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THE BULLDOG BYTE Volume 13 Issue 1 October 2016 Students Improve Website to Keep You Informed This year the school’s web- site has taken on a new look and format thanks to the web design classes. The students in web design update and improve our website (www. Forganschool.com) every week. Everything is list- ed such as the lunch menu, breakfast menu, sports schedules and rosters, and upcoming school events. The students are assigned a certain page to edit, review and maintain throughout the school year. Our website host is Gabbart Communications. Gabbart creates over 1,578 school websites in Oklahoma, Tex- as, New Mexico, Kansas and Arkansas. They pro- vide us with a basic tem- plate and it is up to our web design class to enhance and modify the layout to fit our needs. You can go to www. Gabbart.com to view other schools news in surround- ing areas. Our web address has also had a facelift. You can now find our school website at www.forganschool.com. If you google “Forgan school” you might be directed to our old address. Just be sure to add “.com” to the end. Our website is a work in progress. We continue to update pages daily. If you www.forganschool.com have any suggestions on what you would like to see on the web page, please email our advisor at [email protected]. by Webdesign class In this issue: Bulldog News p 1-4 Grade by Grade p 4-6 Bulldog Sports p 7-9 Lifestyle p10-12 College Ready p 13-14 Booster Club Tournament p 15-16 Moving on Up by Grady Allen Transfer students are a big part of Forgan Public School. Not only do they put more people in our school but they bring their talents and make our school better than it was before. Forgan has a lot of new students this year, such as Klarisa Gillette She is a new 8th grader. She moved here from Ardmore, OK for her dad’s work. She loves her class. They make her feel welcome. The reason she came to Forgan was her dad’s friends recommended us for our great staff and our teaching ability. We also have a 3rd grad- er transfer student named Daniel Almond. He moved here from Beaver. He loves his class better than he did at Beaver. He also likes that he doesn’t have to wake up as early to come to school. His class is learning about science and lots of other stuff. This year he loves to be a part of Forgan. In our school the teachers care how we do and help us to our full potential. This is why Forgan encourages you to come check us out and become a Forgan Bulldog. Forgan welcomes Klarisa Gillette and Daniel Almond.

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Page 1: THE BULLDOG BYTE - Amazon S3€¦ · THE BULLDOG BYTE Volume 13 Issue 1 October 2016 Students Improve Website to Keep You Informed This year the school’s web-site has taken on a

THE BULLDOG BYTEVolume 13 Issue 1 October 2016

Students Improve Website to Keep You Informed

This year the school’s web-site has taken on a new look and format thanks to the web design classes. The students in web design update and improve our website (www.Forganschool.com) every week. Everything is list-ed such as the lunch menu, breakfast menu, sports schedules and rosters, and upcoming school events. The students are assigned a certain page to edit, review and maintain throughout the school year. Our website host is Gabbart Communications. Gabbart creates over 1,578 school websites in Oklahoma, Tex-

as, New Mexico, Kansas and Arkansas. They pro-vide us with a basic tem-plate and it is up to our web design class to enhance and modify the layout to fit our needs. You can go to www.Gabbart.com to view other schools news in surround-ing areas.

Our web address has also had a facelift. You can now find our school website at www.forganschool.com. If you google “Forgan school” you might be directed to our old address. Just be sure to add “.com” to the end.

Our website is a work in progress. We continue to update pages daily. If you

www.forganschool.com

have any suggestions on what you would like to see on the web page, please email our advisor at [email protected].

by Webdesign classIn this issue:Bulldog News p 1-4Grade by Grade p 4-6Bulldog Sports p 7-9Lifestyle p10-12College Ready p 13-14Booster ClubTournament p 15-16

Moving on Up

by Grady Allen

Transfer students are a big part of Forgan Public School. Not only do they put more people in our school but they bring their talents and make our school better than it was before. Forgan has a lot of new students this year, such as Klarisa Gillette She is a new 8th grader. She moved here from Ardmore, OK for her dad’s work. She loves her class. They make her feel welcome. The reason she came to Forgan was her dad’s friends recommended us for our great staff and our teaching ability. We also have a 3rd grad-er transfer student named Daniel Almond. He moved here from Beaver. He loves his class better than he did at Beaver. He also likes that he doesn’t have to wake up as early to come to school. His class is learning about science and lots of other stuff. This year he loves to be a part of Forgan. In our school the teachers care how we do and help us to our full potential. This is why Forgan encourages you to come check us out and become a Forgan Bulldog.

Forgan welcomes Klarisa Gillette and Daniel Almond.

