The Roundtable Volume 11, Issue 5

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Starting guard Jay Henry Ryan ’20 dips his head into his shooting shirt after Friday's loss (left). Henry scored 10 points in the contest. Randy Dumalig ’18, Alayna Wong ’18 and Mark Bickle ’18 along with the rest of the student section look to distract opposing free throws from behind the backboard (right). The professional press noted Convent & Stuart Hall's raucous fans as one of the largest student-support sections at the event.

School shooting sparks national gun conversation Stoneman Douglas senior, Never Again MSD push for lasting gun control reform.

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Eli Mundy ’19 leads a group of students in a walkout on March 14. The walkout was part of a national movement organized by Never Again MSD

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ollowing the murder of 17 students at his school, Mar j or y St on e m an Douglas, senior David Hogg has gained national acclaim for his outspoken stance on gun control and school safety.

His work, and that of the Never Again MSD organization, has started a national movement in which Convent & Stuart Hall stud e nt s h av e participated.

Hogg has been on national news outlets calling for change to gun control laws, which has gained him both the admiration and hatred of many Americans.

March for Our Lives, which took place over the weekend, was organized by Never Again MSD to keep gun control in the national news cycle and to pressure politicians to take action, according to Hogg.

The Stoneman Douglas senior

was the keynote speaker at the march in Washington D.C. where he named a series of issues in America to which the crowd responded, “No More!” “[People] don’t understand what we’re saying,” Hogg said to The Roundtable. “They think we are trying to take their guns, when matter of fact is we’re not.

We aren’t trying to end the Second Amendment or anything like that. We are trying to have limitations on it.”

Hogg and his classmates founded Never Again MSD to fight for gun reform and to make school campuses safer. The idea for the organization came from MSD student Cameron Kasky, who enlisted the help of fellow students and alumni.

March for Our Lives had satelite marches around the country and the world and inspired the national school walk-

WE AREN’T TRYING TO END THE SECOND AMENDMENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE LIMITATIONS ON IT.” – DAVID HOGG

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peakers at the Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ annual Day of Learning tend to be adults, but a Stuart Hall student was invited to lead a workshop at this year’s event in effort to teach students about genocide.

Senior Seth Eislund led an hour-long workshop on the Yazidi genocide at the Day of Learning, which took place at Galileo High School, on March 4. The Day of Learning aims to cultivate an understanding of genocide in California students.

“I taught a workshop on the Yazidi genocide because it is important for people to know that the Holocaust wasn’t the only genocide that occurred in History,” Eislund said. “There have been genocides in Bosnia, Delfur, Sudan — and now the Yazidi genocide.”

The Yazidi genocide hasn’t received much publicity, but it is one of the most recent instances of an attempt to destroy a specific group of people.

“A Yazidi is a member of the Kurdish ethnic group, a group that lives around the Northern mountains of Iraq,” Eislund said.

“The Yazidis don’t practice Islam like other Kurds do. They practice their own syncretic religion that Extended Essay continues on 2

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Yazidi Genocide The United Nations has deemed the killing of Yazidis a genocide.

Yazidis are a minority of the Kurdish religion.

ISIS claims Yazidis are infidels because they don’t practice Islam.

Women who could not be sold into slavery were killed and buried in mass graves.

August 2014 saw 10,000 Yazidis killed.

Yazidis were encouraged to convert to Islam in order to be reunited with their families.

ISIS later deemed the conversions invalid and seperated the familes again.

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has aspects of Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism.”

ISIS is reportedly attempting to exterminate the Yazidis because they don’t practice Islam.

“A genocide is the attempt to eliminate in whole or in part an ethnic, racial, religious or political group, according to the United Nations,” Eislund said.

“What this involves in the Yazidi genocide is men being round up and executed in mass graves,” Eislund said. “Yazidi women become sex slaves traded by members of Isis, and then Yazidi boys are actually taken and indoctrinated to become Isis fighters and suicide bombers.”

The Yazidi genocide is being discussed, but Eislund says that doesn’t mean it is over.

“Not all the women have been recovered, and who knows if Isis is till killing Yazidi men,” Eislund said.

Eislund related the genocide to other instances of an attempt to abolish a particular group, such as the Holocaust, and then also opened a discussion.

