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All around the school the halls are decorated with the craftsmanship of students throughout the years from the Arts Magnet department. Ranging from portraits of important people, abstract mixes of colors and personality, still frames of beautiful scenery, and whatever else comes to mind of the student that is the artist. Though it pegs the question, who decides what art goes up that gives the school it’s special touch with the student body, and what…
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When you think of part time and full time teachers, one would imagine the latter having great less work than the former, with not being here as often as a full time teacher would be. Not having a concrete understanding, two teachers one being full time while the other described her position as a “point eighty three.” Which means two quarters they’re full time while the other two quarters their schedule becomes part time. Both…
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This week, Apr 21-25, is Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness Week. The week is organised by the MN Department of Public Safety to “inform and refresh knowledge about severe weather threats,” as well as help people prepare for the upcoming storm season. At BHS, a tornado drill is planned for Thursday as part of the statewide tornado drill. “Primarily, our focus for Severe Weather Awareness Week will be on Thursday, where we’ll take part in a…
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Once a month during the morning announcements students will hear the term ‘Feature Teacher’. But how exactly is this ‘Feature Teacher’ decided? “Feature Teacher is one [activity] that the student council puts up. I’ve been advising [for] 10 years of student council and that was an activity that had started before I did.” explains Social Studies teacher Evan Ronken. “Each year we have a couple students who are the chairs of the committee; Mattie Lubben…
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By: Taylor McNitt Seven years ago, English teacher Heather Tierney began an uncommon project; writing a book. Her book is called The Freedom of a Tangled Vine, and it is a fictional family drama about a woman named Alina in the 1960s who secretly placed a child up for adoption, and then goes on with her life; she always remembered that situation, and years later that child has grown up and makes contact with her.…
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Yesterday [Tuesday] students who are in band, choir, or orchestra went on a Music Trip. They will be performing for different audiences and also having fun during the trip. Juniors Lucas Leiferman and Joshua Nevala are both going on the trip. They give a more in depth look at what the [musicians] will be doing when they are in Nashville, TN and Chicago, IL.
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The district technology staff undertook significant upgrades over Spring Break to the district’s network and internet connection. Servers and other network equipment were upgraded to provide for a 10 Gb Wide Area Network (WAN) between all the district buildings instead of the old 1 Gb connection, as well as four times faster internet speed[1]. This was to help resolve many of the issues encountered earlier in the year and to replace aging equipment. “The day…
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Rumors of prom security have been spreading like wildfire throughout this school. Words like “Airport security” are being tossed around left and right. In an earlier hoofprint story on the snow daze dance Activities Director Tom Bauman mentioned this, “Kids get that we are really tight at prom, almost like you are going through an airport.” The truth on the security is that there really is no truth to it. Our school does not control…
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Snowing in April? With the crazy weather that’s been going on around here, it is becoming a problem for Spring sports. “Baseball has a five game week next week. They’ll be playing a game, so the practices are kind of going byebye, because we have to get the games rescheduled, and same thing with lacrosse,” says Activities Dierector Tom Bauman.”I have to schedule a game for lacrosse for boys, and the dates to get it played…
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In eighth grade, Senior Nicholas Soden joined marching band, not expecting to continue marching outside of high school. As a couple years went on, Soden realized that this was a huge part of his life and something that he wanted to do in the future. The opportunity came to try out for one of the top 12 drum corps, the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. “They’re one of the drum corps that gets to…
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