part 1 interview

Why dont most students go to school dances?

Girl student:
Q: What would make school dances more fun?
A: Having live bands, a variety of different lights and having a school dance like in the movie "Grease" where the best dances wins a prize!

Q: Why don't most people dance at the school dances?
A: I think maybe they dont feel comfortable or they are emarassed to dance in front of their peers and get made fun of. It could also be because maye they dont have anyone to dance with or they're not in the mood.

Q: Do you think school dances are fun? If no, why not?
A: No, and because a lot of people stand there awkwardly like they don't know what to do and it makes me feel uncomfortable. Also, i dont especially like the music selection that they have to offer, i think its all lame.

Boy student:
Q: Why dont most people go to school dances?
A: Some people would rather spend time by themselves or with someone else. I know a lot of people who dont like dancing, especially in front of people, so they would rather do something alone.

Q: What could be done to make school dances more popular?
A: If other options were added such as open gym or food of some sort. If there were more things to do besides JUST dancing a wider audience would be attracted.

Q: What is your personal opinion on the school dances?
A: I think that they would be more fun if more people went. Too few people go, so i dont feel like it would be worth it for me to go to one anyways. Besides, ive been to them and they were all really boring.

Teacher:
Q: Do you think the "no grinding" rule is a cause of most people not going to school dances?
A: No there are other reasons kids dont want to go like the cost of the dance, maybe they didnt know about it, (?) bad advertising! and they kind of get boring and dull really fast from what i hear from my students..!

Q: Do you think highschoolers dance inapropriately?
A: I think they do dance inappropriatly. Its basically a proven fact that if you do go to a school dance that most of all the teenagers will dance inappropriatly. I dont think that you neccerssarily need to grind to have fun at a dance, just be goofy and you'll have much more fun then grinding against someone!

Q: Why do you think that after many years of "inappropriate dancing" has all of a sudden become an issue?
A: Because people (teachers and staff) are now trying to actually put a punishment to the dancing and try to develope a new way of having fun other then all of that bad dancing.

Active and passive quiz

I only got one wrong on this quiz. I thought it was pretty easy, except the one answer i got wrong was kind of hard.

Why naps make you smarter

Volunteers who took a 100-minute nap before taking a evening memorization test scored an average of 20% higher on the memory test compared with people who did the memorization without taking a nap first. You should sleep before you learn, and after helps a lot also. Taking a 90 minute nap helps lock in long term memory things, and dreaming does as well. I thought that this article was kind of cool because i really like to take naps when i can. I sometimes take naps after school and i get yelled at it for it, but i really shouldnt be cause im just trying to be smarter :)

2 assaults reported on Gustavus college campus

The first assault happened around 1:30 a.m on a Saturday, near the Meliva Lind Interpretive Center. The second assault occurred the next night, around 8:30 p.m, on a Sunday, near the Alfred Nobel Hall of Science. There weren't any further details on the assaults except that one of them was sexual. I thought that Gustavus college was one of those really nice schools like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but I guess things like that can happen anywhere.

High school basketball star dies on court

He died after scoring the winning game shot in over time. When he was about to shake peoples hands, he collapsed to the floor. Everyone thought he collapsed cause of heat exhaustion, so they tried cooling him down by fanning his face and putting ice packs on it before the ambulance came. The death of him remains unknown.
I think its sad that he died unexpectedly and also that he had a girlfriend for two and a half years. If I were her I wouldn't even know what to do with myself. I think this article is extremely sad.

3 people interview

I am going to interview someone who doesnt go to school dances, someone who does, and a teacher. MY topic is  Why dont people go to school dances?

1. Why do you think most students don't attend school dances?
2. Do you think there is a specific reason that people don't enjoy the dances?
3. What could the school do to make the dances more fun?

5 things that I learned

-I learned how to prepare quickly for an interview
-I know about the green-light questions now
-I know about the red-light questions now
-I know now about the pitfalls of "off the record"
-I also learned how to keep an interview going.