“It’s extremely stressful, we re-did our whole house for my graduation party. New hardwood floors all around, new carpet, painted, opened up our living room by taking out a wall. It stresses me out because my mom invites all these people I don’t even know and I have to make my car and garden look presentable.” said Senior Jordon Carlson.

“It’s all coming up really fast. Just sending out the invites we had to find everyone we needed to send them to, get the invites printed, stamps. You have to figure out all the food for everyone. Mine’s not going to be at my house but, I’m still going to have to set up everything for it. It’s a little less stressful to not have it at my house because we don’t have to clean.” said Senior Alyssa Baldwin.

“I’m not stressed at all. My mom has it all under control.” claims Senior Garrett Grage.

“My grad party isn’t until August. It makes more sense because usually everyone is sick of grad parties by the end of June. Mine is going to be the grand finale.” said Senior Jay Mason.

“I always am feeling I’m forgetting something for it. I even have a list but I still constantly feel like I’m missing something. I’m really excited for it because it’s such a positive thing… just so much work.” said Senior Megan Metz.

On May 19th, Senior Kylee Zumach created a Twitter page (@Buffalo_Nerf), starting the Buffalo Nerf War. All of the rules are posted in the tweets and this is where students will send in their teams and have notice of who else is participating. Teams will consist of 6 students, the kids get to pick the name of their group and who will be in it. The time to send in your teams will close Friday, May 23. There will be a cost of $1.00 per person to enter. Also, there are certain restrictions as to where you can shoot someone. School, work, sport events, church and experience fitness will be off limits for shooting.

Once every team has entered, Zumach and Senior Wilson Anderle will be drawing teams from a hat to set up a bracket system. Each team will be assigned a team that they must target. They have to hit every player on the opposing team to move on to the next round.

The war will start Monday, May 26th after school. Good luck!

“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 for the 2014-2015 school year.”

The process of hiring a new assistant principal is long and somewhat complicated.

Mischke outlined the extensive process, explaining, “After all of the applicants have applied and we close the posting. I begin going through the applications with Pam Miller (Director of teaching and learning) and Moreen Martell (Human Resource director) and narrow it down to 25 people to begin interviewing. Out of those 25 we do phone interviews and then narrow it down even more to 6-8 people. With those people we then do in person interviews. Pam Miller, Moreen Martell, Mrs. Thompson, one elementary principal, one middle school principal and myself do the interviewing. After that we do more in depth phone interviews with around 6 of the applicants to learn more about them and really get all the information we can about that person. Usually every applicant gets to continue on with the process by having a large group interview, consisting of, two parents, two students (Junior Kirsten Olson and Junior Ryan Bunting), teachers, admin team, a cook, a para and, a custodian. I then sit down with Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Martell to discuss who the two finalists should be. After we pick the two finalists we then travel to their school where they will have picked students, teachers and parents for us to interview about them and get to know how they really are in a school environment. We should be done with this whole process around June 3rd.”

“The students that were chosen for the position of interviewing the applicants, were chosen due their involvement and positive impact on the school. I felt that they would take this seriously and share their honest opinion and not be afraid to talk or ask questions” said Mischke.

After seeing middle school assistant principal John Hayden and High Potential Services Coordinator Ed Cox around the school, rumors have started that one of those two will be taking the position of the next assistant principal. Mischke addressed these rumors.
“This is not the case at all. These two have been helping around the school because of the shortage of staff now that Mr. Prell is no longer employed here. It has been extremely helpful and I’m very thankful for the extra help.” said Mischke.          

“I was expecting to have way more homework and the classes to be extremely hard but they made the transition from 8th to 9th grade really easy and not much is different,” said freshman Gabbie Przekurat.

“I was petrified the first day walking into the school,” said freshman Blake Gleason.

“I really thought that classes were going to be really hard but it doesn’t really differ from the way they worked us at St. Francis, if anything they worked us harder at St. Francis to prepare us. It was hard though to come from a class of 16 to a class of 500,” said freshman Allie Swearingen.

“I wasn’t nervous at all,” claimed freshman Andrew Zeiss.

The intimidation of the upperclassmen can also play a role in being nervous to start at the high school.

“I thought that the seniors were going to be super rude and scary but, they aren’t at all,” said freshman Avery Sonju.

“I thought that all the upperclassmen were going to be like “oh, you’re just a little freshman” but, they really leave me alone except I get harassed by Dallas Perkins and Jake Huston a lot,” said freshman Alyssa Englund.

“On class color day I was so scared to be wearing yellow! The seniors were especially scary that day,” said freshman Becky Barter

Tv shows and movies can give an unrealistic expectation as well.

“I thought that there was going to be fights in every hall everyday. It seems to happen in other schools just not here at Buffalo,” said freshman Noah Evans.

“I had a really weird feeling I was going to lose all my friends!” said freshman Lauren Farniok.

