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Julia Weigle is a student teacher here at Buffalo High School in the music department and has been working with students for a couple of months. Ms. Weigle hailed from St. Michael and is attending Luther College in Iowa, in the last semester of her senior year. She has worked hard here at Buffalo High School to become a better teacher and connect with students. “I have really loved working with both the students and…
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The Minnesota Department of Education defines Social Emotional Learning very clearly: “Social emotional learning (SEL) is broadly understood as a process through which people build awareness and skills in managing emotions, setting goals, establishing relationships, and making responsible decisions that support their success in school and in life.” SEL emerged in 2014 with legislation that required schools to use evidence-based learning to reduce bullying and create a better overall school culture. Minnesota state statutes (laws)…
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Every year at prom or graduation, there are students that nobody else has seen. Unfamiliar faces appear, who will walk across the same stage, receive the same Buffalo High School diploma, and claim the same education as every other BHS student. Most people have never seen them in the hallways. That’s because, in many cases, they never were. These are the students of Bison Online. Bison Online is a concept that many in our school…
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4 weeks ago two students decided to finally put a voice to an issue so many have. Evelyn Diethelm ’28 and Anna Utsch ’28 decided to do something about the problem of the period product machines by creating a story. The story was titled “Time For a Change. Period.” Since that story has been released a few changes have been made. The girls got in contact with Mr. Mischke to discuss the lack of free…
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This year, Jess Nickelsen, a fundamental employee of Buffalo High School’s library, recently found herself in the Spanish classroom yet again. In previous years, Nickelsen had only been seen working in the library; what many students may not know is that before she began to work in the LLC, Nickelsen taught Spanish classes for 21 years. Before Nickelsen began to teach, she had been a Spanish major in college. Throughout college, Nickelsen studied abroad in…
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Zach Bryan’s sixth studio album, With Heaven On Top, is his most recent release in the past two years, consisting not only of 25 songs but also a re-recording of every song acoustically. The album was released through Belting Bronco Records and Warner Music Group on January 9th, 2026. Here is The Hoofprint’s review of some of our favorite songs off the album: Say Why: Using catchy, poetic, and emotional lines along with an upbeat…
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Being a leader is one of the core four B1 Bison values, but how many students are really taking action and meeting student expectations? Looking at a variety of non-sport activities at Buffalo High School, 81.2% of activity leaders are female, and 18.8% are male. Why are there more women than men in leadership positions in our school? Females dominating the leadership positions in high schools is a nationwide trend. According to research highlighted by…
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Most language students could probably agree that learning a language can definitely be difficult. But for German teacher Michele Strassburg, connecting with the German language (and culture) has never been hard work for her. Despite growing up in a family with a fluent German speaker, Mrs. Strassburg had only begun her linguistic studies when she entered high school. “It was something that came very easily to me,” Strassburg commented. “And I would always dream about…
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Wouldn’t it be so inconvenient to live in a world where you had to pay for toilet paper in public bathrooms? With around 1,700 students, with roughly 50% of them being female, BHS should be providing free and accessible products. This is like if you went to the bathroom, and you saw that you’d have to pay 25 cents for toilet paper: not only would it be annoying, but it would be majorly inconvenient. What…
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Many students unwind from the day by scrolling through social media, playing video games, or reading a book. For Connor Gallart ‘27, however, peace comes from tending to his 240-gallon fish tank after a long day. Gallart first got into fishkeeping when he and his aunt lived together. His aunt was a lifelong fishkeeper, and together they repurposed the 240 gallon scorpion enclosure in the basement of his home into a fish tank. “She got…
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