“It was really powerful hearing about the atrocities of the Yazidi genocide, and it was even

more amazing to see one of my own peers, who was so well read on the subject, present,” Maxi Tellini ’20 said.

Close to 50 high school and middle school students from Northern California high schools and contributed to the discussion.

“As a Catholic I’m taught to live by forgiveness, but after hearing about how horribly the Yazidis are treated, it is hard to remember forgiveness,” Eman Olivares ’20 said in the discussion.

Eislund was asked to lead a workshop because of years of extensive research on the genocide. He was the only student to present at the Day of Learning.

“With regard to people in my age group, I am probably the closest thing to a Yazidi expert,” Eislund said. “That is the reason why the JFCS entrusted me to teach the workshop. They couldn’t really find anyone else who knew as much about the Yazidis.”

Eislund acknowledges that the Yazidi genocide is a peculiar subject to research.

“I had been reading in the news a lot about Isis,” Eislund said. “I started researching about

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Seth Eislund '18 instructs a session during the March 4 Day of Learning event at Galileo High School. Eislund began his studies on the topic of the Yazidi Genocide through his Internaional Baccalaureate Extended Essay.

their group, and that led me to Yazidis. I was fascinated by their religion and their culture.”

Eislund has researched the group for nearly two years now, and he says he plans to keep

Student body participates in national movement School shooting from 1

out that took place earlier this month.

Convent & Stuart Hall students, along with millions of students across the country, participated in the walkout on March 14 to try and bring awareness to the issue.

“You could feel the power that the shooting had around the nation, especially at a school like ours,” Max Rodriguez ’18 said. “You could just feel the energy and see the emotion in the faces of every student and faculty member.

Students on the Broadway campus walked down Fillmore Street with students from Convent Elementary and Stuart Hall for Boys, while students on the Pine Octavia Campus assembled outside the green gates and then walked around the block.

The #StandUpSpeakOutWalkout protest caused many students to be suspended for their participation such as in Cobb County, Georgia. and in

When the cameras go away, the guns start to come out. It is the inaction of our politicians that results in kids’ deaths.”

– David Hogg Independence, Missouri. Convent & Stuart Hall High School administration let students know beforehand that their participation would not result in disciplinary action, assuming they did not violate the Student Handbook in another manner.

“It was Sacred Heart education at its finest,” math teacher Lindsay MacGarva said. “ It was an example of Goal Five, ‘wise freedom,’ as well as Goal Three, ‘a social awareness which impels to action.’”

The occurrence and deadliness of school shootings has increased since the attack on

Columbine High School in Colorado which left 13 students and faculty members dead. Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary and Stoneman Douglas have been some of the schools to join Columbine in the history books as some of the most deadly.

"When the cameras go away, the guns start to come out,” Hogg said. “It is the inaction of our politicians that results in kids’ deaths.”

San Francisco has been relatively untouched by gun violence on school campuses, although four students were injured at the June Jordan School for Equity in 2016.

Infrequent events does not warrant a lack of awareness, ac-

You think it won’t happen to you but it can and it will, unless you take action.”

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cording to Hogg.

“We thought we were the safest school ever,” Hogg said.

“We were so sure this was not going to happen at our school that we thought it was a drill.”

Drills are not an infrequent occurrence at Convent & Stuart Hall which prepares for the event of an active shooter on campus by simulating “lockdown drills.” The school recently practiced one as a part of National School Safety week.

Students practice sheltering in place, out of view of the windows, as well as evacuating open spaces such as the courtyard and the Carrol Learning Commons.

Hogg says that these drills are important for safety, but that increasing gun control is an even better step to saving lives on school campuses, and that the best people to push for this reform are the youth themselves.

“You think it won’t happen to you but it can and it will, unless you take action,” Hogg said.

learning about the Yazidis and the genocide happening to them.

“That’s what Goal Two calls me to do,” Eislund said. “I definitely want to continue my studies.”

THERE HAVE BEEN 12 SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN 2018, SIX OF WHICH HAVE BEEN IN HIGH SCHOOLS. Italy High School, Texas Fifteen-year-old female student injured after ex-boyfriend open-fired in cantine.

NET Charter High School, La. One student injured after shots are fired out of a truck in parking lot.

Marshall County High School, Ky. Two students killed, 18 injured after 15 year old open fires in lobby.

