The Roundtable Volume 13, Issue 3

The student-run publication of Stuart Hall High School | 1715 Octavia Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Volume 13, Issue 3 | Friday, May 03, 2019

Columbus Room to be remodeled Construction on new kitchen to begin May 8

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he Columbus Room will be off limits due to renovation to install a new kitchen beginning May 8 and ending in mid-August.

The size of the Columbus Room itself will not be significantly affected, although the dimensions will be altered slightly, moving the bathrooms and storage and installing a kitchen in their place.

“The purpose for the creation of a fully functional commercial kitchen on the Octavia campus is to support the new lunch program which involves providing lunch to all students,” Geoff De Santis, Director of Physical Plant, said.

The school lunch program will be included in tuition, giving all students the opportunity to get lunch on campus in the 2019-20 school year.

“The current configuration of the space wouldn’t allow for students to have the type of lunch experience we want our students to have,” De Santis said. “This project also allows for more flexibility over what we can currently provide.”

SAGE Dining Services, the food provider for the school, currently brings food from the

Broadway campus over to the Octavia Campus, a process that will be nullified by the project.

“We’ve been updating spaces throughout,” Head of School Tony Farrell said. “The Columbus Room we’d actually been talking about for a couple of years as part of a refresh.”

According to Farrell, over 10,000 square feet of space has been refreshed, including the Learning Commons and several classrooms.

“The serving line will consist of four hot food line options, and around the perimeter of the space we will have the cold stations,” De Santis said. “The entire space will be reconfigured to support the installation of the kitchen.”

The kitchen will be located where the current storage room and bathrooms are, the bathrooms will be moved to the current stage area, and the side room which currently has sinks and storage will be converted into a dishwashing area.

“The seating area will be created with a diversity of options for students and employees to eat, work or congregate at,” De Santis said.

The Columbus Room is the most popular place to eat lunch on the Octavia campus, and

its capacity for seating will not be affected. The new setup will implement new circular tables alongside rectangular tables.

“You will certainly not feel like you are in a 1929 room,” Farrell said, “but there's no drive

to make it modern for the sake of modern.”

While its purpose and overall size will stay the same, according to Farrell there will be aesthetic changes alongside the major renovations, giving the

Octavia-Pine campus a refresh.

“This is a very large project and undertaking we are embarking on,” De Santis said.

“We will work hard and safe to complete this project by the start of the 2019-20 school year.”

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Plans for the new Columbus Room show a new commercial kitchen, a smaller seating area and no stage. Art classes were moved to the Broadway Campus so Room 103 can be used for lunch service.

Club prepares for camping trip Outdoors club going to Lake Berryessa this weekend Cloverdale

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The Outdoors Club's first trip is to Lake Berryessa, the largest lake in Napa County. President Owen Murray has been planning the trip for two months.

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he Outdoors Club is preparing to leave for its first overnight trip to Lake Berryessa on May 4 for a weekend of camping on the lake and outdoor activities like fishing and swimming.

“The outdoors is a huge passion of mine,” club president Owen Murray said. “I founded the Outdoors Club to create a space where kids who share this same passion for nature can connect.”

Lake Berryessa is well known for its warm water which makes it ideal for watersports such as boating, swimming, and fishing, according to Recreation.gov.

“I joined the Outdoors Club because of the common interests in fishing and game conservation,” Denis Murphy said. “I also joined because of the brotherhood in outdoor activities.”

Murray says he hopes that with the help of the club members and faculty sponsor Jason Enevoldson they can make this trip annual.

“The skills you learn in the outdoors are never dated nor obsolete,” Enevoldson said.

“Things like patience, persistence, the thrill of making the catch, reading the environment and trying something different will always help you in life.”

Enevoldson says he grew up in a town in Australia where fishing

and surfing are “huge.” As a child, a local fishing legend taught him about how to read the beach, catch bait and make rigs.

“Because I had these formative experiences growing up, I have 3.a passion to pass it to the younger generation,” Enevoldson said. “I am always willing to share my secrets.”

The Outdoors Club plans to meet at Lake Berryessa early Saturday morning so that they can spend a full day in and around the lake.

“I expect it will be a successful trip,” Murray said. “We are just going to enjoy nature, learn about the outdoors and have a good time with our brothers.”

Upcoming Events

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IB Testing Begins

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Memorial Day No School

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Final Exams Begin Grades 9-11 Senior Week Begins

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Grade 12 Alumni Brunch 9-11 a.m.

