Activities
Deeper coverage of official and unofficial clubs and activities at Buffalo High School.
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Activities do some strange things to raise money, but selling salt may be the oddest. The Buffalo baseball team sells water softener salt in bulk. “The baseball team has been selling salt every year since I can remember,” said Senior Eric Nelson. Players are expected to sell about one hundred 40lb bags each. After selling for about two weeks, the team wraps up the fundraiser this saturday with a special tradition. “Grand Slam Saturday is when all…
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Once again, BHS’s BPA (Business Professionals of America) chapter is sending students to Nationals. “We send a handful of kids each year,” Chapter President Marah Moy said. “At least we’re consistent. [Last year Junior] Aaron [Hamann] and I had a lot of fun in Chicago [at Nationals]. We visited a couple museums and his roommates were fun to hang out with. One of my favorite adventures was the field museum where we learned about animals…
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You know it’s sections time when the boys swim and dive team have the best hair cuts in school. Sophomore Tommy Peterson struts his stuff down the hall with his half Adidas head half striped head. Even though some students may give him looks he owns the fact that he is a swimmer. “It’s just something fun to do with the team, ” Sophomore Peterson said. Every year right before sections the team shaves their heads in…
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Senior Joe Neumann is on his seventh year operating his backyard terrain park known as the Stomp Pad. With this winter that we have been having, Neumann and his friends have been going out to the backyard quite a bit to have some fun times in the snow. “If I had to guess, I’d say that I have seen around 60 different faces all coming to shred,” says Neumann. “I love seeing and being able…
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In a controversial decision, Buffalo was disqualified from the One Act Play Sections on February 2. A week later at the State Festival, Director Tracy Hagstrom Durant found out that the rule that played a part in their disqualification is now being rewritten. The play was originally disqualified for soliciting an audience response. “It’s a good thing for the change,” Hagstrom Durant said. “Clarity of rules is always important. I felt bad for our kids, technically it’s my fault.…
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Coming into the Buffalo High School gym, Junior Tyler Pinor was sporting his bison apparel ready to cheer on the boys basketball team. “I get excited to come to the basketball games to pump up the crowd. They could practically hear me cheering on the other side of the gym,” said Pinor. “I think that’s why Bauman noticed how fired up of a fan I was.” Pinor was a nominee for the “Fired Up Fan…
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“This is a cool energy in here,” teacher Jon Holtz mentions about the group of his two Ceramics II classes gathered in one room, as the smell of burning wood pools in from the tech ed hallway. More than 60 Ceramics 2 students gathered on February 15 in Holtz’s Ceramics room for a demonstration from Keith Williams on how to make both functional and nonfunctional teapots. Keith mentioned how he wasn’t a natural at clay…
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“In regards to body strength, boys and girls are built differently,” said Physical Education teacher Nick Guida. “It’s like comparing apples to oranges, not apples to apples.” For a boy to get 11 points on the mile, he must run it in under 5 minutes and 45 seconds. For a girl to get the same score, she has to run it in under 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Is this fair? Of 30 randomly-selected students surveyed 77…
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“Its a fun event to work on together, we’re not really expecting to win.” said AP Physics teacher Paul Anderson. The event being the annual Rube Goldberg machine competition, an event where 25 teams from all across Minnesota make a machine to accomplish a simple task in the most over complicated way possible. The competition blends engineering, logic, creativity and imagination as well as being able to physically build something. It took place at the…
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RAVE (Respect and Value Everyone) week has concluded at BHS, prompting students to reexamine their definition of respect. “Respect to me means that you listen to people even though you might not agree with what they’re actually saying,” Junior Alex Haas said. Throughout the week, six student groups challenged everyone at BHS to focus on respect. “Every high school can improve on respecting others,” Student Council Vice President Taylor Crowser said. “Respect is a polite…