Sydney Warehime

“I was with my friend one night and my mom pulled the board out, so we lit candles and turned off all the lights and started asking it questions. At first you’re supposed to ask for all good spirits to come but we didn’t ask for good spirits (you’re supposed too), so when a spirit started talking to us and we asked it if it was a nice spirit it said “No.” My friend and I kept asking it questions and we found out that it was a 10 year old boy named, Landon. My friend asked him how he died and you’re not supposed to ask a spirit that because they get really offended so the spirit got upset with us and when we asked if he would ever forgive us he said “No.”  We asked if he was following one of us and he said “Yes.” It was really scary and I hate talking about it.”

Clayton Schuster

“In middle school I did one and there were about 20 or so people in the room, it was pitch black and everyone was in their PJs. We asked the board “Is there anyone with us?” and the board told us that there were two girls and one was named Nicole but I can’t remember the other ones name. I’m pretty sure they were lesbian. We asked them to prove that they were actually there and then a lamp fell off a table. Then throughout the night all the drawers in the house kept opening. I thought it was really scary but it could have someone that was there messing with us.”

Tommy Gaughan

“My sister got a ouija board and we would do it a lot and mess around with it for about a year. At the beginning of 8th grade I was doing homework in my room and I turned around and there was a little boy around 7 years old just staring at me. It only lasted for about three seconds and I couldn’t move the whole time. I was the only one home at my house. I have talked to a 7 year old boy on the ouija board before.

Another time at Dallas Perkins’ house we had candles out and the lights off. We were talking to a spirit and we asked it to do something to prove itself that it was there and a door slammed shut really hard. We also asked it to move the candle left and right and it did it. Dallas was talking to a 19 year old girl who said she was from Texas and he asked her how she died. She told him that she died in a car accident. She gave us a number to call and we called it, it was disconnected and the number did have a Texas area code. I haven’t touched my ouija board since I saw that little boy and I even switched rooms in my house because it freaked me out so much.”

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“I get the same thing everyday because I think that everything else they have is disgusting and I’m afraid to try anything else. The only thing I get is a pretzel, gatorade or smoothie and ice cream.” said Freshman Payton Tank.

Some students prefer not to eat what the school has to offer and bring their own food from home.

“I always bring a cold lunch because it makes me feel disgusting to eat the schools food. It’s all processed and fake.” said Freshman Marley Sanderson.

“I bring a cold lunch everyday. I can bring a lot more food than what I can afford here. It’s way cheaper.” said Junior Clay Decker.

With all of the ala carte items that are offered to our students, it’s pretty easy to go a little overboard on what you’re buying.

“Sometimes I spend around 10 dollars a day. I get a regular lunch, popcorn, dirt cake and a drink.” said Freshman Hannah Budde.

“I spend 8-12 dollars a day on my lunches. I get the regular lunch, chips, gushers and ice cream every day.” said Freshman Andrew Zeiss.

The class that I found that was most selected for an elective class was woods 1 and 2. In this class you build a coffee table out of red oak wood. In woods 2 you get to build two end tables of red oak as well, this class is a hands on class and not much book/homework is required.

“I liked that you were able to work on your own and not be guided along the whole time.” said Junior Reed Morehouse

The second most chosen class is competitive team sports. In this class you play games in the gym such as, volleyball, basketball, floor hockey, and more. At the end of the term you get to create a game of your own and make up the rules.

“I like that kids are competitive in the class that is what makes the class fun.” said Senior Josh Robinson.

The third class that I found was taken most was Journalism 1 and 2. In this class you get write stories for the Hoofprint and Hoofprint.net. You also learn about journalism, journalists and how to be one.

Freshman Mitch Bunting said “In Journalism 1 I liked how we liked at things from different angles and got different perspectives. .”

 Some students are just staying in Minnesota for the week vacation and others are going to somewhere a little warmer.

On a poll of 100 students that attend BHS the hottest places to be traveling this break are:

“I believe that it is a choice to be happy. I try to never be negative and I want to always have a positive impact on the world. If I was in a bad mood I wouldn’t show it.”  said Greeley. “I don’t want to ruin someone elses day because of my bad mood.”

Students don’t always agree with their teachers or necessarily like them.

“I know that I learned best when the person I was being taught from was caring and respecting. By knowing that, I show my students respect and I show that I care. I always want to remain positive.” Greeley said.

Maintaining a good attitude is not always an easy thing.

“I’m very fortunate to have been raised the way I was and I know that there are some kids who are not given that fortune, so I just am always thankful for that.” said Greeley.

Although the game took a while to get started due to difficulties with the gaming system, it was still a lot of fun. Freshmen Vincent Mortenson, Senior Kehmil Casey, Junior Jordyn Hanson, and Senior Autumn Miller were the students that faced off against the teachers.

The teachers that danced were Nancy Eynick, Emily Greeley/Haugh and, Sarah Rodenwahl. Due to the dance off not starting on time the results on who won were not announced.