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As you walk into the lobby of Emerson, you immediately feel like you’re on the cutting edge of technology. A security guard, gun strapped to his side, has been awaiting your arrival behind his desk. It all seems a bit far-fetched to see security like this on a leisure school field trip, but the students approach the desk with an avid smile regardless. After a few students relieve themselves after the hour bus ride, they…
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Behind new leadership and perspective with a new coach, the Buffalo Dance Team is back again and hoping they’re here to stay. For the past ten years the Bison Dance Team has been an on again, off again sport. The school has had trouble finding coaches and funding for the team. The last year Buffalo had a dance team was in 2010. This year they found they’re new coach, Kaitlin White. “I have been teaching dance…
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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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The Bison Competitive Cheerleading Team competed at the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando, Florida from February 8-12. Near the beginning of the season, the Cheer Team was just shy of getting a bid to Nationals at the Regional competition. The team decided to try their shot at it again at a competition in Iowa. When they went to Iowa, they had their best performance yet. Finishing the meet off with a first place…
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“There was about a month where I thought I could make a living off music,” said English Teacher David Robinson. Robinson frequently plays for Crows Feet, a local band, and been in a myriad of bands previously. After that successful month of fill-in jobs and various shows, he experienced an eight month dry spell. He had joined his first band in college and has been playing guitar since. Each band has had its ups, downs,…
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You know it’s sections time when the boys swim and dive team have the best hair cuts in school. Sophomore Tommy Peterson struts his stuff down the hall with his half Adidas head half striped head. Even though some students may give him looks he owns the fact that he is a swimmer. “It’s just something fun to do with the team, ” Sophomore Peterson said. Every year right before sections the team shaves their heads in…
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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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“I will admit, I have a problem.” 360 calories and two dollars and fourteen cents later, teacher Gerard Rohl’s morning McDonald’s cravings are satisfied. With a routine of going through the McDonald’s drive through, the cute, little old lady employees expected to see Rohl that morning. “The old retired ladies pretty much already know that I’m going to order my Breakfast Burrito and Diet Coke,” said Rohl. “The Egg McMuffin doesn’t really have a taste…
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