By Malerie Phillips

Tri-Color TimesGranger High School

April 1, 2007 Volume XLIX, Issue 05

INSIDEFOOTBALL TEAM CUTNext year will start out with no football team due to the school's effort to save money.

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WALMART HIGH SCHOOLGranger is being rebuilt and will become Walmart High.

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INDEX Football Goes Mini..........................................02Politically Correct Classes.............................. 04No More Substitutes....................................... 06Lunch, Elementary Style.................................07

AprilSunday, April 1Early start daySchool starts at 5:30 amDON”T BE LATE

Monday, April 2No clothes dayTryouts for the slip and slide teamDon’t shave your armpits week

Tuesday, April 3Super Hero Day wear your costumesBob sled team tryouts

Wednesday, April 4Spanish Speaking DayHalf day only go to your first two periodsCurling team tryouts

Thursday, April 5Spandex DaySpeed walker team tryouts meet at Valley Fair Mall

Friday, April 6Emo Pants DayLongest armpit hair contestGranger poker contest bring your game face

Saturday, April 7Clover DanceAt Stonehenge 12 noonHope you can river dance

Sunday, April 8Easter, wear your bunny costumesLongest hop contest

Monday, April 9No skool due to rain

Tuesday, April 10Figure skating team tryoutsFrench speaking day

Wednesday, April 11Bagpipe music day Shave your head day

Thursday, April 12Wear your kilt day

Friday, April 13Dye your hair black daySpeed racer tryouts

Saturday, April 14Mrs.Granger tryoutsGreen Plant Awareness Day

Sunday, April 15Phonebook ripping contestGet a FREE Hummer 2 for your old car

about this problem just last week. The solution? Placing tire boots (the orange mechanism that they place on your tire that prevents you from driving the car away.) on all the cars and having all students who drive to place their keys in a box at the front entrance on their way to class. How will this prevent students from leav-ing campus through the day? Stu-dents won’t have their keys until the end of the day when they stop and pick them up on their way out. The tire boots on the other hand won’t be removed until the last half hour of school. True, some students can walk to places around the area, but they won’t get past the policemen that will be placed at each entrance and exit of the school. For those of us who don’t have four classes a day, you have to go to the front office and get a spe-

Dude, Where's My Car Keys

veryday, students ask where they should go for lunch, or for those who don’t go to all their classes, where to go to

sluff. Our lovely police officers pa-trol our parking lot, checking for cars without parking stickers, and students trying to sneak out during class time. Everyone has broken a main rule at Granger at least once. The rule? Going off campus during school hours. That’s right, Granger is a close campus school, but who hasn’t left during lunch? The administration has seen students leave during school this as a growing problem and is about to put a stop to it. How can they stop all students who wish to leave the building during school, you may ask, especially when many of us own cars? Our lovely administra-tion had a meeting about what to do

E cial slip from one of the secretaries to show the police officers. Then they will let you find your keys in the box, and escort them to your car so they can remove the boot. So just show up late so your car won’t be booted right? Wrong. Their will be a police officer patrolling the parking lot every half hour to make sure all cars have a boot on them and no one is trying to leave. All those who like to sluff and leave, or those who want to leave campus during lunch better think twice before trying to leave. Maybe I forgot to mention it, but anytime you show up late or try leave early and they catch you, you will be written a ticket and must pay a fine of up to $50. So ask yourself, is McDonalds’ dollar menu really worth all the trouble?

Vice Princiipal Snarr alomst enthusiastic about collecting car keys from students.

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DDR For PEBy Robyn Green

If there’s one sport that Granger is notorious for, it’s our football team. That classic chant the football team roars drives us to cheer and roar for them. “Whose house? G-HOUSE!” the team hollers every game. Holly-wood has made high school foot-ball the most important thing next to prom. But due to the school’s decision to cut the football team, students will be asking, “Whose house is it really?” The decision to cut the football team was made because of the lack of money we have. We needed to raise money for the school, but the easiest way to make more money was to cut football. Some of the reasons the football team will be cut is the lack of support. Whenever stu-dents ask about the football game it’s not “Did we win?” but “How much did we lose by?” How does that make people want to win for Granger? Another reason is that once we do have a team, most of the team quits anyway, either be-