Stoneman Douglas High School, Fla. Seventeen dead, 14 injured after 19-year-old ex-student open fires.

Huffman High School, Ala. One killed and two injured in apparent, accidental shooting.

Great Mills High School, Md. One dead and another injured after 17-year-old student fires on two students before being killed by a resource officer.

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Sage leaves students unsatisfied Students look off-campus to make up for food service's downfalls.

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ith two supermarkets within a mile of the school, Stuart Hall isn’t technically a food desert, but time constraints and limited on-campus choices make a variety of fresh lunch options seem like a mirage to students.

Stuart Hall has two on-campus lunch choices — Sage Dining Services and Walt’s Catering Service. Sage is officially contracted by the school, while Walt’s food truck stops by the school each day.

Sage started serving the Pine-Octavia campus in the fall, after the contract with previous food provider Epicurean terminated. Students say there is less of a selection with the new food service.

“There are normally burgers, chicken tenders, and then sometimes Chinese food or pasta,” Jack Cady ’21 said. “I would be upset eating there almost every day because of the lack of variety.”

Cady isn’t the only student who says the cafeteria offers the same three options every day.

Eighty-four percent of students say the Pine-Octavia campus offers three or fewer options for lunch on a daily basis, according to a Roundtable email survey to which over half of the student body responded.

“Space is our Achilles heel at Stuart Hall,” former manager of Convent & Stuart Hall’s Sage program Walter Ellerbe said about the small serving area on campus. “You guys are getting the burgers, the tenders, the pizza, and the fries.”

Sage also provides the Broadway campus with lunch. Breakfast and after school snacks are also available for purchase at

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Ben Kaplan ’18 and Jack Honeyman ’19 eat lunch from off-campus vendors. Students often look to Walt's food truck, Whole Foods, A&M Liquor, and Fillmore Street restaurants for other food options.

Broadway, while they aren’t offered at Stuart Hall.

Although 60 percent of Stuart Hall students say they rarely eat at Broadway, 83 percent say they would rather eat there.

“I rarely get a chance to eat at the [Broadway] cafeteria, but the few times I have eaten there, I have noticed it is a lot better than Stuart Hall,” Mattheus Tellini ’21 said. “Hot meals are more abundant there. There is a salad bar, and sandwiches are available.”

In addition to having access to both the Broadway and Pine-Octavia cafeterias for lunch, Stuart Hall students are able to dine off-campus. Ninety-four percent of students surveyed say they would rather eat off-campus than eat from Stuart Hall’s Sage program.

“I mainly eat off campus because there are so many high-quality restaurants on Fillmore,” Cady said.

While off-campus options are preferred by students, students say timing and pricing can make eating off-campus frequently a difficult task.

“Eating at Fillmore for lunch is both expensive and time consuming,” Donovan Warren ’19 said.

Restaurants on Fillmore are at least half a mile away from Pine-Octavia, while Whole Foods is a quarter mile away. The time it takes to walk off-campus, eat, pay and walk back varies each day.

“To get lunch on Fillmore with friends, it takes around 45 minutes,” Nick Lutz ’20 said.

“However if I am by myself, it takes 30 minutes, usually.”

For some students, choosing a lunch option is a matter of choosing between convenience and quality.

“Off-campus food can be good but expensive, and options available on campus can be more convenient or possibly less expensive, but not necessarily as good,” Warren said.

While Sage is contracted by Stuart Hall & Convent, food is a la carte, and parents pay for lunch electronically via My Kids Spending.

Meals at Sage are $7.50 and additional sides cost between

$2.75 and $4. Compared to a restaurant like Glaze, which offers entrees at $10.50 to $12.50, Sage is more economical.

“Eating off campus is only a little more expensive than Sage, as Sage is still expensive,” Tellini said. “The extra cost for eating off campus is worth the quality and taste of the food in my opinion.”

Walt’s Catering Service, the food truck that parks across the street from Stuart Hall, sells a variety of prepackaged food options and a few hot options.

“Walt’s is so inexpensive,” Tellini said. “You can get a meal at Walt’s for the cost of a side at Sage.”

Walt’s hot options are taquitos and dumplings. Prepackaged foods from Walt’s are Cup Noodles and other ramen meals, Costco muffins, sport and soft drinks and candy.

