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So… the following showed up forwarded to my email:

Please share the following announcement with students and staff as you feel is appropriate.

I am looking for Berkeley Unified S.D. and other contacts who would be open to receiving announcements regarding scholarship, academic enrichment, professional development and cultural enrichment opportunities.

Please let me know if you or someone else might be interested.

Thanks,

Willie J. Mackey
California Alliance of African American Educators
williejmackey@yahoo.com

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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:52:30 -0800
From: Jamie Taylor

The BYLP Fall Debate is being postponed to Friday, December 5, 2003. The application deadline has also been extended to Nov. 14th.

Please forward this message to all high school (statewide) or Los Rios Community College students that you think may be interested in participating in this event.

The Black Youth Leadership Project, Inc. in cooperation with the California Legislative Black Caucus, is hosting a one-day Political Debate on December 5, 2003 in an effort to continue the BYLP’s purpose of exposing African American students to all avenues of the politicalspectrum.

Young adults need a public forum for sharing their experiences, identifying their common concerns, and exploring the issues that affect their lives. Black Youth Leadership Projects Fall debate provides a public forum for positive self-expression. The debate format requires the youth to conduct valuable research to substantiate his or her position and in doing so helps to cultivate critical thinking and effective problem solving. The oral competition will assist the students in becoming more effective communicators, build self-confidence and self-esteem.

And the attached file: Application (PDF format).

My inbox also yielded this: the U101.com college finder. Useful? Probably. Better than the alternatives? You decide.

Ram Dass Khalsa, junior at BHS, has changed the address of his blog to: ohthatsucks.diaryland.com. The Links page has been adjusted accordingly.

Are you a BHS student with a blog? There are a lot, and I don’t know about most of them. Consider emailing me to let me know, and it’ll get mentioned.

The first half (sometimes called, misleadingly, a “grading period”) of the first semester has ended. Grades should be delivered posthaste.

— Brandon