Amy Weivoda

Sex ed curriculum causes controversy

Starting next year, District 877 will instate a new sex education curriculum. It is designed to provide basic information, clear up misconceptions, and hopefully prevent teen-pregnancies, sexual abuse, and sexually...

Edjukashun

"How much are educated men superior to those uneducated? As much as the living are to the dead."-- Aristotle The public schools in America are being asked to handle more than ever before. And according to the...

Bison: A trend away from tracking?

Administrator leads district schools in following educational trends

In an effort to keep ahead of educational breakthroughs and help advise the many changes ahead for the schools, District 877 recently hired Susan Hagstrum. Replacing Merill Fellger, Director of Curriculum and...

In tracking system, only "Walleyes" stay afloat

Kids are divided into four swimming classes at Camp Buckskin, in Isabella Minnesota. Those with exceptional ability are placed with other "Walleyes", average swimmers are called "Sunfish", poor swimmers are...

BLUE HORSES

Really, what has modern man evolved into?

Just because we've got New Coke, plaid bellbottoms and extra-strength Ban de Soleil, modern man thinks he's pretty cool. We've also got mass pollution, nuclear weapons, and a war in Central America. Personally, I'd...

Modern day "Towers of Babel" scrape the credit card skyline

American teen-agers are the deep, slushy, water-filled potholes on the highway of humanity. Apparently, society has failed to control them, for they are materialistic, faithless, disobedient, apathetical,...

BHS opens student chapter of Amnesty International

"The Joshua Tree", the Irish band U2's socially conscious and chart-topping album, displays the name and address of a group on their album cover. It isn't a music group, as one might think, but a group dedicated to...

Counting cows and deer and pigs

A cow will be the death of me yet. There's something about cloven feet that seems to bother people. Perhaps that is why humans take particular pleasure in the murder and mutilation of pigs, cows, sheep, deer, and all...

Kowalke, Casperson chosen by Governor's scholar program

Juniors Bart Casperson and Bonni Kowalke have been chosen to participate in the Governor's Scholar Program next year. The program is a statewide leadership education corps allowing students with demonstrated or...

Access to Excellence deemed excellent

To the editors: A hot issue in the halls of many Minnesota high schools has left its mark on BHS students as of late. Last month's issue of The Bison finally dealt with Governor Rudy Perpich's Access to Excellence...

Prom, not everyone's fantasy

Lack of support

Just about everything that can be written, has been written about the notorious "prom night." As an unbeliever, it's my turn to offer some insight. I've never been to prom. As I've heard, it's a strictly "couples"...

Thunderbirds aren't ordinary chicks

Hockey, at times, conjures up an image of husky male players viciously racing across the ice, determined to capture the puck regardless of who get hurt. Supposedly a girl's only place on the rink is as a cheerleader....

Art / illustration credit

AI found on page 5; a by Amy Weivoda; medium confidence