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BHS Students Unfairly Judged

2/24/2016

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By: Mitchell Moore @MogulMitchell  -  Lane Losh @LaneLosh2
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​This past week, student sections from Dallas Center-Grimes and Boone have been under scrutiny for their provocative chants toward Perry’s basketball teams. Some of these chants are alleged to have had racial undertones and others just poorly timed. As students in attendance at the girls district game on Saturday, we do not believe this level of press is warranted.


As this situation has come to light, we read an article written by reporter, Jeff Webster, from the Perry News. While Jeff makes a few valid points, he swings and misses on a majority of the editorial.

In Monday night’s double-header district game in Adel, the DCG student section could be heard chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump!”, evidently making a reference to Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s policies against illegal immigrants. While this itself was rather offensive and uncalled for, that’s really the only meat Mr. Webster has for this editorial. The rest is incorrect facts based on his opinion. He says what he wants to hear.

At one point, he says that Boone girls basketball coach Jim McPartland should have taken a break from coaching the game, went to the PA system, and told his own crowd to quiet down. This is a ridiculous expectation, as McPartland was obviously centering his attention towards the game at hand.

He also claims that the entire section was chanting that a Perry player “needed a wheelchair”. We can confirm that this was yelled by one single student, and he was quickly told that it was out of line.

Several noise makers were said to be “plainly and repeatedly heard”. However, he’s speaking about one kid, with a duck call, who used the duck call three times at a maximum.

Boone’s minor infractions were lumped together with the actions of DCG to create a seemingly bigger problem than there actually was.

If you weren’t at the game and you read Mr. Webster’s editorial, you would probably be appalled. It sounds disrespectful and ignorant for fans to act this way. And this is because the writer magnified the severity of it with his opinion. His scream for attention is actually going rather well, with his piece garnering a lot of attention. Mr. Webster went as far to call high school students “buffoons” and “immature clowns”. It seems inappropriate for an adult man to name call a group of students who are under age and are still in the process of maturing. He seems to be furthering the behavior he is so adamantly against.

It wasn’t the spectacle that it was described to be. We’d be willing to bet that most of the players and coaches were completely unaware of anything being said. It wasn’t even to the level that a member of the administration should’ve stepped in.

The bottom line is this. Mr. Webster magnified the severity of what actually took place by implementing his own opinion, and by writing what he wanted it to be. By writing what would be popular. He should be ashamed.

The Kate Shelley Krazies traveled to Pella on Tuesday night and were louder and prouder than ever; they plan to do the same this Thursday when the Boone boys face off against the Perry Bluejays at Johnston High School.

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Unhappy students on the dancefloor

2/17/2016

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By: Inga Wegger 
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The winter formal dance has been a debated subject after it was held on Saturday, February 6th. Some people didn’t mind the dance being in the commons, while others liked it better being in the gym. The DJ on the other hand, is also a subject widely discussed. Most people were not happy with the DJ at all, while others were somewhat okay with him.

The DJ is one of the most important factors if the dance turns out to be good or not. The music is what makes people dance, and it really makes the whole atmosphere. While some people say that the atmosphere becomes what you make it to be, which is true, the songs played are equally as important as students attitude. In this situation, most of the songs played were songs that were popular years ago, and even though students requested songs, most of them weren’t played. Sure, playing some older songs that everyone knows is okay, but most students want to listen to the songs that are popular at the moment.

Junior Lane Losh disagreed with the popular opinion and liked everything about the dance including the DJ, “He played popular hits that really got the legs going.”
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Another thing that students missed besides good songs was the regular line dances; ‘Cupid shuffle” and “Cha cha slide”.
A suggestion to music at future dances is that the DJ plays more songs that are on the hit lists at the time of when the dance is held and is open for song suggestions. Another suggestion is that a poll could be made on twitter for example, where students could vote for the songs they would like and a list could be made and given to the DJ. Of course it is hard to please everyone, and there will always be people that aren’t happy with the songs played. But playing popular songs will make the chances higher that students enjoy the music.

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Do You Want to be Famous

2/9/2016

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By: Dresden Wilson @dreswilson22
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Do you watch Boone Television weekly? Are you a good writer? Do you like to be informed? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Boone Television/ video production and journalism are the classes for you.

I am in journalism and from my experience, it is a great class and I would recommend it to everyone.

You will definetly enjoy being in the presence of Ben Bravard and Philip Kramer.

“Having more students would really allow us to offer more diverse content. Right now we focus a lot on news and sports stories, and having more students would give us more stories, and how we approach those stories,” said Kramer when asked why it is important to have more students.

There are two different ways that you could go. If you enjoy technology, acting, or even just public speaking, then video production is the route that you want to take. But if you like writing journals, or just writing in general, then Journalism would be the route that you want to take. No matter which class you take, you will love it.

Take it from a journalism student himself, journalism is very fun, interesting, and laid back. Just make sure that you write your stories and stay on topic. We want you to join Boone TV.

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