The Roundtable Volume 13, Issue 2

The student-run publication of Stuart Hall High School | 1715 Octavia Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Volume 13, Issue 2 | Friday, March 29, 2019

Lunch to be included in tuition next year Increase not associated with catering program

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Alessio Dominguez '19, who forgot to bring his lunch ticket lanyard, signs a form in front of SAGE Team Member Staci Jones to get lunch. SAGE requires all students who have paid for this semester's lunch program to wear lanyards as proof of enrollment.

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unch service will be included with tuition in the 2019-20 school year, meaning students will no longer have to commit to a semester meal plan, bring a lunch, or eat off-campus.

“I think it's just nice not to have that added cost, and I think it's wonderful to have the community experience of being able to be here and gather to eat,” President Ann Marie Krejcarek said.

“It does work within our Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria — eating a nutritious meal as a community.”

Students say having lunch available on campus each day will be efficient as well.

“If everyone eats at school, it will be more convenient and comfortable,” Kyo Torres ’20 said.

“I often end up packing my lunch in case I have a meeting, so having food ready on campus will be so helpful.”

“The included lunch will be much more convenient,” Nick

Lutz ’20 said. “It means I will be eating off-campus less. The lunch is provided every day, most parents will be less inclined to give their kids money for lunch.”

Even though lunch will be provided on-campus, students will still have the opportunity to eat off-campus.

“No one's required to have lunch, but we're offering it,” Krejcarek said. “So if some folks would still choose not to, that’s fine too.”

While students and families won’t have to pay for lunch under the new plan, the tuition will be increasing, as usual, for the 20192020 school year. Krejcarek says that the increase isn’t due to the new lunch plan.

“The tuition increased for its percentage, and it's a pretty average increase,” Krejcarek said.

“Every year we try to be more prudent with our spending to be able to do more. Our priorities are making sure our salaries are competitive, our benefits are competitive, and our program is competitive.”

Team morale strong despite rocky start Knights victorious over Huskies 20-9 and are now 4-3 for season

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acrosse beat Washington High School 20-9 in its rematch on Tuesday, improving the Knights to a 4-3 record.

“It was a huge win for our team,” David Tobin ’21 said.

The team’s captain says the team is the best it has been since he started playing.

“The team is looking solid this year,” Andreas Camahort ’19 said. “We are focused and working hard, both in the weight room and on the field.”

The Knights say that team chemistry has skyrocketed.

“This year, we have a much more well-rounded team,” Tobin said. “We are able to pass the ball around and everybody has a chance to score. We all support each other.”

While the Knights have lost three games this season, all were league powerhouses who took advantage of the Knights’ sparse bench.

“We lost a close game to Branson (9-13), but it was one of the better games we’ve ever played; they just had more subs,” Tobin said. “We also lost to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (6-15), who’s a very talented team, however, I feel like we are playing really great overall.”

With games coming up against University and Urban, the Knights will need to be at the top of their game, and having fans helps.

“We would love all the support we could get at all our games,” Tobin said. “It’s great to see people come out and watch us play.

It energizes us and helps us win games.”

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Ben Rinehart '22 runs with the ball from a Washington Husky. The Stuart Hall Knights defeated the Washington High School of Fremont for the second time this season.

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Community increases cancer awareness Student and teacher make effort to help cancer patients Owen Murray & Nik Chupkin

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Spanish teacher Cynthia Ovares shaved her head to support her friend Melissa King, who suffers from breast cancer. She donated her hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit charity that uses donated hair to make wigs for children who are cancer survivors.

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wo Stuart Hall community members are spreading cancer awareness by voluntarily doing something that chemotherapy patients dread: losing their hair.

“Two weeks ago, I went and shaved my head to raise money,” Connor Caba ’22 said. “The money goes to a nonprofit organization called St. Baldrick’s, which works towards a cure for cancer.”

Caba has been shaving his head each year around March since the second grade to raise money for the organization. Caba raised more than he expected this year.

“I never thought I could make such a difference by just shaving my head,” Caba said. “I’ve raised around $500 already, and I originally planned on raising $300.”