“Basically we have a food truck that only serves prepackaged food and cafeteria food that is the same every day — that is unless you want to not walk off-campus for lunch, spend a lot of money, and risk being late to class,” Warren said.

New club pops up Forgotten Causes hopes to raise awareness.

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hree juniors have created a club to address and bring awareness to forgotten or ignored issues that are important.

“We make projects and we have a website that coordinates different ways to be aware of causes that don’t make the media and don’t make the headlines,” Jason Arzhintar ’19 said.

Arzhintar, Lucas Horwitz, and Joshua Widjanarko created Forgotten Causes when they realized more awareness needed to be brought to events that weren’t publicized by the news for very long.

“The media will spend maybe one or two weeks on a hurricane, and then nobody remembers it two weeks later, so it’s putting the spotlight back on those types of disasters or shootings or events,” Widjanarko said.

The club is currently working on a project to raise awareness of the Venezuelan economic crisis

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that began in 2012 and devastated their economy.

“We made a small billboard that’s going to go up in the Morningstar Gallery on the second floor,” Arzhintar said. “We put it on our website, and we basically made a bunch of pictures and paragraphs that summarize the issue and show how it can be solved.”

Club members advise students to have a wider worldview and not focus only on their own lives.

“There are a lot of events that happen that people gloss over, because we’re all focused and in our own bubble,” Horwitz said.

“Sometimes it’s important to bring our focus to a more global picture and on the things that are not directly impacting us.”

Forgotten Causes recently interviewed a Venezuelan immigrant about the crisis, then discussed what they learned at their Tuesday meetings.

“We wanted to get someone who had first-hand experience

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Jason Arzhintar ’19 teaches during the Theory of Knowledge class. Arzhintar and his classmates have started a club to bring attention to events that have fallen out of the news cycle or not received wide media attention.

with living in Venezuela and living with the government they had,” Horwitz said. “We wanted to interview him to get a better picture of what it was like from a primary source.”

The experience was eye-opening for the interviewers.

“What we took away was that the situation has been building up for longer than we thought, essentially since Chavez was elected in 1999,” Horwitz said. “It really gave us context” The club's website, www.for-

gottencauses.wordpress.com, details factors contributing to the crisis.

The club plans to next publicize what students can do to help the people in Puerto Rico. “We’re talking about the hurricanes, specifically the hurricane in Puerto Rico,” Widjanarko said.

Currently, the club has nine members who are all juniors, but they invite everyone to join.

“Anyone who wants to come join us is more than welcome,” Arzhintar said.

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he east-side office, behind the front desk on the Pine & Octavia campus, has a new occupant. Greg Lobe, Stuart Hall’s newest associate director of admissions, has been in his position since the academic year began in August.

“It’s great he’s here,” Dean Reynolds Marquette said. “We all miss [Shuja] Kahn because we had a relationship with him and he did a great job, but Greg has some great ideas and fresh initiatives. He’s done a very good job with the admissions so far.”

Greg Lobe was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended an all-boys Jesuit high school, before graduatLobe ing from Miami University of Ohio as an international relations major. Lobe previously worked in the admissions office at The Orme School in Arizona, primarily handling international admissions.

“I was ready for a new challenge outside Arizona,” Lobe said. “San Francisco’s a very unique place as far as the climate, landscape and people go. I was attracted by Stuart Hall’s IB Programme and the sense of camaraderie and community at allboys schools.”

Lobe is a big NBA fan, though being from Cleveland, he's a Cavaliers fan and sees the Warriors as his nemesis. He also likes to fly drones for aerial photography and watch movies, but particularly likes to travel to new places. He spent a year and a half on an island off the coast of Brazil studying and learning Portuguese during college.

“I spend a lot of my free time traveling,” Lobe said. “My parents put an emphasis on stepping out of my comfort zone, and the one thing that’s always touched me the most is seeing different cultures.”

The associate director of admissions’ duties change throughout the year, according to Lobe.

From August to December, he runs the shadow program for prospective students, helps to coordinate to open houses, and is the point of contact for any potential incoming transfers or freshmen.

“It was great to see that Mr. Lobe already had such a good relationship with the boys,” head of school Tony Farrell said. “It also helped that he’s a very seasoned international traveler, especially in Central and South America.

It was the smaller interactions he had with the boys in line to get food or waiting for the bus that stood out to me and showed he’s already a strong part of the community.”