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Fundraisers are Backby Jerod Kerr

When school starts back, along come the student fundraisers. Classes and or-ganizations host fundrais-ers to raise money for extra supplies to support their ac-tivities. Teachers purchase art materials, furniture, and extra curriculum to prepare their students for end of year testing. This year we have already seen 6th grade sell cookie dough, 4th grade sell Co-ca-Cola products and Ju-niors sell Blue and Gold. The junior class uses the money to help pay for prom. 4th grade and 6th grade both use the funds they raise to purchase “Buckle Down” test prep books and go on field trips. Mrs. Bridwell also bought a fraction kit to help her students under-stand math better.Mr. Hodges has an ongoing fundraiser that he operates out of the wood shop. It is called Hodges A1. He sells to kids and staff of Forgan School. Hodges A1 sells healthy snacks to the kids who might not have eaten breakfast so they could eat something before they start-ed their project. Sometimes if you’re hungry it’s hard to concentrate. When he first started this he just used it for

the students in his class but now he sold to everyone. Recently he has had some theft so he shut it down for a little bit. He is opened back up on 10/5/16. I recommend if you go to school go down there and spent some mon-ey. Gummies are 3 for $1, water is $1, breakfast sand-wich is $1.50, cheese stick is .50, and chocolate milk is $1. An upcoming fundraiser is for the boys’ basketball team. The boys’ basketball sell the T-shirts to make money for team activities. Some of the activities are go-ing to basketball team camp and that money is also used for buy some of the team’s meals. For example this year hardly anyone bought t-shirts so the kids on the boys’ basketball team had to pay for most of the team camp with their own money and some kids are not able to afford that every year. This is why it is really help-ful if we get people to buy a lot of t-shirts. When the fund raiser starts the forms will be sent home with stu-dents, from Debbie’s office, and they also will sell them at the front desk during bas-ketball games at Bullard Gymnasium.

EOIs are Historyby Matt Gray

EOIs are a thing of the past. Last summer the Okla-homa legislature voted to end EOIS. EOIs or end of instruction exams were required for graduation. A student had to pass four of seven exams. Students, parents, and teacher are celebrating. The every student success act or ESSA for short is the

federal mandate and replac-es NCLB – no child left behind which now gives local school districts more control. To be fair, there is still state testing, but there will be less of it and it is up to the local district how state testing will be used in future graduation require-ments. Kids and teachers are celebrating.

by Luis Rey

OCTOBER• 18 -parent teacher conferences•19/20/21- fall break no school• 22 ACT Test• 31 Halloween

NOVEMBER• 11 -Veterans Day• 23/24/25- Thanksgiving break no school

DECEMBER• 10 - ACT Test• 14- PK-4th Christmas concert• 19- 5th -12th Christmas concert•21-31- Christmas break no school

Upcoming Events

Forgan Students show at the Oklahoma State Fair

By Sid Slatten

Forgan Students Noah Al-bert, Carson Slatten, and Sid Slatten were all exhib-itors of prospect steers at the Oklahoma State Fair, on Saturday September 17. Each of them had a few rib-bons to take home after the show was concluded. Noah exhibited the cham-pion Shorthorn steer, (First in the breed). Noah’s steer is named Beaux and he is a pretty roan colored steer. Noah got to the top of the intermediate showmanship division with reserve cham-pion intermediate show-man. Noah has been show-ing steers for two years and

when asked what his favor-ite part of showing cattle is, he says “The feeling of getting pulled to get first place.”Carson exhibited a fourth in class Limousin steer. Her steer, Hitman, is a solid red steer that according to Car-son, “He is a little bit green right now but with maturi-ty and time on feed should turn out pretty good.” Car-son has also been showing for two years and when asked what her favorite part of showing is she says, “The companionship between my calf and I.”Sid Slatten showed a Maine-Anjou and a Sim-mental steer. The Maine-An-

jou steer, Tater Tot, stood third best in the breed. Sid’s Simmental steer, PB, stood third in class behind two high quality show steers and went on to help Sid stand seventh in the senior showman-ship division. Sid has been showing for four years and when asked what his fa-vorite part of showing is, he says “ Working at it day in and day out so I can get better at something maybe it’s getting the calf stuck, getting the hair trained, keeping them clean. It is something I love to do and I love for my hard work to show off and pay off when I’m in the show ring.”

Ms. Nickell talks with sophomore, Karina Sifuentes about the end of EOI testing and college planning.

He Knows A Lot About Historyby Will Adams

Mr. Munger is the new edition to the Forgan staff. Mr. Munger said “I enjoy teaching all together and have had no problems, it’s almost like this school was made for me”. His biggest problems are keeping kids busy. Mr. Munger said “I feel comfortable talking in front of classes and enjoy teaching all age groups”.

Forgan welcomes Mr. Garrett Munger

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Forgan Co-ops FFAby Ruger Shrag

Do you love working out-side everyday all day? Well then you might be interest-ed in FFA.Future Farmers of America is a club where a person can go to learn about anything involved with the Agriculture world. There is a plethora of job careers available in the ag. world, anything from farming to ranching and all of the above. FHS and BHS have co-oped the last 2 years for sports and FFA classes. I interviewed some local stu-dents here at Forgan High School and asked them some questions about FFA. Freshman Chris Mills said

he liked FFA and liked go-ing to beaver for Ag. Class every day and said he likes it because he gets to learn about the things he loves every day and he gets to run the welder and the cutting torch. I also asked him what major events were coming up in the near future and he said the Tulsa State Fair was coming up and he was hoping to go, when I asked Chris why he would recom-mend this class and he said it is a good way for people interested in the agriculture world to go and learn what they want to do later in life with Ag. I asked Sid Slatten the same questions and he enjoys going over every day

because it helps him in his showing career and getting to learn more about that and everything else in the ag class. He is also looking for-ward to going to the Tulsa State Fair to show his show steers. He recommends this class to anybody because it will help you better your career in the Ag world. To join FFA you can con-tact Tom Lamle at Beaver High School or call the of-fice and ask him everything you need to know about Ag. class and FFA.

