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[email protected] Chess Team . 3 Skipping Class . 11 Emily Hill. 6 Piercings . .12 Monday, March 26, 2012 Inside: Be Yourself . 7 Truancy Bill . 13 Don Gaby’s . 9 Oak Hill Game . 17 Car crash ends with an Eagle’s untimely passing BY JENNIFER ROONEY “Whether you know him or not, because we are a community, you will always feel the loss. It feels like we’re not complete,” said Dr. Keith Bigsby, Omaha Central’s principal. “We are going to have to work to get through it.” Central lost 17-year-old student Victor Rojas on Sun- day, March 4th, right before 8 a.m. Teachers, students, friends and (most important- ly) his family were hurt from what had happened. GRAPHIC BY KATHERINE SCARPELLO/REGISTER PHOTO COURTESY OF O-BOOK “When you listen to the news and to hear a young person die, your heart goes CENTRAL’S SUCCESS ENCOURAGES out to them. You don’t plan for things like this.