New styles and slang take over/
“(Swag) means style, and stayin fresh to death 24/7.”
Sperrys, long socks, and slang words infiltrate through our high school walls/ Page 6 and 7
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Vol. 88, Iss. 2 October 12, 2011
Salina Central High School
Inside
Overall swag: the female wranglers / Page 2
Rachel Hodges/ The Pylon
Math teacher Mrs. Deanna Cullins teaches her class. By Nathan Garlow Staff Reporter
Funny Money prepares to take stage/Page 5
May 11, 2011, this day may have been a perfectly normal day for most, but for math teacher Mrs. Cullins, it
was a day that would change her life. As she was driving down Crawford, a truck was t-boned which resulted in the truck ramming her car. Part of her ankle and foot were shattered. Surgeons
were able to piece her foot back together after much effort, but the bones got misaligned in the following months and Cullins has had many hospital visits since to get WKH SUREOHP ȴ[HG “Initially when it happened, they put two metal plates on the sides of my foot. A hard splint down my shin. Then they casted it all up,” said Cullins. Cullins continued to go to the hospital SHULRGLFDOO\ WR JHW [ UD\V of her foot and before long the doctors realized that the bones were shifting from where the surgeons had placed them after the accident. Cullins was in a great
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deal of pain as well. “The main reason she was in pain was because there was no blood circulation in that area. Then there was a hole in that area, it was infected, and the bone was shattered,” said Mrs. Cullins’ husband, Larry Cullins. Up until this point
Cullins had received her treatment in Salina, but she decided to go to Omaha to see what they could do about her injury. Cullins was in Omaha for a two week period from early to midseptember to get three
See Cullins/ Page 4
Keepin’ it redneck A group of students have parked their trucks in the south parking lot and plan to ‘redneck it up’ By Trent Bigler
Soccer team takes league title/Page 8-9
Photo Spread: Singers gone wild/Page 12
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The trucks start up in a rumble that shakes the ground. As legs tremble from the monstrous noise, the strong VPHOO RI H[KDXVW ȴOOV WKH DLU For many of us city slickers this might sound repulsive, however, to a group of guys who drive the self proclaimed “redneck trucks,” nothing could be more H[FLWLQJ “My truck is the loudest out of them,” senior Joey Crowder said. “It is just like we are at a race when we rev our engines.” Crowder’s truck, a faded brown 1973 Ford Ranger F150, ZDV WKH ȴUVW WUXFN WR SDUN LQ WKH back of the south parking lot against the curb. “I started it because my truck doesn’t engage right away into drive,” Crowder said. “So I backed my truck in the back so it wouldn’t get in the way.” Crowder then convinced some of his other friends to join him; the “redneck trucks” KDG RɚFLDOO\ EHFDPH D JURXS Joining Crowder was junior Tommy Blair with his 1985 GMC Sierra Classic, and freshman Dayton Will with his massive 1979 Chevrolet. “I like it back here because we can do our own thing,” Blair
October 14 Football vs South Girls tennis state October 27 Cranky coworkers day
said. Being independent is one of the key things that the group stands for. “We just do it because it’s us,” Crowder said. “We want our own little area where we don’t mess with people and people don’t mess with us.” The three trucks can be seen almost everyday in the back of the south parking lot backed
See Redneck/ Page 4
Rachel Hodges/ The Pylon
Students gather by Blair’s truck.
Trent Bigler / The Pylon
The three trucks lined up.
Rachel Hodges / The Pylon
Senior Joey Crowder (far left) stands around his truck with some of his redneck friends beside him.
October 16 National Feral Cat day October 28 Football at Hays
October 20/21 October 21 Parent/teacher conferences Football at Great Bend Reptile awareness day October 31 October 28-29 Halloween Volleyball state Cross Country state