Sid Slatten sneaks into the Night of Champions at the Tulsa State Fair

When showing Livestock, the ultimate goal is to be at the top end of the show and get your animal into the premium auction. This year, the Tulsa State Fair was a success for Sid Slatten. Sid showed a Crossbred market steer, Bruce, weighing in at 1300 pounds on the dot. Bruce showed in class three, was the heaviest in the class,

and came in second. After standing in the line up for sale order they took thir-teen Crossbreds in the sale. Bruce was number thirteen. Sid says his new lucky num-ber is “13.” Sid showed another steer in the Crossbred division, but this steer was Noah Al-berts. Noah injured his foot in basketball practice and

was unable to show his steer named Biggie. Biggie was in the heaviest class of the Division, class number six, and weighing in at 1390 Biggie was a hoss to say the least. Biggie came in third in class and was two spots away from the premium auction.

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Grade by Grade

Kindergarten The prepared Kin-dergarten is already busy into the year, they have al-ready begun learning new letters and can now recog-nize new shapes. The sig-nificant Kindergarteners are busy on learning to count high up to one hundred! This class is booked busy for the next several weeks with so many new advanc-es. Excitement is spreading throughout the class as they prepare for their annual trip to the Pumpkin patch this upcoming October!

3rd The 3rd grade has been do-ing a lot of work this last 9 weeks. They read a lot and always have a book and are ready to take an AR test. They don’t usual have a lot of homework unless they don’t finish there math, then they take it home. They also take home vocabulary and a book to read. Mrs. Howard is their teacher and she ex-pects the kids to listen and turned their work in time. All the students are having fun in her class.

1st1st grade has achieved a good amount of learning these first 9 weeks. They have learned math facts. The students have start-ed to read. They have also learned how to be kind to one another. They are hop-ing to achieve team work. They have also had a “Fan-cy Nancy Tea Party” and field trip to the pumpkin patch. These students have achieve a lot for the first 9 weeks.

4thWhat has the 4th grade been doing? Mrs. Smalts said, “They are a fun group, we are going to learn a lot together. This group en-joys reading that makes it fun and they are excited to learn.” They do a great job when they are “Following directions, helping some-one, and doing your best.” A few weeks ago they went to the “One Room School House”. Mrs. Smalts said, “The one room school house is a wonderful experience. The kids enjoyed dressing up. We got to make biscuits and butter. “

2nd

Pre-K The pre-k has been doing all sorts of things so far this year. They have been learning about numbers and sorting teddy bears. Alison Moore’s fa-vorite thing to do is color. Madelynn Wakefield likes to play on the geoboards. Alison and Maddy both agreed their favorite center was the home center.

1st graders enjoy a “Fancy Nancy” Tea Party with Mrs. Cater

2ndThe 2nd grade class just finished up learning about graphing and are ready to jump into learning all about place value in math. They are working on im-proving their manuscript handwriting before they start learning about cursive after Christmas. They also enjoyed an exciting trip to the pumpkin patch in Sub-lette with the first graders. Everyday they try to take AR tests to help improve their reading skills.

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Page 6 October 2016 The Bulldog Byte5th The 5th grade have learned a lot this first 9 weeks. The students have been learn-ing about the Native Amer-icans. They have learned about history, science, and math. They made ships in science to see if they would float.

6thThe sixth grade class has been busy already this, year. They have learned about the states of mat-ter, order of operations in math, and continents. Soon they’re going to be learn-ing about the presidents and making them Facebook pages. Janie and Kinley say their favorite thing to learn about is order of operations and learning the quote “Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally”.

7th The 7th grade math class is learning a lot this year with the help of Mrs. Leisher. They are reviewing 7th ma-terial and how to change a fraction to a decimal, and they are doing well on it. Mrs. Becky is helping in the class too. If they are struggling, they can come during excel and they get help from Mrs. Leisher and Mrs. Becky. They use white boards to work out prob-lems from the boards or to work on bell work.

8thThe 8th graders have been working hard so far this year. They’ve enjoyed learning about rounding in math and PH balances in science. Zoie Taylor’s fa-vorite subject is math. Ruby Morales said “geography is a lot of work.”

9thThe freshman have been doing edutyping in com-puter apps, learning about Greek culture in history, environmental science learning, and algebra one in math. They have also been doing short stories in English, like The Lady, or The Tiger.

