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Coverage of breaking news, events, and what’s coming next at Buffalo High School.
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May 15 was BHS’s annual Academic Awards Night, and along with that came the announcement of this year’s Senior Hall of Fame Winners. Hoofprint met with and interviewed Rebecca Horak and Mitchell Bunting to find out what makes them stand out from the crowd. Hoofprint: What was going through your head when you found out you had won? Rebecca Horak: Wait, who? ME?! I was so surprised!\ Mitchell Bunting: Before they announced it I was…
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As you might have heard, there’s a netflix original series called Thirteen Reasons Why that has Buffalo high school students talking. Here’s the rundown of the story: Clay Jensen, a shy high school student, returns home from school one day to find that he has received a mysterious package in the mail. It contains seven double-sided cassette tapes used by Hannah Baker, a classmate who has recently committed suicide. Each tape details an explanation about…
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Maddy Anderson, a seventh grader at Buffalo Community middle school, is only one of many examples of how social media is affecting young teens. “I feel like people judge you a lot based on your pictures and captions. Sometimes you feel like your posts are really stupid if you don’t get any comments or your instagram isn’t as pretty as others,” Anderson said. Teenagers are especially targeted by society’s pressure of fitting in online. In…
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The first thing I notice as I step onto the technicolor rug in the entry of the newly-remodeled Learning Commons, is the smell that hits my nose. It smells of clean, fresh paper. In fact, it’s coming from aisles upon aisles of books in various areas of the library. Some shelves are organized in a color-coded rainbow. Others sport popular reads recommended by high school readers. There’s even a shelf for the indecisive readers. In…
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2017 has already played host to many great movies, and it looks like the rest of the year is going to be just as good. While we have already seen box office hits such as Beauty and the Beast or Fate of the Furious, the rest of 2017 has a lineup that is expected to way outperform these early hits. Titles slated for release in 2017 include Wonder Woman, Spiderman: Homecoming and a reboot of…
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After years of coaching and hard work, Scott Sorenson was recently let go of his position as the Buffalo girls Varsity coach. For many people this news came as a shock and people didn’t know what to do. “I am very sad and shocked that this happened and still don’t understand it. I know I am his daughter, but I was also a player of his and I don’t want to play for anyone else,”…
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“Freedom is worth fighting for,” Gary Gullickson, a 68 year old Vietnam veteran, told a class of tenth grade students. Gary fought in the Vietnam war and served in the U.S., Vietnam, and Japan. Along with brutally honest stories, came a lot of life lessons that he learned over his time serving and wanted to share with others. “The most important thing is to be kind and love one another,” Gary told the sophomore class.…
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The shoe game at BHS is very diverse. From Skechers to Birkenstocks to Huaraches to Cowboy boots, BHS has a wide variety of shoes as well as people. Shoes tend to reflect who people are as a person for example, what friend groups they may be in. People tend to wear the “trendier” shoes then what is comfortable. When looking around BHS, you’ll see a lot of the same shoe brands, A more recently popular…
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During class sign ups for each school year, students are faced with a choice for many of their core classes, take the base class or opting for a more advanced AP course. What’s holding many students back from taking AP courses is the fact that BHS lacks any sort of a weighted GPA. A traditional GPA is fairly simple, an A = 4.0, a B = 3.0, C = 2.0 and so on. A weighted…
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This years musical “Pippin” performed by Buffalo’s Theatre Department was a big success. Many people attended to see our local performance and the performance even won an award. They got the “Outstanding Achievement” award in musical theatre; this award means that our musical department will have the opportunity to perform Pippin again at the State Theatre on June 12th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “This is Minnesota’s high school version of the Tony awards,” said Tracy Hagstrom…
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