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California, along with Nevada and Massachusetts which also legalized recreational marijuana in 2018, joined Colorado, the first to legalize it in 2014. Today it is legal to use marijuana recreationally in eight states, with 21 other states only recognizing its medicinal usage.

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here is an app for everything, in 2018, and in California that includes marijuana

delivery.

Tech startup Eaze Solutions Inc. has been delivering medical marijuana to consumers since 2014, but with the legalization of pot in the state, Eaze has broken into the recreational market. The company believes the marijuana industry will expand rapidly and become a “very big market,” according to CEO Jim Patterson who spoke with TechCrunch.

Included in this very big market are those who are not of legal age, but have been able to obtain marijuana illegally through the Eaze app.

“If you successfully create an account then it is pretty easy,” a

San Francisco high school student, who uses marijuana and asked to remain anonymous, said.

“If you don’t, and you are relying on other people, it can be difficult sometimes.”

Eaze expects the recreational marijuana industry to include the sale of $1 billion of cannabis-related products by 2020.

Prior to California’s legalization of recreational marijuana, Eaze profited off the medical marijuana industry. Eaze offered – and still offers – a service known as EazeMD that issues consumers a medical marijuana license for $19. The process can be completed in a matter of minutes and requires only a picture of a driver’s license as proof of age and a short video call with an Eaze doctor.

Minors could have taken advantage of this process by photographing a fake ID, which can be

hard to verify through a digital photograph, but today, minors only need to provide proof age – most likely requiring a fake ID – when the product is delivered to them.

“Purchasing [from Eaze] is super simple,” a second San Francisco high school student said. “It’s just like buying anything online, all you have to do is pick out what you want, add it to your cart and then order.”

Marijuana is still not easily accessible to minors. The price and challenges of creating an account can still make weed hard to get a hold of.

“Weed is really expensive, at least compared to alcohol,” the first student said. “It also depends on who you know. At my school, there are a lot of people who can get weed for you, but at other schools it could be different.”

Starting in 2018, San Franciscans under 21 who are caught with cannabis will not be sentenced to jail time, and anyone who is in jail on a marijuana-related conviction will have the opportunity to be released from jail and/or have their records expunged.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced earlier this year that 3,000 marijuana-related misdemeanor cases will be dismissed and an additional 5,000 felony cases will be reviewed.

“The changes in Prop 64 haven’t changed how I act at all. At least in San Francisco, marijuana laws have been very relaxed and I’ve never worried about trouble with police.”

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seniors admit to using marijuana at least once and only 29 percent of seniors view regular marijuana smoking as being harmful, according to the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute and the National Institute of Drug Abuse for Teens. Seniors are more than twice as likely to use marijuana than sophomores.

“I’ve done a lot of research about marijuana on my own,” a student, who regularly uses marijuana and wished to remain anonymous, said. “I’ve decided that the health effects aren’t significant enough to stop me from partaking. Most of the research points towards mini-

Vape pens come in all sorts of sizes, although this is the most common shape. Inhaling smoke of any kind can be dangerous on several levels with the respiratory system, immune system and heart.

Unexpected toxins and carcinogens from the device itself can sometimes make it into the bloodstream through inhalation and cause serious health problems.

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The amount of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana has increased by nearly 6.26 percent over the past two plus decades, making marijuana products more potent and possibly more dangerous than in previous decades. It is possible to overdose on weed, although marijuana cannot cause death. “[The dangers] are always in the back of my head,” another student, who also wished to remain anonymous, said. “I usually only smoke on the weekends with friends and

JUULs are small and portable devices intended to reduce the health effects of second-hand smoke from cigarettes.

JUULs use refillable “pods” that come in many sugary different flavors, thus becoming very attractive to high school students. One pod also contains approximately the same amount of nicotine (0.7 mL) as a pack of cigarettes making them as addicting as the product they sought to replace.

PAX Era is the cannabis equivalent of the JUUL. Made by the same San Francisco-based brand, it is similar in its USB charging capabilities and flavorful, refillable “pods.”

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not during the school week, unless I have nothing due the next day because I don’t want to become dependent on it.”

THC is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, although weed comes in two three distinct strains, indica, sativa and hybrid.