10th grade Sophomores are buckling down with geometry, driv-ers ed, and Oklahoma his-tory. Those are all import-ant classes in anyone’s life, and 10th grade is still “ea-ger to learn” according to Mrs. Leisher. Mrs. Leisher also said, “They are a small group which means more one on one time, and are an all-around good group of kids”. To wrap this class up with one anonymous quote, “Sophomores are not afraid to see a different point of view”.

11thPossibly the rowdiest, yet most interesting class in all of Forgan School could be the juniors. After the long wait to 11th grade they are up and glad they now have the opportunity to try new classes not available yet the sophomore class. Along with becoming a junior comes Metal Shop. “It’s

12thThe senior class is a small group of 8 individuals. The 2017 graduates are all plan-ning on attending colleges and are now working to-wards keeping their grades up and setting a good ex-ample for underclassmen. The senior class has many responsibilities from find-ing the right college all the way to planning after- prom. The seniors are a re-sponsible group and excit-ed to get started on the rest of their lives.

a great way for students to practice building skills for future jobs” says stu-dent Cesar Ordonez. “This school year is mediocre” says Casey Taylor. When asked about sports, “Cross Country is a heck of a sport, I really enjoy the courses, but I prefer Basketball” said Indy Faith Curl.

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Bulldog SportsLady Duster Softball Review

by Megan Lemieux

Becoming a softball team means having challenges that will need to be faced. Especially in a case where two schools join their soft-ball teams to combine and become one. That was the situation for the For-gan Lady Bulldogs and the Beaver Lady Dusters; the schools decided to co-op in the fall of 2014. The girls have worked very well with each other throughout the years. Assistant Coach, McKenzie Leisher, said that she be-lieves the co-op has its ad-vantages. The coaches have a broad selection of athletes to choose from; this allows them to put together a more experienced team. Many of the Beaver and Forgan girls enjoyed the co-op as well. Junior, Natalie Linville said she loves the co-op because she has become closer to the Forgan girls. The softball season started on August 1st with a week of two-a-days. The first game of the season was be-fore the school year started, on August 9th. The team’s stats were 13-11 at the end of the season. The last regu-lar season game was against the Guymon Tigers, the Lady Dusters won 8-5. The team’s head coach, Jinger Looper, stated “the team

had to progress because we only had one player in the same position as last year. That requires us to be able to adapt to different situ-ations and play in a new environment and new po-sitions. So the progression has been super in the fact that we have learned new positions and we’ve learned to rely on one another.” The seniors, Courtney Ea-gan, Payton Russell, Averi Lansden, Brianna Hoover, and Bailey Gregg, would like to thank everyone for their support this year. Averi Lansden quoted “I will defi-nitely look back on this season because there were so many great memories to look back on. Although it was a memorable season I will feel very sad looking back knowing I will never get to play with that group of girls again.” Courtney Eagan, is the only senior from Forgan to join the team. Courtney said “Our coaches are very dedicat-ed and they have put a lot of time and effort into our team.” The combining of the schools allows the team to be quite numbered. Having a large number of girls on the softball teams means there will be a large amount of fun and exciting moments. One athlete’s favorite mo-ment was when Payton

Russell hit two homeruns in a game, and then Devyn Lansden hit one homerun in the same game. Totaling up to three homeruns in a sin-gle game. Cammi Rodkey’s favorite moment has actual-ly happened multiple times. It is when Payton Russell uses her “signature” move and “fakes out” the offense allowing the Lady Dusters to achieve an out or more than one. Cassi Rodkey stated (jokingly) her favor-ite moment is “when Coach Looper yells at Megan Le-mieux.” There have been many moments of com-plete and utter chaos during the 2016 season. Although there have been moments of chaos, it balances out the seriousness that comes with the game of softball.

Forgan Alums Now at OPSUby Bret Smalts

The following basketball players from Forgan have taken their talents to play basketball at OPSU in Goodwell, OK. Jace Kerr, Jake Regier, Chandler Bry-er, and Demetrius Alston. I asked Jace Kerr what led him to leave UCO to go to OPSU? “I had an opportu-nity to leave a place where I didn’t fit after a coaching change. I went to a place

where I was wanted and I could play with old team-mates in the area I grew up in.”

Seniors try to remember how to layout a Querty keyboard

Junior Cesar Ordonez takes a break from working on his yearbook commercial in Video Editing

2016 Lady Duster Fast Pitch Softball Team photo by Brent LansdenWhy is there softball?“We as human beings thrive on competitiveness. Com-petition makes us feel alive, life itself is a competitive sport. Unfortunately we want to win without the ef-

fort. Winning without effort is not winning at all. Our society now is a reflection of sports. Life picks win-ners and losers.”Coach Jinger Looper

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Page 8 October 2016 The Bulldog ByteBulldogs Gear Up forPreseason Basketball

By Terry LopezThe basketball season is coming soon. We start our preseason practice the 3rd of October. We have been practicing with the junior high boys to make us and them better. We have been working out all summer in the gym and in the weight room too. We are working until our preseason starts. When the preseason starts everyone will be focus on what they should be to help

their team. It will help us realize who we are as a team. I believe working out together has helped us be a better team. After not making it to where we wanted to last year, this year we’ve been working harder to get to our goal. I believe this year pre-season will be much harder than last year. I also believe Coach Kerr is going to make this preseason harder.

