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BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT BULLETIN
Lottie D., Chief of Publicity
Adam W., Chief of Publicity
Jack W., Chief of Publicity
Mr. V, Director of Student Activities
Current Bulletin Schedule Monday, Wednesday, Friday
October 13, 2021
Watch today’s bulletin on our @Juicethejackets Instagram
Here is today’s video bulletin
Latinx Heritage Month Event on Friday hosted by Latinxs Unidos
Hey everyone, in order to commemorate Latinx Heritage Month, Latinxs Unidos will be hosting a culminating celebration this Friday 10/15 @ lunch on the campus green. Please grab your lunch and stop by for live music from our BHS Jazz band, poetry, performances, and arts and crafts. See you there!
Submitted by amandamoreno@berkeley.net
Find Your Senior Portrait Appointment
October 25th-29th & November 1st-6th
Emails to your student account will be sent out 14 days prior to your appointment with your date and time. Seniors will also receive a reminders 7 days, 3 days and 24 hours prior to your appointment
Prestige Portraits will be offered on the BHS Campus in the Wrestling Mat Room located adjacent to the M-Gym.
***Reminder*** BHS Students must use Prestige Portraits to have their senior portrait appear in the 21-22 yearbook. You get to select your outfit in the yearbook portrait as a dress, tuxedo, or cap & gown.
You can also find your appointment online at:
If you need support with locating your appointment, you can also contact Mr. V.
If you need to reschedule-or have not gotten an email by October 13;
please reach out to: byarea@lifetouch.com
URGENT: Close the Loopholes in Berkeley’s Plastic Bag Controls
Tuesday’s Berkeley City Council Meeting will consider referring Councilmember Kate Harrison’s bag-reduction ordinance proposal to a commission for community review. If eventually adopted, this ordinance would reduce the demand for fossil fuels, carbon emissions, toxic impacts to frontline communities, contamination to our recycling and compost programs, street litter, and pollution to our creeks, bay, and ocean. It would also set a new bar and thus advance broader policy efforts at the regional, state, and national levels.
Your support is critical at this time to advance this effort.
Please sign and share this petition that will send a letter to City Council letting them know you care and asking them to move the item to the Consent Calendar.
@bhszerowaste
BHS Athletics Update
Results from the Berkeley High Crew Team
Berkeley Crew participated in two regattas this weekend; many of BHS Crew’s 121 athletes competed
At the Head of the Port regatta in West Sacramento, varsity women’s quad took second in their event and women’s varsity eight took fifth of 12
Varsity men beat out 14 boats to take a fourth-place finish in the varsity 8 event; the men’s four placed third of 11
Special mention also to novice women who placed second at Saturday’s Head of the Estuary regatta
Contact marie@berkeleyhighcrew.org
@jacketsonthree
Join BHS Wrestling
If you missed the pre-season meeting on October 12th, read below.
If you can’t make it but are still interested, just let us know. You can talk to Mr. Nathan (in H112) or the captains, Marina Pedemonte or Dash Allen.
Submitted by benjaminnathan@berkeley.net
Berkeley High Boys Lacrosse Preseason Meeting for All interested players
The Berkeley High Boys Lacrosse team is recruiting new players for the 2022 Spring Season. Previous lax experience is not required, we’ll teach you how to handle the stick and play the fastest game on two feet. All interested players are invited to a Team Meeting Monday, October 18 from 3:45 – 4:15 pm on the bleachers of Jacket Stadium to meet our new Coach (BHS and Cal alum Jerem Stothers) and learn about pre-season training plans. Contact Coach Stothers at jerem.stothers@gmail.com with any questions. Follow the team on instagram @bhsmlax or twitter @Jackets_Lax
Open Gym for both girls and boys basketball begins this week!
Basketball tryouts are right around the corner
Interested in trying out for basketball???
READ CAREFULLY
In order to participate in open gym:
- All athletes MUST take a COVID test after school on 10/14 in the Athletic Plaza to attend. NO EXCEPTIONS. CLICK HERE to register for testing (it’s a one time registration). Athletes must then continue to COVID test each week on Wednesdays or Thursdays to continue to participate in open gym.
- CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE OPEN GYM SCHEDULE
- All participants must also wear a mask, even while competing and conditioning
- Tryouts for basketball begin on November 1st.
In order to tryout
- student-athletes MUST register online using this link.
- The deadline to register for tryouts is October 26th
- Additionally, students wishing to tryout on 11/1 must also COVID test on either 10/27 or 10/28
For upcoming games & more scores, visit
American Mathematics Competition
Good at math? Want to prove it? Take the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 10 OR 12), and join over 300,000 students in over 4,000 schools competing on a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple-choice examination.
or If you have any questions, email dangoldfield@berkeley.net.
BHS Film Festival is taking submissions now
The BHS Film Festival has started taking submissions! Fill out the google form above any time from now to March 30 to enter your film into the festival. Submissions will be judged by the club, and the winners will be announced on the festival date. No films with any pornographic, racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or able-ist material will be accepted and films must be less than 8 minutes long. Good luck, and get creative!
BHS Film Festival Submissions Here
The GSA is happy to announce that we will be selling t-shirts!
