March issue!

The March issue of the Bear Facts will be sold tomorrow, Friday (March 18th) during first block. It only costs $1 and it's 16 pages of full color!
Make sure to get your copy... they'll sell out fast!

Senior shaves head for St. Baldrick's

She isn’t doing it for the attention. She’s doing it for a cause: the St. Baldrick’s foundation to raise money for childhood cancer.  “If I can help get closer to a cure for cancer, even a little bit, I’ll be satisfied,” said senior Tamara Abernethy, who will shave her head for St. Baldrick's event on Saturday, March 19th.

So far, she has raised $40 in cash and $300 has been donated to the website. Her mom and grandma have been raising money at their jobs, and her Dad’s friends are donating too. She is collecting donations until the event, but you can continue to donate to the foundation even after the event. “Anyone can give me money anytime they see me. I’ll write their name down and add it to the donor list. You can give me cash, checks, or go online and donate,” she said.

The website for her St. Baldrick’s profile is www.stbaldricks.org/participants/tamaraabernethy. You can see her before and after pictures, donate money, and see how close she has gotten toward her goal for the cause.
DONATE NOW!

By Elizabeth Clay and Yudarys Suriel

Calling all Bear Facts Alumni

We're looking for some Bethel graduates who were also Bear Facts reporters to help us out!
We need volunteers to run a race on April 15th at a pep rally.
If you're interesting in helping out, contact Mrs. Hoer or e-mail us at hcs-bhsnewspaper@hampton.k12.va.us
Thanks!

Girls Track

Jazmine Wright, Maya Moore, Anise Cuffee, and Rashaun Combs are state champions and best friends. To read more about them and their coach, Eddie Williams, get your copy of the Bear Facts.
The March issue is coming soon to a classroom near you!

Current Events: Egypt

Opinion

            First it was Tunisia, and now it’s Egypt; other countries brew with unrest too. Honsi Mubarak has been President of Egypt for almost 30 years, and Egyptian citizens accuse him of oppressive corruption. They call for his resignation, and they say they want a real democracy. The protests against Mubarak were peaceful until Mubarak supporters took to the streets too, bringing violence with them. Citizens threw rocks at each other, and the military stepped between the two groups and tried to stop the fighting. Foreign journalists are harassed and blamed by some for the country’s problems.

These events are not to be taken lightly; they signal that our world is shifting. Everyday, the world is becoming more connected through technology, a process called globalization. The Internet is allowing people in countries that were once “closed” to see what’s going on in the world around them. Social networking sites obviously have a big impact on the way citizens act; the Egyptian government shut off all Internet access for five days because many of the protests were being organized on websites like Facebook. These people are looking for change, and they’ll use anything they can to benefit their cause.

Why should high school students be informed about these conflicts around the world? The Middle East is infected with oppressive governments, and, as a people who believe in freedom, we need to be aware of the injustice people in other countries are experiencing.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words from a Birmingham jail in 1963, he was fighting for African-Americans’ rights. As citizens of the world, we must stand together to make sure that people have basic freedoms around the world. If that means telling Mr. Mubarak to leave office, then that’s what our country needs to do. 

Lauren Pell, Editor-in-chief

March issue preview

Students, teachers, parents, administrators:

We’re busy writing stories for the March issue of the Bear Facts. We want to know how you feel about some of the stories we're working on. 

The following stories are just a small preview of our March issue:

• problems with Bethel’s building 
• the “kissing disease,” mono 
• what happens in the bathrooms at school
• Boys Varsity Basketball team
• Self-image
• Good, bad, and ugly relationships

Do you have questions, comments, or suggestions for any of these stories?

Do you have a other great story ideas? Is there something going on that we should write about? Do you have suggestions for us to improve the paper? You can comment on this blog or email us at hcs-bhsnewspaper@hampton.k12.va.us with ideas, comments, questions, or photos.

December Issue 2010

We hope you enjoyed the December 2010 issue of the Bear Facts… Here’s a digital copy of the issue if you missed it!

Open publication - Free publishing