Each strain evokes different effects, such as drowsiness, relaxation or happiness. Higher classifications of strains further divides types of marijuana. Different individuals may be attracted to different strains of weed based on the effect they am looking for.

“I use sativa when it comes

to relaxing and winding down after difficult weeks,” the student said. “I see it as more beneficial to my mental health then detrimental.

A study conducted by Rocío Martín-Santos, MD, PhD, at the University of Barcelona found evidence that students who ingest marijuana see changes in the structural and neurological aspects of their brain. These changes may have cognitive effects and those who begin smoking before the age of 16 and continue into adulthood may experience higher impulsivity.

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By Nicholas Hom '18

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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel

Wednesday, May 2 - Friday, May 18 IB Programme testing Saturday, May 19 Prom Monday, May 21 - Friday, May 25 Senior Week Thursday, May 24 Baccalaureate Mass Friday, May 25 Commencement*

Staff Editorial

Learning from our community

2018 has served as a period of growth for our school, but illuminated new areas for improvement.

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ecent events at Convent & Stuart Hall high school have proven to the student body that strength comes in numbers, and it is not impossible to be heard when you have the support of your peers.

This was most recently exemplified by the National School Walkout on March 14. Hundreds of Convent High School girls poured down Fillmore Street chanting for gun reform and lobbying for improved school safety measures, and Stuart Hall students had their own peaceful march around the Pine-Octavia Campus.

The student body's commitment to making its voices heard

and its commitment to the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart Education was on display that day.

The education at this school is not simply in preparation for higher levels of learning, but for the rest of our lives. That is why only onefifth of The Goals is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

The rest of The Goals teach students the importance of community and their role in that community. This year has taught many of us that our voices and opinions can only be heard with reinforcement from our peers.

The varsity basketball team could not have made its miraculous comeback at the NorCal

Regional Final at Saint Mary’s College High School without the support of the 100-plus Convent & Stuart Hall students and faculty members who sonically rivaled the home crowd.

The seniors could not have had a successful retreat without an understanding of the lives of their fellow classmates, and David Hogg’s voice could only have been heard and considered credible on a national scale with the help of his classmates at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The lesson that we must learn now is how to engage and learn from those who are different from ourselves. As just as we

have formed ours, other people around the nation have formed their own communities with their own views.

Even at basketball games, some of our chants can be thought of as disrespectful to the opposing team. We sometimes need that reminder from Mr. Farrell to stay in line with our own morals. As he commonly puts it, “Let it be about us, not about them.”

As we journey into the final days of the school year and into summer, we need to all remember that everybody is entitled to the beliefs of their own community, and only through respectful discourse can change be made.

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College denials are not the end of the road. have always fancied myself as a practical person, sometimes to a fault. I have never really been a dreamer, as I have always prefered to try and be realistic. I thought I was doing the same with the college admissions.

I thought I didn’t have a favorite school or a vision for college. I just wanted to go because that’s what high schoolers do after graduation, and I would figure out the rest upon my arrival.

I was wrong about myself, though. Subconsciously, I had crafted a dream that I would spend my collegiate days under the Southern California sun with a select group of my high school friends and a band of new

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friends I would make, of course.

I had the extracurriculars picked out, and I knew what my college days would look like.

I had always envisioned this, but never acknowledged that this was my dream. I told myself I didn’t care where I ended up, when in fact I had a dreamed about my future for nearly two whole years.

The words “We regret to inform you” shattered that dream in a fraction of a second. I never finished the letter, it was too painful, and what they said in the following paragraphs did not matter anyway.

The dream was dead. There would be no Southern California sun, no high school friends, no

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dream school.

The dream was one thing, but my understanding of self was another thing that “We regret to inform you” had rocked. Unbeknownst to me, I had thought of myself as worthy of the caliber of this particular institution, so when they decided that they could do better than me, I was not quite sure how to feel.

No emotion can really sum up how I felt. It was anger at the school for doing their job; it was mourning the loss of something I never had; it was fear of the uncertainty that now lay ahead.

“We regret to inform you” is more than a denial or missed opportunity, it is a serious blow, especially if it comes from

somewhere that you really care about.

It is not something that can go away by someone saying “They missed out on you” or “The whole thing is a total crapshoot,” but “We regret to inform you” does not sting forever. It does not determine the course of my life — or anyone’s for that matter.