Football CutBy Joe Fatani

As you may have already read or heard, the football team is cancelled for next year. That still leaves some with the lingering question of what’s going to hap-pen to the football field. The administration has been looking into something that will be appealing to the students as well as a good way to raise money for Granger, and they think the answer has finally hit them in the head. The football field will soon be transformed into the Granger High Minia-ture Golf Adventure Park, also known as the GHMGAP, as it is referred to on the

streets. The administration feels it will be very beneficial to the school since it will bring some much needed positive attention. Miniature golf was chosen because lets face it, everyone likes mini golfing. Also, mini golfing is a lot less aggressive and angry then football. Once we switch out the football team for the mini golf squad, our school will have a lot less testosterone and a lot more polo wearing, smiling faces. “People don’t get the same hostility and an-ger when they watch a golf game as they do when they watch a football game. People

There has been a rumor going around that Granger High is going to be rebuilt. We all knew it was going to happen, but none of us realized how soon that would occur. Starting next summer, con-struction will begin on the new school facilities. The first thing that they will be tearing down is the main gym, the blue gym, and the red gym. Does this mean that next year gym classes will be can-celled? Of course not. The Granger High administration realizes that fitness is very important to the stu-dents, and they are not just going to let our physical health suffer. For next year they have developed a plan that can keep the students entertained as well as physically fit. With all the money being raised by the new mini golf course, also know as the GHMGAP, they will purchase 15 brand new Dance Dance Revolution machines. DDR will be our new P.E. program start-ing next year until the new gyms are built.

“I’m totally excited! I to-tally rock at DDR and I can finally get an A in P.E. I’m really looking forward to this,” said a very short junior. Many people feel this way. Most of the students put off P.E. until their senior year because they dread the thought of having to do push ups while there class mates look on in amusement. With the new DDR program, students won’t have to worry about that. But what about the students that don’t have a clue how to DDR? There will be different levels of the DDR classes. Depending on the student’s skill and experience they will be enrolled in the appropriate class. DDR 1 will be for beginners while the highest level will be DDR 5, which Granger hopes to eventually turn into a team that can travel to other schools and compete in tournaments. No matter how good you are, or how incredibly sucky you are at DDR, there is a spot for you. Get ready Granger High, because Dance Dance Revolution is about to stomp its way into our hearts.

Football Goes MiniBy Robyn Green

become violent and begin to hurt everything, even resorting to slapping their grandmothers,” said Mr. Snarr. “I feel we are headed in the right direc-tion with the GHMGAP.” But what did the foot-ball players have to say about this? “Miniature golf rocks my world,” was the response that was mostly given. The decision has been made and the golf team is ecstatic. Construction for the GHMGAP begins in June 2007 and will hopefully be finished in September 2007 just in time for the football, I mean, golfing season. Get your clubs together be-cause pretty soon the word FORE! will be heard all throughout the Granger High hallways.

cause they can’t take the pres-sure, or maybe because they lose all the time. The team’s morale must be really low, and that doesn’t inspire anyone to win or even play. The money that we will be saving from the football team getting cut will be going to the construction of a mini golf course in place of the football stadium. This conflicted with the new football coach, but Granger had an answer to this. The new foot-ball coach will be teaching stu-dents how to putt their hearts out with a mini golf team. Students are ecstatic about this change. “I admit I hate to see the football team leave, but that doesn’t mat-ter if I get to hit the ball over a di-nosaur in the mini golf course!” said Marcus Baarsma. Even though we are say-ing goodbye to a legacy of sports by cutting the football team, we will always remember them as the team we used to have. The football team has left, but we will still know whose house it is no matter what.

"That's how it should be," Folster said about the football field being turned into a miniature golf course.

