Weekly News Archive

April 30 (’06) – May 6 (’06)

Comfort and Joy

BHS’s spring musical, Bat Boy: The Musical opens tonight at 8 PM in the Little Theater. It promises to be interesting at the very least. From what I’ve read and heard about it, it’s an extraordinarily bizzarre musical—and what I’ve seen of it so far confirms these findings. Most people who have seen it so far say that it is very very good, but most of these people are the folks teching the show, so let’s not take their word as the Lord’s Truth just yet.

Bat Boy is apparently an obscure off-Broadway musical based off of Bat Boy, a character who frequents the headlines of (speaking of not taking things as the Lord’s Truth…) the Weekly World News. The musical features blood, sex (animal sex, at that), and David Crane with pointy ears. Sounds like a party.

Show dates are the 5th, 6th, 12th, and 13th at 8 PM and the 7th at 7 PM.

I’m not sure what ticket prices are, but when I find out, I’ll let you know.

UPDATE: Tickets cost $7 if you’re a BHS student with an ID and $12 otherwise.

Senior Ball tickets are on sale (have been for a couple weeks, apparently) during Monday, Wednesday, and Friday lunchtimes at the ticket sales office on Allston—next to the D-Building entrance. They won’t take checks—a couple of my friends learned this the hard way—so you’re going to have to pay in cash if you want to go. And what a load of cash it it. Tickets are at $75 today and will go up each week, so get them while they’re fresh. You know that tux, limo, and hotel room for the night are going to cost you enough as it is.

— Harris

In The News: May 3, 2006

• Alternative High School Program Could See Overhaul
  The school board will be voting tonight on a proposal which would turn the Berkeley Alternative High School into the Berkeley Technology Academy, a school with a focus on entrepreneurial and technical skills.
• Student Achievement at Small Schools Is Mixed

  Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) and Community Partnerships Academy (CPA), both of which are small schools within the larger Berkeley High School, show higher attendance rates among ninth-graders and strong parental involvement, but trends outlining academic achievement in the 2004-2005 school year are less clear-cut.

— Harris

I Am More Than A Lonely Barcode

Comments have been tentatively reenabled. I have taken some measures that will hopefully prevent any more comment spamming because not having comments on a website which is designed to be for the community, to put it frankly, sucks.

(For the geeks out there, what this means is that I’ve finally decided to update our software. We moved from some ancient version of MovableType—whose version number I don’t even recall—to the newest version, version 3.2. While you won’t see much of a difference out there, I can tell you that from the driver’s seat, it looks real shiny.)

This week is AP Testing week; the first tests were taken today. The rest of them run on this schedule:

As near as I can tell all of the tests are in the Jacket Gym, except for the ones on May 2 and May 10, which are in the Library. The sheet which I’m reading off of is unclear though, so don’t just take my word for it.

Also, it is worth noting that Wednesday is a minimum day. My condolences to those of you who are taking AP tests that morning and not only have to be at school anyway, but have to be there early. I’m still not entirely sure how they decide what days are minimum days, but if I had to take a guess I would say the first Wednesday of every month… can anyone confirm that? In any case, I’ve updated the events calendar to the best of my ability with all of the academic holidays and so forth for the rest of the year. As always, send me mistakes, corrections, and additions.

Today was also the date that most colleges required their statement of intent to enroll submitted by, so it’s been something of an intense week for college-bound seniors… especially those indecisive ones who were drawing from a large pot of options. I made my final decision at the very last minute and sent my card in even later. Thanks to an exceedingly behind schedule AP French test, I didn’t leave BHS until 4:45 PM, fifteen minutes before the Berkeley post office sends out its last batch. I made it through though. Everyone seems to have made it through all right. For the most part, people seem to be happy with their decisions—of the people I’ve spoken to anyway. I’m sure there’s a large group of people who are unhappy as well, but they’re certainly not as vocal about it.

— Harris