Caba isn’t the only community member who shaved their head, though. Spanish teacher Cynthia

Ovares also cut her hair, but is donating it to a charity.

“Michael Campos cut off the back half of my hair, which I will be donating to Locks of Love,” Ovares said. “I will also be cutting the rest of my hair off with my best friend Melissa King, who is currently battling breast cancer.”

Ovares says the actual act of shaving off her hair is important to support her friend.

“When I told her I wanted to do this with her, she said ‘No, I love your hair,’” Ovares said. “But I told her ‘It's just hair, it’ll grow back,’ and I told her she shouldn't have to go through this alone, and hair should not define us.”

Ovares’ drive to shave her head

wasn’t only fueled by her best friend.

“I, too, am a cancer survivor,” Ovares said. “I had cervical cancer almost 10 years ago, and I was lucky enough that it was a best case scenario, and I didn't have to lose my hair. I feel like the least I can do3.is give back.”

Like Ovares, Caba decided to first shave his head because his family saw firsthand the effects of cancer.

“The first year that I did it, a friend of my dad’s had cancer,” Caba said.

“I wanted to help, and I’ve wanted1.to help since.”

Caba sometimes sports a hat around school, but he says being hairless is an important part of spreading awareness.

I JUST WANT TO REACH OUT TO MORE PEOPLE" —CONNOR CABA

New design program to begin in fall Students will create solutions for global problems

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Monty Buesnel ’21 discusses Design to Action with computer science teacher Liam Carey to help him decide whether or not to participate in the program next school year. D2A will allow students to develop innovative ways to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goals.

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onvent & Stuart Hall is launching a program in the 2019-20 school year that will allow high school students to design innovative solutions for global problems.

“Design to Action is an independent study centered around developing solutions to problems that interest students,” Liam Carey, computer science and digital design teacher, said.

“Students will target an issue that concerns them and use an iterative process that incorporates aspects of design thinking to develop a solution to the problem.”

Students will present their solutions to a board of qualified individuals who will decide whether or not to award the student a grant to implement their solutions.

“Students need support along the way when developing an idea,” Carey said. “Our goal is to take students’ solutions to the next level and getting funding to really get it started.”

Throughout the year, students will work in groups to design efficient solutions to meet the sustainable development goals out-

lined by the UN. “They will be working individually as well as collaboratively to define the problem,” Carey said, “before testing their solution and receiving feedback to continue to improve upon it.”

After designing their solutions, students will compete for the Launch Grant, which was started

by President Ann Marie Krejcarek as a way to give students opportunities to implement their ideas.

“The idea is to give our students experience and demonstrate what it means to generate ideas and then bring them to the market,” Krejcarek said. “You can have a great idea, but how can we help give exposure to what that process is? That’s how the economy works.”

The grant began when Krejcarek got to know a now-deceased graduate of Lone Mountain, a former Sacred Heart college in San Francisco, who gave a generous gift of money to the school and let Krejcarek decide what the proceeds would be used for.

“I wanted a portion of that to honor her,” Krejcarek said.” I used the money that way because of what I knew about her own background. She was a scientist herself

THE IDEA IS TO GIVE OUR STUDENTS EXPERIENCE" —ANN MARIE KREJCAREK

and had a strong impact in the STEM area.”

Students say they are excited to participate in the project and say they hope it will help them develop leadership skills in their future careers.

“This program will help me excel both during high school and after I graduate,” Eamonn Kenny ’21 said. “D2A is all about formulating a plan and executing it. This translates into a real life job because if you can create a plan and stick to it, then you can achieve whatever you want.”

Despite his busy schedule in the upcoming school year, Kenny says he is ready to take this program on.

“I’ve always been interested in leading teams and classes,” Kenny said. “I aspire to be both a captain on the soccer field and in the classroom, and I think that Design to Action will help me achieve that.”

When asked about disinterest in the program, Carey said he does not want students to miss an opportunity like this one.

“This is the opportunity for students to have a voice in their curriculum,” Carey said. We have worked to develop a program that can work around the many other interests and commitments students have while allowing them to do something much more tangible and powerful in the world outside the classroom.”

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