Office of Student Activities at BHSEC

An athletics update from Ms. Nardone:

Girls Soccer

Boys Soccer: Class B Breakdown, Boys Soccer highlights from Saturday

Girls Volleyball The girls also defeated Lab Museum United (currently 2nd in the league) on Friday in 3 games.

Congrats to all of our student athletes!!

Community Day has been moved to November 4^th!!

Stay tuned for more details…..

-The BHSEC Students’ Union

The BHSEC Community Events club is hosting a Halloween-themed movie week from Monday October 26th to Thursday October 29th at 3:30 in room 411. We will be showing:

• Monday-Beetlejuice
• Tuesday- The Addam’s Family: two or three  shows from the television series.
• Wednesday- An Alfred Hitchcock movie
• Thursday- Coraline

On Friday October 30th, come to school in costume for a Ghoul Pageant in the auditorium at 3:50. Tickets cost $1.50 before and $2 at the door. The fiercest, most creative ghoul will win a prize!

Action Alert:
New York State Caves to Gas Extraction Industry

New York City Council Public Hearing
Committee on Environmental Protection
Friday, October 23, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Committee Room – City Hall

The natural gas extraction industry has left a devastating trail of water, air & soil contamination wherever they have operated – Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana and more recently in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Now it is about to happen in New York, including the Catskill-Delaware Watershed that provides drinking water to over 9 million people in the NYC area.

The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants to give the green light to the gas industry to begin drilling in New York State. On September 30, 2009, the DEC released the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS). This document, as written, would lead to tens of thousands of gas wells drilled throughout New York. (Reuters: NY state weighs natgas drilling in Marcellus shale, October 1, 2009):
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0129722520091001<http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FmarketsNews%2FidUSN0129722520091001&i=0&d=X45VW3Y1-W251-4VZ0-YXVY-YU8U86896473&e=kpowell@bhsec.bard.edu>

Be Heard, NYC!

To voice your concerns, please come to the October 23rd hearing at City Hall. The City Council Committee on Environmental Protection will take up the issue of the DSEIS and consider a resolution to ban gas drilling in the City’s invaluable watershed.
The evidence of the hazards continues to mount and is hitting closer to home. Drilling waste water appears to be the culprit in a fish kill that wiped aquatic life for a 35 mile stretch of Dunkard Creek along the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Drilling water may be cause of fish kill http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09287/1005306-113.stm<http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fpg%2F09287%2F1005306-113.stm&i=1&d=X45VW3Y1-W251-4VZ0-YXVY-YU8U86896473&e=kpowell@bhsec.bard.edu>, October 1, 2009)

CHINA AT 60: A NEW SUPERSTATE?

Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:45 to 7pm

(Dinner is included)

The People’s Republic of China is 60 years old.

Will it become the next world leader?

Over the last 60 years, the People’s Republic of China has become a global economic and political powerhouse. China is on an economic path second only to the United States, and has become the principle challenger to the United States for world leadership. What lies ahead for this growing nation?

• What is China’s future path, both politically and economically?
• Will China be the next world leader?
• Is China’s position on Taiwan & Tibet affecting their social and political standing with Western nations?
• Should the United States have a closer relationship with China? What are the benefits? Are there disadvantages?
• Is an economic relationship necessary between the United States and China in order to create a positive political relationship?

Engage in a discussion about these critical questions with Ralph Buultjens, an expert in International Politics and Global History. He is a frequent commentator on the world media and a professor at NYU, and Cambridge University, UK. He has led seminars and lectures on college campuses and at the UN, and is a frequent participant in study groups and task forces at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Buultjens is a frequent lecturer at the 92nd Street Y’s series on World Politics.

Students who attend will receive a certificate of completion from the 92nd Street Y Teen Center.

For more information, contact:

Jose Ortiz, Jr. (JOEY), Director, Teen Center & NOAR After School Program

Phone: 212.415.5624, Fax: 212.415.5637, JOrtiz@92Y.org

The Spitzer Institute, supported by an endowment from Anne and Bernard Spitzer, encourages high school students to think critically about contemporary issues and to understand the importance of taking an active role in shaping a democratic society. The Spitzer Institute addresses topics in the forefront of our national and international dialogue.