Heather Bakke

Letter to the Editor

From the fall of 1995 to the Spring of 1998 I was a substitute teacher here in Buffalo. I remember walking by the room where the Bison Stampede (now The Hoofprint) had their offi ces. I popped my head in to chat with...

Contemplating school's losses in future

Heather Knows Best

You won't have Heather Bakke to kick around anymore. That's right, I’m outta here. 'Nuff said. No kidding. You (my faithful readers) don’t need to hear my rambling on about this being my senior year. Right now, the...

Existentialist questioning leads nowhere

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Hey sports fans. Have you ever wondered, I mean really wondered about life, the universe, eelpout, and other such curiosities? Throughout high school we have been taught to search for a higher level of...

The Rock of Ages, spray painted for me

You’re an upperclassman at BHS, and you and your friends have nothing to do after the Buffalo Theater lets out at 9:45 on Friday night. After brainstorming ideas, you come up with something fun, that even seniors can...

From date requirements made extra easy

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If you want to go to prom with me you’ll have to earn it. In the past I have begged for a prom date in this column. I tried everything: flyers, extra credit in my fathers Modern Problems or Minorities classes, the...

College hovers on horizon, minus wrestling team

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Recently there was a joyous occasion at the Bakke house. I was accepted to Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. You know, Bethany, the college where my parents met and fell in love. Bethany, however, has...

How do you spell pain? P-A-M-I-D-A

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Normal people ring in the new year with happy thoughts, joyful of the beginning of a new year of joy and happiness. I on the other hand am not normal. I spent my new year rejoicing the anniversary of my four months...

Managers keep sports teams organized

“Behind every great man is a woman.” At BHS there is a saying, “behind every great team there is a hardworking dedicated manager or statistician.” Maybe they don’t get the standing ovation for the game's winning...

Opens closet, exposes self-dirt

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This is the secret diary of Heather Bakke—O.K. the idea isn't original but what do you expect? Over the years we Bakke's have been known for placing high expectations when it comes to elections. So just in case I...

Music lights the stage for fall play

"Music is to the mind, as air is to the body." The fall musical is just that, music to the mind; music set to stage. "Little Shop of Horrors" contains songs ranging from love ballads to dental hygiene songs to songs...

Canned claustrophobic convict confesses crying

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I've been getting this strange feeling lately. Frankly, I think I'm turning invisible--don't laugh it's true. In the last month I've probably been to the principals' office four times. Mysteriously, I've been getting...

Food for thought

Ich habe hunger! Food. German students sing about it, friends hold conversations about it, and the human race depends on it. Picture this: Your sitting in class emersed in a deep theological discussion when somebody...

Vanna steals dream guy while crownless head looks on again

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As a senior it is my job to reflect. And share some of my wisdom with my fellow students. O.K., stop puking in your shoes. If I have learned anything in the last four years it would have to be how a desperate...

The Boys of Summer are gone

Gone are the days of Comiskey baseball, "The Voice," and the music.

"After the boys of summer have gone." Don Henly put it best. To some, a relief. Gone are the 90 degree days, the melting ice cream, Wally the Beer Man, all the things that we cherish. Baseball, for example, is a...

In Geiss for better or worse

Changes. Unless you live in a timeless vacuum you're going to have to face them. Unfortunately, I do not. The biggest change in my family's life is that Eric, my brother, the keeper of the English language, is...

Truth manages to elude half-nelson, even if you make it up

Close encounters of the wrestling kind:

Business Manager Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. Opps. Wrong column. Forget all of what you've heard about the BHS wrestling team. It's all a lie. Prepare yourself for the truth. I have been undertaking...

Cheeky future found in past--among other places

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Bethany has been tattooed on my butt since the day I was born. Bethany Lutheran College that is. The grand design my parents have for me, since I was two years old, is to attend this school--their alma mater. The...

Hunchback or genius: unique brother becomes case in point for psych-class

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Second hour psychology class with senior Eric Bakke would be an unparalleled experience for anybody. This experience is especially unparalleled if you happen to sit side by side with him--and just happen to be his...

Phobias reach out to pull family together

Up, up and away:

Two things I can write about, am expert enough to know what I am talking about: my fears and my family. A funny thing though. They are, to some degree, one in the same. Phobias. We all have them--some are weirder...

Up, up and away: Phobias reach out to pull family together

Two things I can write about, am expert enough to know what I am talking about: my fears and my family. A funny thing though. They are, to some degree, one in the same. Phobias. We all have them--some are weirder...

SCC fundraisers underway

The BHS Student Care Committee is selling pencils for twenty five cents that have positive sayings about self esteem. These pencils may be purchased from English teacher Karen Swenson or other participating teachers...

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