The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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Features Page 3 August 26, 2016 partan ound S off Sound Off/Amanda Waugh Mrs. Haase (Dean of Students) "Neither. Both are a bad idea." Mr. Gleason (Teacher) "Trump, because I dislike Hillary Clinton and because she is a corrupt career politition." If you could vote this year, who would you vote for and why? Ariel Elliott (11) "To be honest, if Hillary was a highway going one way and Trump was going the other way, I'd drive off a cliff down the middle." Dylan Gordon (12) "Trump becasue I like that he wants to help our economy money wise." Desiree Valenzuela (9) "I'd vote for Hillary, even though she may be messed up because at least she is better than Trump." Josh Richards (10) "Probably Hillary because I want to see what she does with her ties." "we will establish a school climate with a zero tolerance to violence and promote positive interactions with healthy boundaries." -Mrs. Parker Outside the Box Sarah Herrera Staff Writer Britney Miranda Features Editor Bluffer/ Britney Miranda Aly Smith Staff Writer Amanda Waugh Staff Writer Whether it's in the form of a senior prank, a freshman initiation, or something for sports or homecoming, every school has their crazy high school traditions. S o m e high schools around the world have some unique and weird stories to tell, Jeremy Laureta, from Byron High School says, "There's a bear statue on campus in front of our auditorium that gets peed on by students in the middle of the night. It's a long story." Weird right? Well it's definitely not the craziest tradition I did research on. A female senior student, Kaitlyn Kelly, at her high school "Our prank at the end of the year has got to be amazing The Hawaiian Rally is the first rally of many here at Red Bluff High School. This rally is the commencement of what hopes to be a dominant football season. The day begins with the student body dressed up in their Hawaiian attire. The dress up day is followed by a rally which includes class games, scavenger hunts, cheer and dance team performances and most importantly rallying up our football players for their big game that night. "The dress up day is fun, and there's so many different outfits you can pull off with the theme," explained Marissa Mills. Seniors, Priscilla Torres and Noah Caylor, agreed that dressing up for Hawaiian Day was a fun way to represent and show more school spirit. For many incoming Seniors, this rally is filled with mixed emotions because it is the last first rally of their high school career. "I'm ready for our last first rally, but I'm also upset because it's my last first performance as a RBHS cheerleader," stated Torres. A three-year Dance Team member, Taylor Nguyen, states, "It's bittersweet to think that this will be my last Hawaiian Rally of my high school career. RBHS rallies always promised to give countless memories that we will remember forever. This Hawaiian Rally is important to the Dance Team because, "it will be our first opportunity to show our school who we are and it sets the mood for the rest of the year. The Dance Team has been working extremely hard to polish our performance to ensure that we are one hundred percent ready for the Hawaiian Rally." However, our incoming Freshmen are more than excited to experience their very first high school rally and dress up day. "I'm excited for my first rally and dress up day as a high school student, because I haven't experienced anything like this coming from a smaller school," stated Freshman, Jayne Brandt. Another Freshman, Aaron Rodriguez said, "This is my first experience of a rally and I don't really know what to expect, but overall I'm excited." Rally Emcee, Noah Caylor, is looking forward to emceeing the Hawaiian Rally and cannot wait to get everyone "rowdy" for the big game. As any other Rowdy, Caylor is more than ready to be a part of the student section and lead the Red Bluff Rowdy chants to cheer on our football teams. "It's my first game as President of the Red Bluff Rowdies, and I can't wait for Friday night!" Let this be an opportunity to get involved. Dress up, show up, and help motivate the football team to get the "W!" Every year new clubs are being integrated into our schools to provide a variety of support and entertainment for our fellow students. This year two new clubs called L o v e E q u a l s R e s p e c t , and FCS ( Fellowship o f C h r i s t i a n Spar tans), h o p e to give students a place to feel safe and come together with a collective goal set by the students. Love Equals Respect is the new name of the Youth Leadership Team which hopes to educate students in the prevention of teen dating violence. Joining this club means collaborating with other schools, students and administrators to achieve awareness for everyone. Mrs. Parker, the club's leader said, " we will establish a school climate with a zero tolerance to violence and promote positive interactions with healthy boundaries." FCS is a club from 7:10 - 7:40am which allows students to e xe r c i s e t h e i r b e l i e f s in a practical way. Mr. A c k l e y, the club di rector, s a y s , "One of the main goals is to be incredibly inclusive so as to break down the idea that faith based organizations are judgmental, and exclusive." This means to break the habit of churches giving themselves a bad name because of not being careful. He wants his club to be accepting to any who are interested, have questions or are questioning and need a balance. Ag Leadership, a course in which Red Bluff High School students are allowed to express themselves, and be confident with who they are; it rewards people based on their skills of communication, kindness and acceptance of other people. FFA plays an important role to Red Bluff High School's status and ranking - being notorious for our wins in many different categories - Ag Leadership is the glue that holds the system together. The aspects of which Ag Leadership represent and devise consist of banquets, FFA socials, organize community service opportunities, present at local competitions, and are always behind the scenes. The Ag L e a d e r s h i p team assists in more than school activities. W h e n asked how they help the Ag C o m m u n i t y as a whole. Miranda Iverson , senior, stated, "We do our best to give back more to the Ag Community than what was given to us." However hard the task is, it seems, they are always there to aid farmers and people in general. A general list that inconcludes events are places such as rodeo, lunches and anything else when asked. They do e v e r y t h i n g and a half. A g L e a d e r s h i p has been present in the high schools community for quite a while, but how can they better themselves? Mahlon Owens, senior, replied with, "Our team is leadership with an emphasis of ag. The most we can do FFA helps instill greater confidence in RBHS students for future endeavors New clubs offered Students look forward to the first rally of the 2016-2017 school year on RBHS campus is make ourselves more accessible to the public and new members." Every club has their yearly goal, and theirs is to build confidence among their staff. Many of the younger classmen fear officers, and President Miranda Iverson wants to get rid of that intimidation factor. Iverson will be working with Vice President, Reed Pritchard, senior, to accomplish this goal. A desire is to get people more involved in FFA itself instead of the team because that is what they do, benefit and help the chapter as a whole. Ag Leadership is looking towards a successful year. and we have to beat last year's class (they put lobsters in all the toilets and goldfish in the sinks!). So it's a tradition for the senior class to go out with a bang." Goldfish in sinks!? Our senior class here at Red Bluff High better step up their game. Unfortunatly my 4 years of high school never had an actual good senior prank. But as for weird traditions, of course Red Bluff has that in the bag... a weird tradition that we do, is a game called "Kiss the pig." It's something that our AG classes do and basically whoever loses the game, has to kiss a pig. It's fun and just part of the high school experience to do crazy pranks, and games. That's the fun in being in high school, Gotta love the high school traditions!