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Heap of the Month
By Austin Bettin
This month’s heap belongs to Senior Aaron
Bechen. His heap goes by the name of the
“Gooole”-yes, that is 3 o’s. Aaron got this
name from the actual type of car, which is a
1988 Pontiac 6000 LE, and if you look at the
actual name of the car, you can see where
Aaron came up with the name “Gooole.”
This car has many problems including a
shattered windshield (that is soon to be fixed),
rusted doors and fenders, a transmission that
is leaking, a passenger window that won’t roll
down, a cracked headlight from hitting a deer,
four shocks that are broken from jumping
intersections, and also the trunk has the trunk
key stuck in it.
If that is not enough problems, this
month’s heap just rolled over 203,000 miles.
Aaron stated, “The miles on my “Gooole” are
mostly gravel miles, not highway miles because
it’s my work car, not my chick-mobile.”
This Pontiac 6000 LE also has a secret talent.
It can drive without the keys in the ignition.
Aaron stated, “I can start the car and
pull the keys out of the ignition and I’m still
able to drive.”
Aaron has had many good memories in
his “Gooole”--too many to count he says. But
Junior class magazine sales
By Jesse Nielsen
Between transportation, tux/dress, accessories,
and flowers, prom is an expensive
event. Students hope to save some money
on a good cheap meal.
This year the prom dinner is $15 per plate,
which is a pretty high price for chicken or
roast beef. It also comes with potatoes and
gravy, corn, salads, and desserts, which can
be purchased cheaper elsewhere. With the
purchase of a meal ticket, two drinks are free
at the dance. The high meal price is causing
most of the students to eat elsewhere. Since
most students are eating elsewhere, the dinner
might be cancelled all together. So why
the high price? Most people blame it on the
junior magazine sales.
To raise money for prom each year, the junior
class sells magazine subscriptions and a
certain percent comes back to the school for
the prom funding. It was calculated that if
every student sold 12 magazines, the prom
committee would be able to afford whatever
they wanted for prom. This includes lighting,
a DJ, decorations, and most of the meal
cost.
Of the 76 juniors that were enrolled at the
beginning of the year, 33 made the goal of
magazines sold, 15 students didn’t sell any
magazines, which leaves 28 students that did
sell magazines but did not make the individual
goal of 12 magazines. The Junior Class
relies too heavily on one or two people doing
all the work. This is impossible! The extra
magazines past the goal for the top sellers
still doesn’t make up for the 15 no sellers.
This leads me to believe that there should
be a minimum requirement on magazines
if he had to pick just one, he said his favorite
memory would have to be when a modular
went out. He couldn’t drive the car for awhile
and then when he was finally able to, Aaron
and his friends took the car out.
There are some positives to this heap. This
‘88 Pontiac has a good sound system, which
includes a 12 inch subwoofer and a “Wal-Mart
special CD player.”
Aaron paid 500 dollars for this gem. Aaron
says that he has added more character to his
Pontiac 6000 and it is worth more money now
than when he paid for it, physically and sentimentally.
Should the goal be lowered?
sold to go to prom. If you don’t sell a certain
number, you don’t go. Now I’m not saying
that the goal (12) should be the minimum because
some who tried couldn’t get that many
sold. The minimum should be five or so. This
would make a huge difference in funds for
prom and still not be hard to accomplish.
Most people are probably thinking the
ones who didn’t sell magazines this year
aren’t going to prom. This isn’t entirely true.
There are some juniors who didn’t sell that
are going. Even so, last year’s Junior Class
did have students who made the goal but
chose not to attend prom, so this means it is
not impossible to make the goal.
What’s the solution? A small minimum
on magazine sales should be made so that the
burden isn’t as heavy on the few exceptional
students.
Body piercing
laws questioned
By Courtney Hahn
Did you know that the state of Iowa
doesn’t have any body piercing laws? That
means if someone walks into a tattoo and
piercing studio in Sioux City at the age of 13,
they can get some part of their skin pierced.
One studio in Sioux City is trying to get state
legislators to put an age law into place to
make sure all of the tattoo artists are certified
by top schools.
The studio that is pushing for these
changes is Maya Tattoo located at 605 Pearl
in Sioux City. Their main argument is that too
many under-aged kids are getting piercings
when they don’t even have a reason why they
want to get something pierced. Also, individuals
who want to become body piercers
should be properly educated on the safety
skills of body piercings.
I think that if a child wants to be pierced,
their parents should step in and have some
say in the matter. I believe that is the problem
with today’s kids; they don’t think they
have to listen to their parents at any age and
can just do whatever they please. Lawmakers
are saying it will be difficult to get any
laws passed because not every studio will
abide by every little law that is set by the state
of Iowa.
I do hope that some laws are passed and
everyone follows them, just to make the body
piercing and tattoo industry less criticized by
everyone who thinks that it is wrong to have
a tattoo or piercing done.
Hilarious movie
hits theaters
By Jeff Koithan
Benchwarmers is a movie about nerds and
baseball. It’s the funniest movie of the year so
far.
This film was directed by Dennis Dugan
and the film was written by Allen Covert and
Nick Swardson.
The movie is about three grown up geeks
who want to relive childhood and actually get
to play the game baseball. They start a team
of three players and start playing all the little
league teams. Throughout the whole movie,
you’ll be laughing your head off from all the
verbal and physical comedy.
The stars of the movie are Rob Schneider,
who plays Gus, who is the most talented
player of all three. The next star is David
Spade, who plays Richie, a nerd looking to
play baseball. Then there is John Heder, who
plays Clark, who is the biggest geek ever!
A lot of critics have said that this movie is
great for the whole family and anyone with a
sense of humor would enjoy this hilarious
movie.
I would most definitely have to give this
comedy four out of four Ram heads.