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Student activities coordinators take charge
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Introducing a new student council member
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Debriefing the upcoming mayoral election
Monday, September 30, 2024
A summer of must-see movies
Fiona Kenny, Heidi Yeung Web Editors
This summer has been a blockbuster season, packed with various flms catered to all tastes. With a lineup ranging from heartfelt dramas to highenergy action flms, there was no shortage of cinematic experiences for students to enjoy this summer.
Colleen Hoover, a very popular novelist, published the novel “It Ends With Us” back in 2016. Due to the immense popularity of the book, the movie adaptation began production in 2023, releasing in August of this year, according to Fandango. Touching on young love and domestic violence, the movie was intended to create both an informative platform and a dramatic storyline following the novel.
“Engaging art on sensitive topics can make it easier for people to understand the realities of what's happening,” junior Sophie Ignatova said. “I defnitely liked the movie but it was a bit too diferent
Revisiting recent movie releases
from the original book to make me love it,”
Another popular movie, “Twisters,” released in July, gained signifcant media attention, grossing $361.6 million internationally, according to Box Ofce Mojo. Te flm follows a young female scientist working to predict and better prevent tornadoes. Te movie specifcally went viral online for movie screenings in the 4DX format, which incorporates wind and water efects as well as moving seats in the theater.
“Watching ‘Twisters’ live in a theater with so many visual and physical efects was a super fun experience,” junior Elizabeth Fox said. “It adds such a dramatic element to movie-watching, and while it may not be applicable for all genres, I found it very thrilling for this movie, and I hope to see more new movie releases incorporate this feature,”
“Twisters” has gathered strong reactions from audiences, praised both for the
4DX experience, but also for the strong character driven narrative. Te flm's ability to connect with the viewers through the characters was one of the best features in the movie, according to junior Alisa Houts.
“Twisters was one of my favorite movies I have watched in a long time,” Houts said. “I was so engaged at every moment during the movie not even because of the 4DX experience, but the relationships between the characters were so compelling,”
“Fly Me to Te Moon” proved to be another hit flm with its summer release. A cross between a historical fction, romantic comedy and drama, the flm retells the story of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing through the lens of a NASA ofcial. Te flm provides a detailed depiction of the era’s technological achievements and personal stories, ofering a comprehensive look at the Apollo mission’s impact.
“I thoroughly enjoyed ‘Fly Me to Te Moon’ — I thought that every cliche was
well done, and I laughed throughout,” Head of School Tony Farrell said. “While I thought that there was not much chemistry between the romantic leads, I found the costume design to be on point, and the historical context was very accurate,” Other summer movie releases of the summer include “MaXXXine,” the third flm in the horror “X” trilogy, as well as “Furiosa”, the prequel to “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Te newest installment in the Marvel cinematic universe “Deadpool & Wolverine” also came out, scoring 78% on Rotten Tomatoes and 95% on the audience scoring.
“I felt like there was always a movie that we wanted to watch in theaters which I don't remember always being a big thing,” Ignatova said. “I really enjoyed watching ‘Twisters’ and ‘It Ends With Us’, but there are so many that I haven't watched yet seen like ‘A Quiet Place.’”
Convent of the Sacred Heart HS | San Francisco, California
Madelon Podell | THE BROADVIEW
New additions encourage students to create meaningful connections Advisory + Clubs = Community Love
Rachael Gee and Cece Aliabadi Feature Editor and Reporter
As we start a new school year, many new changes are taking place in hopes of improving school life. One such change is the addition of the Student Activities position within the faculty, whose role is organizing time for students to engage in club activities and plan student events such as Homecoming and Prom.
Tis year’s Student Activities coordinators are history teacher Lauren O’Donnell and mathematics teacher Anthony Clemons. Tey are key voices in the advocacy for growing deeper relationships between students and adding new ways to improve our community life, such as the ‘FLEX’ period, according to O’Donnell.
“ Te Student Activities role is a new position that Mr. Clemons and I are both helping with, and the idea is to have a little bit more attention and focus on the student experience,” O’Donnell said. “We broke up options and rigor for students to do academic activities by reorganizing the way we do clubs,”
In the past, clubs did not have as much time to meet, so the Student Activity coordina-
We want to feel like we are part of the community here, so I hope we are able to enhance the joy on campus a little bit.