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We all like having our pri-vacy in the locker rooms and the bathrooms, but now our privacy will be taken away. Because of the recent theft of students’ and teachers’ prop-erty from these private places, Grang-er High School will be installing cam-eras in our locker rooms, bathrooms, and gym showers. The Granite School Board gave the official okay on February 27, 2007 for the cameras to be installed. Granger’s administrators know that students need their privacy, but since that privacy has been abused, students are now going to be monitored around the clock. The vandalism in our school is also another concern of the admin-istrators. Phone numbers, offensive language, and inappropriate pictures are being displayed in the bathroom stalls at Granger High and are very unnecessary for students to make and see. “We deserve our privacy. The vandalism and stealing are a problem, but so is taking away our privacy!” says Bayliee Bindley, a se-nior at Granger High School.The administrators feel students need to be monitored to prevent the prob-

lems in these areas. We are already being monitored by the cameras in the halls that help solve fights and theft throughout Granger, but are the cam-eras legal? The answer is yes. Cam-eras in areas such as locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers are legal for schools to install, because Granite Schools, like Granger, are on private property. Granite School District has no other choice but to approve Granger High School’s request after seeing the vandalization that students are display-ing in the areas not under surveillance. “We are very sorry for breaking in on students while in these areas. We just have no choice but to punish the stu-dents causing these problems in these spots around the school,” said Shaun Mitchell of Granite School District. The new cameras in these pri-vate places will help prevent sluffing and inappropriate behaviors among the students. They will also make our school a better place without the dis-tractions of tagging, fights, and theft. Students are reacting very rebellious to “the lack of privacy,” but hopefully this will better the school’s image and eliminate the worries of theft, vandalism, and fights.

Privacy Barriers

By Dahn Carlson

The society of today is greatly concerned with avoiding of-fence and assumed prejudice. For the most part, it has been a personal choice whether to conform to such beliefs or not. Yet it seems that we are no longer completely free to that decision. From a concerned father, urgent complaints have come for-ward. Charles Dotterel has twin teenagers, Maurine and Joseph, both in their sophomore year. Young Maurine is one of many girls who wish to do all the classes that girls are not usually dominant in. Her brother Joseph also would like to participate in a few activities other-wise seen as where females belong, without being taunted to having a more feminine side. Mr. Dotterel is fired by the will to plow a way for his children and all students to have a choice without having to fit in with generalizations. He has been adamant about changing the ways people view certain classes in high school. Through long, hard work, his pleas have slowly been heard. It has been decided at the District Offices that the classes at Granger need to eliminate stereotypes. In an attempt to keep as po-litically correct as possible, Granger will be changing requirements for classes to make sure nothing is as-sumed. We already have a girls’ weight training class, but what about

those other gender generalized classes? Dance classes will not be held unless there are at least five males enrolled in the class. Shop classes will need at least ten girls, but any roughness such as hard work and use of dangerous tools in the class will be allowed because females are certainly not wimps. So how do students feel about this? Junior Carlotta Fatu-ous is a lifetime dancer and is tak-ing several dance classes here at Granger. She thinks this idea is heading in the right direction. “We could do so much more if we had guys helping us out. If we make it a requirement, then maybe we could work to having half and half in all the classes!” But it seems that not all are as excited as Carlotta. Wen-dy Trulan, a senior, is also involved with dance at Granger. “It won’t work. They’ll have to get rid of all the dance classes. That many guys will never come out for dance.” As for girls in the shop classes, the change doesn’t seem to be seen as a big one. Junior Frank Virile said, “It’s really not going to fix a whole lot, because there’s nothing really to be fixed. There are girls interested in the shop classes anyway.” Whether the students agree or not, that is the way that Granger will be run. So though we’ve already signed up for class-es, there may be a few changes in your schedule coming.

Politically CorrectClasses

By Brin Nelson

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To Poof Or Not To PoofBy Malerie Phillips

Jessica Anderson's hair being measured.

Mousse, gel, hair spray, blow dry, straighten, and curl: this is a long list of what many of us do to our hair every morning. Damaging? Very much so. But now there is a new trend going around the beauty parlor. Big, thick, “poofy” hair. Tease it, back comb it, or rat it. There are a variety of options for getting full and thick hair. But is there a price to pay? Some say yes. Sarah Den-ning, a senior, thinks those girls who “poof” their hair an inch or more above their head should be banned, saying “I can’t even see the board sometimes if I’m behind someone who does it. Their hair is just so big and I have to crane my neck to see what the board says.” Does she have a point? Has the big hair come back full circle? We all remember the ‘80’s when big hair was in style, and it has come back, but in a different form. The Board of Education has seen this hair as a big problem, and is holding a meeting specifically for it. They wish to put a limit on how tall hair should be from the head. Talking to an anonymous source from the committee on banning thick hair, I learned that if this new rule passes it will be held dis-trict-wide, starting with our very own Granger High. It says that hair should only be half an inch above the head. So

