in marketing and social impact. “I’m most excited about the people and new experiences that come from meeting new people. I always liked stepping out of what I’m used to, and I’m particularly excited to meet such a diverse group of people and live in a new state,” Min said via Instagram. Real, on the other hand, said he plans to major in bioengineering. For all four years of high school he was a member of the Science Olympiad team and served as an officer for three years. He says that he had always been interested in science and was eager to apply to the nation’s best bioengineering programs. “I was actually fortunate enough to have also gotten into the Biomedical Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins and Duke. In the end, Penn’s larger size, great location, social atmosphere and flexibility with the bioengineering curriculum swayed me,” Real said via Instagram.
“The main thing I’ll miss is just standing in front of students… and interacting with students.” DOUG LIST
Claremont-Pomona Executive President and the DBHS branch president, as well as co-president of FBLA. He also helped coordinate vari-
“The main thing I’ll miss is just standing in front of students… and interacting with students,” List said. “Absolutely the best part of being a teacher is getting to know those students, especially for the students that I have as freshmen and then I see them evolve through four years and graduate. That’s been a great pleasure, a great reward to have.” He is particularly proud of The Bull’s Eye’s success in write-off competitions throughout his 10 year tenure. “I’m lucky that I got to work on the newspaper and got to guide students in the newspaper so that, to me, is my legacy. It is how The Bull’s Eye continues to evolve and improve,” List said. “I feel proud that we were able to turn that into something that goes outside of this school and wins awards and is seen as a really good high school paper.” Comparatively, Photography teacher Foley has spent his entire career working in the field of education. “I’ve been here for ten years and
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Daniel Min, left, and William Chang will be heading east to UPenn and Cornell. Also travelling to the East Coast is Chang, who plans to pursue a major in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University. At school, Chang was heavily involved in the American Red Cross organization, serving as both the
During students’ four hectic high school years, teachers serve as steadfast anchors in the ebb and flow of secondary school life. However, at least four veteran Diamond Bar High School teachers, including multi-sport coach and math teacher Tony McCabe, Journalism and English teacher Doug List, Photography teacher Bill Foley and math teacher Hana Matloub, will be retiring this year. List joined the DBHS staff in 2011, bringing with him about 30 years of experience from the newspaper industry, most notably as a design editor for the Los Angeles Times. Throughout his career, List has taught sophomore, junior and senior English in addition to mentoring students in Journalism 1 and Journalism 2.