Voices
The student voices of Buffalo High School, offering diverse opinions on the issues and entertainment that impact the community.
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Everyone makes mistakes, but you don’t have to learn from your own! Most people would love to go back in time and change some of the things they did. Most people would go back to freshmen their freshman year and change some of the things they did. A lot of people want to help make it easier for freshmen by giving them some advice. Everyone has made choices that they are not proud of.…
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From the typical cliques, to the wandering students with nowhere to go, Buffalo High School has students that come from all different kinds of families that take place in surrounding towns. But do these town’s have reps that categorize the students that come to BHS? 2 out of 3 people believe there are stereotypes with the town’s that come to district 877. “People perceive Hanover as more of an upper class town, a ‘place where…
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Prom has been a tradition in America since the early 1900’s. Since then, the black-tie event has changed significantly, but one thing has remained constant: flowers. It’s a custom for the boys to bring their prom date flowers, and supporting this tradition since 1953 is Buffalo Floral. Current owner, Patti Speckel, has been running the show for 34 years. She and her husband bought the flower shop in 1984. When she first started working, the…
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Many students are under the assumption our school’s internet is far from good, but they’re wrong. This may be assumed from the past years when it was almost a common practice for the internet to be down, but the 2012-2013 school year tells a different story. “I’ve noticed this year our internet has only gone down a handful of times but I don’t know why it got better this year,” said Junior Sam Odegard. Few know…
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Imagine reading the same book 125 times. English Teacher Joel Squadroni has been teaching the same book for 32 years, reading the book at least twice a year plus more in his leisure time. What book could he love so much that he puts this much time and effort into it? None other than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Based in the 1920’s, The Great Gatsby is a short read filled with strong personalities…
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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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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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Snow Days is more than students dressing up. There are AAA activities and even broom ball at the rink. “The after school activities are a joke. Why would anyone waste their time,” said Bjorklund. The students that dress up feel that snow days has a lot to do with school spirit. “I don’t feel stupid dressing up because I like to dress up and be different,” said Junior Lexi Bollant. Most students are sick of…
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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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One question divides most of BHS, “Do you love or hate Chipotle?” More than fifty-two percent of students surveyed say they love it, while nearly forty-eight percent hate it. Those who said hate link their feelings to sickness. “I couldn’t make it out of there [Chipotle] without a thirty minute stop at the bathroom first,” said Senior Grant Hopkins. Chipotle prides itself on its “food with integrity.” Locally grown, handcrafted burritos are part of the…
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