Lake Region High School’s newspaper team of 1986 focused on a lot of topics that are still relevant today, one of them being stealing in the junior varsity locker rooms. Avern Burnell wrote about this in their monthly issue and it’s very interesting to see the problem continuing 38 years into the future. There were many varying opinions on the subject, but something that struck me as interesting was that Burnell wrote this: “Even though theft continues, some people have been caught. All that they get, from what I’ve heard, is suspension. They should also be forced to pay back money stolen." This clearly indicates that the author was not happy with the current punishments that students were facing and they thought some form of payback on the thief's end was necessary.
Personally, I feel as though putting locks on the lockers is definitely an effective way to prevent stealing, but the fear of your items being stolen shouldn’t be as prominent as it is. I agree with the author in the sense that the theft should be punished and more action should be taken to reduce theft in the first place. To see where we stand as a class, I sent a google form out to the juniors. Of the 22 respondents, 17 students said their belongings or someone they know belongings were stolen. 18 of the respondents said that they believe despite the 35 year change, locker room theft is still an issue. The main resolution most respondents had was to actually use locks on the lockers. It’s crazy how some things never change. -Susie A couple days ago I sent out a Google Forms survey asking people about their favorite music related things. In this article I will be using this data to finally conclude if LRHS has good music taste. Before I get to that I want to thank everyone who responded to this survey. I didn’t expect very many responses but ended up getting 85. That’s crazy considering I couldn’t name 85 people if I tried. Without further ado let’s see if LRHS has good taste in music. The first question I asked was how you primarily listen to music. As I expected most people at LRHS use a streaming service to listen to music. 76% of respondents said they listened to music through a streaming service. If you combine that with the 17 percent of people that said they listened to music through YouTube, that means 94 percent of respondents use an online resource to listen to music. 2 people said CD’s and 1 person said Vinyl records. Also shoutout to the 1 person who apparently has a personal choir sing to them. Very cool. The next question I asked was about genre. This one had a lot of different answers so I decided to do some combining. Out of eight “main” genres, I put each sub genre into the one that represented it the most. In this chart rap is in the lead with 25% followed by Pop and rock which are tied for second. Metal is 3rd followed by country, jazz, anything and Indie. The next question I asked was about my favorite musical artist. Like the genre question this one also had a lot of different answers so I decided to break the artists down by genre. Rap artists were represented the most, with 26. Indie artists followed close behind 19. Pop artists came in third with 15. Rock and metal both had 14, which makes them tied for 4th. 5 people answered that they didn’t have a favorite musical artist, followed by 3 people who said R&B artists and the 1 person who said a classical artist. The final thing I want to note is that no one in this or the next question said a jazz artist. The description of the band Dazey and the Scouts said they were a “microtonal jazz trio,” but I think they were joking. The final question I asked in this survey was about favorite song. Like with favorite artists, I broke this one down by genre. Comparing this chart to the artists chart you can find a lot of overlap. Rap is the lead with 24 followed by indie with 16 and rock with 8. 7 people said a pop song, 6 people said a metal song, 3 people said a country song, 4 people didn’t have a favorite song and 1 person said a classical song. In conclusion it appears that LRHS enjoys rap and indie. I would also conclude that LRHS has a pretty good and diverse taste in music. I said this in the intro but thanks again to everyone who responded. That’s all for this article, thanks for reading!
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