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A group gather in the black box theater, and all is silent. At exactly 2 o’clock, a red-headed pony-tailed teacher walks to the front of the crowd and claps three times, and the theater explodes with noise, a noise which remains for a solid minute and is only silenced by a teacher’s call for attention. Once English teacher Amy Sparks gained the attention of the students in the theater, she swiftly passed the baton to…
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54 baseball players, 3 hour bus ride to Moorhead, Minnesota, 1 coach bus. It was the most anticipated trip of the year when the Bison Baseball Team hit the road for a game under the lights against the Moorhead Spuds. The bus became jam packed as all the players boarded the bus. Before the journey began, Head Coach Mike Beilke barked these orders, “remember this isn’t our bus, pick up your trash, do not wreck…
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I leave class at 1:20 pm while Rodenwald is talking about how to apply the law of conservation. Today is game day, so I grab my things and try not to worry about the fact that I’ll be missing 35 minutes of valuable class time. “Good luck,” says Rodenwald as I smile and walk out the door. I walk quickly down the hallway to make sure I have enough time to change and catch the…
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In the chaotic classroom of C212, a teacher and coach at Buffalo High School, challenges a student to a game of checkers. The student has tried countless times to beat the skilled checkers player that they call their teacher. They sit at an empty table and lay the board out in front of them. The battle has begun. As the game progresses a crowd of onlookers gathers around to watch the two players battle it…
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“I am Yo, and you are Tú, if we’re not on a first name basis, saying Tú is rude…” the 1st block Spanish 1 class and Mr. Onell sang. We were learning subject pronouns and eager to advance in this language. Everyday, we would walk into a room decorated with motivational posters on the walls, a teacher who was so passionate about his job, and an atmosphere where everyone is celebrated for who they are.…
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Many of the students here at BHS are involved in a spring sport, but some also do a second spring sport outside of school. Their schedules are often very busy from having to juggle the practices and games/meets of their two sports as well as school. Peter Deneen a sophomore plays both tennis and soccer and practices for an hour and a half to two hours for both of those sports “Sometimes it makes me…
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“Faires get the love seats on stage!” Along with my other frantic faires, I meekly push the loveseats on the set. The play is getting closer, there is only a week till opening night, and along with that comes a more frantic way of going about things. We don’t catch a lot of breaks anymore. Costume and hair is starting to be done, and everything seems to be getting a bit more climatic. On the…
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Commonly, when choosing the elective courses a student will partake in, they’ll look for which course will offer the least amount of effort and lowest workload both in and outside of school. In some cases you can end up taking away a lot of useful knowledge away with these electives but a lot of the time this applies to more time consuming and rigorous courses. Every once in awhile a course will come along that…
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During the last 20 minutes of school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, students make their way to their Bison Time. Students have the opportunity to select Bison Times that fit their interests or just allow them to spend quiet time reading or studying. The majority of students polled believed that Bison Time should be eliminated or replaced by AAA every day of the week. While, Bison Time is supposed to be a time at the end of…
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Tyler Brown, a sophomore at buffalo high school, was injured during a snowmobile race on January 9th. During the race he fell off his snowmobile and broke his femur. An ambulance then picked him up and brought him to the nearest hospital. He suffered a clean break and will be sidelined for 4-6 months. Snow mobile racing is something that Tyler has done since he was a kid. Now he has gotten to the point…
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