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StuCo held the annual Women Pay All dance on Feb. 15 in the auxiliary gym. The theme of the dance was Valentine’s Day.
The night before, the Sweetheart Court was announced at halftime of the boys varsity basketball game against Mill Valley. Seniors Ellen Bowser, Luke Bartalos, Maggie Condon and Sophia Beedle were all crowned as Sweetheart royalty.
“[There] wasn’t a ton of people, but that kind of made it more fun,” senior Lincoln King, an attendee of the dance, said. “[It was] more of a dance with friends, rather than a whole big old party.”
The next dance will be the MORP dance after the boys varsity basketball game on Friday, Feb. 28, which will start at 7 p.m. The dance will have free pizza and is also accepting hygiene product donations for the hygiene drive for Giving the Basics, an organization that provides hygiene products for those in need.
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![Every day during lunch, Hau-In Lau sits in her room, working on her laptop while snacking on fruits.
For Lau, the 25 minutes of lunch time are both a planning period and a second seminar to help her English Language Learner students. Teaching seven different courses across SM East and Indian Hills Middle School, it’s critical for Lau to be in her classroom during lunch, working while helping students.
Lau’s planning class and eating a banana when ELL 3 student and junior Hanifa Gul Mohammad walks in.
“I have crepes. It’s from France,” Gul Mohammad said.
“From what class?”
“International foods class.”
“See, that’s my lunch, you know, so I don’t worry,” Lau said. “Sometimes I get lunch from my students. So I say, ‘Go sign up for food’s class’ [laughs].”
Lau is the only Chinese and ELL teacher — having founded both programs in her 16 years at East. After two decades of providing critical opportunities to students in SMSD, she’ll retire in the spring.
“I love teaching,” Lau said. “My ELL students and Chinese students have been wonderful, but I’m only one small person. I feel my health is failing, my vision is getting worse… I just feel like maybe I don’t want to wait until I’m blind or get any health problems.”
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