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These stories come from students attending BHS. The quotes will be anonymous for the comfort of the students. “My most embarrassing moment was mistaking a dude for my mom” “I was walking with my lunch tray of spaghetti in 5th grade at Montrose Elementary and I slipped and fell and the food literally flew in the air in slow motion and then landed all over me and I sat on the floor and cried.” “I…
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It’s close to the end of school and there are finals and projects due. Seniors especially getting ready for college. With all these things to do and get done, prepare for in these last two weeks we can assume our stress levels have risen, but what if we can make our stress, our stress buddy? Here’s how: Kelly McGonigal a health psychologist did a Ted Talk last year in June of 2013 about this very…
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Student Appreciation Day is just around the corner. This is a day made for the distribution of yearbooks along with time for students to sign one another’s. This years 2013-2014 Tatanka Yearbook will be distributed on Friday, May 30th (Student Appreciation Day) in the PAC during lunch. A and B lunches will be combined, and C and D lunches will be combined. Also, students will get let out of fourth block at 1:20 and will get…
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The Drive Project is a new independent study as of last year started by English Teacher, Vicki Cary. “The Drive project is an independent study in which students get to choose something that they are interested in and further explore and learn about it,” explained Cary. “My goal for it is to learn individually as well as collaboratively.” There are three blocks that do it, consisting of only seniors. First block consists of: Brianna Porter,…
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As the school year nears its end students and staff start the existential count down until their summer break can begin. One person in BHS however is not counting down. English teacher Joel Squadroni has been teaching at Buffalo High School for many years and survived without counting down the days until summer starts for quite a while. In Squadroni’s class he talked about how existentialism is the idea where there is a difference between…
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The Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School Board accepted former assistant principal Brandon Prell’s resignation on April 28, 2014. The school has already begun the search for the next assistant principal. “We have posted that we are looking for a new assistant principal for the past 10 days,” said Principal Mark Mischke, “and the posting was removed Tuesday night (May 14). After the 10 days we had 105 applicants. We would like to employ someone by July 1…
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Three quarters of strenuous work, and it all comes down to one test. Students at BHS are preparing for the exam that could potentially save them thousands of dollars in the near future. Indeed, students are very fortunate to be offered a variety of AP courses throughout the year, but how often do students actually receive college credit? AP exams are distributed in the spring every year. These exams typically last anywhere from 3-5 hours,…
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For the past few weeks on most people’s Facebook their newsfeed has consisted of people jumping into the cold water. People are nominated to jump in the water by one of their friends and when they get nominated they either have 24 or 48 hours to complete the challenge. The challenged has been called the Polar Plunge or the Cold Water Challenge. If the person doesn’t complete the challenge they are supposed to donate money…
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Prom season has just blown by and with it the tanning sensation, as summer rolls around so does the summer body obsession. Although can these trends go into extremes. With people out in the world who look like real life barbies for example Valeria Lukyanova a 21 year old from Russia made the biggest extreme the media has seen. She has made a her body into a real life Barbie-Doll. Including plastic surgeries that removed some…
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Every week the Hospitality Foods class goes over yet again another packet. You might say that you do this a lot in other classes; but is reading those packets benefiting you in some way? Hospitality Foods offers students the opportunity to become “servsafe certified”. Being servsafe certified means you are knowledgeable in safe food handling processes. “It makes you certified as a manager in food safety.” explains FACS teacher Bonnie White. Throughout the semester, you…
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