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Written by: Virginia Williams

The Ritenour marching band is undergoing a lot of changes next year, as current electronic guitar teacher Emma Kanerva will be taking over the band when Hadley Haux retires.

Kanerva is planning to bring a lot of new ideas to the band, but some band members are unsure about her taking over as band director after they heard she was changing the colors of their uniforms to lime green and hot pink.

Kanerva has flipped the marching band on their heads with her new decisions. She’s making a statement with these new colors, but not everyone agrees with her. Some people are considering leaving marching band to save themselves from embarrassment. They are also worried about how McDaniel (McD) will react and if he’s okay with all the changes.

Underclassmen will have these new uniforms by their senior year. They aren’t convinced the new colors are a good thing.

“Other schools will think we are weird or out of place for not matching the football team anymore,” sophomore Brandon Harvey said. “But I guess we’ll have to see how the band reacts to it.”

Sophomore Ronald Johnson is also unsure, but he trusts Kanerva after getting to know her this year.

“I feel like it isn’t right to change the colors, they should be orange and black, but it might go well depending on how accepting the band is of Kanerva’s decisions,” Johnson said.

Current juniors and seniors will not be here for the new uniforms but the current sophomores and freshmen will. The current upperclassmen do not feel much empathy for underclassmen.

“It doesn’t affect me so I don’t really care, but I am curious to see them,” junior Braden Alanis said. “McD would probably want to keep it original, but he also might not care since he doesn’t have to wear them either.”

Junior Ayden Simino believes a change is in order, but is still trying to figure out what the green and pink are going to look like.

“I’m glad they are changing, because the current ones suck.” Simino said. “I don’t know how to feel about the green and pink.”

With Kanerva stepping up and having to fill some big shoes, she feels that the uniform color change is the best way to go. Kanerva chose these colors very carefully. She wants the band to stand out and look good. She chose the bright contrasting colors to draw that attention, so people notice the band more on the field and in events.

“I really feel like I need to make a statement and make my mark, especially after coming in after Mr. Haux who’s been here for 30 years. I really need to stand out.” Kanerva said. “I think Mr. McDaniel will (back me up), he’s been very supportive of everything so far.”

Written: by Evelyn Araiza Garcia

New bathroom monitors are being sent into all bathrooms across the school and people have mixed feelings about them.

There have been repercussions taken in the past such as hall sweeps and bathroom locking, but they have not been effective enough in stopping the issues happening in the bathrooms. Many complaints from students and staff led to a meeting in which the idea of having a monitor in the bathrooms at all times in order to enforce proper usage of the bathroom was formed.

In addition to controlling the traffic in and out of the bathrooms, the new monitors will also keep an eye on cleanliness, and even offer patrons amenities such as fresh hand towels and mints.

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