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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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The final issue of The Hoofprint for 2011-2012 features a look at four tremendous BHS students, as well as coverage about Twitter, Kony 2012, and much more. Check out the whole issue online. Open publication – Free publishing – More bhs
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Excited students piled into the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud, passed through check in, and finally made it onto the dance floor. After months of waiting, Prom was finally here, and they could finally dance with the quintessential blaring music and catchy pop songs. Except there was no blaring music and not many catchy pop songs. In fact, many students complained that they couldn’t hear the music at all, those in the back…
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Every Friday in Mrs. Hulley’s World Studies class students play a game called the “News Game.” Four teams of however many students, about six-seven categories and four columns. Your team picks a category and Hulley reads you the question for either one,two,three, or four points. Unless the question is a daily double then you can wager the original amount or go double the points you have. Know how to play now? Good, hopefully you’ll understand…
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Mrs. Wahlin-Fiskum’s CIS literature class traveled to the University of Minnesota to listen to a professor lecture about postmodernism. They traveled down, during the school day, on Tuesday, May 14th. After they listened to the professor lecture, the class had a discussion about the books they have read in class, which was a total of nine. The main story they discussed was a short story called Super-Frog Saves Tokyo by Murakami Haruki. “It was interesting to hear what other schools…
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Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Shayla Wilson (‘04), visited Ryan McCallum’s Journalism 2 class to give perspective on eight years of secondary education, healthcare in Uganda, and what it means to be creative inside the walls of a hospital. Wilson attended the University of Minnesota for both her undergraduate and medical education. On June 8, she will move to Chicago to begin her 3-year residency and finally get paid to work. Residency is required…
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The Minnesota All-State Honor Band had over 700 high school music students audition for 200 spots. Sophomore Hanna Hermanson received that honor, and was the lone representative from BHS Band. “When [Music Teacher Mike] Knutson announced that I got in, I was like, ‘How did I get in?’ I panicked, I was like, ‘Why did you call my name?’ I turned to my friend amber and I said, ‘What did I do?’ and Sophomore Amber [Doebler] said ‘ALL…
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The first block Hospitality Foods class, taught by FACS teacher Julie Mundahl, is making multiple meals and baked goods for the Deneen family. “I had found out about Abby’s situation when another FACS teacher who use to live here in buffalo, told me about a particular family, where the dad had cancer and they were having money issues and they were stressed out,” said Mundahl. In October of 2011 Freshman Abby Deneen’s dad, Bill, was…
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