Spotlight
Shining a spotlight on the Kind, Proud, Driven Leaders that make Buffalo High School stand out.
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Four years ago, Mark Mischke took over as the principal at BHS. This year’s graduating class will be his first Senior class that he’s been with all four years. Along with everything being brand new to the Freshmen, Mischke also had to get used to a new school, new staff, and new students. “When I first started, everything was so new to me as from what to expect. The Freshmen class [which is now the…
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The movies would lead us to believe that at some point a pair of opposite gender friends will have a revelation and realize they are in love. Then the movie ends and they presumably live happily ever after. I mean, we don’t write songs about a man and a woman being great friends their whole lives. But this is cinema and song, so how do this play out in real life? Story continues after the…
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Carlton Urdahl’s eyes light up when a student finally makes a breakthrough in his calculus class. Whether he’s jumping with joy or slapping his Expo marker into his hand, Urdahl has spent 49 years of his life teaching kids how to solve quadratic equations and inequalities. Although he could have retired years ago, Urdahl returns each year for the love of what he does and the people that surround him on a daily basis. “I…
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Junior Michael Swearingen saw The Hunger Games twice in the first 12 hours after it came out. He went to see it with friends at midnight on Thursday, the night it opened, and then his CIS Literature class went to see it the next morning during school. He arrived home from the movie at 3:30 a.m. on Friday and had to wake up for school and his second viewing at 6 a.m.. “I woke up…
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Neil Schlagel, the new JAG teacher, has been satisfying appetites for years. As the former co-owner of a restaurant, he is now stepping into a role full of people hungry for knowledge. Schlagel came from the business scene into the classroom. A graduate from North Dakota State University, and former co-owner of the Blue Note Bar & Ballroom in Winsted, Minnesota, he now teaches students, many of whom are eager to learn from him. JAG…
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In high school, students are faced with many decisions. They are forced to make choices regarding their future, and that can be a scary thing for some. Others have it all figured out. “I’ve always wanted to be a teacher and I’ve always liked working with kids with special needs.” said Senior Stephanie Klein, who plans to attend Northwestern College in Roseville to study Special Education. The program will take her four years to complete,…
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Tim Skarin: “I am joining the Marine Corps. because I believe that the Marines will give me the best training,” said Senior Tim Skarin, “and my father is also a Marine.” When asked how long he is planning on staying in the military for, he said, “As of right now I am enlisted for a total of eight years, six active and two reserve. After that is done I will decide if I want to…
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After a weekend of visiting his sister in Wisconsin, Junior Kyle Cole got on a bus with the intentions of going home, but wound up at Union Station in Chicago, Illinois. “Sunday, I got on a bus to go to what I thought was Minneapolis, but it turned out to be Chicago. I asked the bus driver if we were going to Minneapolis and he said, ‘yes’, but 45 minutes into the ride I saw…
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On every test we take, a 35 would be considered a failing score, but there is one test it is considered an amazing score on. On the ACT, a 35 is a near perfect score, with only a 36 being better. Earlier this year Junior Michael Hank earned a 36, but someone else has earned a 35. Junior Cassidy Brown took her test Feb 11 and got her scores back online on Feb 27. “I…
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Christina Bokusky, a junior at Buffalo High School, found out she had a disease this year. Her disease is Catamenial Hemoptysis, and she is the 11th discovered case in the world. This is her story.