Lady Dawgs Ready for SeasonBy Jackie Lopez

High school basketball girls are hyped for this year, and are preparing themselves for the challenges that will come to them! Brett Trip-pet is the coach for the high school girls (also for junior high girls). There is a total of 10 girls on the high school team. There’s 3 seniors; Sio-na Walsh, Ariel Hall, and

Courtney Eagan. There’s 3 juniors; Cassi Rodkey, Indy Curl, and Destiny Alston. And also 3 sophomores; Lizbeth Lozano, Shandel Ramirez, and Jackie Lopez, and we have one freshman; Cammi Rodkey. This year Coach says “the girls will be doing a lot of the same things they’ve been doing the last previous years. I might throw some-

thing new, I might not. But the girls will be a different team, instead of an explo-sive team, they’ll be a finesse team.” He also feels the girls’ energy is very positive and exciting. Coach Trippet is very excited and proud of the girls for how much time they put in the gym.

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History of Forgan Boys SportsBy Colby Bryer

BOYS BASKETBALLThe Forgan boys basketball teams have been very suc-cessful in the past winning 3 championships in the past 6 years.Former Forward for the Bulldogs Jace Kerr who was on all three of the champi-onship teams said “It was a good ride, we got better ev-ery day.” Chandler Bryer former Guard for the Bulldogs who was on two of the state championship teams said “In my freshman year I had to know my role, I had to come in and play defense and do what I could to help my team. In my senior year I had to play a much bigger role.”Jake Regier former guard who was on two of the teams said “It was fun we made

memories and friends that will last forever. We also did something not many people get to be a part of.”This didn’t come easy it came with hard work, ded-ication, and good coach-ing. It also came with many hours of practice.The first state champion-ship came in 2011 when we played Graham! The second came in 2012 we went back to back and we beat Arnett! The third one came in 2014 we beat Lookeba-Sickles! In 2015 we made it to the finals but we unfortunate-ly came up short when we played Fort Cobb-Broxton.

FORGAN FOOTBALLThe Forgan football team won it’s only state champi-onship in 1974. That doesn’t mean they haven’t come close since then they were

runner up in 2002 & 2012 both years under Coach Bil-ly Nichols.I had the chance to inter-view some former players from the 2012 runner up team. Chandler Bryer said “We were easily the best team in-jury just came at the wrong time.”Since then we have made some changes. We do not have a football program due to lack of kids wanting to play.In the 2012 season the Bull-dogs had an undefeated reg-ular season and they were also undefeated coming into the state championship game when they fell short to the Tipton Tigers when our quarterback broke his hand and running back broke his foot.

Booster Club Annual Tournament is Upon Usby Cammi Rodkey

The Booster Club tourna-ment is going to be here quickly. The tournament is for 4th -6th grade teams. It features Forgan, Turpin, Balko, Texhoma, Hardesty, Laverne, Beaver, and Ty-rone. The tournament will be October 24, and from November 1-3. The tourna-ment will be held at the For-gan Bullard Gymnasium.This tournament would not be a success without the community coming to-

gether and volunteering to make food, work in conces-sion stand, being an official and, stocking the hospitality room. The Booster Club se-lects the volunteers to help pull off this large event. The kids have a great communi-ty supporting them and the Forgan, school. This is the boost-er club’s largest fund raiser. The money is used through-out the year to help support the students.

Don’t forget to VOTE Tuesday, November 8

Practice begins for the Lady Bulldogsas they prepare for the upcoming season.

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2016 Music tasteBy: Jonathan Aguilar

Music is always evolving throughout the years and still goes on throughout to-day. Popular genres involve pop, rock and yes of course, rap. The top charts bill-board of this month include popular pieces by “21 Pilots” a rock band thriving among the iPods of young adults all around the globe. Such piec-es by 21 pilots include “Hea-thens” which peaked at #2 and also “Ride” making the top 10 list. A new hit single has emerged from the bot-tom into topping the charts, “Fade” by the hit lyrical ge-nius Kanye West many have wished the worst for Kanye, but even more are without

a doubt feelin’ the Fade. To cut to the point, music is al-ways changing. The popular genre of this decade goes to rap, but who knows maybe new genres will be discov-ered in this near future of ours.“ I like listening to rap mu-sic because it hella bumps in my chevy bruh”-Tyler Cunefare (17 year old)]“ The music I listen to has always had a great impact on me. I feel as if we didn’t have music, we would be lost without it”-Cesar Or-donez(16 years old)“Music was there for me when no one else was, now I create my own pieces”-Cappsure(18 years old)

