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Signing Day

Almost every 7-year-old on a tee-ball team dreams of becoming a major league baseball player, sure he will be the next Alex Rodriguez or Derek Jeter. Unfortunately, only a few of these tee-ball players are good enough to make their high school teams, and even a smaller portion go on to play baseball in college, let alone the major leagues. 

News

OPS dress code policy enforced

Have you ever been distracted and uncomfortable by something that someone was wearing? OPS’s dress code policy aims to help students make appropriate decisions about clothing.

Six Bulldogs chosen for All-State Music

Congratulations to students E. Kreesha, T. Jorgenson, D. Brown, D. Olney, S. Catron, and D. Thompson who were accepted to participate in All-State Music.

Alumni visits: Mitch Sherman's dream job

 For anyone at Burke High School looking to pursue a career in journalism, look no further than Burke graduate Mitch Sherman, '93,  for answers on how to get there.

Life

Cleary offers advise on becoming lawyer

Being a lawyer isn’t as carefree as television depicts it as. It takes dedication, critical thinking, and extra schooling.

Boisen explains benefits of athletic trianing career

Being a personal trainer and an athletic trainer is really fun, according to M. Boisen. 

Olsen enjoys job as canine officer

“My favorite part of the job is working with the dog, Rex,” said E. Olsen,  a canine officer in Douglas County.

Sports

Burke volleyball gets great record

A long history of decent Bulldog volleyball teams has been broken. This year’s team has put together an astounding record. 

 

 

Girls Golf team wraps up great season

The Burke Girls Golf team carried that Bulldog spirit tradition to the State Tournament. 

Burke season riding on Friday's game

With the heart-wrenching loss against Millard North last Friday, the door to the playoffs is closing on Burke.

Opinions / Editorials

Learning from the small stuff

 In my 13 years of public education, one lesson has been by far the hardest for me to learn: don’t sweat the small stuff. If I could take back the time I spent crying in first grade because I just couldn’t jump rope, or the time I wasted on the phone in middle school because I wanted to make sure I wore the right outfit to the movies, or the time I lost worrying over test scores during freshman year, well, I don’t know what I would have done, but I would sure have had a lot more time.

Battle of subs solved

    In honor of March Madness we have decided to hold a tournament to see which sub sandwich reins king we created a tourney of 16 sandwiches, single elimination and one champion. The seeds were determined by overall popularity. The winners are judged on four categories: meat, variety, bread and price.

 
18 years of trends shared

  It seems that the first 18 years of my life have flown by in the blink of an eye as my last year at Burke High School quickly approaches an end. But as I look back on all the things that have happened since my birth in 1990, it is crazy to think of the fads and fashions that have changed through time. I decided to reflect on the most important categories of trends and track how they have evolved through the past decade and a half.

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