2001 The Legend

240 Pages·2001·16.1 MB·English

by  Portage High School

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As the year begins, so does a new set of ideas, a
new set of students, and a brand new set of
Different personalities, views,
cultures, and backgrounds make every single
student unique. While students are bombarded
withevery day of their lives,
many come up with unique <=._c-A-<=-+,<=>^ to
make school work for them, whether it is having a
good time, earning good grades, or both.
Through the years, students are divided into
with seniors on top.
Those seniors will leave the high school with a
sense of whether through
accomplishments in sports, clubs, or just being
themselves. All these activities involve some type
of which students are
subjected to while attending high school. As the
school year comes to a close, so do all the
memories that the seniors will leave with from
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Right: Last year’s Fall Homecoming Queen Katie Foster
places the crown on senior Sanee Ibrahim’s head.
Below: For some students, lunch is the best time oF the
day. Here senior Curt ShaFFer gets some condiments.
Above: As a tradition, the senior girls perForm a skit
For the senior Football players at the pep-rally. The
game was against the Michigan City Wolves. Right:
This year the school had all PE students buy a
uniForm. As usual, students had complaints about
the uniForm’s appearance.
Left: In gym class, senior Gabriel Lopez, juniors
Robert Guzman and Maureen Pall, and
sophomore Amanda Diaz excercise, sporting
their fashionable gym uniforms. These uniforms
were mandatory for all gym classes. Below:
Goalie senior Jeffrey Metz blocks the ball. The
Varsity Boys Soccer team did more than
skeptics expected in their season.
Right:
Students
are often
sleeping in
strange
places.
Senior
Ashley
Above: The day is Crazy Hair/Clash Day during
Szybala
Spirit Week. Seniors Dennis Trafny, Aaron
demonstrates
Flores, and Scott Swanson dress appropriately.
this trend.
Story By: Stacie Culp
The Never-Ending Story
Over the course of the year 2000,
there was an on going battle -==>-+-<=>-y *=>y.-
between musical artists and the Many oF the seniors can look back and Gore disagreed, saying that this was
remember the year oF 1992 when Bill taking away From the public schools,
internet music company Napster. Clinton which the majority oF the students
The legal disputes were started was attend. “I support Gore because oF his
by the band Metallica, who said elected vote against school vouchers." says
president senior Jason Bristow. Another major
that Napster released their song with component in the election was abortion.
“I Disappear” from the Mission Fond For some people this was the decision
Impossible 2 soundtrack before it memories. maker. As the votes were tallied up, it
As the was the closest election in years. With
had been released to the public. seniors this in mind, Florida was required to
The argument was supported by sat in have a mandatory recount in all
artists like Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Front oF counties, hoping this would determine a
the television, in Fourth grade, they winner. It in Fact did not, as Gore
Snoop Dogg. watched the inauguration oF the challenged the results again and again.
On the other end of the president oF the United States. This year But in the end, Gore conceded, and
spectrum, during the summer of those same students relived those George
memories For a second time. The Bush
2000 there was a concert tour campaign oF 2000 was like no other in became our
held with the main act as Limp history. The biggest online election held 44th
Bizkit. The concert was in by the ever-so-popular Channel 1 News, president oF
“One Vote” took place. The majority oF the United
support of Napster. Supporters the students either voted George Bush or States. As
felt that the public should have Al Gore, the main competitors in this seniors
access to free music. election. Bush and Gore both had very leave the
diFFerent opinions on how the country PHS walls
“If a band doesn’t want to should be run. Bush supported school behind, they
let people download their songs vouchers, which took money From public will enter the world oF America with
for free then their just greedy,” schools to support private schools. Bush as its leader.
stated sophomore Amanda
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Schumacher. As the battles
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