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Volume 65
Issue Nine
April 1, 2011
Plano Senior High School
2200 Independence Pkwy Plano, Tx 75075
What’s Inside?
War Bound Page 2
April Fool’s Day Pranks By Haley Bunnell, Diva Gulati, and Claire Minor
Soccer Goes to Playoffs Page 3
Clubs to the Rescue Page 4
Wait, before eating those Oreos, check the crème for toothpaste and don’t walk under any conspicuous doorways today either. It’s April Fool’s Day – the one day a year when you can get away with playing pranks on your friends and family. Throughout the years, students, as well as teachers have pulled pranks on others in a variety of ways. “One of our colleagues here kept taking all of our candy off of our desks,” Coach Diane Davey said. “So I went out and bought some candy that was garlic filled in the center. We told her we had some candy she should try from our friends in Jamaica, and she was so excited. Then a knock came
at the door and it was the principal to talk to her about a student, and at this point she is sucking on the candy. In the middle of their conversation, she gets to the garlic filled center. She yells, takes it out of her mouth, and throws it out in the pond. She never stole our candy again.” Davey’s prank was meant to teach a lesson, but many people pull pranks in a lighthearted manner. “I made a fake large pizza order once and sent it to my friend Matt’s house,” senior Ben Smith said. “It had a funny message on it saying ‘happy [male anatomy] day’, and I had the pizza guys put the pepperonis in a shape of it. Matt had paid for the pizza already.”
Some students treat April Fool’s as a tradition. For example, almost every year, the Kersh twins have a funfilled adventure fooling their teachers by switching places. “It was our freshman year, and my identical twin and I wanted to play a prank on our band director,” senior Chelsey Kersh said. “She played the clarinet and I played the trumpet, and we decided to switch places during practice. We went through the entire warm-up, and almost through the whole first song. We didn’t get all the way through, because in that song I had a solo in it, and my sister had to play it for me, which sounded horrible. Our director got a little mad at us, because our contest was coming up and he
wanted to work on it. When our director came to her, she asked if he wanted us to switch back now and he was just frozen. It was such a great moment.” It is common for a group of friends to prank a single person. Junior Ena Ebadzik, with the help of a group of friends, pulled a prank on junior Sara Kingman a few months ago. “I called her pretending to cry, saying that I had come home from Wal-Mart, and found my house destroyed,” Ebadzik said. “I panicked to her on the phone saying that I needed her help to clean the house and I told her my brother was taken too. So being the great friend she is, she immediately drove
over to my house. But in the meantime my other friends and I threw trash around and knocked the fan down to make it look like my house was gone through. Then she came over and I answered the door in ‘tears’ and showed her around. “What she didn’t know, is that all my guy friends that helped, were hiding in the laundry room ready with a nerf gun. Eventually, I led her to the laundry room, still acting like I was completely freaked out. As I opened the door, all four of them, plus my brother leaped out and shot her with the nerf gun, while screaming at the top of their lungs. She sprinted away and ran to her car, extremely angry. It was
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WAR BOUND Checking in on family militants overseas
By Anna Vicars
Disaster on Foreign Tides Page 5
Youtube Review Page 7
http://www.irememberhome.com/kids/Family.htm
It seems that people around the world are tired of being told what to do and how to do it. The leaders of certain countries have made it obvious that they want nothing to do with the protests as seen in the media spreading like wildfire. Some, like Gadaffi, have ordered their militaries to strike back. However, some of these young men and women going off
to war leave families behind in order to protect America. “My brother, Anthony, works in the engines of the huge fighter ships [in the Navy], and has learned how to work them,” junior Tina Soria said. “Last we heard he is docked in Virginia, but he constantly goes places like Spain, Egypt, and near Libya.” Like Soria’s brother, many young men and women have yet to come
home from these deployments and missions, leaving loved ones to worry. The growing need for troops has affected many families nationwide. Some can’t see their loved one for several months at a time, or even talk to them for weeks. “He has been in service for two and a half years,” Soria said. “He is supposed to get leave for the fourth of July, but we don’t know if he
will actually get it. He can’t get care packages, because he is on the ship most of the time, but we can e-mail him, and every now and then, he gets to call us. Before he goes, he calls to say he won’t be able to talk for a while, but we never know when he will be back. It sounds like he is saying goodbye if he does not come back, but it’s scary when it happens.” Although communications
are limited for these families, for Thomas Langford’s brotherin-law, Clinton, it’s a specialty. He is an Army Ranger C o m mu n i c a t i o n s Specialist, but Thomas’ sister (b r o th er-i n -l aw’s wife), keeps the family updated as much as possible. His job requires him to work with radios and other means of communication between troops. “He is deployed in Afghanistan currently,” junior
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