— Anthony Clemons
grade levels.
“We want to feel like we are part of the community here, so I hope that we are able to enhance the joy on campus a little bit,” Clemons said. “So thinking about clubs, assemblies, and student activities more generally, how can we elevate all students’ experience so that we're all having fun?”
tors implemented the new ‘FLEX’ block to help students better engage with their clubs during the school day. ‘FLEX’ block occurs every Wednesday afernoon and opens up room for activities such as clubs and special events like author visits or assemblies. Te ‘FLEX’ time allows clubs to be better organized and accessible, which should increase student productivity and create a space for collaboration across
Te club application process is more standardized this year to ensure that students don’t sign up for more clubs than they can handle. Each student had the opportunity to rank their top four favorite clubs, which was then sent to O’Donnell and Clemons to be sorted. Each student will end up with an A and B time club which they will then visit according to the ‘FLEX’ schedule that week.
Another contribution the Student Activities coordinators have implemented to the 2024-2025 school year is the addi-
tion of an Advisory in the morning. While there is now a designated 40-minute period for Advisory, the reasoning behind this block is to stimulate connection between advisees in an Advisory, according to O’Donnell.
Tere will be activities planned each morning for each Advisory to complete and submit, which will ultimately lead to points being awarded for each challenge. Te advisory points will be accumulated into one value and put into competition against the other advisories. In the end, the competition is based on grade level, which aims to create a closer bond between the members of an advisory, according to O’Donnell.
“Honestly, I like the ‘FLEX’ block, because last year was really unorganized and I didn't feel like anyone was actually going to their club meetings; now that there is a specifed time for it, it’s much better,”
sophomore Asha Mehta said. “I think that the Advisory block is nice because it allows students to build connections with their advisory groups since last year we didn’t meet a lot but now there is a specifc time to bond and do activities,”
Another way that Convent and Stuart Hall is attempting to increase connection is through the restriction of phone usage during all academic hours of the day, allowing phones before school, during lunch period, and afer school. Tis change is intended to encourage students to engage with each other without the barrier of phones as a distraction, according to Convent High School Division Head Rachel Simpson.
“I think the phone restrictions are a good thing,” junior Laya Grace Dixon said. “When I come up to a group of people, I feel like I’ve gotten to have really nice conversations with them because they are not on their phones,” Overall, the goal of this 2024-
When I come up to a group of people, I feel like I've gotten to have really nice conversations with them because they are not on their
phones.
— Layla Grace Dixon
25 school year is to foster connections between students, as seen through added time for clubs, activities in Advisory, and less time spent on screens. Te hope is that the connections we make will teach us valuable lessons outside of the classroom.
“Having ‘FLEX’ time, which is dedicated Club time during the school day, will make it a lot easier for students to meet up with each other and actually have the time and space,” said O’Donnell. “It’s important for students to have the opportunity to experience club life and collaborate with others.”
The DepARTment of Arts at Convent
Introducing the new arts representative and her plans for the year
Hope Wong and Natasha Charas Art Editor and Reporter
Te Art Representative is one of the various student council roles within the high school student government. Other positions alongside this include Equity and Inclusion Representative, Sports Representative, and Spirit Representative. Tis role in particular is meant to call attention to diferent activities, events and opportunities presented across the various types of arts programs throughout the community.
Afer being elected last year, senior Sarah Batt is now Convent High School’s new Art Representative. Batt has been an active member of the school’s art community, participating in both visual and performing arts since freshman year.
“For what inspired me to run for arts representative - I’ve kind of done all of the arts at Convent: I was in the fall play freshman year, and then, sophomore year, I also took Drama and AP Art History,” Batt said. “Now I take IB HL Art, and so I just really love art at Convent, and I want-
I wanted to bring more attention...to all the great artists and exhibitions at school.
— Sarah Batt
ed to bring more attention to performing arts and also to all the great artists and exhibitions at school,”
Tere are many diferent types of ways to express creativity through both the visual and performing arts presented at school. In-school classes include Drama, Art Foundations, diferent types of Digital Design, AP Art History, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music and even more options for IB students.