who will this new rule affect? A prime example for this is Jessica Anderson. She does a very perfect and flattering “poof” in her hair, but she does have a big price to pay at the end of the day. “When I go to comb it out in the back, it’s always so tangled and it hurts. It takes a lot of pa-tience and a very strong brush to get it untangled, but if I look good the next day when I re-rat it, it’s all worth it”. There are a variety of new op-tions for why this rule will be enacted. Perhaps if students studied more instead of teasing their hair, the average GPA will rise because students will be tak-ing more time to study. Or maybe it’s because of those girls who tease their hair but it doesn’t look as good. In real-ity, it looks like they have bedhead and just barely woke up with no time to take a comb to their hair. Is this maybe the reason? Whatever the inspiration for this new rule, girls take note, this will probably pass in the meeting the Board of Education is holding on April 12, 2007. So start tossing away those teasing combs and wake up 15 minutes later, be-cause their will be no reason to wake up early and damage your hair. There will be hair rulers given out to teachers and if

they spot anyone who looks to have hair too thick, they will stop you and mea-sure your hair. If you pass, you are free to go about your merry way, but if you fail, they will hand you a comb and stand there while you untangle it. It won’t be

very pleasant, and if performed in the mid-dle of class, a little embarrassing to say the least. Now at least those of us who are on the short side can see the board without hav-ing a cramp in your neck at the end of the day.

Granger High School received $2.3 million on March 9th. If the decision was not made within a week to where this money would go, then the money would go to another school. Since the decision on what to do with this money had to be made quickly, Principal Cox and other ad-ministrators decided that this large amount of money will go to the tennis courts. Mr. Snarr explained the administrators’ deci-sion saying, “Tennis seems to be the only sport that is unable to practice inside. Even football, baseball, and track can take place inside if the weather does not permit. Ten-nis on the other hand is too dangerous to take place inside.” The danger that Mr. Snarr refers to are accidents that have oc-curred at other schools. “Tennis can be very unpredictable and balls have bounced off the walls and injured kids. When people try and play tennis in anyplace but a court, it’s inevitable that someone will get hurt.” said Mr. Snarr. So to make it possible for tennis to continue during bad weather the $2.3 mil-lion grant will go to the construction of cov-ering the tennis courts. The courts will be under fabric-frame structures. These struc-tures are durable for any weather. They are lighted, heated, and air conditioned. An-other great thing about this fabric-frame structure is the translucent ceilings and re-tractable curtains. So even though the ten-nis courts will be covered, it won’t feel too

enclosed. Tennis players will be able to see the sky through the translucent ceiling and open the curtains when the weather is good outside. Tennis coach, Mr. Bullock was given the responsibility of designing how the tennis courts will be covered. Coach Bullock commented, “I’m still deciding if I want the structure to be either red, blue, grey, or maybe a combination of all our school colors. I’d love to see a lanc-er somewhere, but we’ll just have to see. This is very exciting; I’ve wanted to cover these courts for years.” Covering the ten-nis courts will not only be an advantage for Granger’s tennis team, but the rest of the students here at Granger. When the ad-ministrators decided to cover the courts, the tennis team was not the only thing that was put into consideration. “Covering the tennis courts gives Granger so many more possibilities,” said Mr. Anthony, “We’re considering having dances and the Grang-er Showdown at the tennis courts once the construction is finished.” There is even talk of turning Granger into a country club. With the covered courts, swimming pool, and miniature golf course, Granger will of-fer membership to use these facilities after school hours. The prices of membership at the Granger Country Club are still being discussed, but are sure to bring a lot of rev-enue to Granger. Construction for the fabric frame

