What Back Issues Can Tell Us:

1. What stories are covered every year? School dances, student opinions, teachers, extra curricular activities, sports, current events

What time of year did these stories run? All year.. fall, winter, and spring depending on when the event occured.. once a month usually

Are any of the same people involved year after year? yes, few though

2. What was the biggest story of each year? homecoming and breaks before school (winter and spring break)

3. How many personality sketches of students were run each year? usually 4 per newspaper, so around 32 personality sketches per year

• What types of students were interviewed? (athletes, student leaders, etc.) Usually one person from each grade and leaders of various organizations, athletes on sports teams, teachers

• Was any one student constantly featured in one year? noWhy? the newspaper tries to get a variety of students to highlightDo you think this was fair? yes

4. How many personality sketches of faculty were run each year? about 3

• Which teachers were featured? ms. o'neill, mr. bailey

• Why those particular people? reccomended by other students, are recognizable teachers

5. What full page features (or center spreads) did the publication carry? hurricane katrina, gas prices, elections, other large current events• Are any of those topics still relevant?yes, many still are

6. What was a great year(s) for sports teams? all years were good in some sport.. football, cross country, swim & dive, baseball
Activities? yes, best buddies and student council featured
Did the school have any state champions? yes, dance teamOlympic performers?

7. Find a story that uses background information from previous years- cell phone usage increase

8. What topics did the paper editorialize about each year? dances, testing, concept of a community

• What stand did the paper take? dances are becoming more inappropriate, testing is stressful, eastview is a great community

• Has the problem been solved or is it still an issue? still an issue

9. What major news did the paper carry about classes? there's classes out there to fit everyone's interests

• Any curriculum changes? yes new classes have been added

• Any major new programs? more extra curricular activities, fccla newly added

10. Any new equipment? no

• Any building programs?Yes Engineering tech.

11. Any scandals involving students, administrators, or teachers? sleep deprivation

12. What changes in fashion among students can be found? there's usually fall, winter, and spring fashion advice

13. What signs of changing times can you find as mirrored in the concerns of students? freshmen concerned with meeting new people, seniors concerned with leaving highschool for college

• What concerns never seem to change and would continue to make good stories year after year? concerns of post high school plans

14. Did the school have any championship academic teams? no

• Art show winners? no

• Band or choir awards? yes

• Science winners? yes science olmpiad

• National honors? yes, speech

15. Which clubs were most active? speech, student council, linc

16. What campus events made the most news? dances.. homecoming, prom, sadies, color day and pepfests

17. What movies and music groups has the paper reviewed? nsync, britney spears, regal V. carmike cinema

18. What issues did cartoonists choose? global issues, elections

19. How has the publication’s format changed? more informal, write about relateable topics rather than what other newspapers such as star tribune would

20. Did the demographics of your student population change? not really
Why? eastview is already pretty diverse

21. What are the school’s traditions and how did they develop? pepfest and color day, tailgating at football games

• Who are the school’s traditional rivals? (Could vary between activites.) apple valley in like every sport

• How did the rivalry begin? they're in the same city.. on the same road

22. What are five things most interesting about EVHS? friendly atmosphere, great teachers, nice facilities, diverse, great educational opportunities