Do You Know Bo JackA Netflix Review

(This show is for teens +)Not many animated adult TV shows are not good, honestly, none are very de-tailed in character, world, or story development. All be-cause the makers think what makes it adult is intense vulgarity. Nothing needs constant swearing, etc. to be mature.That is where the Net-flix original series BoJack Horseman excels. This show at first was thought to be another, episodic, crude, “Family Guy” clone star-ring an anthropomorphic

horse. far from it.Like the theme says, Bo-Jack Horseman starred in the famous sitcom in the 90’s, Horsin’ Around, and today, is a washed up, al-coholic, jerk who’d like be famous once again. Like I said, the show isn’t epi-sodic, meaning anyone can start at any episode and not miss any story. The show is consistent and linear. The show is funny, it has a plethora of anthropomor-phic animal puns to boot, but can and will most likely make you cry. Consequenc-

es never leave, the show makes sure you know that. An example of the shows Subtle and clever consis-tency can be seen with the big events like the D in the HOLLYWOOD sign being stolen. The damage stays; even in the intro sequence, the sign reads, “HOLLY-WOO” and no character ever says Hollywood again, but “Hollywoo”, unless it is a flash-back, and you’ll know when it is a flashback. BoJack Horseman is the most human show I know despite half the cast not

being human. Don’t just watch 5 episodes and form an opinion. The story picks up at episode six or seven, Give it a try.(This is NOT child friendly. Don’t watch it around your kids.)

By Kellen Cano

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Bulldog LifestyleSnap To It

by Cesar Ordonez

Snap Chat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application, creat-ed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. Snap chat originally started as a class project in Stan-ford University, it first came about under the name “Picaboo”. Spiegel floated his idea for this app to his classmates as a final proj-ect, his classmates thought that taking temporary pic-tures was absurd. Picaboo launched in July of 2011, by the end of the summer it only had 127 users. Two months later, the applica-tion was launched as “snap chat”. Snap chat was be-ginning to catch the at-tention of every IOS user in the country. Its quick rise to popularity landed it spots on sports and music advertisement. According to every survey conducted in March 2016, 71% of us-ers prefer its chat, messag-ing, and imaging services. About three quarters of those surveyed were famil-iar with snap chat and had a favorable opinion. Snap chat is worth around three billion dollars. Although it is very well known, it’s hard to imagine that everyone has some-

thing good to say about the app. Here are some quotes from the students at Forgan Public Schools. “Snap chat is a great way to see what your friends are doing. I feel like it’s a revolutionary new way to show people what you are up to without having to tweet or send long messag-es to friends, you just take a video showing everyone your activities.” – Jonathan Aguilar (17 years old) “Snap chat is a CIA disguised project sent to spy on your average American.” – Casey Taylor (16 years old) “Snap Chat is cool.” – Tyler Cunefare (17 years old) Not only is snap chat used by many teenag-ers and kids. A large amount of celebrities use it to keep in touch with fans and other celebrities. Snap Chat is easy to use, just simple start up the ap-plication and take a picture or video and send it to a number of friends you have added using personal user-names.

On the Big Screen

by Courtney Eagan

Do you enjoy but-tery popcorn and oversized drinks? A movie for young children to watch but the adults in the audience can enjoy too. Storks rated PG; the runtime is one hour and twenty-nine minutes. Star-ring in the movie are Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston and Ty Burrell. A cute mov-ie with a lot funny action mixed in with some emo-tional bits. A good movie to go see for the whole family. For the young adult in the family there is the western take of the Avengers, The Magnificent

Seven. Rated PG-13, the runtime is two hours and twelve minutes. It stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke. A heart-pounding movie to watch, full of shootouts and fighting. A great west-ern movie that we have not seen in a while. Both of these mov-ies are showing at South-gate 6 in Liberal, KS. Open all week, show times vary. Ouija 2 comes out October 21 to Southgate 6. It is a horror, thriller rated PG-13. It stars Elizabeth Reaser, Henry Thomas and Doug Jones.

Trending on

Netflixby Christopher Lujan

Jessica Jones a Netflix Orig-inalThe reason I like this show is because it has a dark theme to it.I love the references the characters use from other movies and the small things you notice in the show.The villain in the show is pretty funny and dark and he’s very likable

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College Readyby Tyler Cunefare A College fair is an event for juniors and seniors to be able to look of a colleges during high school. Col-leges from around the state and surrounding areas come to one location, then stu-dents come and visit them. While you are there you want to visit as many col-leges as you can and then ask them questions. The college fair helps you out a lot. If you like to play sports make sure to ask

about their sports. Just ask them anything. Them that’s why they are here to answer your questions.On Monday, September 20 Forgan High School went to Beaver to a college fair. It started about 9am. As we got off the bus we noticed there were more buses and lots of cars. When we went inside there were lots of teenagers and college people there. They told us to walk around and talk to different college representatives and get to

know them. Colleges were even giving money for scholarships. This college fair helped some of us to decide to go on a college visit. It was fun to meet some of the college people that were there that day.

Forgan Visits College Fair Time for the ACT

by Will AdamsAct (American testing col-lege) is an important and necessary test for any stu-dent that wants to attend college. For this test you will need two sharpened #2 pencils ,Calculator, a printed ticket that you can get off the ACT registration website, and a valid form of identification to match your ticket. To get a good score on this test Mrs. Cano said “I encourage all students to at-tend the Cargill workshops and to consider tutoring sessions for your weak ar-eas”. Many Forgan faculty Members has also sad that it also helps to study and do as many practice ACT tests as you can, online or written. If you would like to take this test bring your ma-terials and go to one of the following places and dates listed below.

