‘RBHS Singing Valentines’ The ‘The Masked Singer’ Pages 3 Bluffer Page 4 Volume CXXI Issue 9 February 14, 2020 Serving Red Bluff High School since 1901 Agriculture dpt. and softball RB seniors begin exit will receive updated facilities interviews for anyone in our community to have The highly anticipated Agriculture Mia Gleason access to from learning about welding building will also be complete, and Mr. Edward Rosas Hassay confirms that there will be Staff Writer four Ag classrooms, storage and Staff Writer Within the past year here at Red Bluff work areas, a conference room for It’s that time of year again where senior exit High School, the construction that has Ag a nd F FA relat e d bu si ne ss, a s wel l interviews are in progress. Many of you are been going on has brought us a brand as a state of the art welding facility. p r o b a b l y w o n d e r i n g w h y s o m a n y of y o u r f r i e n d s new cafeteria, a new science department There will also be a new softball who are seniors are walking out of class and building, modernized math and computer field taking place of the Varsity around campus d ressed nicely in for mal clothes. field due to the track around the One of the graduation requirements is to science classes, and GRIT Center. Along have an interview with someone from our with this there has been new football football field that will be possibly community who works at a business. They bleachers put in and new turf, and a be finished in the near future, but are designed to help completely remodeled fieldhouse, which with no specific time of when. give an idea to seniors Mr. Hassay also addressed the of what to expect closed campus, which he said, from a real interview “Closed Campus is only for ninth later in life you will and tenth graders, not eleventh and have to do in order twelfth graders.” This clears up the to get a job. They rumor that all ask questions about Photo Credits/Bluffer of Red Bluff you and your lifetime goals and how you will succeed in fulfilling them Janet Blacketter H i g h s c h o o l is in charge of organizing the interviews will be a for the seniors through the school year. closed campus. Although it was not mandatory to When asked dress formal to an interview, it is highly why it’s only for recommended to do so and to also bring a underclassmen, resume to help you better prepare yourself Mr Hassay physically and mentally for the process. r e s p o n d e d Do you learn anything from these with, “We interviews? Do you gain a sense of feeling chose to only from them? Of course you do! And it wasn’t long ago these senior exit interviews started. is now known as the Spartan Pavillion. have closed The interviews have only been going on at Red Our principal, Mr. Hassay said the campus for Bluff High School for only about 5 years. Since new construction would benefit the underclassmen then, Red Bluff High School has improved their community because of how Red Bluff b e c a u s e interviews and had reached out beyond Red and our community uses the highschool’s of safety facilities extensively, for things such to computer basics in our classrooms. reasons and concerns about them.” as intramural leagues, athletic events Over the next year Mr. Hassay, says that By the end of 2020, most construction on such as The Holiday Classic, and more. by the end of August 2020, we will also have campus will be completed, and closed campus There are also free Adult Ed classes redone the English and History classrooms. will continue for f resh man and sophomores. RBHS stunt cheer holds tryouts Bluff city limits to recruit new interviewers. girl who wanted to tryout for the team. The season goes through March and April and the However, one of our seniors Emilia Salinas Jayne Brandt team is expects to have about six matches. states that she doesn’t think it is a good idea The exact number will be determined by how nor does she think it is necessary to remove Staff Writer many local schools have a stunt cheer team. seniors from their classes to take part in Like sideline cheer, Cori Dittner and New this year, Red Bluff High School will this activity. She says “Mrs. Blacketter did Deanna Reid are the coaches. The team will have a competitive stunt cheer team. It will her best to accommodate my academic be receiving brand new uniforms similar to be a CIF-certified sport and once and for all, schedule for me so that she didn’t remove those worn by the volleyball team. Sophomore cheer will officially be considered a sport. me from one of my hard academic classes.” Badegech Dittner has done sideline cheer the Stunt cheer focuses more on the stunting She also said “My interviewer had a problem past two years and is excited for stunt cheers aspect of cheer and has organized competitions where she was the one playing with her fingers because of the new experiences and friendships for teams to compete against each other. Unlike and getting distracted while she was grading with people who haven’t done sideline sideline cheer, the main purpose is to nail me on my interview.” This is one con about cheer before. When asked why she routines and stunts, not the interviews because even though some of us decided to do stunt cheer, she replied necessarily get a stress about them and with, “To better both my skills c r o w d excited and looking nice while and technique for sideline cheer engaged in whatever game getting graded, they and to have fun.” She thinks is being played. It is an have some problems that the biggest differences all-girls sport and carries a of their own that between sideline cheer team of twenty girls on its team. they grade us on and stunt cheer will be At matches, each team learns and they are setting having rules in competition the same exact routine and judges a bad example. and doing the same routines as critique with the utmost care. Although students are removed from classes, their opponents. Something as small as one Mrs. Blacketter does a great job of letting Stunt cheer is the perfect f lyer’s wrist being turned the us know in advance so we can get an idea of combination of cheering and wrong way can result in a loss. what work or class we will be missing during competing, being the only There were two day tryouts our interview time. Be prepared to have your sport that has elements of both. on February 6th and 7th for any Photo Credits/Bluffer interview when you get the notice, and good luck! Wrestling Winter Break Athlete Committed • The RBHS Varsity Wrestling • There will be no school for the • Athlete Committed will be held team will be going to the NSCIF week of February 17 to February on February 26 at 6:00 in the Championships on February 21st 21. School will begin again as PAC. in Redding. normal on February 24. Opinions Page 2 February 14, 2020 Ignorance is Not Bliss... y the time this article has been published, a strand of the coronavirus 20th century. While 500 people have died from 2019-nCoV, 10,000 people have died from family will have infected thousands of more people since its outbreak in influenza this season alone, and you can protect yourself more easily from the virus you’re more BWuhan, just south of the mainland capital Beijing; more unfortunately, likely to attract with vaccinations, rather than a disease that is across the world with no cure. the death toll will have risen too. Scientists will likely have not found a Fact: the virus originated in the province of Wuhan, China. Myth: Chinese and Asians cure, and the world will continue to lie in wait to see how this new epidemic are more prone to contracting and carrying the 2019-nCoV. In the face of the virus, plays out. The problem is, no one knows how to deal with this new disease. racists and doomsayers have taken to social media to warn others of being in contact “2019 new/novel coronavirus” also known as “2019-nCoV”, is only one of many with Asians, even Asian-Americans, and kindly reminded Asians to stop eating their pets strands in a group of viruses called the coronaviruses, known for their crown-like and other exotic specimens. To those who even remotely agree with this commentary, spikes and how they affect our respiratory systems. In 2002, a coronavirus named I’m here to kindly remind you that a) diseases are not genetic, b) if you don’t know the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) also rampaged China, as well as culture or the people, don’t school them, and c) America eats many a meat with unknown the virus MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)—all three are zoonotic origins, including SPAM, to which I still don’t know (and don’t wish to) is made up diseases, meaning that they come from animals. There are 11 cases of 2019- of, and raw cookie dough, despite warnings of salmonella from the uncooked eggs.