“Honestly I like teaching Art Foundations I because I like having freshmen; I like seeing everyone integrate into the
ART representative senior Sarah Batt
produces.
school and make friends,” Art Teacher Julie Martin said. “I also like seeing them start to learn about art from the very foundations,”
Aside from art classes during the school day, there are productions for performing arts all year round; this year, there will be “ Te Addams Family Musical”, the Student Arts Workshop (a compilation of performances written or directed by students), “Romeo and Juliet”, and “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”. For visual art, there are art exhibitions (like those for the IB Art students) and events such as the Heart of Art event.
“Heart of Art is essentially where we invite the entire school community to do art for the weekend together,” Batt said. “I just wish people were more aware of all the diferent opportunities that happen at school with art, and there defnitely are a lot,”
In addition to the IB Art Exhibit, there
will be another Final Spring Exhibit happening on the Pine and Octavia campus. Te art that will be shown there will be from the Art Foundations classes (I and II), Digital Design and Video Production. Tere will also be some art in response to the trip that students will take to Co-
I'm really looking forward to...seeing art abroad with everybody.
— Julie Martin
penhagen and Berlin over Tanksgiving break.
Te Copenhagen trip will be a trip that students take to observe art in another country. It will be an Art and Global Politics-focused trip that is primarily for the observation of international art, as well as to compare and contrast the diferent artworks from there to the art here. “I’m actually going on the Copenhagen Art and GloPo trip in November,” Martin said. “So I’m really looking forward to traveling and seeing art abroad with everybody,”
Te Arts department has many plans for the year ahead. Batt reveals that one of her main goals as the new art representative is to aid the artists in our community by displaying more of the students’ artwork around the school. A specifc project she hopes to share with more people this year is the seniors’ IB end-of-year art display. Te IB Art exposition presents the seniors’ coursework from the past two years in their art class, and it is open for the families and students of Convent and Stuart Hall to attend.
“Some personal goals as the arts rep include exhibiting more student art around the school,” Batt said. “ Tese goals include helping to advertise performing arts and the art in service that we have, like the apprenticeship program and school art shows, especially because the IB students put a lot of efort into those,”
Batt’s other plan for the arts department this year is to increase attendance at school exhibitions and plays. To accomplish this, more advertisements will be created for the families of students so everyone is aware and feels welcome to come to the upcoming shows and concerts. Batt also hopes to raise awareness about the art apprenticeship program, an annual program between the school and art residents to collaborate on an artistic project. Students are invited to work alongside the residents as their apprentices.
“Essentially, every year, the art department welcomes an artist in residence, and they do a project with the school,” Batt said. “And so we invite students, which we call art apprentices, to work with the artist to work on the school project.”
Sarah Batt | WITH PERMISSION
brainstorms a sketch for her IB Final Exhibition. Each frame will hold a different piece of art she
Sarah Batt | WITH PERMISSION
BATT works on another art piece
her IB Final Exhibition.
PJ DAY
Students arrived on Monday in their coziest attire. Seniors even watched the sunrise in their sleeping garments.
SPIRIT WEEK
JERSEY DAY
Sports, sports, sports!!! On Tuesday, students got to sport their own jerseys or those of more professional organizations.
DRESS UNIFORM
Thursday morning students dusted off their most formal garb for the Mass of the Holy Spirit. This year the mass was unconventionally held in the gym.
TEACHER-STUDENT
SWAP
Who wore it best? Students and teachers swapped personas for a day.
RED OUT
To celebrate the Cubs volleyball team, everybody came dressed in all shades of red head to toe.
popularchoiceamongteachersimitatingstudents.
Junior Julia McKinnon dressed as Head of School Rachel Simpson. Many students chose to dress up like teachers they would see that
Seniors Ellie Rosa and Georgia Doyle posing in front of the sunrise. The frame was
Seniors Ava Valentino, Peyton Spaht and Margaux Tellini pose in their matching night gowns called 'Sleepy Onez'. Students still respected basic dresscode for the week.
Juniors Pitzi Fichtner and Elizabeth Fox rep local teams for Jersey Day.The most popular sports team in the Bay Area is the San Francisco 49ers.
Sophomores Chase Haswell and Fiona Brentani sporting their baseball jerseys.