December 16:Beaver, Perryton, OPSUFebruary 17:Seward Country CC,LaverneApril 17:Beaver, Perryton, OPSU,Seward County CC,Laverne

Recipes for kidsGathered by Ariel HallThis recipes are for kids that are interesting in making something easy. They are after school snacks or whenever you feel like making you a snack.

Pizza cookies Ingredients:

½ cup of butter ½ cup of shortening 1 cup white sugar 3 eggs 1 ½ vanilla 3 ½ cup flour 1 tsps. baking soda 2 tsps. Cream of tartar

Instructions: - cream together butter, shortening , sugar - add vanilla and eggs , mix - add cream of tartar , backing soda , and flour mix - roll out dough on a floured surface and cut Out with a large cutter ( I use a circle design Cutter) - bake 425 degrees on parchment paper for 6-8 minutes - cool completely on a wire rack. Time to decorate your pizza cookie (any frosting work great) -Frosting

Cream cheese Vanilla frosting Whipped vanilla and dark chocolate

- You can add food coloring (red) to make it look like the color of pizza sauce

- Toppings Sprinkles Mini m&ms Swedish fish Skittles Coconut flakes Chocolate chips Butterscotch chips Benut butter chips Bananas or bananas chips Strawberries

- Have it your way

Forgan High School Gym Usage1. Only 4th -12th grade basketball players among our current stu-dents are allowed in the gym without a responsi-ble adult.

2. Responsible adults and alumni allowed as long as our basketball players have priority use.

3. During basketball season from 10/1 to 3/15, our players have priority gym use over any outside group.

4. You can get the key from the following:

Mr. SmaltsMr. Kerr

Coach TrippetCoach MungerCoach Leisher

These people will have discretion as to who they give the key to.

5. Any person not listed, who has an existing gym key, will assume full re-sponsibility when the gym is in use with their key.

Let’s Go Bulldogs!

Art work by Art Students Karina Sifuentes (top) and Ramon Martinex (bottom)

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Page 14 October 2016 The Bulldog ByteChecking Out OSU by Siona WalshOklahoma State University is a wonderful university with an average classroom size of thirty people and the number decreases as the de-gree plan gets more specif-ic. The environments where the campuses are located are beautiful campuses. Oklahoma State Universi-ty’s main campus is in Still-water and the other is locat-ed in Oklahoma City. Both have succeeded in keeping a small town feel in a bigger city setting. The career programs that Oklahoma State Uni-versity are most known for are Agricultural, Veterinary Sciences, and Engineering. However, OSU offers many more career programs. To apply to OSU, go to admissions.okstate.edu/apply. The following admissions documents are required: • Admission/ scholarship application• $40 nonrefundable appli-cation fee • Official High School Transcript • Official ACT or SAT scores• Completed essay OSU offers multiple scholarships. The Presiden-tial Leadership Class (PLC) and the ROTC are two of the scholarships you can apply for, but they require something of you too. With the PLC you have to partici-pate in class events and take the required courses. The ROTC is similar; you have to take the required courses

and physical training, and pending how many years you receive the scholarship, you have a commitment to that branch of service full-time or part-time after your degree. OSU offers daily campus tours,and a num-ber of on-campus events each year designed to pre-view life as an OSU Cow-boy. View more informa-tion and/ or register online at admissions.okstate.edu/events.2016-2017 On-Campus Events Calendar• Oct 7 Orange Friday• Oct 22 Sat. Campus Tour• Oct 28 Orange Friday• Nov 7 OSU Up Clos• Nov 11 Orange Friday• Nov 19 Sat. Campus Tour• Jan 21 Senior Day• Feb 18 Sat. Campus Tour• Mar 11 Sat. Campus Tour• April 22 Junior Day• May 6 Sat. Campus Tour•June 17 Sat. Campus Tour•July 15 Sat. Campus Tour

Office of Undergraduate Admissions

219 Student Union Stillwater, OK 74078

405-744-5358 [email protected]

Former Bulldogs talk about life as a Sooners

By Noah AlbertThe University of Oklaho-ma is an amazing growing school. Last year OU re-corded their largest fresh-man class yet. I interviewed two Fogan Alums and cur-rent Sooners Katie King, (Major: Public Relations, Minor: Nonprofit Organiza-tional Studies, Involvement: Alpha Omicron Pi, Relay for Life Executive Commit-tee) and Bentleigh Albert (Major: Human Resources Management, Involvement: JCPenney Leadership Pro-gram, president of SHRM, Alpha Omicron Pi) along with their roommate Tori Hale from Noble, OK (Ma-jor: Advertising, Minor: Studio Art, Involvement: Alpha Omicron Pi) about their time at OU and why they would recommend it. When asked what influ-enced her to go to OU Bentleigh said “My parents graduated from OU and I grew up being a OU fan and I loved the town of Norman plus OU offers great aca-demics.” Katie responded, “Coming from a small town I always knew I wanted to be a part of something big-ger, and when touring cam-pus running into Bentleigh really helped make my de-cision.” I asked Tori what the benefits of going to OU are and she said “It’s a very beautiful campus plus the President of OU is nice and cool. There are many major and minor opportunities.”

