The silence in the auditorium was broken by one team’s cheers. “I knew we had really good students, but you never know at these types of conferences, partly because the competition is always unexpected. I expected us to do well, but I’ve never had a team perform that well,” explains Matthew MacLeod, the advisor of the BHHS Model United Nations club. MacLeod’s BHHS Model UN team went up against
over 650 students from 30 competition and showing us schools from both the United how to pursue excellence. I had States and Europe at the 14th no doubts about our perforAnnual Michigan State Unimance as we neared the end of versity Model United the conference.” nations Conference on “I couldn’t be March 14th to the 16th. more proud. Our students The team performed I felt as if our were commit- students showed exceptionally well, ted to learnclaiming 21 individual a strong unawards which were won derstanding ing, having a in every single award good time, and of parliamencategory. They were tary procedure, really getting knowledge of also award with the title into the spirit their topic, and of Best Delegation for of Model UN. the entire competition. a willingness to “I knew we were work together MATTHEW MACLEOD prepared,” says Rohan in every single Model UN Advisor Sinha, one of the eight c o m m i t t e e ,” senior captains. “Coach says MacLeod. MacLeod has done an extraor“I think one of the reasons we dinary job preparing us for the did so well was because our
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Girl gets bullied, mom is mentally unstable, girl has supernatural powers, and more than your average number of people are murdered at the senior prom. Sounds like the average plot line to any high school musical. Right? “We had to do a little bit of [convincing] but then they said yes because they saw the potential in it,” shares Dean Cobb, co-director of North Farmington High School’s spring musical, Carrie: The Musical. The play is based off of the Stephen King novel in which the female lead is bullied throughout her entire life by other students and her mentally ill mother, realizes she has telekinetic powers, and takes revenge by murdering everyone and setting fire to her senior prom. According to Cobb, he and his wife, Sue, have been working with North Farmington High School’s theatre department for over 40 years, and have put on more than 81 productions since then. However,
no production of theirs has reached national news, nor sparked such controversy, as their decision to produce Carrie: The Musical this Spring. “I think the show is absolutely depressing,” shares community member and long-time Farmington School volunteer, Julie Devine. “ It leaves the message that no matter what you do or whom you reach out to, there is no recourse. I don’t think that is a message you want to give to high school students.” North Farmington High School student, and Carrie: The Musical cast member Gillian Greenbaum, defends Cobb’s decision saying, “The message of the show is to look at how doing one nice thing can change a person’s life and make them [such a better person,] as well as making a huge difference to them. The show has reemphasized that everyone should be nice to everyone they meet because you never know what they’re going through.” Since publicizing the announcement of the musical, Dean shares that he and his wife have been called “arrogant, careless, and insensitive. Those three words are just not what we are at all. CARRIE on We took offense to those.” A5
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They know something has to be done but they aren’t sure what it is…yet. “It would be so weird,” junior Emily Karp says of the district’s upcoming decision of what to do with the old Lahser High School building once the students and staff move into their new address in the fall of 2015. “My parents’ high schools are still standing. To think that when I would come back after five years to something else-- it would just feel really different. I think of it as a high school first and foremost.” With it’s impending closure on the horizon, facilitator Charlie Fleetham temporarily moderated the first of many meetings on February 24th to discuss the future of the current Bloomfield Hills High School main campus’ building. “The Lahser building and other plots throughout the district, like Pine Lake, will become vacant by 2015. Between now and then, the plan is to work with the community starting September,” says Board of Education trustee Howard Baron. “Six months from now, we will have a series of meetings with the community during the fall and winter of next year to determine what’s going to happen them.” According to Baron, while the process of what to do with the current building is complicated, BUILDING on there have been many ideas up in the air. A4
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As he walked into the cafeteria one afternoon, senior Sam West noticed something was missing. “The first thing that I noticed was that the double burgers were gone,” says West. “So I asked my friends about it and they said, ‘Everything’s gone. The ketchup’s gone.’” As First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program celebrates its fourth anniversary, schools, including Bloomfield Hills Schools, have been making changes to their school lunch programs as a result of government pressure. “There has been a lot of attention to nutrition in schools because that’s where children spend most of their time when they’re not at home,” says Marlene Schwartz, Deputy Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. “And because parents are not able to influence what their children have in schools, the schools are in a unique role where they need to take on some of that responsibility.” In early March, Bloomfield Hills High School limited the amount of ketchup students could use by removing condiment pumps and limiting students to only one packet of ketchup. While there were health benefits (one serving of ketchup from a condiment pump will contain roughly two and a half times as much sodium as one serving in a ketchup packet), the decision met with negative reaction from students, says West. “I was pretty upset about it because you have those little packets and it wasn’t enough,” he says. “When you have burgers and fries, you can’t spread the whole packet on the whole thing and I thought it wasn’t enough, and I think a lot of people felt the same way.” As a solution, West says he decided to bring in bottles of ketchup to share with his fellow students. “I thought it was unfair and so I decided to share some with everybody. I think it brought a lot of attention to the matter and maybe it was the reason for nixing the policy,” says West. Policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation Rachel Sheffield agrees with West, and says that federal nutrition policies are too stifling. “The recent reauthorization of federal nutrition programs has slapped additional regulations onto school cafeteria menus, dictating everything from the number of orange slices a child must put on his or her plate to whether peas and corn are acceptable foods for the lunch line.” Although Schwartz says she is pleased with some of this regulation, she also says it needs to continue to improve. “One of the things that I am disappointed to see is that there are quite strict standards as to what can be sold in elementary and middle schools,” says Schwartz. “But when you look at the high schools, 40% of what’s still being sold is not meeting those standards.”
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