Learning Commons

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Commencement 10 a.m.

The Dungeon No School Grades 9-11

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Prize Day Grades 9-11

The Roundtable | May 03, 2019

Freshman named all-school winner in annual festival Students read original poems, winners announced

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Senior Trevor Blanc and Head of School Tony Farrell engage in a rap battle during the annual Poetry Festival last Monday. Farrell and Blanc engaged in a similar roast last year, which drew laughter from the audience.

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oby Slater ’22 was named the All-School Winner for his poem “Nails” in the annual Poetry Festival on April 29.

“I was really surprised when they announced that I won,” Slater said. “My teacher read my poem and suggested that I submit it because she enjoyed it. I think poetry is a great way to convey a message in a beautiful way.”

The festival, which includes announcements of all-school and grade winners and poem readings, typically takes place at the end of National Poetry Month.

“I think it’s cool that the school understands the importance of poetry and makes it a big deal,” Wolfie Tobiason ’21 said. “It’s something that not a lot of other schools do.”

Teachers say that the poetry festival encourages students to freely express themselves. “[The Poetry Festival] brings out a lot of creativity from students that you don’t always expect because poetry isn’t something that is really easy to do in school,” English teacher Reilly Walker said.

Students say they appreciate the elegance of poetry.

“I think it’s a beautiful way of writing that can deliver a point well,” Eamonn Kenny ’21 said.

“The Poetry Festival is a great way for people to showcase their talents.”

The festival ties into this year’s theme of robust vulnerability.

“I think there’s always something about learning how to be vulnerable,” Walker said. “Submitting something that’s very personal — like poetry — to be judged by someone that doesn’t know you or doesn’t know the context; opening yourself up creates that whole aspect of robust vulnerability.”

Students say poetry allows them to connect with others.

“I like to write poetry because it is an opportunity to express thoughts in a unique way.” Tobiason said. “The Poetry Festival is an opportunity to share these ideas with a broader community.”

Grade level winners are freshmen Robin Tsai (1st), James O’Leary (2nd), Tommy Gibbons (3rd); sophomores Vincent Behnke (1st), Eon Kounalakis (2nd), Wolfie Tobiason (3rd); juniors Dylan Tomao (1st), Andrew Dolan (2nd), Tomas Wolber (3rd); seniors Theo Ennis (1st), Alex Byrd (2nd) and Travis Evans (3rd).

Vending machines to be removed

Friday, May 3 Track and Field vs. BAC Championship @ Chabot College All Day

Baseball vs. San Domenico @ SF State 4 p.m.

Varsity Swiming NCS @ Concord Community Pool 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 11 Track and Field NCS Class A Championship @ Montgomery High School All Day Friday, May 17 Track & Field NCS Meet of Champions @ Diablo Valley College All Day

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Andre-Padraig Pang '22 purchases water from a vending machine in the Columbus Room. Removing the vending machines was one of SIA Student Leadership's major decisions, all of which will be in full effect next school year.

SIA to stop selling drinks, snacks in machines

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tudents in Action has stopped servicing and running the vending machines on the Pine-Octavia campus, having raised money for charity and service projects through selling snacks for over five years.

SIA, the largest coed club in the Convent & Stuart Hall community, focuses on performing community service as well as connecting the student body with service opportunities.

“As a service club, we acknowledged that the waste produced by all of the snacks went against our club’s mission, as it negatively impacts the environment,” Henk Veld ’20 said. “The community

also took them for granted. Students would take snacks from the machines without paying and damage the machines doing so.”

SIA put signs on the machines in spring of 2018 requesting that the student body not shake the machines to get snacks to fall out.

“SIA will not be servicing the vending machine, and I doubt any other organization within the school would do it,” SIA moderator Ray O’Connor said. “The machines started with Student Council and Student Council found them to be overwhelming to keep up with. We have also found it overwhelming to keep up with it.”

The remodel of the Pine–Octavia Columbus Room to include a full-service cafeteria, which start-

ed May 1, is also displacing the machines.

“Due to the remodel, it would’ve been extremely hard to find a place for them,” Veld said.

While it was overwhelming for SIA to run the machines in spite of the challenges posed by the community and the remodel, students found the machines a helpful convenience.

“Anytime I needed a snack, I’d go there,” Alexander Ellis ’21 said. “Now I won’t have a midday snack, because I usually forget to pack one.”

Ellis says the machines were also a “hang out” spot.

“It brought the community together in a way and I loved bumping into my friends there," Ellis said.