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Red Bluff Union High School wrestlers wore or- ange in support of Love Equals Respect Week, held as a part of the Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention project with Alternatives To Violence, a nonprofit seeking to end domestic violence and sup- port victims and their fam- ily and friends. Wr es tl er s su pp or t te en d at in g vi olenc e pr ev en ti on REDBLUFFHIGH CONTRIBUTED Whittenberg Country School will have an infor- mational meeting 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28 at Ridge- way Park's recreation hall, at 19725 Ridge Road, just beyond the radar base. The open enrollment pe- riod for the school will be- gin on March 1 and run through June 30, with en- rollments being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis as space allows. The school will offer a number of merit-based scholarships for first-year students, with scholarshippre-applications available at the info meet- ing. The school is a pri- vate, K-8 school just west of Red Bluff. It has one kin- dergarten class and two multi-grade elementary classes. It has a part-time option for homeschoolers to join the school on Fridays. With the elementary classes limited to 20 stu- dents and the kindergar- ten class limited to 12, each student benefits from the low student-teacher ratio. In addition to the first informational meeting, the school will have a se- ries of meetings at the Tehama County Library on March 21, April 4 and 18. The Science Fair & Open House will be at the school on March 31. For more information, write to whittenbergcoun- tryschool@gmail.com or call 529-0866. WHITTENBERG Informational meeting slated CONTRIBUTED A WCS student during 2016's end-of-year bike ride. CONTRIBUTED These students were recognized by the Central Tehama Kiwanis at a recent breakfast ceremony. CENTRAL TEHAMA KIWANIS Students, their families, educators and Kiwanians celebrated Central Tehama students' academic and athletic excellence with a breakfast awards ceremony at Mill Creek Restaurant in Los Molinos on Thursday Feb. 16. Students from Gerber, Lassen View, Los Molinos, Vina and Richfield elemen- tary schools and from Los Molinos High school were in attendance. The following students received a portfolio certifi- cate of merit and journals: from Richfield Elementary School, Cassidy Johnston; Lassen View Elementary School, Kannon Fox; Ger- ber Elementary School, An- drea Marquez; Los Molinos Elementary School, Yaneli Castellon; Vina Elementary School, Christopher Macias; Los Molinos High School, Hanna Mubarak-Acevedo and Kyle Wood. Awards breakfast held An academic grant of $1,000 is being offered to a woman from Tehama County or Glenn County who is an upper division or graduate student attend- ing an accredited college or university preparing to become a teacher. The scholarship is offered by Beta Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Soci- ety International, a wom- en's international education society. The society's goals are to promote the profes- sional and personal growth of women educators and to acknowledge excellence in education. Scholarship applications are available from Gretchen Allen, PO Box 1252, Corn- ing, 96021 or by writing to gt_allen@sbcglobal.net. The completed applica- tion with necessary letters of recommendation is to be postmarked or e-mailed by March 31. DELTA KAPPA GAMMA Sc hol ar sh ip a va il ab le t o pr os pe ct iv e te ac he rs The public is invited to sit in on thought-provok- ing presentations and par- ticipate in Q&A sessions at Simpson University's 7th annual Student Research Symposium on Saturday, March 4, in LaBaume-Ru- dat Hall on campus, 2211 College View Drive. The free, day-long event features presentations and posters by undergraduate and graduate students on topics from multiple disci- plines. Registration starts at 9 a.m., with the opening ple- nary session at 10 a.m. fea- turing an address, "Neigh- borhoods not Nationhoods," by Dr. Stephen Backhouse, lecturer in social and polit- ical theology at St. Mellitus College, London. The symposium, spon- sored by the university's Of- fice of Academic Affairs, is designed to showcase schol- arly achievement among undergraduate and gradu- ate students. Participants present their scholarship through 10- to 30-minute presentations or facilitated poster sessions. This year's conference fo- cuses on the theme of "Be- longing." This year's presenta- tions include titles such as "Skating in a Sari: Hybrid- ity, Gender, and Clothes in Monica Ali's 'Brick Lane,'" "Extremophilic Bacteria in Acid-Mine-Drainage," "The Implications of Jesus as a Nonviolent Nonconform- ist Protestor in the Gospel of John," and "The War on Trade: The Negative Impact of the Continental System and the Embargo of 1807 upon Britain," among oth- ers. The symposium will conclude with an awards presentation. The Stanley Clark Student Research Awards — named after former university provost Stanley Clark, a strong supporter of student re- search—will be presented to students for best re- search paper and best re- search presentation. Learn more at simpsonu. edu/researchsymposium. SIMPSON Student research symposium set By Joe Mandak TheAssociatedPress PITTSBURGH The firm that owns the SAT college entrance exam is boosting security worldwide follow- ing test-stealing and other cheating in recent years. The College Board said it's reducing the number of international testing dates from six per year to four for the 2017-18 and 2018- 19 school years. It says the move will reduce opportu- nities for test content to be stolen. The New York-based col- lege entrance exam pro- vider announced Wednes- day that it is taking steps to prevent past cheaters from retaking tests. In addition, it says it will alert law en- forcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad of compa- nies and people it suspects of illegally obtaining test content. Other planned reforms include an increase in au- dits of test centers world- wide and steps to make it easier for students and ed- ucators to anonymously re- port suspected cheating. "We are unwavering in our commitment to SAT test security and we will continue to confront any efforts to undermine it, in- cluding the unauthorized disclosure of test ques- tions and test forms," Pe- ter Schwartz, the College Board's chief administra- tive officer and general counsel, said in a written statement. A frequent critic of the College Board believes the group isn't doing enough to prevent recycled tests from flooding an online black market where foreign stu- dents can buy copies of tests already given in the United States before they're recy- cled and given to students overseas. "The most important thing is what they did not say," said Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director for FairTest: National Cen- ter for Fair & Open Testing Schaeffer. "They did not say they're going to stop recy- cling tests, which is the pri- mary tool used in all these international cheating scandals." But College Board spokesman Zachary Gold- berg said, "We are reduc- ing re-use, it's in the an- nouncement. We recognize that's an issue." The official announce- ment says "the College Board has increased test form development to re- duce reuse." "With these new policies, the College Board is com- mitted to expose and thwart individuals and organiza- tions who attempt to steal and share test materials for profit and other gain," said Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University. The College Board can- celed college entrance ex- ams in China and Macau in January 2016 after de- termining some students may have obtained copies of the tests. Forty-five test- ing centers were affected, and similar problems have plagued the administration of the test in Asia in recent years, though cheating has occurred elsewhere, too. In 2015, federal prosecu- tors in Pittsburgh charged 15 Chinese citizens in a con- spiracy to have impostors take the SAT and other col- lege entrance tests in Penn- sylvania as far back as 2011. COLLEGE BOARD SAT security to be boosted to combat cheating ThroughtheNewspapersinEducation program, area classrooms receive the Red Bluff Daily News every day thanks to the generosity of these local businesses & individuals. THANK YOUFORSUPPORTING N EWS D AILY REDBLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N TY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 NEWSPAPERS NIE Please help sponsor a classroom subscription Call Kathy at (530) 737-5047 to find out how. ~SILVERLevelSponsors~ Dignity Health St. Elizabeth Community Hospital John Wheeler Logging, Inc. 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