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We have all enjoyed the pres-ence of substitutes in our classroom. Everyone feels that a class might be a little bit better, either because there is a substitute teaching or the actual teacher isn’t there. But starting next year there will be no more substitutes teaching at Granger High School. The shocking announcement was made in March, in a meeting about how to save money for the school. So what will all the students do? All the students whose teachers are gone that day, will have class in the auditorium, where they will be subject to lectures and seminars from guest speakers. Or the students can use their MP3’s to learn, which students are re-ally excited about. “We are saving a lot of money by doing this,” says Mr. Snarr. “We are able to give knowledge, without using too much money. By spending money for just one guest speaker, we save so much more money than paying for three or four substitutes a day. Or by having the students buy an MP3 player during registration, we can charge stu-dents for new ones later in the year, if they break their old ones.” Substitutes are not happy about this. Some people are speculat-ing that the substitutes will create a lot of fuss about this decision, maybe going as far as to creating protests or marches against the school. “I think this is the end of

teachers as we know it,” says Mr. Crabapple, a 38 year old, who has been substituting for 5 years. “Pret-ty soon, I think that there will be no more teachers, just MP3’s teaching the class, just one big computer. Give it a year or two, it’ll happen, you just wait.” Students are looking forward to this change. They think listening to a guest speaker will be better than listening to a boring substitute. “I am way excited for it,” said Jasmina Caus. “I’ll be able to talk to my friends, but still be able to actually learn some-thing, you know?” Teachers aren’t happy about

this though. Teachers are mad that, even though the students will be getting knowledge in these seminars, they won’t be teaching the criteria that the teachers need to fulfill. This is why the school has of-fered MP3 players. The teachers have the choice to make a video or even a podcast of the lesson that they want the students to be subject to when they are not there. The students who already have MP3 players can just go to the school’s website to download the lessons on to their MP3. This is what students are really excited about. Sreypech Long exclaimed “I am thrilled about this. I can’t wait. I

No More SubstitutesBy Joe Fatani

am an MP3 fanatic and enjoy new technol-ogy. Pretty soon, I think that everyone will want to attend Granger High School.” Some parents aren’t happy about the new fine that comes with the MP3 play-ers, but they like the fact that their kids are getting MP3’s. Parents are saying that they already pay enough for public school dur-ing registration. Either way, we will still be able to learn something when our teachers are not here at school. Whether it be from our teachers over our MP3’s, or lectures and seminars from guest speakers, I’m sure we will still get bored no matter who teaches or what the subject is.

Carlisle Will Be Left-Handed Many of you have seen Mr. Car-lisle’s hand and most likely wondered what happened to it. If you are in any of his classes, he has told you the story of a robber breaking into his shop. He coura-geously tackled the robber, causing him to cut himself, and damage the tendons in his right hand. Those of you who know Mr. Carlisle know he is way too sweet to ever tackle anybody. I thought the same thing and decided to find out what really happened. Mr. Carlisle did in fact cut him-self, but not in his heroic tale. The true story behind his hand was really due to a juggling accident. Recently Mr. Carl-isle decided to take up juggling. After a couple of practice runs, he decided to try juggling knives. He wasn’t as good as he thought he was, hence the cut. Since Mr. Carlisle is right handed and he hurt his right hand, he is now incapacitated. He can no longer drive, write, type, or ride his bike. It will take about eight weeks for his right hand to heal and be back to full mobility, but Mr. Carlisle doesn’t want to wait that long. He has been talking to a neurologist about a simple operation to make him left handed. This will take about two weeks to fully heal.

By RaShonda Miles

The neurologist will just do a simple brain surgery to, lets say, re-wire his brain so he will be left-handed. “I’m really quite excited for the operation”

says Mr. Carlisle. “They say left-hand-ed people are more creative, so I’m hoping the surgery will open up my creativity.”

The operation is scheduled for April 6, 2007. Afterwards we can all expect Mr. Carlisle to be back to his regular bike riding self again.

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In a faculty meeting back in February there was a very serious topic discussed: lunch. The adminis-tration has been having trouble with students cutting in line, fighting, being noisy, and not cleaning up their lunch area. The topic was discussed for a good hour when finally the words came together, “elementary style”. Starting next term the stu-dents at Granger High School will have to start lining up alphabetically for lunch. Every five minutes, five classes will be excused to go to lunch. The first part of the school to go to lunch will be the Math and English building. When the Math and English building is cleared out, the shop build-ing will follow. After the shop building has gone to lunch and the lines have died down again, the relocatables will go. Finally the upstairs followed by the lower floor will be sent. Instead of having two lunches, there will be one long one. For the new system, they had to come up with a new way to make the lines move more efficiently. Our new method to pay for lunch is called a “Points card”. The card will work similar to a credit card. When you pay for lunch you will need to go to the office. You will then pay the office and they will put points on your card. That way when you go through the lunch line all you will need to do is swipe your card. One lunch is 2 points, and 2 points is $1.50. If you loose your card, it is $5.00 to replace it.