If anything, it is a reason to work even harder.

“The dream” cannot be achieved at 17 years old, so it is deferred to when I am 21. Or 32. Or 92. Or whenever I find myself truly happy, and I am confident that it is only a matter of time until hard work gets me there.

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Scoreboard Basketball Results 1/27 1/30 2/2 2/6 2/14 2/17 2/21 2/24 3/7 3/10 3/13 3/17 3/23

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Head Coach Michael Buckley intructs sprinter and jumper Nick Ong ’19 during the King's Academy Invitational track and field meet earlier this month.

Ong has emerged as one of The Hall's top athletes in his third year on the team and looks poised to be a contributer this year and next.

Track and field continues winning tradition

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ith three section championships, two consecutive conference championships and five league titles all coming in the last six years, track and field is set to have another successful season, with many of the athletes returning.

“We didn’t lose that many seniors, so I’m not concerned about that,” said head coach Michael Buckley.

The team agrees they have what it takes to do well again this year.

“Hard work, determination,

and the will to do well all make the team successful,” Phoenix Aquino-Thomas ’18 said.

The team’s past success is mainly attributed to the athletes’ perseverance and dedication to advance to the postseason.

“I think we have a lot of talented guys on the track team, and all of us are always looking to improve,” 800-meter runner Skyler Dela Cruz ’19 said.

Many of the athletes have been preparing in the off-season with Buckley after school.

“I haven’t been doing a winter sport, so I’m doing winter con-

ditioning right now,” Dela Cruz said. “I am running and doing weights also.”

The distance runners are down in the weight room two to three times a week, lifting weights and doing cardiovascular exercises.

“Honestly, I just go to winter conditioning a lot,” Aquino-Thomas said. “I just go with all the other long distance people, because I know they’ve been preparing a lot too.”

High school track and field consists of 15 events. Convent & Stuart Hall participates in dis-

tance running, sprints, hurdles, relays and five field events.

The team’s first meet was the Sunset Invitational at Kezar Stadium in early March, and the season ends with the CIF Championships in June.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Buckley said. “Lots and lots of preparation to do, so depending on the events that we’re competing in, we have to aspire to have a high level of physical fitness, a high level of psychological preparation, and a great deal of skill.”

The team's next meet is on March 30 at Stanford University.

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nights baseball has stumbled out of the gate with 3-3 record, competing against strong competition across the Bay Area.

With four seniors graduating last year, the team is looking to the remaining starters to continue Stuart Hall’s history of success, winning the last seven league titles. The team has two new assistant coaches, Brendan and Kevin Schneider, who specialize in hitting and pitching, respectively. The Knights also have added Cecilia McQuaid ’21, the first girl on their roster in school history.

The team is led by captain Nicholas Hom ’18 who owns a team-best .444 average and is first on the squad in runs, hits, RBIs and doubles. Hom exploded for a three-hit, two-RBI game against Galileo on Feb. 24, which was the Knights’ first resounding win of the season.

“It's been the best start I've had in high school so far,” Hom said. “I don't know if it's simply because

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Angel Padilla ’18 takes batting practice at Kimbell field after school. The baseball team has been forced to find alternative ways to practice to due to the rains which have closed grass fields through much of March.

I'm a senior and have more experience or that I feel the responsibility to be a role model and produce hits for a team that's struggling offensively, but I hope that I can stay above .400 all season.”

The Knights followed up the 6-1 win over Galileo with a 6-3 loss to Sacred Heart Prep, a 1-0 loss to Aragon, a 3-2 win at College Prep, and 4-0 home victory against Urban in their first league game.

“We had a rough first inning against SHP that cost us the game, and our bats didn't come alive against Aragon,” captain Will Kahn ’18 said.

Kahn is batting .312 in the young season, which is an improvement on last year when the catcher batted .200. His strongest area has always been fielding, where Kahn currently owns a perfect fielding percentage.

“Coming off my season-ending injury from last year, I worked really hard during rehab and summer ball to work on the things I thought could use the most work,” Kahn said. “I had taken more pride in my fielding than hitting up until my injury, but when I wasn't able to throw, I turned my focus to hitting to try and balance out the two.”

The Knights face a strong league this year, which will make it difficult for them to capture their seventh league title. The team will try and defend their standing from their new home field at San Francisco State, where they practice and will play all of their home games.

