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A Global Lives volunteer films Dadah conversing with her husband Khadijah while working in fields around Sarimukti Village, Indonesia. The exhibit features 24 consecutive hours of her life from sleeping to washing clothing. GLOBAL LIVES | with permission

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts features the Global Lives Project

March 31, 2010

Meghan Helms Asst. A&E Editor Twenty-four hours of the lives of 10 ordinary people from across the globe, chosen to roughly represent the entire human population by age, sex, income and dwelling...

INA HERLIHY | the broadview Vendor Cynthia Gong bags strawberries at the weekly United Nations Plaza Farmers Market. Gong sells organic strawberries grown in Morgan Hill.

San Francisco farmers markets provide local fare and color

March 31, 2010

Jovel Queirolo Managing Editor Right off 280 the freeway on Alemany Boulevard is a converted parking lot with two city-block long rows of mural-covered concrete stalls where every Saturday morning,...

Womens Studies gives presentation on challenges of women today

Women’s Studies gives presentation on challenges of women today

March 30, 2010

Aggie Kruse & Colleen Scullion Reporters The influences of women on society and the challenges they face today were summarized in a full-school presentation by the Women’s Studies class yesterday...

A candle signals classmates to take turns complimenting Mary-Kate Cullinane during a seven-hour reflection at the Senior Class retreat last Friday at Bishop’s Ranch in Sonoma County. INA HERLIHY | the broadview

Students take time off for class retreats

March 29, 2010

Students participate in a unique class retreat each March designed for classmates to grow closer as a group through prayer and conversation, scaling walls, tiptoeing across tight ropes and reflection on...

“The Portrait of Marjorie Merriweather Post and Her Daughter” by Giulio de Blaas features Post wearing the Cartier pendant brooch featuring Indian-carved emeralds and diamonds, and created for the American socialite and founder of General Foods, Inc. in 1928

Cartier jewels come to Legion of Honor

February 12, 2010

Meghan Helms Assistant A&E Editor One hundred years of American culture is explored through Cartier jewelry at the “Cartier and America” exhibit now showing at the Legion of Honor. The exhibit...

Junior Sima Daniel practices a move from cardio kickboxing

Cardio kickboxing provides alternative workout

February 11, 2010

Anjali Shrestha Features Editor "Jab, punch, double time and ski, five, four, three, two, one,” the instructor yelled over the music in an upbeat and perky voice.” The class followed the instructor’s...

Seniors Amanda Aish, Caitie Sullivan, Rebecca Halloran, Charolette Kiaie and Alexis Otellini (left to right) listen to a lecture in their Women Studies course. They are currently learning about the definition of beauty and the way society perceives women. The class is one of the most popular among upperclassmen, with 28 seniors enrolled.

Seniors explore themes in women’s history, image & psychology in a college-style women’s studies class

February 11, 2010

Jovel Queirolo Managing Editor The F Period Women’s Studies class files into Room 305 during their final exam period not for a thick packet of questions and essays, but for a few hours of discussion,...

MAGGIE CUMMINGS | the broadview Sophomore Lily Kaplan talks to rising sophomore Francisca Bayer at lunch. Bayer lived and attended classes with freshman Cate Svendson but later during her stay she attended Women’s Studies, French and an Art Class on her own. It is summer for students in Chile, but the visitors from Reñaca are taking a few different classes at Convent that will not count for credit.

Students leave Chile for classes in San Francisco

February 11, 2010

Ava Martinez Reporter Years of English classes were put to the test for three exchange students from Colegio del Sagrado Corazon in Reñaca, Chile who lived and attended school with Convent students...

AMERICAN APPAREL | with permission “Legalize Gay” shirts are sold at American Apparel for $17. A similar clothing line is sold at Marc Jacobs.

Popular designers protest Prop 8

February 10, 2010

Ava Martinez Reporter Opponents of Proposition 8, a California initiative passed in 2008 banning single-sex marriage, and popular brands among teens and young adults have turned to clothing as a creative...

Junior Lauren Arnold, dressed up for the 1920s-theme, dances with her father at the annual Father Daughter Dinner Dance. Stompy Jones played swing music throughout the evening.

Fathers and daughters celebrate annual dance

February 4, 2010

Sara Kloepfer A&E Editor The Flood Mansion revisited the Roaring ’20s for the annual Father Daughter Dinner Dance Friday night, hosted by the Junior Class. Feathers and fedoras crowned the heads...

French Club serves up goûter

February 3, 2010

Rebecca Lee Reporter The smell of pastries wafted through the Main Hall and Marble Stairs as the French Club baked pain au chocolat. “It’s the typical goûter  —a French snack— for after...

Ray Cinti gives a talk about the coniferous forest biome during an AP Biology field study. Cinti will offer a course on conservation biology in addition to AP Biology next fall.

Science department to offer course on redwoods

February 3, 2010

Isabelle Pinard Reporter A hum of voices filled the Syufy Theater while Science Department Chair Raymond Cinti discused the new Conservation Biology class that he is offering next year. “I think...

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