The Broadview

Students address contagious virus

A map provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention displays the countries to which the Coronavirus has spread. The virus has now affected over 4,000 people in about fifteen different countries, with the death toll exceeding 100.

January 28, 2020

WEB EXCLUSIVE With the deadly Coronavirus sweeping through China and other parts of the world, students are expressing concerns for friends and family members abroad. The virus started in the city of Wuhan in China and has spread to about fifteen other countries, including the United States. The vir...

Tags: airport, China, coronavirus, epidemic, fever

Chinese artists share culture

Chinese dancers perform in Syufy Theatre in honor of the Chinese New Year on Monday. The Heilongjiang Art Troupe of China performed for schools around the Bay Area, including Convent & Stuart Hall's upper and lower schools.

Mason Cooney, Features Editor

February 26, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Vibrant colors and music filled Syufy Theatre during assembly today as The Heilongjiang Art Troupe of China performed in celebration of the Chinese New Year. The performance featured singing, dancing, interactive magic tricks and instrumental pieces in an aim to introduce Chinese cu...

Tags: China, Chinese New Year, Convent High School, culture, festival, Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Art Troupe, Mandarin, Schools of the Sacred Heart, Year of the Dog

Studying abroad cultivates personal interests

Asha Khanna, Copy Editor

May 23, 2017

While some were swimming or tanning, junior Annabelle Leung spent four weeks last summer in Beijing, visiting historical sites like the Great Wall of China and Forbidden City and taking Mandarin classes to improve her fluency. “I adapted super quickly to being in China and away from home because I w...

Tags: ally arora, Annabelle Leung, China, Europe, isis boivin, language immersion, photography, Service, Summer, traveling

Chinese New Year assembly hosts dance and singing group

The Han ethnic group perform “A Hundred Flowers Blossom with Beauty” dance. The dresses represented the beauty of flowers, water and fire.

Asha Khanna, Copy Editor

February 6, 2017

To celebrate the Year of the Rooster, the Sichuan Dance and Singing Group from Sichuan, China performed a variety of traditional Chinese dances and music at a special assembly Friday. Junior Jocelyn Shilakes and freshman Neo Kounalakis narrated the performance in both Mandarin and English, and students in all l...

Tags: China, Chinese New Year, lunar new year, San Francisco, sichuan, year of the rooster

Workers often ‘pay the price’ for fast fashion

Neely Metz, Copy Editor

February 4, 2016

Colorful advertisements reading “Up to 75 percent off select items!” and “Fashion from $5!” cover buses, buildings and billboards in hopes of attracting potential customers, but behind the smiling models lies a world where people work for little more than slave wages and children sit behind sewing...

Tags: Bangladesh, boycott, child labor, China, clothing, cost, cotton, Eileen Fisher, factory, fashion, fast fashion, Forever 21, H&M, manufacturing, price, Rana Plaza, slavery, social consciousness, Ubekistan, workers, Zara