“Going into league play, I think we’re looking pretty strong as we were able to hold our own against pretty strong opponents,” Kahn said. “Every player has been giving 100 percent at practices, and it’s been showing. I’m excited to see what we’re going to accomplish this year.”

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The Hall's memorable day ends in heartbreak

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fter a strong post-season, tournament run throughout the Northern California Sectional and Regional, the varsity Knights basketball team fell in the state championship game to View Park, the Southern California Regional Champion, 74-62.

"I feel like we didn’t play to our full potential,” starting point guard Miles Amos ’19 said. “Too many easy shots and put backs for them.”

Convent & Stuart Hall provided several charter buses for students who wished to attend the game on Friday, March 25. Classes were cancelled for the day, as over 90 percent of the student body chose to show up and represent the Knights as they faced off against the Knights of View Park Prep.

"We the North," printed in deep navy on white, Hanes T-shirts were worn by almost every member of the student fan section. The game day shirts were handed out by faculty and Student Council representatives after a morning assembly.

As the noon game time drew closer, the fan section also grew anxious for the first state championship birth in Stuart Hall's short, 18-year history.

View Park, out of southern Los Angeles, was a larger team

than the Knights with nine roster members over six feet to the The Hall's seven, and four over 6-foot4-inch to the Knights’ one.

"Their interior defense was very good," six-foot-four-inch Nigel Burris ’21 said. “They had ten blocks during the game, and it was difficult for us to score because they were taller and more athletic. We had too many turnovers to give ourselves a chance to be more competitive.”

I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE COME TOGETHER FOR A COMMON GOAL.” – BEN CROSS Unlike the regional final game, where the Knights went down 3417 to St. Mary’s of Albany at the half, the team was only down 3324 at the same point. But while the Knights of Stuart Hall mounted a large comeback during the third quarter of the Regional Final against St. Mary’s, they were unable to do so against View Park.

View Park took advantage of their height and was able to out-rebound The Hall and put back any jumpers that missed their mark. Amos also had to go through concussion protocol after hitting the ground hard on a

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“We came together in a a way we never had before, especially with them being tthe No. 1 seed. It helped me to see what our team was really capable of.”

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Alex Byrd ’19 goes in for a layup in the second half. Byrd finished with only one point, but seven assists and two rebounds.

5. Golden 1 Center With a No. 9 seed in the state tournament, The Hall was forced to play on the road for four out of its five playoff games. The journey around Northern California saw the Knights eliminate higher ranked seeds three times, before losing in the state championship.

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Miles Amos ’19 recieves medical attention after falling on his back after being fouled on a put-back dunk. Amos re-entered the game after going through a concussion protocol.

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Nigel Burris ’21 takes a break during a View Park free throw, as the Convent & Stuart Hall crowd looks on. Classes were cancelled for the day and students were bussed to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

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crowd-raising put-back dunk early in the third.

“After my fall, I was ready to go back in, but it was better to get a quick breather,” Amos said. “It was the state championship game.

Nothing was going to stop me from getting back in the game.”

But, the Knights of Stuart Hall were unable to regain any solid momentum from this point onward, as many hardly-fought baskets were countered by View Park scores on the opposite end. The Knights were never able to get back within 11 points.

The Knights cleared their bench in the final minute, where JV call-up Kyle Jasper ’20 hit a three-pointer to raise the spirits of the now quieter support section.

The Knights shot 24 of 63 (38 percent) from the field to the 31 of 56 (55 percent) of View Park.

Amos ended the game with 21 points among five rebounds and four assists, Burris finished with 13 for himself, Ryan had 10.

The loss could not put a complete stopper to the legacy of the 2018 Knights, as the regional final against St. Mary’s the week before is heralded by some as the best game they have ever seen.

“I have never seen so many people come together for a common goal during my four years of attending Stuart Hall,” Ben Cross ’18 said. “It was magical.”

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SHHS 14 10 15 23 62 “I feel like we didn’t play to our full potential. Too many easy shots and putbacks for them. After my fall, I was justt ready to go back in — it was the state championship game.”

— Miles Amos Leet Miller | The Roundtable Jorim Powell ’18 holds the runner-up trophy after Friday's game. Powell also won a medal for good sportsmanship.