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OPINION student stress p.3 sarah KOVASH - Reporter
SENIOR SECTION evolution p.9-16
toddRENNICH - Reporter
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Volume 21, Issue 6 • May 2013
FEATURES Kuhn retires p.18
SPORTS title IX p.23
Students give prom a C+
Prom night is the night where high school students trade in their sweats, hoodies and uggs for dresses, tuxedos and high heels, to have a night to remember. However, for some, this year’s prom wasn’t up to par. A recent survey of 46 prom attendees gave Mandan High’s 2013 prom a C+ grade. According to a majority of those surveyed, prom received a low grade because it didn’t live up to the expectation of ‘the night to remember.’ From the poorly chosen music to the lack of information, students felt this year’s prom could have gone much better, but it also could have gone worse. Some students gave prom a lower grade because there wasn’t enough information about it beforehand. “I had to ask people outside of school to find out the times,” said senior Dylan Horner.
Students also agreed that the DJ should Others agreed that there should have have switched up the music genres, saying been more posters and announcements that the songs were not around the school. “I didn’t know what “danceable,” and they were too outdated. time anything started On the contrary, 32 until Friday afternoon,” percent of students said senior Renae polled gave prom an A Tokach. grade. Another reason prom Many students received a low grade thought that the dance was due to the poor picked up after the music selection. senior song. Junior Brianna Senior Austin Tweet Meissner said, “[The said “The DJ didn’t get DJ] shouldn’t have Staff photo the dance energized had random activities Prom King and Queen, seniors until the senior send off between the songs.” Alex Spilman and Courtney Goetz, song and then started Many other students playing good music.” agreed with Meissner. gratefully accept their royal Senior Lexi Goldade designation. An anonymous student speaks for everyone by saying it is hard to said, “There was too many things that they please everyone at a school dance. stopped the dance for.”
Sheldon Wolf elected to school board
kaytlyn FLECK
- News Editor
At a special school board meeting held on April 8, the school board elected Sheldon Wolf to fill former board member Beth Allen’s seat which had been left open after she had resigned in early March. Wolf was installed at his first school board meeting on April 15, 2013, and foresees running again in the future unless family commitments would prevent it. He said he had been thinking about running for the position before it became available. “It opened up an opportunity to see if I liked it,” said Wolf. The position interested Wolf because he has two children who attend Mandan
schools and he wanted to deal with issues involving the Mandan schools. “I like giving back to the community,” said Wolf. Beth Allen made the decision to resign the position due to struggles to manage her time between her family, her job and the school board. “Between her family and her job she was having trouble feeling good about the time. Family came first,” said Superintendent Dr. Mike Bitz. “She needed to take a step back and take care of her family and her job.” Normally people would run for the school board in the June election, however, this case was different. The date that Allen had resigned was past the set dates of March 1 and March 8 to give official notice if you wanted to run for election onto the school
board on June 11. In this case, the board released media announcements of the vacancy asking interested individuals to submit a letter of interest and résumé to Business Manager Christi Schaefbauer by a deadline set by the board. Another aspect that made this a unique situation was that the seat that Beth Allen had was to be held by someone who lived outside of Mandan city limits. At the meeting held on April 8th the board brought Wolf and Larry (Chip) Stroschein to be interviewed. A vote was taken after interviews and Wolf, who had sat on the utilization committee for awhile and had a passion for it, won the majority of the vote with five votes.