‘Campus Life’ Articles
“The Glass Castle” selected as Samo’s summer read
Continuing the tradition began in 2002 of an all-school summer reading book, the Samo English Department has announced “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls as the 2012 selection. [Read More]
Girls’ volleyball hosts comedy night fundraiser
A group of professional comedians and entertainers congregated on Wednesday, May 23 for the third annual Samo girls’ volleyball comedy night fundraiser. The fundraiser’s proceeds go towards paying for the volleyball team’s Ann Kang tournament in Hawaii. [Read More]
Summer reading takes to the web with samohireads.com
Chelsea Brandwein Managing Editor This summer, Samo’s Summer Reading Committee, headed by English teacher Meredith Louria, is going big. After the announcement of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle as the summer reading assignment, the committee created a website for [Read More]
Ban the Bottle holds environmental awareness assembly
In an effort to raise student and faculty awareness about the negative side effects of plastic bottle use, the Ban the Bottle club held an assembly demonstrating the dangers of plastic bottles on Friday, March 23. The assembly was hosted by several club members and [Read More]
WWII veterans come to Samo
For many high school students, history may seem like nothing but facts from a book that have no connection to their lives. But for Carl Hobkirk’s students, on March 20 and 22, history took on a new dimension when five World War II veterans addressed his classes in the [Read More]
Samo students participate in national orchestra
Samo seniors Mayu Isom and Luke Bencivengo, juniors Jonathan Forsander and Yekun Ding and sophomore Justin Sardo flew to Atlanta, GA the weekend of March 24 to participate in the 2012 National High School Honor Orchestra (NHSHO), joining the top high school musicians in the [Read More]
College center relocates to Business Building
After months of preparing, Samo’s College Center moved to its new home in B115 and awaits updated technology to help students with their college application process. [Read More]
Advisers survey students for SPARC
On March 8, Samo advisers released the results of the surveys they distributed to second period classes on Jan. 24. According to I-House Adviser Jessica Garrido, the surveys were part of the recently implemented Support Personal Accountability Report Card (SPARC), which is [Read More]
Samo Ambassadors hosts annual Career Day
Samo Ambassadors hosted their annual Career Day and Job Fair in partnership with the City of Santa Monica on March 12. [Read More]
It’s the business: DECA team continues to excel
Hilary Dubin Staff Writer According to Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) Advisor Mariam Shafiey, on Jan. 27 and 28 the DECA team competed in the district level competition in the business and marketing categories. The students competed in a general competition [Read More]