Crowd heightens gladiator effect of fight
Friday January 27, 2006
By News/Copy Editor, Elizabeth Kim
Walking the empty halls of a post-fight campus, not much seems to have changed: pigeons feed on the usual scraps of food littered on the floor from snack, a handful of students wander the halls on an “extended restroom pass” as one teacher calls it, familiar silent sounds of learning echo from open classroom doors.
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Old standards sandblasted, to be replaced by campus mural
Friday January 27, 2006
By Staff Writer, Sue Park
While students were relaxing during winter break, the long-standing Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLRs) painting on the side of the swimming pool wall was sandblasted.
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New calendar features student holiday changes
Friday January 27, 2006
By Staff Writer, Sue Park
Out of the 365 days of the year, 180 days are spent at school.
Though the number of instruction days per school year is set, other factors of the school year are always subject to change.
Burger sizzles in Relfections contest
Friday January 27, 2006
By Staff Writer, Mike Smith
For the first time in five years and only the second time in history, a Hoover student made it to the state level in the PTSA’s annual Reflections contest.
Michelle Burger (’07) was “shocked” when her piano composition, “Why,” achieved first place in the local and regional portions of the contest…
Fighting for nothing
Friday January 27, 2006
I did not like the way she looked at me.”
“He said something about my mom.”
It is no surprise to hear such childish excuses being used by high school students as reason to start a fight— a pointless fight…
Try aiming for the mouth
Friday January 27, 2006
The lunch bell rings at precisely 12:33 p.m. on a normal school day. While some race through traffic in the hallways to get to their lockers, others are well on their way to grab their lunch of a hamburger or pizza.
As on any other day, you sit, eat and talk to your friends. While everything seems to be going smoothly, 15 minutes into your lunch you hear a loud “thud” and realize that chocolate milk has splattered all over your leg…
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