What is newsworthy at Eastview?



State championship teams, school dances, and fine arts performances such as Bravo.



What Back Issues Can Tell Us:



1. What stories are covered every year? State Championships won, Football stories, and homecoming dances.

• What time of year did these stories run? They ran in the fall.

• Are any of the same people involved year after year? There is alumni



2. What was the biggest story of each year? Homecoming in 03-04. Election in 04-05. Hurricane Katrina 05-06.



3. How many personality sketches of students were run each year?

• What types of students were interviewed? (athletes, student leaders, etc.) There was captains intervewed for sports. And other significant leaders in the school.

• Was any one student constantly featured in one year? Why? John Shevlin was talked about a lot in the paper

• Do you think this was fair? Yea, he is a very good athlete and set many school records



4. How many personality sketches of faculty were run each year?Not very many. There was a canned spam in every paper however

• Which teachers were featured?Ms Hanson was featured in 03-04.

• Why those particular people?She was chosen because she connects with students well.



5. What full page features (or center spreads) did the publication carry? The Hoop-a-thon has a couple center spreads.

• Are any of those topics still relevant? This is still a festival every year held at Falcon Ridge



6. What was a great year(s) for sports teams? Activities? 05-06

• Did the school have any state champions? LDT won state and placed 2nd in their dances.

• Olympic performers?

• Other honors? Shevlin and Lloyd played for the Gophers



7. Find a story that uses background information from previous years. Welcome back paper. 04-05. Soccer story



8. What topics did the paper editorialize about each year? They editorialized about the elections. and gas prices

• What stand did the paper take? Gas cost too much money and was crushing income for students.

• Has the problem been solved or is it still an issue? Gas prices have dropped because of the recession.



9. What major news did the paper carry about classes? People sleep through too many classes was a topic.

• Any curriculum changes? More AP and design tech classes offered

• Any major new programs? New science programs after school are offered.



10. Any new equipment? New football pads

• Any building programs? No



11. Any scandals involving students, administrators, or teachers? Too much cell Phone usage

• What happened? The administration is cracking down on the cell phone addiction



12. What changes in fashion among students can be found? There were some really wierd capes featured in teh 03-04 article.



13. What signs of changing times can you find as mirrored in the concerns of students? Bush's plan through the war is troubling students.
• What concerns never seem to change and would continue to make good stories year after year? What to do for Homecoming. What sports teams are good.

14. Did the school have any championship academic teams? 3
• Art show winners?no• Band or choir awards? no
• Science winners? no
• National honors? one kid won

15. Which clubs were most active? Linc did a lot of work in the community

16. What campus events made the most news? There was a week where people wore a red shirt.

17. What movies and music groups has the paper reviewed? Spiderman

18. What issues did cartoonists choose? gas prices flourishing

19. How has the publication’s format changed? use of more color and graphics

20. Did the demographics of your student population change? Why? more and more foreigners

21. What are the school’s traditions and how did they develop? started when the school did
• Who are the school’s traditional rivals? (Could vary between activites.) Eden Prarie, Rosemount, Eagan, Apple Valley
• How did the rivalry begin? We are in the same city as Apple Valley, and Sherwin and others came from Rosemount.

22. What are five things most interesting about EVHS? 1. We have 4 rivals 2. Our building is yellow brick not red brick 3. We have quarters not trimesters 4. We have gay alliance 5. Our school looks like a prison!!!