August 20, 2014 Convent of the Sacred Heart HS • San Francisco, California Vol. 21, Iss. 1

Skirting the issue, againNew skirts are in for this year, although not in students’ closets, yet.

New Faculty

Uniform Spirit Week► Sweaters are limited to a

Convent labaeled cardigan or sweater. Students may also wear any school branded sweatshirt.

► Convent-branded jackets as well as red and white outer-wear are acceptable.

► Cords, khakis and slacks in dark or neutral shades. Skirts must be worn at an appropi-ate length.

► Like free dress days, shoes are limited to closed-toed shoes, however no slippers, heels above one inch, or Uggs are permitted.

► Polos can school branded or an unlabled white, pink, light blue or red. Seniors have a free color privilege.

► The new skirt was chosen by students who were given multiple options created by Dennis Uniform. The skirt must be kept at an ‘accept-able length.’

► Shoes are a personal choice of the student, although no open-toed shoes, sandals, heels above one inch, slip-pers, Uggs or boots are acceptable

► Acceptable shirts include Convent shirts or shirts in the school colors — red and white.

Students viewing their sched-ules will notice that certain block periods are no longer designated to just the morning or just the afternoon, giving more flex-ibility to scheduling coed classes while allowing for traveling time between the girls’ and boys’ cam-puses as well as increasing teach-er accessibility.

The increase in coed language classes — five French, four Latin and 11 Spanish — is the main reason for the revised schedule, according to Academic Pro-gramming Director Doug Grant.

“The major change in the new schedule is the expansion of periods where we can schedule coed class,” Grant said. “It was too constraining to try to sched-ule all of those classes in the four afternoon periods, so we now have six of the eight periods where coed classes can be taught as opposed to just four periods last year.”

Elective period is extended by five minutes and comes after the first period of the day, as do ad-visory and assemblies. Students

will move between campuses during those periods instead of during an additional passing time, which would have either lengthened the school day or shortened class time, according to Grant.

“This short break gives stu-dents time to recollect them-selves and get ready for their next class instead of running through the school in a distract-ed and hurried rush,” sopho-more Bella Kearney said.

Breaks also allow students to digest what they have learned, according to physics teacher Mi-chael Ryan.

“The new schedule has been set to facilitate student learning in the most effective way,” Ryan said. “It makes it easier to teach the same material as both my regular physics classes are held on the same day and for students to go back and forth between the campuses efficiently.”

All morning classes were pre-viously back-to-back and fol-lowed by either an elective, ad-visory meeting or assembly, and then lunch.

“Trying to get food after as-sembly was difficult,” junior Julia Praeger said. “Assembly would run over time into our lunch sometimes, only giving us 20 minutes to eat, so this change is good.”

Wednesday lunch will still be longer than the other four days but will be reduced by 10 min-utes due to the added 20 minute passing period in the morning. Time has also been set aside on Wednesdays for office hours.

“Office hours will motivate me to go meet with my teachers because I know I can always find them during that time,” senior Rebecca Stapleton said. “I think I’m going to use the office hours to meet with Mrs. Munda and with my teachers for recommen-dation letters.”

Teachers will now hold of-fice hours in place of 40-minute Wednesday activity period.

“It’s a great way to instill ad-vocacy in student in terms of knowing how to access teachers and get what they need,” Head of School Rachel Simpson said. “We are aware there a couple of clubs who use this time, notably Guitar Club and Joyful Noise, so we’re working with those two teachers to identify alternate times while ensuring students have access to them.”

Classes will also rotate in a way that allows them to be taught at least once in the morning and in the afternoon.

“That spreads out the impact of sports and other early dis-missals,” Grant said. “It gives students the benefit of having all of their classes in the morning at least once each week.”

Grant says the newly format-ted schedule offers increased flexibility, balancing section en-rollments and reducing conflicts.

“We may get confused for the first few weeks,” Praeger said. “Besides that I’m excited to try it out.”

Liana LumNews Editor

“”

It’s a great way to instill advocacy in students.

The Class of 2018 gathered in the Main Hall for orientation Monday morning for icebreak-ers, seminars and a variety of other activities to introduce the freshman on the Sacred Heart community.

