Activities
Deeper coverage of official and unofficial clubs and activities at Buffalo High School.
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“I’m most excited to showcase talent from in and outside of the Art department.” Said this year’s Pegasus editor in chief, Emma Hage, Junior. It is that time of year again, the submission boxes are out in full force and the posters are going up. Buffalo High schools literary arts magazine The Pegasus Showcases works of fiction or nonfiction writing, poems and visual art from the year. the 32nd volume is headed by Emma and…
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This last Saturday, Buffalo’s One Act Play took first in sub-sections held at BHS. The one act play, The Magically Marvelous, Wonderfully Wacky, Seriously Silly Center Ring Circus, is about a circus and its owner who plans on selling the business. The circus performers, hoping to purchase the circus from its evil owner, work to raise money. The One Act Play group has been working hard and clowning around during their practices. “The first two weeks…
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The Boy’s Basketball team won the Varsity game against St. Cloud Tech. The team was down 23-18 at halftime, but turned it around in the second half to take a three point lead. With 11 seconds to go in the game, St. Cloud Tech. called a timeout, passed the ball in, shot a three pointer to try to go into overtime but missed in the final seconds of the game. Buffalo had won the game…
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During Homecoming week, as you walk through the halls of Buffalo High School, you see extravagant atrium decorations and hallways sprinkled with posters advertising the weeks school spirit events and dress up days. Students usually pay more attention to the colorful ribbons and flashy signs than the detail and hard work put into setting up the Homecoming Week decor. “No one even has an idea how much work is put into the theme and decoration…
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Article by Erika Voeller and Valerie Ostvig Every year, students swarm the cafeteria to get their hands on BHS’s annual literary magazine, Pegasus, which has been in circulation for 31 years. A staff of 20 editors, advised by English Teacher David Robinson, hand selected the work and published it for BHS. “We started in the beginning of the year,” said Sophomore Michael Capps, “and we still went past the deadline.” Staff members stayed after school…
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Half way through the school year, administration told The Hoofprint that they would only have enough funding from the school to print for half of the school year. Refusing to let the bad news cut short their goal of printing seven issues for the year, Hoofprint staff members immediately began trying to sell adds like crazy and fundraised as much as they could, but barely got enough money to print each issue. The Hoofprint staff didn’t know if…
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The GAPP (German American Partnership Program) students are counting down the days until they leave for Germany, 17 days until they go. The GAPP Program was started 10 years ago by BHS German Teacher Michele Strassburg and Rigina Lönenburg, who is one of the teachers in Germany. ““We started the program to give students the experience of what it’s like to do an exchange program and to give the students another way to broaden their German…
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“I can’t wait to take pictures of the pigeons in New York! I dont know why pigeons but it’s going to an experience I’ll never forget,” said Senior band and choir participant Ellie Bischoff. Over 150 Buffalo high school band, choir, and orchestra students departed for a five day trip to New York today. All though two of those days will be spent on their 24 hour bus rides, there will be no wasted time once they arrive. Arrival…
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Looking around the school on Friday, March 23rd one might notice all the kids wearing the same bright teal shirt that says “overcome hunger with love” on the back. Throughout Buffalo Middle School and High School, over 100 students went for 30 hours without food to raise hunger awareness. St. John’s Lutheran Church hosted The 30 Hour Famine, a program run through World Vision. Around 4:30 p.m. over 150 kids piled into the church. Students signed…
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Two teams of students competed yesterday at ComedySportz in the PAC at Buffalo High School to get a reaction out of the audience while a referee calls fouls. Ten students participate in ComedySportz, an extra-curricular activity that deals with improv skills and making people laugh. Comedysportz is improvisational comedy which high school students play as a sport. Buffalo High School competes against other schools to see who gets the most laughs out of the audience, which gives…