Activities

Snow daze started on Friday the 18th with a 70’s disco dance after the boys basketball game. It was a great turn out and raised money for track and field. Snow days is a week of excitement and fun activities. Each day is a different dress up day including Tuesday being get up an go, Wednesday being work out day, Thursday being formal day, and Friday being flannel day. There are also after school activities…

The Buffalo Knowledge Bowl team placed 1st amongst 55 teams Thursday night at St. Cloud Tech High School. It was the team’s seventh 1st place finish in as many meets this season. “Going into the meet, I honestly thought we were going to lose,” said senior Nate Spanier, also team spokesperson. The team entered the meet already at a disadvantage, missing five of their team members, including two of team 1’s four members (seniors Jonathon…

Throughout last week, Students Stepping Up (SSU) held a “Hugs and Kisses” fundraiser. For $1, students could buy a bag of Hershey’s Kisses to send to anyone in the school on Valentine’s Day. Around 69 bag of chocolate were sold during the week at all lunches. “We made about $70,” said SSU member and senior Brittany Snyder, “But it’s not about the money, we just do it to have fun.” The candy was then sent…

Most students, when the clock hits 2:20, hurry toward the doors to get to their cars, and buses so that they can get home or to work, but there are many others kids who continue their day not in the classroom but in the weight room or on the indoor track in the BAC, training and bettering themselves for the upcoming season. There is a long line of spring sports offered at Buffalo High School…

Last week’s clue game “criminal”, History Teacher Devin Davidson has been captured thanks to students and staff of BHS. According to the clues given each day related to the mystery game, Davidson has robbed the bank of Buffalo while participating in SSU’s anual school wide game of clue. The money earned has come back to the students in prize form. If students participated and won a prize, it can be collected in room C-209. This…

The student group Students Stepping Up (SSU) is putting together the school wide clue game for the 2nd time with a new approach this year. The school-wide clue game was started during the 2009-2010 school.  The objective of the game last year was that one of the principles gets kidnapped by a faculty member of Buffalo High School.  Which was originally planned for this year as well, but they decided to shake it up a…

The Buffalo One Act team received a Six Star Performance at the Conference meet at Cambridge-Isanti on Saturday. This ranking was the highest of any school at the meet. Mallory Nelson and Julie Bothum both received All-Conference honors, and D.J.  McMoil and Michael Patchen received All- Conference Honorable Mention. Rebekah Herdklotz was awarded with All-Conference Tech Team. “Buffalo does quite well, we take it quite seriously,” said Patchen. “We send messages through our characters, but don’t…

Match Maker took place in the cafeteria. This occurred from December 20 (Thursday) until December 21 (Friday). It is a Valentine’s Day activity where students fill out a form that lists a series of questions. After the questions are looked over, they evaluate whose answers are the most similar. In the end, you get paired with the person that shares the same interests as you. Results are based on compatibility. “A total of 1,200 forms…

40 of Buffalo High school’s FFA members along with new Agriculture Teacher Jim Kocherer will be attending a Rodeo on the fourth of February at the Xcel Energy Center. “Were going there to have fun,” Kocherer said. Mr. Kocherer, along with 60-75 FFA members, do a number of different activities that  involve agriculture, aka. animals whether it be judging, showing, competitions, crops, fundraising a wide variety of a lot of different things that are fun…

The Arts Magnet committee is putting on an Open Mic Night next Thursday (January 20, 2011) from 2:30pm- 4:30pm in the Black Box (Room A218). No admission fee, no sign up sheets, no audtions, and everyone is invited, to watch and/or preform. Anyone can have the floor; musicians, poets, dancers, DJ’s, actors, storytellers and anything in the middle. “It’s a chance for all preformers to come together, preform and have fun!” says Reese Beggs, President…