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0 M-A Graduation: Your Story - Haley McCabe
The class of 2010 bid farewell to Menlo-Atherton last Thursday, June 3. Graduation means something different to everyone; some students were the first in their in their families to finish high school, while for others, graduation is part of the family norm. Share your graduation stories and pictures by sending . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Gunn Scare - Adam Zuckerman
Yesterday, at approximately 2:00PM, Gunn High School went on lockdown after two students reportedly had guns. This was confirmed when a member of the Menlo-Atherton Bear News staff called Gunn and talked to a frazzled administrator during the lockdown. The lockdown was lifted when it was discovered that the two . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Ultimately Awesome: Frisbee at M-A - Trent Bastian
Baseball, football, and lacrosse are all established sports at Menlo-Atherton, but there is a new one on the horizon: Ultimate Frisbee. "Ultimate" is already supported by a plethora of colleges like Berkeley, Harvard, and Oregon that have all made an impact in the young sport, and now M-A is hoping . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Badminton Makes the Cut - Blair Johnson
Students who attend Menlo-Atherton are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of different clubs and sports alike, some more serious then others. M-A’s Badminton team, run by P.E. teacher and athletic director Mrs. Podesta, has long been seen as just a way of earning . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 New Music Facilities… Rock! - Ian Proulx
Menlo-Atherton High School recently renovated its music facilities. On Friday, March 19, I had the opportunity to tour the music building after walking into a class of hard-working music students. I was surprised to see that some of the students were on computers, and I was uncertain and astonished as . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Earthquake in Mexicali - Blair Johnson
When I left the city of Mexicali on Friday, I had no idea that by Sunday, everything we had done to help these people would be insignificant compared to what they were facing now. On Sunday afternoon Mexicali felt a 7.2 earthquake rock the city, just 10 miles away from . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Public Displays of Affection: A Bit More Than Bear Hugs - Stephanie Sabatini
Public displays of affection can range from holding hands and high fives to making out and heavy petting. So, where do we draw the line? Any student, faculty member, or visitor to M-A can see couples smashed up against the walls, and boys and girls walking with absolutely no personal bubble between them. When asked about . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 New Russian Lit. Class for Next Year - Blair Johnson
For the first time in M-A history, Russian Literature/History is an elective option. In this jointly run class Mr. Florio, a social studies teacher, will be teaching the history behind the course while Mrs. Otsuka, who usually teaches English, will focus more on the literary aspects of the culture. They . . . (Continue Reading)
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3 Caption Contest
The contest winner has been announced! our caption: You ain’t gonna have a longhorn after this. Submit a caption for the new photo to the right to win a prize! Just write your caption in the comment section below. . . . (Continue Reading)
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0 Freshman Leadership Club
Despite the opinions of many upperclassmen, after a semester at Menlo-Atherton, freshmen have become Bears. However, it is still a well established tradition of leadership to have no freshmen in the leadership classes. This standard comes from both the inexperience of new freshmen during first semester, making it impossible to . . . (Continue Reading)
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1 Infinite Campus - Trent Bastian
Come Spring, Menlo-Atherton and the entire Sequoia High School Union district will make a drastic change in the student-teacher relationship. Communicado will no longer be the way to monitor homework, attendance, grade updates and library fines. Instead, Infinite Campus, which serves four million students in 43 states, will enter five . . . (Continue Reading)
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2 Are We Human? Or Are We Amazed? - David Adler
After kicking off a world tour in Europe after their release of their new album “Day & Age”, the Las Vegas quartet, The Killers, set their sights on the stages of the US. The tension of the forty-five minute wait between the opening bands, New York Dolls and Nervous Wreckords, and . . . (Continue Reading)
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