Student Life Coordinators Anthony Clemons and Lauren O'Donnell disguise themselves as highschoolers. Hoodies and baggy jeans were a
Senior Joelle Lai cheers on the Cubs as the varsity volleyball team takes on Summit Tamalpais. Seniors got priority on the bleachers along with
English teacher Daniel Bush proudly supporting the volleyball team in his red gear. All of the sporting events had school merchandise given away and sold including hats, hoodies and t-shirts.
HOMECOMING IS UPON US!
2024 Homecoming with a spirit week, volleyball game, movie night social and football game
Amrita Rajpal Editor-in-Chief
This year Homecoming falls on the week of Monday, Sept. 23, and culminates with a Saturday day night football game at Kezar Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 28. Homecoming this year is kicking of with a week full of spirit days, some of them throwbacks from the past years, and a couple of new ones. Monday is Pajama Day which is a fan favorite with students, allowing students to come to school looking like they rolled out of bed. Tuesday is jersey day and students are invited to wear their own sports team’s jerseys or professional teams. Wednesday is a new day, with the theme of teacher-student swap day where students don the outfts of their favorite teachers and vice versa. We are looking forward to seeing all our faculty in some collared shirts! Tursday is dress uniform, as the community will be attending the Mass of the Holy Spirit. Friday is Red Out since the Homecoming volleyball game and movie night social follow the school day with a screening of the classic Pixar movie Cars in the Little Teater. And lastly, to close out homecoming week there is a Saturday Night Lights football game at Kezar Stadium, with a grey-out theme.
2024 HOMECOMING SCORES
Meet the Mayors
Charlotte Morris and Elsie Scott Managing Editor and City Life Editor
MARK FARRELL
Mark Farrell is a candidate for the upcoming 2024 San Francisco Mayoral Election. He was the 44th Mayor of San Francisco and currently lives in the Laurel Heights area of San Francisco with wife and three children. As prospective mayor of San Francisco, Farrell wants to emphasize the importance of public safety as the government’s number one priority, according to his campaign website. As a family man, Farrell aims to cre-
ate a powerful future generation by improving the lives of families and children through restoring San Francisco’s public education systems,public health and childcare.
Farrell is running as a nonpartisan candidate, committed to the improvement of public safety, treating drug addiction and mental health in homelessness and strengthening families through public health and education.
LONDON BREED
London Breed is the current Mayor in San Francisco and is running for her second term in the 2024 Mayoral Election. Breed became the frst African American woman to become Mayor in San Francisco’s history. She previously held the role of District 5 Supervisor, as well as President of Supervisors. First elected as mayor in 2018, she brought San Francisco through the COVID-19 pandemic and led the frst 1st COVID shutdown in the country,
according to her ofcial website. For her prospective next term, Breed aims to focus on creating afordable housing, resolving homelessness and revitalizing downtown San Francisco.
Breed is running as a nonpartisan candidate for this upcoming election. She strives to provide housing for low-income families and resolve homelessness in downtown San Francisco, as well as eliminating crime by ensuring public safety.
DANIEL LURIE
Daniel Lurie is one of the 2024 Mayoral candidates in San Francisco. Lurie is a 47-year-old San Francisco local who attended the Town School for Boys, University High School, and Duke University. He is known as a philanthropist for founding the Tipping Point Community (TPC) in 2005, according to his ofcial campaign website. Te TPC’s goals are to fund and support impactful poverty-fghting organizations in San Francisco,
without taking a cent of government money. Lurie has committed to raising money to reduce chronic homelessness in San Francisco. He announced his ofcial candidacy for mayor on Sept. 26, 2023.
Lurie is running as a nonpartisan candidate, with the main priorities of public safety, the mental health and drug crisis, accountability and anti-corruption, housing and homelessness.
NELSON MEI
Nelson Mei is another candidate running in the 2024 San Francisco Mayoral Election. Mei is a current San Francisco resident and has attended UC San Diego and San Francisco State University. Mei decided to run for mayor afer he witnessed frsthand the decline of San Francisco over the past few years, according to his ofcial campaign website. He wants to revive San Fran-
cisco and return it back into a thriving and vibrant city. Mei aspires to solve San Francisco’s issues using a result-oriented approach.
Mei is running as a nonpartisan candidate with the commitment to: address public safety, reinforce the police, tackle the homelessness crisis and revitalize San Francisco.