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News in Brief

At 7a.m. on Jan. 31, members of the Current Events Club filed into a study room in the ARC, sat down in front of the SmartBoard and began conversing with high school stu­dents from the Oasis International School in Cairo, Egypt via video con­ference.

Skaggs talks health

Skaggs talks health

Staring up at the numerous ban­ners strung up on the walls of the Gymnasium, you recognize that over the years Mustang athletics have won numerous league and CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) titles.

Payne facilitates summer job search

Payne facilitates summer job search

Community Outreach Coordinator Miranda Payne ’94 welcomed Stephanie Dawson ’12 into her office one day last February to talk about summer internships.

Khan class to air on 60 Minutes

Khan class to air on 60 Minutes

Last month, Mathematics Department Head Chris Talone received a text message from an unknown number, not realizing that it was from Head of School Barbara Wagner.

Employees build strengths

Leadership expert and best­selling author Marcus Bucking­ham spoke to faculty and staff in the Academic Resource Center on Thursday, Jan. 5 about positive psychology and how to analyze and improve their innate talents to promote personal and profes­sional success.

Kathleen ’12 becomes semifinalist

Kathleen’12 was recent­ly honored as a Siemens Semifinal­ist in Science for her research at the House Research Institute regarding the effect of a class of antibiotics’ on a middle ear infection.

Dr. Day departs

English instructor Iyko Day, a tall, slender woman with a finely coiffed, glossy black bob stands at the front of room C225, teaching a class full of seniors about Asian American literature, her area of expertise and research. Since being hired in the summer as a part-time instructor to teach English II and the City [...]

Feminist film sparks media discussion

As a clip of Gossip Girl’s protago­nist Serena Van der Woodsen seduc­tively eating a strawberry flashed on the screen in Caswell Hall, a burst of laughter emanated from the crowd. Students murmured in disgust and subsiding horror when a shot of Tod­dlers in Tiaras appeared.

Pattie preaches privacy

Pattie Fitzgerald, founder of Safely Ever After, Inc. and mother of Marissa’16, spoke to the Parents’ Association (PA) on Nov. 15, 2011 about Internet safety for teens.