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Starting just a few years ago, the social networking site Twitter has become very popular with the teenager community. Almost everybody and anybody has a twitter now, and it is becoming more popular than Facebook was when it first came out. Twitter is specifically about updating your status about what you’re doing, how you feel, uploading pictures, and of course ‘subtweeting’. Subtweeting is basically tweeting about someone or something, not tagging them in your tweet,…
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“Would having your kids’ hair cut by a gay guy make you uncomfortable?” This is one question Diversity Studies teacher Todd Manninen asked his class during a recent debate. Many different opinions are expressed during these debates. For some students they would not care if if their kid got a hair from a guy who is gay; but some students would. This is one of the many touchy subjects talked about during Diversity Studies. Sometimes…
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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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“He was reading when he was one-year-old,” Nancy DuBois said of her son, Senior Robbie DuBois. Robbie, along with his older brother, Joe DuBois, is exceptionally gifted. “He worked with a professor from the University of St. Thomas and they tested his IQ and his grade level equivalencies and determined he should start school early,” Mrs. DuBois said. “I know when Joe was four, they tested his academic level and he was 10th grade, four months.…
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You always hear about the usual ways to ask a girl to prom, but girls really want to see a guy’s creativity in such a memorable moment in their high school career. Some cool ideas that girls suggested are: 1. Fortune Cookie 2. Parking Ticket 3. Candles spelling out “Prom” 4. A scavenger hunt 5. Over the intercom during school Last year, Senior Hope Mueller got asked by Senior Jordan Johnson. At first he wrote…
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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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Drives in the lane, shoots and makes it, foul, and one. The crowd goes wild and the student section holds up four signs: 1 0 0 0. Senior Ethan Freer scored his 1,000th point. “My mom told me I was 13 points away before the game, so I wasn’t positive I’d get a thousand,” Freer said. “When I got 11, the fans said something about it and it crossed my mind other than that I hadn’t thought about it…
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The percentage of people in the world who eventually become famous is estimated to be about 0.0265 percent. Do you ever wonder what it would be like to be a famous celebrity? Tom Kruse, Mariah Carey, Lebron James, etc. What do you think it would be like to live their life? “I would be Jennifer Anniston,” said Senior Haley Prim. “She is like 40 years old, she is still gorgeous, she has never been in a scandal,…
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Q: What did the ship say to the pier? A: What’s up, dock? “Haha, I get it…because docks are like piers!” said Senior Jonathan Wirkkala. The lunch room jokes, a staple of BHS, has been making students chuckle for years. “Oh, I don’t know how many years ago that [the jokes] started,” Food Service Assistant Nancy Allen said. “I’ve been probably here ten years, and [Food Service Assistant] Katie [Lohse] started it before then. The kids…
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Most seniors, when asked, thought their unspent lunch money went to the school to help with paying for books, laptops and other school needs, but this isn’t the case. “[After you graduate,] your lunch money can go to one of three places,” said Secretary Linda Thompson. “The Angel Account; a younger sibling in the same lunch program or your parent can call the school and ask for a refund.” The Angel Account is an account that is set…
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