8 Feature The Bear MARCH 30, 2023

Annual Dance Marathon reaches money goal

Brooklyn Nash
Co-Photo-Editor-In-Chief
The WBHS Student Gov-
ernment hosted its10th annual
Mini Dance Marathon on Friday,
February 10 from 7:00 p.m. -
11:00 p.m. The Mini Dance Mar-
athon is an event that raises
awareness for cancer, raises funds
for people currently going through
treatment for cancer, shows stu-
dents how to be philanthropic, and
provides an opportunity for them
to show empathy.
There were many different
ways that students and the com-
munity could help support this
event. Each day of the week, stu-
dents wore a different colored T-
shirt to support different cancers
and brought in different coins to
donate. Monday, students wore or-
ange and brought in pennies.
Tuesday, students wore purple and
brought in nickels. Wednesday,
students wore yellow and brought
in dimes. Thursday, students wore
green and brought in quarters. Fri-
day, students wore white and
brought in any loose change they
had.
The student government
also planned some events to help
support The Dance Marathon. On
February 8, during the school’s In-
structional Support time, guest
speaker Wyatt O’Neil told the stu-
dent body about his ordeal with
testicular cancer. “Everyone in
this building will be affected by
cancer at some point in their
lives,” said O’Neil.
On February 3, a half-
court shot competition was held at
halftime of the girls varsity bas-
ketball game. A Silent auction for
special gift baskets was held at a
few of the basketball games
throughout the weeks before. All
money was donated to the Dance
Marathon event. Finally, there
were some coin drives at the bas-
ketball games for anyone who had
loose change to donate. Student
Government Sponsor Abby
Noelck said that senior Redi
Boelk had raised the most amount
of money with a total of $200. The
overall amount of money raised
for Dance Marathon this year was
$3,536.46.
Noelck has been facilitat-
ing this event for the past nine
years.
She said, “I love helping
with Dance Marathon every year
because I love watching when our
students care about something
bigger than they are. Participating
in and donating to causes like
Dance Marathon help put our lives
in perspective. On a personal note,
this DM is extra special to me be-
cause my grandma is currently in
hospice with cancer, and it brings
me a little comfort to know that
the money our students are raising
will help fund efforts to research
treatments that won’t cause pa-
tients so much pain.”

Senior Student Government members hold up amount raised from Dance Marathon. Photo by Olivia Naber.

Dylan Schiele, Tess Hammar, Rediet Boelk, and Sophie Oaks partici- Senior Anna Waterman stacks Oreos in one of the Dance Mar-
pates in minute to win it. Photo by Olivia Naber. athon games. Photo by Ava Finley.

The Bear roll backs to 2012-2013

Will Tidrick Then there was a hearse that took ceived no consequences. This was officially introduced standards
Staff Writer them away to a fake funeral. The partially due to the fact that sen- based grading. However the stu-
students were then taken inside iors at the time had dumped hog dents rejected the idea at first be-
Date: May, 3 2012 where they had a mock trial of the manure all over the principal's car cause of the way the grade
Issue: 12th, page 1 drunk driver being sentenced with and the principal assumed that it averaging worked. The first ver-
Title: Students experience the two accounts of vehicular man- was a part of the same incident. sion of the standards based grad-
Journey Unknown slaughter. This was not the only prank the ing system we use today had 5
bear staff reported. There com- grades like our current system, ho-
Story: Journey unknown was an Date: February 2nd, 2012 monly locks that got switched wever, they were not the same.
event planned by the highschool Issue: 7th, page 3 onto other lockers, locking stu- There was Expert (E), Solid (S),
that involved faking a drunk driv- Title: Shenanigans disappear dents out of their own lockers and Competent (C) , but then instead
ing accident in the highschool from hallways even smoke bombs being thrown of going to an N, there was
parking lot to scare kids and show into the locker rooms. Even a toi- another grade called Developing
them the consequences of their ac- Story: 15 years ago the bear staff let was literally blown up by some (D). There were no incomplete
tions. Two wrecked cars were looked back on all of the pranks sort of fireworks. grades (I) back then either and the
propped up outside of the high and bad things their parents had N meant “novice” not “needs re-
school and a few of the students done while they were in high- Date: October 3rd, 2013 learning”. Some students even
were placed in the “crashed” ve- school. They faced an issue that if Issue: 1st, page 1 compared the new grading system
hicles and covered in fake blood. they were to do those things then, Title: Standards based grading to communism as it sounds good
The students were then taken out they would’ve gotten severe con- causes controversy on paper but in actual use.
in body bags and even the Johnson sequences. Bobby Sexton had
County Ambulance Service was once rode a motorcycle down the Story: In the beginning of the
there to take the “bodies” away. hallway of the highschool and re- 2013 school year, the high school
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