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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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Eric Bazak

Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

After serving as staff writer, Features Editor, and Outside News Editor over the previous three years, Eric Bazak served as Editor-in-Chief for the 2015-16 school year. He is currently a freshman at UCLA.

Eric won numerous awards for his work on the Boiling Point.

CSPA 2015 Gold Circle Certificate of Merit in News Writing (print)
CSPA 2015 AGold Circle Certificate of Merit in In-depth/Feature Story (print)
Quill & Scroll 2016 National Award in Profile Writing
Quill & Scroll 2015 National Award in News Writing
Jewish Scholastic Press Association, 2014 2nd Prize in News & Feature Writing
All content by Eric Bazak
AGGRESSION: FireHawk star point guard Asher Remer leapt toward the basket as a member of the Berman Cougars jumped to block him.

Even in third place, Firehawks host a winner in Glouberman Tournament

By Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief
January 14, 2016
Bleachers, broadcasts and giant posters of Firehawk players' heads were just a few of the signs of excitement surrounding the first Steve Glouberman Basketball Tournament when it finally debuted in the Shalhevet gym Nov. 12-15. Four days, 14 bracketed teams and 32 basketball games later, the Heschel Heat of New York City cruised to the boys’ title while the Lady Firehawks were champions on the girls' side.
VOTING: General Studies Principal Mr. Daniel Weslow collected ballots from freshmen in grade-level representative elections for Fairness, Agenda and SAC. A committee of six students set the structure of this year's elections.

Unannounced committee of six students set election protocol

By Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief
December 3, 2015
Just before finals last year, when students could count the remaining days at the JCC with their fingers, six students squeezed into the tiny upstairs administration office during breakfast for a meeting they had been personally invited to attend.
MEMORY LANE: Outside view of the old Shalhevet building. The school moved there the year the Boiling Point was founded.

In all that’s new, a strong echo of 1999

By Eric Bazak, Editor In Chief
October 8, 2015
My classmates and teachers consistently talk about how Shalhevet so drastically changed over the years. In many ways, they’re right. Naturally teachers come and go, rules change, curriculums mature, and buildings are remodeled. But scrape off all the added detail and what remains is a core impressively untainted by time.
INDOOR GYM: State-of-the-art gym has a regulation basketball court and volleyball court, along with pulldown bleachers along the right-side wall and natural light pouring in from windows as long as the room. A new Firehawk logo is on the floor at center court.

School’s Open!

By Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief
August 28, 2015
It took a year longer than expected to get the required permits, but once the first bulldozer clawed into the roof of the old building on June 6, 2014, construction never stopped.
SELFIE: Mr. Danovitch captures a photo of one of his final Brit. Lit. classes at the JCC in June.

Looking back on 11 years of Dano-mite

By Eric Bazak, Outside News Editor
June 15, 2015
The school was ready for this moment. There were student-produced videos, Town Hall farewell speeches, and even a new hiree for the General Studies principal position.
How fair are the SATs?

How fair are the SATs?

By Eric Bazak, Features Editor
February 22, 2015
Juniors’ eyes are glued to heavy Compass books as they fidget in the hallways, enveloped in insurmountable stress. There is only one explanation: SATs are coming up. But how objective is the SAT? Do Shalhevet students have a level playing field with students in public schools – or with each other?
Of 33 Shalhevet drivers polled in March, over a third had already been in accidents.

Immortal and behind the wheel

By Eric Bazak, Features Editor
May 30, 2014
A recent Boiling Point poll of students with licenses found that most Shalhevet drivers regularly break several laws while driving, and 42 percent have already been in an accident — despite having been licensed for, at most, just two-and-a-half years.
Boys lead Mishmar on their own

Boys lead Mishmar on their own

By Eric Bazak, Staff Writer
November 19, 2013

On Thursdays, if the Beit Midrash is packed with boys sitting around a table and learning a Gemara, assume Mishmar is in session....

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