“We have a new design chal-lenge this year with one and a half days devoted to Freshman Success,” Head of School Rachel Simpson said. “Our main goal is to to get the class connected to one another, the environment of

our school, our community of students in the other grades and faculty.”

Freshman began their day by meeting their Senior Class sis-ters, followed by group activities that allowed the girls to intro-duce themselves and learn more about each other.

The second day involved tours of the school and a coed aspect when the Stuart Hall freshman joined the girls in the Little The-ater for a pizza lunch and again for a dinner with parents and faculty.

Madison Riehle | The BroadviewSource: CSH Student Handbook, 2014-15

New schedule allows for increased flexibility

Freshmen begin integrating into community

CHRIS PERSON-RENNELHonors Math II, Math III and

Calculus

HEATHER OTTEChoral Director

ASTRID JOHNSONSpanish III and Honors

Spanish III

PASCAL PARRAFrench I, French III and

Spanish II

AMY LEAVERMath I, Math III and

pre-calculus

RHIANNON SALTERAP Comparative

Government teacher

YUHONG YAOMandarin I, II, III and IV

BETSY PFEIFFERAcademic Support Director

Tatiana GutierrezEditor-in-chief

Sarah Selzer | The Broadview

GETTING ORIENTED Senior Hailey Cusack meets her fresh-man little sister Julia Alvarez on the first day of Freshmen Success. After meeting their senior sisters, freshmen participated in a class icebreakers and bonding activities.

Eight new faculty have joined the Convent com-munity. New teachers were introduced along with returning faculty and staff this morning at assembly in the Syufy Theatre.

2 | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 The Broadview and Broadview.SacredSF.org NEWS

Junior Adley Wechsler knew her Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked when

cryptic messages were sent to her Facebook friends and pic-tures of celebrities were posted on her Instagram.

“My password was too sim-ple,” Wechsler said. “Since then, I have changed my password to something more difficult and not that common.”

A strong password has eight characters or more, contains up-percase and lowercase letters, numbers, characters like ! @ # * ? and is unrelated to your name or username, accord-ing to student technology in-tern Caroline Lo.

“If the password is closely related to something in your life, although it might be easier to remember for you, it’s also easier for someone to get into your account,” Lo said. “This could be anything from your school, or place you live or a family member’s name because your friends do know that per-sonal information, and it’s im-portant to protect your account from them too.”

Hackers aren’t always the ste-reotypical computer geek sitting in front of five computer screens running lines of code. Passwords can spread through word of mouth or other non-technolog-ical means, according to Hoover Chan who manages network se-curity on campus.

“Physical security and physi-cal access are important to con-

trol,” Chan said. “There are still many people who write down their passwords and put them on a post-it note and stick it on their computer or the wall next to them.”

The average person visits 25 password-protected sites, but only uses 6 different passwords, according to Password Genie.

“My usernames and pass-words vary, but I don’t have a completely different password for each account,” junior Sarah Paulsen said. “However, I always make sure that the site I am us-ing approves my password as a strong password.”

The most common length of passwords are six characters, even though eight characters are recommended for the strongest protection, according to Zone-Alarm, a firewall and antivirus software.

“Having a different username isn’t as important if you already have a strong password,” Lo said. “If you have the same username for different accounts, it will be easier for people to find you and all your accounts, but if you have different passwords for each ac-count, your account is protected.”

Experienced hackers can de-cipher the average password in under three minutes, according Mashable.

“You need to make sure your systems are clean and secure,” Chan said. “There are a lot of tools like antivirus software to make sure that the work station or device you’re using is clean.”

Thirty two percent of people save their login information and password on cell phones, ac-cording to Mashable.

“Every step of the way between your device and the service that you’re trying to use have possible vulnerabilities,” Chan said. “If there is somebody or something monitoring because most of the time it’s not a human being sit-

ting there watching, it’s a program that collects infor-mation, usually keystrokes.”

Antivirus software is a computer program that can detect and prevent viruses from overtaking and ex-tracting personal informa-tion saved on the device.