The shirts will have two different designs, OUT and THE FUTURE IS QUEER, and have various pride flag colors. We will be selling them on Tuesday and Friday 10/12 and 10/15 in front of the Donahue Gym, and we will take cash and credit card for payment. Each shirt will cost $20.
You can contact us at our Instagram @bhsqueer or email us at berkeleyhighschoolgsa@gmail.com with any questions.
The Guardian Project is Offering Free Martial Arts
Check out the promo video here
The Guardian Project is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 2015 that offers free martial arts to youth. Guardian has recently moved to South Berkeley at 3007 Sacramento St, less than one mile away from Berkeley High. With this move they are accepting new students ages 14-16 interested in learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.This program will focus on the grappling side of MMA with takedowns, dominant ground control, and submission attacks. All students will be 100% sponsored to take classes, provided training gear, and the chance to compete in local tournaments if interested. Classes will be held Monday-Friday 5pm-6pm beginning in mid October. Masks will be required.
This program has limited availability, if you are interested in enrollment please apply at guardiangym.org and you will get a response shortly.
For any questions you can follow Guardian on instagram at @guardiangym.
STEMinist Club Presents Robotics Month
Are you interested in learning about careers in robotics? Join the STEMinist Club’s exploration of the field during October! Hear from women guest speakers who are working in the industry right now. This includes Lisa Winter, a BattleBots Judge, and Ellen Novoseller, an artificial intelligence roboticist working on machine learning in healthcare. Introductory programming workshops, circuit kits, and a tour to the UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab will be conducted as well. Join us in G213 on Wednesdays during lunch!
STEMinist Club Mission: Our mission is to create a safe and encouraging environment for people who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and gender inequality issues, all while bringing awareness to the underrepresentation of women in STEM.
Submitted by bhssteminist@gmail.com
@bhs.steminist
Earn $$$ for BHS & Sign Up for Good Eggs
Good News! Good Eggs grocery delivery has reactivated their school fundraising program. Now every time you order groceries from Good Eggs, our school will receive 5% back. Plus, families new to Good Eggs will receive $15 off their first order.
Visit schools.goodeggs.com and enter our school code: “goodeggsforberkeleyhighschool” and start shopping!
Any questions, contact Ms. Rabinowitz, ASB Accounting at bhsasb@berkeley.net.
Quick Links
Submit an entry for the BHS Film Festival BHS Film Festival Submissions
Title IX Resource Document Click here for the document
Complete a Free & Reduced Lunch Application secure.ezmealapp.com
Join a BHS Student Club BHS Student Club List
Register a new or returning club before October 31st Register a BHS Student Club for 2021-22
BHS Athletics Berkeleyhighathletics.org
Class of 2022 Senior Letter Senior Info, Dates & Resources
Submit A Bulletin
If any BHS student or staff member is interested in submitting an announcement,
there are some basic guidelines to follow:
Here are the basic guidelines for submitting a bulletin:
1. It must be relevant to roughly 100 or more students or staff members.
2. It must be a message that promotes community and builds up positive school culture.
3. Please no birthday announcements or personal requests.
Please submit your morning announcement to the Google From by Monday morning: http://bit.ly/bhsstudentbulletin
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Notification of Non-Discrimination Policy
The Berkeley Unified School District is committed to providing a hostile-free working and learning environment. The District prohibits discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding/lactation status (related medical conditions), religion, color, national origin (including language restrictions and possession of a driver’s license (issued under Vehicle Code), ancestry, immigration status, physical or mental disability (including clinical depression and bipolar disorder, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart attack), medical condition (cancer-related and genetic characteristics), military and veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age (40 and above), genetic information, political belief or affiliation (unless union related), a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance, or regulation in any program or activity it conducts or to which it provides significant assistance.
Discrimination is different treatment based on a protected characteristic in the context of an educational program, work or activity without a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that interferes with or limits the individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by the District or includes an adverse employment action.
Hostile environment harassment occurs when a target is subjected to unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic, which is both subjectively offensive to the target and would be offensive to a reasonable person of similar circumstances/characteristics and is sufficiently so severe, and so pervasive to interfere with or limit an individual’s ability to effectively work or to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by the District. Harassment may take many forms, including but not limited to, verbal remarks and name-calling, graphic and written statements, or any conduct that may be threatening or humiliating. Harassment based on any of the above protected categories is a form of unlawful discrimination and will not be tolerated by the District and can result in disciplinary action against the offending student or employee.
Upon witnessing an act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, based on actual or perceived protected characteristics, school personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so. Once a school/office has expressed notice or reason to know of such conduct, whether carried out by employees, students, or third parties, it should take immediate and appropriate steps to investigate, determine what occurred, take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the conduct, eliminate a hostile environment, if one has been created and prevent the conduct from occurring again. These steps should be taken regardless of whether an individual makes a complaint or asks the school/office to take action. Complaints are protected from retaliation. The District prohibits retaliation against any person who files a complaint or an appeal, reports instances of noncompliance, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and intimidation, or who participates in the complaint-filing or investigation process. This nondiscriminatory policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within any school/office under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Unified School District.
For more information, or to file a complaint please contact:
District Title IX Coordinator/Compliance Officer Berkeley Unified School District, 2020 Bonar Street, Room 117, Berkeley CA 94702 Phone: (510) 486-9338; Email: complaints@berkeley.net