Cartoon Network’s live action show Destroy Build Destroy will feature Hoover staff and students as contestants. After auditions were held in April, Arby Oganesyan (’11), Yasmeen Todd (’10), and Kigen Sahakian (’11), along with associate principal Jennifer Earl and teachers Dave Huber and Nareg Keshishian were chosen as the six contestants.
The focus of the show is for the two teams to destroy a random object and then to build vehicles out of it. The winning team also destroys the losers’ creation.
Filming will take place on June 14.
The University of California is trying to reduce its administrative, purchasing and energy costs by about $500 million per year by 2015 in an effort to help stop any further cuts from its teaching and research missions.
UC officials stated that the loose 10 campus system will become more centralized when it comes to non-academic matters, such as unified purchasing of supplies and medical equipment. However, the officials want the campuses to maintain independence in classrooms and labs.
The UC system also had $305 million of last year’s cuts restored by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Summer school fees for all Cal State campuses will increase this year after a superior judge refused to sign a petition blocking the fee hike. The courses will be $80 for students on the semester system and $60 for those on the quarter system.
Students from several of the Cal State schools sued the university for the increases, arguing that state law prohibits having summer session fees that are higher than those during the rest of the school year, but the superior judge disagreed.
The fee is expected to affect 75,000 students who enroll in summer courses.
After Craig Kupka retires next year, Martin Rhees will take his place as conductor of the Glendale Symphonic Orchestra. Rhees is currently the band director and will continue to be band director next year as well.
Glendale parents, community members, and teachers have formed the Coalition to Protect Glendale Schools (CPGS) as a result of the GUSD proposal to increase class sizes for kindergarten through third grade. The group aims to maintain lower class sizes by opposing the reelection of district board members who support the proposal and seeking removal of administrators (not school principals) who support the proposal as well. The Glendale Teachers Associated Representative Council has voted to join the group.
