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Joseph Kony, a Ugandan guerrilla military warlord of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army), has been in action for over 26 years and is considered the world’s worst war criminal. He has kidnapped and mutilated over 30,000 children. Kony and his men kidnap children, forcing the girls into sex slavery and giving the boys guns turning them into child soldiers. Kony is fighting for no cause. His only purpose is to show that he has power.…
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The Spain trip scheduled for next year has been changed to Costa Rica. The trip is offered to Spanish students every other year and has been to Spain the last two times. In the past, the destinations have included Spain, Costa Rica and different cities in Mexico. Students voted for Costa Rica and Spain as the top places they wanted to go, and, due to cost, the Spanish teachers decided Costa Rica would be more reasonable this coming year.…
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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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Teacher Sheri Tamte held a meeting on Wednesday March 14, during AAA for students to custom design VANS shoes. VANS shoe company is doing a national contest for canvas shoes, and those who win the contest get their shoe design created, produced and sold. Students have four designs to choose from: the shoes can either be art related, music, local flavor (example horses), and action sports. First you put your design on paper, and turn…
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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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From custom pizzas and text messages to plane rides and body art, the pressure to find a unique way to ask a date to Prom increases every year. What kind of effort have BHS Students put in to finding a date this year?
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With the 2011-2012 swim season wrapping up with a state appearance by Junior Jack Elliot, the team has high expectations for next year. On March 6, Juniors Jack Elliot, Ian Warpula and Andrei Casey were all named captains for the upcoming swim and dive season. To name the captains, the team voted on who they thought would fit the role best, but the coaches had the final say in the voting process. “It makes me…
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Juniors Taylor Strege and Erika Voeller, along with students who graduated last year, Emily Anderson and Kayla Schimmle decorated German teacher Michelle Strassburg’s room this past Sunday for her birthday. At 8AM Sunday morning Journalism teacher Ryan McCallum let the students in and supervised them while they decorated Strassburg’s room with the help of McCallum’s son, Avery. While the students were busy decorating, Strassburg was at home celebrating her birthday with her family. “My birthday…
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As hundreds of students at BHS know, Facebook can be very addicting. As I write this, I have a Facebook tab open and I find myself checking it periodically. And when I realize that three hours have gone by I think to myself, “what the heck was I even looking at?” I find myself looking through new pictures posted, the news feed, reading articles, listening to music, playing a game, creeping through my crushes profile,…
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As you look around the almost pitch black classroom, half the students have their heads on desks, one quarter is texting, and the rest are doing homework for other classes. The movie is projected onto the screen at the front of the room, but no one know what’s happening. The teacher will get up in twenty minutes to turn it off and ask the class what happened. There will most certainly be people who grumble…
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