ee excitement Days

from all over town crowded the sidewalks of Millard Ave. to support their favorite Millard school. All three Millard high schools participated in the parade.

The Patriot cheerleaders led the way for Millard South. They were followed by the marching band, who performed “Salute to America’s Finest” and the school song. After them came the dance team. They performed jds ‘shoot’ for fun while at Millard Days, finding part of theirrou- entertainment in activities. tine from camp Photo by Tyler Schnaidt for the judges, and did leaps down the street. being an enjoyable experience for

“The crowd was really good,” everyone who attended. It is one sophomore dance team member Beth _ of the only ways to unite the comBrungardt said. “They always cheered munity of Millard. Some people for us when we did our techniques.”

In the end, Millard Days ended up exams,” Warneke said. are already excited for it to come back next year.

Many kids in the school are taking AP classes, they just aren’t taking the AP exams. This could be because Millard South>offers dual enroliment” which if a student in an AP class qualifies, he can pay and get credit for that class from Peru State Gollege or the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

“I'm planning on taking the AP “exams for my classes unless I get the chance to do dual enrollment,” senior Megan Amundson said. The other reason is that dual enrollment and the AP exams cost money to take and many kids that take AP classes - are in more than one of them.

“About 18 percent of the kids in AP classes last year took the exams which is quite low because we offer dual enrollment, which 38 percent of the students chose to do,” Warneke said.

Trying to get more students to take the AP exams also means we are trying to get more students to enroll in these classes to ensure the new world class education.

“We're trying to prepare every kid and provide the most rigorous classes they can take to make sure they receive a college level education,” Principal Jon Lopez said. Evie 1 though just getting students to take more AP classes may not ensure them paying to take AP exams, they will be getting prepared for college by the material they cover. el can tell that the AP classes have a lot more reading you have to do,” junior Pat Morris said. With the harder curriculum, this may be what is keeping students from wtaking theAP- classes especiallyif they can’t get dual enrollment or they don’t do well.on the AP exams.

“Tt depends on how wel [ote ing the year, but I am and have to take my AP Stat exam because the school is paying for it,” Morris said.

As of right now, there are no other classes offering free exams until the pilot study is done and decisions are made on what to do about them, which for now, means most students will have to keep on paying for them.

Harrach has big plans to overhaul guidance office

+k Jordan Kenik

Editor in Chief Counselor

Sheri Harrach has been named the new guidance center department chair, and she has big plans to rework counseling at Millard South.

“We're trying to remarket the counseling center,” Harrach said. “We want to let people become aware of what we have to offer.”

One major modification instituted at the beginning of this year was the schedule change process. Instead of simply making the switch as in past semesters, students must now fill out a form in homeroom and have their advisor sign it. The forms are sent to the guidance office, and the counselors send for the students when they are ready to process the request.

“We wanted to keep advisors in the loop as to what is going on [with their students],” Harrach said. “So far the feedback has been pretty positive.”

“The schedule change process was pretty smooth this year, Morris said. “It seems like there waiting in the counseling center.

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Harrach has taken on several new responsibilities as department head including but not limited to building all the new student schedules, attending department head meetings, and planning department meetings. Harrach applied and interviewed with Principal Jon Lopez for the position left empty after former department chair Gary Neuhaus retired. The 2004-2005 school year marks her seventh year as acounselor at Millard South. Harrach, an MS graduate, has also taught at Millard South as a business and psychology teacher, and she worked as a counselor at Bryan High School.

“Pm excited to do this,” Harrach said. “We have a lot of great counse-lors, and they are a fun team to work with. ”»