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Volume 64 Issue 2
Lunchroom lockdown
New policy restricts students from leaving by Shannon Haffely and Joe Pasdo staff reporters Recently, Mounds View instituted new rules in the cafeteria. Now, students are only allowed to leave the cafeteria within the first five minutes of lunch, regardless of whether or not they have food with them. Many students find these changes to be a hassle. “They should just let us do what we want,” says Ryan Kearney, 11. Although many students have needed to shift their personal lunch routines around the rules, the school hopes that the changes will make learn-
ing more effective. “It needed to happen because students were clumping outside of doorways and disrupting classes,” said Ridlehoover. While a lot of students have found the new situation frustrating, some students understand the need for change. “I understand [that the changes] were instituted to avoid people disturbing classes that are in session,” said Mairi Johnson, 11. Principal Jeffery Ridlehoover, however, explained that students at Mounds View have a considerable amount of freedom already. “We have the most
freedom in moving around compared to other high schools.” Albeit there has been an overall negative response from students, teachers seem to think the change is for the better. “I have noticed the noise levels decrease from the last few years,” said English teacher Ted Bennett. Regardless of the negative response from students, the newly implemented cafeteria rules have been created to better the learning environments of classrooms. These adjustments have helped classes in session to be sheltered from distractions.
Do students like the new rules? infographic by Sunny Lim
21% like
boys soccer gallery
79% dislike
movie costumes
illustration by Samuel Kwong
51 students polled information compiled by Joe Pasdo
Jacob Wetterling and the foundation by Toni Baraga and Sanjana Dutt staff reporters On February 17, 1978, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped two blocks down from his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota. He was with his younger brother, Trevor, and friend, Aaron Larson. The Wetterling family was willing to not press charges against the suspected kidnapper at the time, Danny Heinrich, if he admitted to the crime and brought Jacob back. Little did they know, Jacob had been shot right after he was kidnapped and has been dead for 27 years now. Heinrich, who was 26 years old at the time, recently pleaded guilty to the abduction. He released important details about the crime, such as the location of Wetterling’s remains. The tragedy that occurred made the family want to bring awareness to child abductions and exploitations. This lead them to create the Jacob Wetterling Foundation which was founded in 1990. According to the Jacob
Wetterling Resource Center, “The Jacob Wetterling [Foundation] was founded to educate and assist families and communities to address and prevent the exploitation of children.” In 2002, the foundation helped pass a law that automatically sends AMBER Alerts to phones. The foundation also helped pass the Jacob’s Law which requires any person who is convicted of a state criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to register a current address with the law enforcement officials of the State after release from prison, parole or supervision. The overall goal of the Jacob Wetterling foundation is to build a world where children could grow up safe, follow their dreams and not be afraid. Thanks in part to centers like the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, the number of child kidnappings have gone down in the US. According to the FBI National Crime Center, the number of missing children reports have gone down 40 percent from 1970 for people under 18. photo courtesy of Jasmin Kemp