After you receive your lunch you may not go sit with your friends. The school has decided to sit all of the students alphabetically. When you get your lunch you are to go find the table with the first letter of your last name and sit there. The school believes this will be more efficient and you will make more friends that way. After you have finished eat-ing you must clean up your area. When you are finished cleaning your

Lunch, Elementary StyleBy Jackie Salm

area, you will need to go sit down and wait for a supervising administrator to come and excuse you. If you are ex-cused, the administrator will give you a purple piece of paper signed by them saying that you may go back to class or to the library. If you are caught in the hallway without this paper it will be a $10.00 fine. If you want to go out to lunch, think again. We are no lon-ger allowed to leave campus for lunch. To make sure this will not happen our

teachers will be escorting us down for lunch. Also, five security guards have been hired and will start monitoring the campus during school hours. If you are caught outside attempting to leave campus without a pass it will result in a fine. The school is working hard to make the new system work. There will be some kinks at the beginning, but when the kinks are worked out, lunch will run more smoothly.

Students lining up for lunch.

In the past several years at Granger High School there has been a problem with teachers. Students have complained that teachers call them out “by name” in front of the whole class to tell them their errors. Amanda Thacker, a senior, said “it makes me mad when a teacher corrects me without looking at me. It makes me mad when my Eng-lish teacher looks at the class and says ‘Amanda forgot to capitalize the city.’ I do not think my class needs to know what I did wrong in my essay.” Amanda is not the only one in the school that feels this way. There have been numerous complaints to the office, and it is not just here at Granger. Many schools across the valley have had the same problem with their teachers inform-ing the class of what a student did wrong. So the Granite School Board has decided that next year the teachers are to address

students by their student numbers instead of their names. The students in the Granite School District will need to know their student numbers for when they are in class. When we are not in class we may call our friends by

If Student Number ******* Is Here,Please Raise Your Hand

By Jackie Salm

their names, but teachers may not. “It will help keep the students work private,” Said the Granite board on Saturday, “And if a student can still call a friend by his or her name out-side of class, they will not memorize their number”.

The teachers have another opinion. Mrs. Wilde said, “It is not fair that the teachers have to memorize all of those numbers and the students do not”. Most teachers are unhappy about the change, Mrs. Pray, however, is fine with it, “I think it is a good plan, be-cause it helps to keep the students’ pri-vacy. I am surprised they are just start-ing it, when they should have done it a long time ago.” The students here at Granger High School are fine with the change. Many comment that they know their student numbers like their names, so there really is no change. And students do not have to call other students by their student numbers all the time like teachers do. So it is not a big deal for many students, it’ll be just like a nick-name to them.

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In high school, students are put under a lot of stress. We have to turn in all of our assign-ments, take tests, participate in school activities, and work. When we get home at the end of the day we still need to do homework be-fore we can relax or go to sleep. While some people can handle the stress quite easily, others have found it far more difficult, and even fatal, due to a new virus that is going around the high schools of America. It is called the Hippo-campus Virus after the section in the brain that is most susceptible to stress, and also where the virus attacks first. After attacking the brain the virus moves to the spinal cord and from there throughout the nervous system to every part of the body, shutting down your bodily functions. Florence Beagly is a stu-dent enrolled here at Granger that was infected by the disease after

she got her report card in early No-vember. “My boyfriend had broken up with me the day before, and my boss was working me five hours most days.When I got my grades and saw that I had failed three of my classes, I just broke down.” For three days she had the flu. On the fourth day she was feeling well

Stress VirusBy Dahn Carlson

enough to go to school, but half way through the day, Florence had to call her mother to come and pick her up. Her mother took her straight to the doctor’s office where the doctor sent her to the hospital for tests. “When the doctor said that I had the Hippocampus Virus, I didn’t know what he was talking about. I

thought it was a weird exten-sion of the flu.” Luckily, they caught it early enough that they were able to start the treatment right away. “That’s probably why I’m alive today,” Here is a list of warning signs and tests you can do on yourself to see if you have the virus. If you think that you do have the bug, then you should go to the doctor immediately.• yellow spots on the skin• nerves near the skin are among the first to rupture, caus-ing slight bruising• prolonged minor ill-ness, like a cold or something• the smaller viruses can weaken your immune system, so if they last too long you should see a doctor. You can find the com-plete list in Carlisles room, 216.