When asking some of the places that the girls like to hang out Bentleigh and Tori said “Campus Corner is a great with many tasty places to eat and many cool people to hang out with.” I asked Bentleigh and Katie why they would recom-mend OU to the future For-gan Alums and Bentleigh said “OU pushes you out of your comfort zone and real-ly helps you grow as a per-son.” Katie said “Norman is a big town with a small town feel, campus just feels like home.” My final question for the girls was “How was the transition from Forgan to OU, and in what ways has being a Sooner helped you grow as a person?” and Katie’s answer pretty

much summed it up for all of them, “The transition wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, you really just jump and don’t realize what’s happening. Being a part of the Sooner Fam has helped me and pushed me out of my comfort zone and given me the confidence to do new things.” Applying to OU is not a difficult process. The main thing that they look at when you apply is your ACT score. You will probably want at least a score of 26 to have a chance to get into OU, and a GPA of at least 3.25. Also having a good letter of recommendation helps your application. For more information on how to enroll you can go to www.ou.edu/content/admissions/apply/freshman.html

Sooners Tori Hale, Kaitlyn King and Bentleigh Albert

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Booster Club Tournament

CONCESSION WORK SCHEDULE

MONDAY 10/31 12:30 – 3:00 Larry Don Hodges, TiffaneyVickery, Ariel Hall, Jeremy Williams

3:00-5:00 Amy Allen, Padon Hall, Kylie Eagan, Matthew Gray

5:00-7:00 Teryl Leisher, Brent Leisher, Dana Shull, Lizabeth Lozano, Shandell Ramirez

7:00-Close Susan Trippet, Vida Cano, Kellen Cano, Cassi Rodkey, Cammi Rodkey, Indy Curl

TUESDAY 11/112:30 – 3:00 Myrna Lopez, Karen Nickell, Destiny Alston, David Hall Jr.

3:00-5:00 David Hall Sr., Gina Smalts, Sid Slatten, Pam Harrison, Molly Howard

5:00-7:00 **STEAK NIGHT** Concession: Jeanette Kelly, Courtney Eagan, Krista Richert,Laurie Lemons, Krista Eagan Cooks: Rodney Albert, Clark Rodkey, Eldon Eagan, Jesse Bryer,Rob HarrisonMoney: Rachel Hall

7:00-Close Bill Stout, Lynetta Stout, Robin Tedder, Colby Bryer, Ramon Martinez, Grady Allen

THURSDAY 11/32:30-5:00 Shelly Casey, Carlie Gallegos, Raegan Kirkhart, Zoie Taylor

5:00-7:00 Kerry Regier, Stacey Regier, Jim McGill, Britnie Ezell, Brett Smalts, Noah Albert

7:00-Close Beth Tyree, Gina Walsh, Jackie Lopez, Daniel Lopez, Megan Lemieux, Siona Walsh

On behalf of the Forgan Booster Club, thank you in advance for your assistance. This event would not be possible with-out the continued support of our community. This is the primary fundraiser that allows us to help our student athletes.

IF YOU CANNOT WORK AT THE APPOINTED TIME, PLEASE FIND YOUR REPLACEMENT.Gate Keeper Schedule

Pie or Cheesecake Schedule

Popcorn balls, Rice Krispies, Brownies, Cookies, Etc

Monday 10/31

Monday 10/31

Monday 10/31

Tuesday 11/1

Tuesday 11/1

Tuesday 11/1

Thursday 11/3

Thursday 11/3

Thursday 11/3

12:30-2:30Nan vanFredenberg2:30-4:30Feliza Carter4:30-6:30Laurie Lemons6:30-CloseTerra Moore

12:30-2:30Cathy Meyer2:30-4:30Jennifer Nichols4:30-6:30Kerri Radcliff6:30-CloseTera Albert

2:30-4:30Beverly Hall4:30-6:30Laurie Lemons6:30-CloseBeverly Hall

Sherry HodgesLeigh Anne BrunerWanda ShueyDebbie RadcliffBurnell HallJill CarterJeri Lee Hodges

Trudy CooperLyn BrownLesa SlattenDorothy ColdwaterAnitta SchollenbargerMackie MillsRanda Wakefield

Deborah CarterDarlene McCarterJanet HodgesBarbara DixonHelen BrunerTerena BridwellDana Taylor

Brenda EvansSusie DavisRaquel GarzaCheryl WrightLuann O’HairCali Taylor

Crystal MartinezJeri SlattenChristi StarrDetsie CurlDiane BrownDeeAnn Underwood

Rosa EaganJudy BryerCourtney SteersSue LemieuxMindy NicholsMick Gabel

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