Free Financial Aid Workshops
The San Francisco College Access Center and AACE Educational Services will be conducting several Free Financial Aid workshops throughout the City. Our goal is to outreach and assist high school seniors and their parents to apply and complete the FAFSA form. Given the continuing increase of college tuition, college is get more and more expensive and inaccessible for many students, especially students from low-income families. It is imperative that we encourage ALL students to apply for financial aid.
Wed. Jan. 12, 2005 (Online FAFSA Assistance)
SF Public Library – Main
100 Larkin St @ Grove, 5th Flr. Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
Wed. Jan. 26, 2005 (Online FAFSA Assistance)
SF Public Library – Main
100 Larkin St @ Grove, 5th Flr. Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
Sat. Feb. 5 , 2005
Mission High School
3750 18th Street (Church and Dolores)
9:30am-12:30pm
Thurs. Feb. 10, 2005
Bayview Opera House
4705 Third Street (Oakdale and Newcomb)
6:00-8:30 pm
Sat. Feb. 12, 2005
Filipino Community Center
35 San Juan Ave (Mission)
1:00-3:00pm
Wed. Feb. 16, 2005 ** An RSVP is required for the Chinatown event. Please call 202-7944 by Jan. 31st to reserve a seat.
Chinatown Public Library
1135 Powell St. (Jackson and Washington)
6:30-8:30 pm
Wed. Feb. 16, 2005 (Online FAFSA Assistance)
SF Public Library – Main
100 Larkin St @ Grove, 5th Flr. Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
Wed. Feb. 23, 2005 (Online FAFSA Assistance)
SF Public Library – Main
100 Larkin St @ Grove, 5th Flr. Computer Lab
4:30-6:30pm
Health Idol 2005
This year, we received twice the number of applicants that last year and are very excited to announce our 20 contestants. It was difficult making some of these selections as we had to part with several strong applicants in the process, but we are looking forward to an even stronger competition this year!
Last year, math teacher Kenyatta Scott dominated the competition, but was robbed of the victory at the final event. This year, the scoring for the competition will be cumulative so he is back to take the title he deserved. Having outperformed other faculty in athletic challenges in the past, English department head, Beverly Buchanan, is ready to take him on. Another English teacher up for the challenge is Sara Falls. She has been doing yoga, rock climbing, eating healthy, and getting good sleep to prepare for this competition. P.E. and woodshop teacher, Hugh Stickney is an early favorite. As a yoga and pilates instructor and veteran dancer of 20 years, he knows he can out perform any of these students in the physical challenges.
Senior Will Morthole was last year's champion and is returning this year to defend his title. His friends could hardly believe he won, so one of them has joined the competition to stop him, fellow senior Will Griffith. Another senior returning to the competition is Heba Elsakkar, the last female student standing from last year's competition. Another new senior to the competition is Rachael Tom. She has been very serious about maintaining a healthy lifestyle and is looking forward to putting it to the test.
Three juniors are returning from last years competition: Jonathan Safer (our most determined competitor from last year), Rusilah A (who was mistakenly eliminated last year due to a scoring mistake), and Nick Don-Doncow (who won third place and responsible for foiling Mr. Scott's impending victory last year). The new junior to the competition is b-girl, Phoebe Leong.
Last year, the class of 2007 found themselves eliminated at the beginning of the competition. In the line-up are two track stars, Winfield Ye and Loni Nguyen. Both claim to avoid unhealthy foods as much as possible, but do they avoid it enough? Possibly our most impressive applicant is soccer enthusiast, Alexandra Mogannam who is a peer mediator here at Lincoln. This is balanced by one of the two underdogs of the competition, Michael Yao, who has just begun to turn his life around towards greater health.
Our second underdog is freshman, Lesley Sanders, who admits she is not the healthiest person at Lincoln, but confident enough to push herself to earn that title. We have two strong applicants who enjoy multiple sports and healthy eating, Kevin Ding and Rebecca Choi. Our final contestant is the outside linebacker for JV football, Ryan Mallman. Will these Lincoln newcomers have what it takes to persevere? Who will be Liconoln's new Health Idol?
Does it matter where I go to college?
Should students who are thinking of majoring in physics choose a well-funded research university with faculty members who have done respected research in their fields? Or would the smaller, more personal interaction characteristic of a liberal arts college be preferable? In the end, at graduation, will it make any difference to employers or to graduate schools?
Departments that are more student-centered ultimately produce more students with a bachelor's degree in physics, said a study published last week by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD.
"People want to know if they need to attend a large, prestigious school to get a job in their field," said Rachel Ivie, the study's author. "According to this report, they don't."
- Physics bachelors from large departments are more likely to attend graduate or professional school with the intention of earning a degree in any field than physics bachelors from smaller departments.
- Graduates of large departments rate their physics and math preparation for a career more highly than graduates of smaller departments. Graduates from departments that offer only bachelors degrees in physics rate their career communication and teamwork preparation more highly than graduates of departments that offer PhDs in physics.
- Many very important outcomes -- including salary, working in a science or technology job, length of time spent looking for work, or how many offers they have -- are not affected by size and type of department.
- Physics bachelors are more satisfied with the department climate when they graduate from departments that do not offer graduate degrees in physics.
In 1998-99, the center collected data from approximately 1200 people who had received bachelor’s degrees in physics between 1991-93. Overall physics bachelors production declined during the 1990s.
"[The report] is about the effects of the type of college that you attend," said Ivie. "I think the process that people go through when deciding which college to attend probably doesn't change much" from the way students decided on colleges when the study was done.
The main difference choice of college makes is in how physics bachelors evaluate their undergraduate experiences. Students from larger departments feel their physics and math preparation was better, while those from departments that do not grant graduate degrees feel their collaboration and communication skills were better served.
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Wellness Center
Christy Parsons (Wellness Coordinator) is available daily.
Ian Enriquez (Youth Outreach Coordinator) is available daily.
Sheening Lin (psychologist) is available daily.
Jane Steiner (Tobacco Intervention Coordinator) is available on Wednesday. Lincoln no longer has a school nurse.
Emi Koga (Japanese speaking counselor) is available from Tuesday to Thursday.
David Thompson (psychologist) is available Mondays.
Kory Okun (relationship counselor) is available Tuesdays.
Wayne Hayes (counselor) is available Tuesdays.
James Guay (therapist) is available Wednesdays.
Sonia Sztejnklaper (Russian speaking social worker) is available Wednesdays.
Rebecca Peng (Mandarin speaking counselor) is available Tuesdays and Fridays.
Reconnecting Youth classes held 7th period.
Peer Tutoring available 7th period and after school in Bungalow A.
Detecting Mono
When people think of infectious mononucleosis, or "mono," they often think of extreme tiredness as one of the major symptoms associated with this illness. Other typical symptoms of infectious mononucleosis in children are: fever, sore throat, enlargement of lymph nodes (usually in the neck, armpit, and throat), sore muscles, and enlarged spleen (the organ - located under the ribcage on the left side - that functions as a blood filter and antibody producer).
Loss of appetite and generalized weakness also may be present, especially in adolescents. Nausea, hepatitis, jaundice, severe headache, stiffness, chest pain, and difficulty breathing can occur in some cases. A pink rash can occur all over the body in children who have been treated with ampicillin or amoxicillin.
Infectious mononucleosis is generally a self-limiting disease, which means it goes away on its own in most cases. Occasionally mono can cause complications.
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