As you all most likely know, Granger High School is being rebuilt.Granger has asked many businesses to sponsor us in the rebuilding of our school. Walmart, one of the nation’s largest stores, has agreed in sponsor-ing Granger’s rebuilding, but at some small requests: Mascot Change:” Sir Lanc-er,” will be changed to “Sir Happy Lancer,” It will be using Walmart’s yellow smiling face combined with our lancer to create the new school mascot. A new dress code will be en-forced starting on April 27, 2007 to show gratitude to our new sponsor. New dress code: A new dress code will be enforced starting on April 27, 2007 to show gratitude to our new sponsor. A choice of Blue, black, or khaki pants or skirts with red shirts and blue vests. Students will also, along with the vests, be provided with a name tag, which will include their picture, name, and student number and must be worn at all times while on campus. New Credit Requirement: every student must take the Retail Marketing class in order to graduate, replacing the American Government requirement. New School name: Our school name will no longer be Grang-er High School, it will be changed to Walmart High School. “We’re very

excited to take part in the rebuilding of this already wonderful school, and to show our excitement, Walmart is going to hire greeters for every door to encourage students to be at school and in class,” said Walmart Supervi-sor, Ron Johnson. We are very excited for this opportunity that Walmart has given our school. Our sponsors have already designed blue prints and a building code inspection will take place on June 12, 2007. This inspection will allow us to tear down Granger and begin the construction on the new Walmart High. All current, former, and fu-ture students along with their family and friends are invited to the tearing down of Granger High School on June 23, 2007 to say goodbye to our beloved school. The construction is set to be completed by August 2009. All students will be sent to surround-ing schools during the construction such as Kearns, Taylorsville, Hunter, and Cottonwood High School. Bus-ses will be provided to those in the Granger High School boundaries to transport the students to these differ-ent schools. Walmart and Granger thank you for your support and look for-ward to Walmart High School and it’s students beginning classes on August 27, 2009.

Walmart HighBy Dahn Carlson

For other schools around the county, board members have decided that students are no longer required to do homework. A dream for many students, and even some teachers, has been answered. Whether Grang-er will take part in this new act is a question wanting to be answered.Specialists have realized that the overload of work truly does affect students’ health and mental stabil-ity. Many students are expected to give more effort than a lot of jobs require, and have to juggle more things with harsher consequences. For those that want to succeed, they have to give up their time and energy to give all to their school work. It has been realized that this is perhaps too much to demand from the supposed-ly most carefree and thrilling years of our lives. The solution coming forth is to eliminate the staggering amount of homework. But what, exactly, consti-tutes as homework? All work can’t be cut out and students still be ex-pected to learn. Instead, teachers will be advised to give plenty of time to finish all assignments during class. If students don’t finish, the work will have to be accepted as it is. Big as-signments or projects are too much of a disturbance in students’ routine and will not be in the program for

teachers. Practice for music or lan-guage classes will be up to students’ decision. It has been said that there should be about 10 minutes of homework for every grade. So, by the time you’re a sophomore, you have more than an hour and a half of homework, and as a senior you’d have two hours. That might not be too bad, if it weren’t for the fact that a good share of the teachers seem to think that it’s an hour and a half per class. So when all the assignments are added up just for core classes, some students would have nearly 8 hours of homework to do a night. True, that doesn’t happen very often for too many people, but no mat-ter who you are, homework can be a huge stress. Luckily for us, there is a possibility that we won’t have to take on that stress as much any more. And yet, as wonderful as the idea might seem, is it really all that logical? Homework can be a necessary part of our learning pro-cess. Repetition is essential to re-taining information. When we do homework, it gives the knowledge a chance to enter our brains outside of the classroom, and therefore we are more likely to remember it. Learn-ing doesn’t do us much good unless we can remember and use it in our later lives.

No HomeworkBy Brin Nelson