“I have antivirus soft-ware installed on my computer,” Paulsen said. “Even when a web-site says my password is strong enough, I want to make sure that everything is protected.”

Some websites offer a secure login option. These services will have a URL address beginning with http:// and a lock icon in the URL bar.

Changing passwords every two to three months protects accounts from being hacked, ac-cording to Chan.

“I guess it’s safe to say good security by it’s nature is incon-venient,” Chan said. “There’s no easy way, but it’s important to protect the data and your identity.”

Tatiana GutierrezEditor-in-chief

“”

It’s important to protect the data and your identity.

Password unprotectedAs students create and change their accounts for the new year, cybersafety

is especially important to prevent hackers from gaining access to ‘secure’ information.

THE BROADVIEWConvent of the Sacred Heart High School

2222 Broadway St. | San Francisco, CA 94115broadview@sacredsf.org | broadview.sacredsf.org

@thebroadview thebroadviewsfthebroadview @thebroadviewthebroadview

“Schools of the Sacred Heart commit themselves to educate to personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom,” (Goal 5), therefore The Broadview operates as an open forum

for free speech and student expression without prior review.

Unsigned pieces are the opinion of the editorial board. Reviews and personal columns are the opinions of the individual author and are not necessarily those of Convent of the

Sacred Heart High School or Schools of the Sacred Heart.

We encourage letters to the editor. The Broadview may publish independent opinion pieces 300 words or fewer. We may work with writers for clarity and to meet space

limitations. All letters must have a means for verifying authorship.

Tatiana Gutierrez Editor-in-ChiefMadison Riehle Editor-in-Chief

Madeleine Ainslie Managing Editor

Liana Lum News EditorRachel Fung Art Editor

Aoife Devereux Web EditorKendra Harvey Video Editor

Senior Reporters Ariana Abdulmassih, Alyssa Alvarez,

Camilla Bykhovsky, Kristina Cary, Makena House, Julia-Rose Kibben,

Liana Lum, Neely Metz, Delaney Moslander, Sarah Selzer

Tracy Anne Sena, CJE, Adviser

STAFF

Haikus for

HaikuStudents’ learning

management system transitions

from Moodle to Haiku.

All students in grades five through 12 are transitioning to the Haiku learning management system to organize students’ ac-ademic lives.

“Students can now login to one portal and see their classes, academic calendar, grades and announcements,” educational innovation coordinator Tracy Sena said. “Students won’t have to logon to multiple webpages to get information about their classes.”

Teachers and staff are re-quired to use Haiku to post as-signments and grades, although some teachers may also post announcements, administer on-line quizzes and use the dropbox to collect assignments, accord-ing to Sena.

Students will learn more about Haiku in the coming weeks.

Welcome, Convent CubMy Classes

Aug 2014History

History

Math

Math

English

English

Science

Science

French

French

Theology

Theology

Home

Recent Activity Recent Grades

AnnouncementsCalendar

Grade Summary

My Classes Help

S M T W H F S1 2

916233028

211413

20272625

18 1912

312417103 4 5

116 7 8

152229

Welcome back, ladies. I hope you all had a wonderful summer vacation.

School is back in session, get ready for a great year!

AB+

A-A-B

A

A-

A

B+

A

Homework 1How to print

Worksheet 3 upload

Homework 2

Quiz Study Guide Worksheet 2

Summer Assignments

Quiz 1

Response to reading

8 am Free Period

Spirit Dress

Middle of the pageNavy box shows current day

Click date for schedule

Top right of homepageShows your teachers’ messages

Click to see full note

Colored dots show classAssignments and tests galoreShows teachers’ new posts

Madeleine Ainslie | The Broadview

Rachel Fung | The Broadview

We love you HaikuWhat would we do without you

We won’t miss Moodle

All classes on leftClick class to see course alone

Keeping classes neat

Choose a new colorTo represent every class

With the gray arrow

Use boxes on leftTo hide or show each course

On the rest of page

Shows current classesGrade averages show on right

Click class for details

On bottom right sideShows freshly inputted grades

Click for more info

Login to GmailClick square apps button on right

Click “More,” then Haiku