Student Newspaper
The Bardvark is the official student newspaper of BHSEC Manhattan. The newspaper is 13 years old this year. Students from all class years contribute to the newspaper, which reflects on school and class events, highlights BHSEC teachers in “Teacher Features,” reports on larger community issues, and much more.
Some sample article excerpts and links to full texts at The Bardvark
Teacher Feature: Dr. John C. Lofaro Jr. Joins the Science Faculty, by Alisa Delaj, ’17
Dr. LoFaro, a new chemistry teacher at BHSEC, has a PhD in Chemistry from Stony Brook University. He studied Chemistry, as well as Forensic Science as an undergrad at the University of New Haven. But it became clear to Dr. LoFaro that chemistry was the path he wanted to pursue after undergrad. He has truly loved chemistry ever since ,…
Y2 Class Treks to Bard College for Annual Hannah Arendt Conference, by Elie Levine, ‘16
“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow,” Hannah Arendt, a German-born American philosopher and political theorist, once wrote…
The Hannah Arendt Conference at Bard College this year tackled that question. Early in the morning on Thursday, October 15, BHSEC’s Class of 2016 emerged from the privacy of our homes to board buses bound for …
Profile of Josh Waldman (Y2): Leading the Way on Police Transparency, by Liana Van Nostrand, ’16,
Each week the New York Police Department (NYPD) deletes the crime data from the previous week, making it difficult for the public to identify crime trends and evaluate the effectiveness of NYPD initiatives. Josh Waldman (Y2) is out to change that. Last June, he launched the website NYC Shootings (NYCshootings.com), where he preserves weekly crime reports…
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