Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles is a good story about the difficulties of actually being in a high school relationship with someone out of your clique. Also it shows how sometimes people pretend to be something they are not in order to look perfect to everyone else.
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The Last Song Review
The Last Song is Nicholas Sparks’ newest novel about to be made into a movie.
I Can’t <3 Boobies: Students fight for their rights to accessorize freely
If you walk down the hallway between passing time, you will probably see inside out white, pink, almost any color bracelets on the wrists of many students. If you have seen these, you already know what they say; “i <3 boobies.” BRFHS students have taken a liking to these breast cancer-supporting literal fashion ‘statements,’ but [...]
Drug Testing Discussed at Senate Level: Student Feedback Sought
On March 2, Student Senate met with Mr. Weddig to discuss what steps we can take to keep drugs out of our school. As the discussion progressed, two approaches were outlined: random testing and reasonable suspicion testing. Random testing would be just that — regular, but random testing. The drawback on this one is expense. [...]
Random Drug Testing a Big Mistake
Drug testing has been around the world of sports ever since the steroid era of baseball in the early 2000′s. The drug tests have grown more complex and can now detect more banned substances than ever before. With all this new drug testing technology, the Black River Falls High School Student Senate has discussed the [...]
Remembering Olympics: Past and Present
With the Olympics at the forefront of television coverage right now, I have been thinking about all the memories of the Olympic Games I have acquired throughout my life. In Mrs. Druckery’s kindergarten class at Third Street Elementary, the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, were a fascinating thing. We learned how to [...]
Booster Shirts
We all heard what was said at the assembly, we all know what the rules were, so why did the whole situation not work out? On January 14, we had an assembly to explain how the new tiger spirit shirts would be given out. Athletic Director Tom Leadholm made it very clear that kids were [...]
The Way I See It
Valentine’s Day can be a depressing time of year for those of us that are not in a relationship, but let’s try to make the most of it. This Valentine’s season, here are some things to consider.
Students Are Talking: Favorite Winter Activities
Twenty students share what they love about winter.
Skiing and Boarding and Tubing, Oh My!
With the snows of winter comes a multitude of winter sports to BRF, like basketball, wrestling, hockey and ice skating. A few increasingly popular winter sports in BRF are skiing and snowboarding. We have a plethora of rinks and gyms for our other sports, so where can people go for skiing and snowboarding? None other than our very own local Bruce Mound. Skiers, snowboarders and tubers gather from miles around to go there.
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