Number One 817-547-8000 Volume Seven Birdville High School September, 2005 9100 Mid Cities Blvd. www.birdville.k12.tx.us N. Richland Hills, TX 76180 BISD donates $64K, Katrina Store opens for evacuees clothes and school is with the infrastructure our family has to start damaged and before hands. Lauren Goff supplies, while the area of the cities and towns over building memories, they could be repaired There were signs News Editor Salvation Army and other affected, as well. and plans for whatʼs going Hurricane Rita began the saying “you loot I shoot”. volunteers established a New Orleans, along to happen next, but it fl ooding process again. Hurricane Rita The Birdville Inde- free store in the old Samʼs with the other damaged will get better,” Brooke Looting was one added insult to injury as pendent School District Club Warehouse building areas along the coast Delmas (11) said. of the problems faced she blew into the Orange, sponsored the Give ʻem on Baker Boulevard in have begun the clean up. The rescue crews by police offi cers and Port Arthur, Beaumont Five campaign and raised Richland Hills. There are been more than have stopped searching National Guard Soldiers area, leaving damage to over $64,000 in donations The Katrina Store, as 200,000 evacuees sent to for survivors. Hurricane brought in to maintain homes, fl ooding, power for the Red Cross. it is called, offers families 750 evacuation centers Katrina was one of the most social control. outages and gasoline In an effort to raise everything from clothes establish in 18 different brutal storms to hit the Many people broke shortages. money for this campaign, and food to household states. United States in decades. into stores to grab supplies, Many students from students and teachers were furniture and appliances. There were more It struck Louisiana like food and water, but both storms were relocated asked to bring $5 each to The store is stocked than 1000 known deaths with 140 mile per hour others took things like to BISD schools, as well help Katrina victims. with donated items and overall from hurricane winds, continuing on to television sets, jewelry, as other schools around Other local organ- managed completely Katrina. This huge 30-foot Mississippi and Alabama, computers and alcohol the metroplex. For some izations continued to offer by volunteers. They are storm hit the gulf coast and Levees along Lake causing store ownersʼ these have been temporary help for storm evacuees currently still seeking wiped away 90% of the Pontchartrain and the to keep watch over their placements. Others have who were relocated in the donations of all types and buildings along the coast gulf coast were severely property with guns in their decided to stay. Northeast Tarrant County volunteers to help man the of Biloxi and Gulfport in area. store. Mississippi. The BISD PTA As those affected by “It was scary Gas prices pinch pocketbook a half cents has hit gas to buy gas when the Clothes Connection the storm begin to put their knowing my family got Shane Crawford stations each week. This prices change before 10 supplied families with lives back together, so it hit by this hurricane, now Staff Writer marked the highest price a.m. Also, when on the Texans have ever paid. highway, leave the air- Gasoline prices The days of under conditioning on rather NASA explores red planet fluctuated throughout two dollar gas are then rolling down the MROʼs main objec- to measure things equivalent the country, as the ever- over, according to most windows, because Kylie Morrison tive is to explore for traces to the size of a table. diminishing supply of economists, because U.S. having the windows Opinions Editor of past and present water Also on board oil became a demanded drivers are expected to down causes drag and and study weather and the ship a gift from the necessity. Supply-and- pay prices that average worse gas mileage. August twelfth marked climate patterns. It will Italian Space Agency, an demand, the weaker U.S. above two dollars and At intersections the launch of the Mars also investigate landing infrared radiometer and an dollar and speculation ten cents on a monthly where there are about Reconnaissance Orbiter sites and obstacles, acting accelerometer, to search for were all contributing basis through 2006; three or four gas (MRO). The spacecraft as a telecommunication, for water. factors to the gas crisis while diesel fuel will stations, make sure to launched at seven forty fi ve future missions. Tracking of This mission is also the that swept Americaʼs on average cost over check each stationʼs am, from Cape Canaveral, an the orbiter will be used for fi rst installment of a major pocketbook, as the two dollars and twenty price in order to receive Atlas III expandable booster. research about the gravity Mars plan, to continue on summer ended. cents according to a the best buy. Just The spacecraft is fi eld. through the decade. It will Since gas hit its statement given by the because they are all not scheduled to reach MRO is equipped be the fi rst connection link in peak at anywhere from U.S. government. relatively close to each Mars until March 2006. with a Stereo Imaging the Interplanetary Internet. $2.64 to $3.10, the price Conserving gas other does not mean When the craft reaches Camera to study surface This innovative Internet has fluctuated, though it can be a feat not only they all have the same itʼs destination it will stay composition. The camera is will allow for anyone to can be expected never to accomplished by prices, as some prices positioned for one Martian the most powerful to date for connect with probes and be under the two dollar not driving, but by may vary by ten cents a year, equivalent to two Earth planetary exploration, able human space travelers, thus mark again. following a few simple gallon. years, where it will complete to make very clear Martian allowing more information The price of gas tips while on the road. Other consider- assorted experiments and terrain. High-resolution to be sent back to Earth. kicked off the 2005 Buying gas at the ations are carpooling, observations. With a mass measurements of things on MRO will begin this process year at one dollar and right time is essential public transportation, or of 1,975 Kilograms MRO is the surface can be made that scientist, engineers, and seventy-eight cents, but to receiving cheaper even determining which planned to blaze a trail for with this camera, which in programmers have been since then, an increase prices at pump. stops need to be taken future Mars missions. previous years was only able concocting for years. on average of two and It is generally best and which stops do not. Inside this Opinions Features Homecoming Sports Entertainment issue... Page 2 Page 3 Pages 4-5 Pages 6-7 Page 8 2 THE HAWK OPINIONS FEATURES THE HAWK 3 JROTC membership grows What is your opinion of Homecoming traditions? is to help students third instructor. So itʼs Chaffi n joins faculty Terry Gilbert graduate, then if itʼs in a complicated process,” Consumer Science class. and applying that Advertising Editor their plans, to help them Captain Jons said. Amber Bell Chaffin grew up in knowledge later in attend and graduate The program Features Editor the country in Haslet, life in order to enjoy a Over the past four college,” Sergeant has nearly doubled Texas. She attended functional family life. years, the Birdville High First Class (Retired) in size over the past This year, many Haslet Elementary Chaffin anticipates School Junior Reserve Andres Vianes, one of two years. Although new faces arrived at School and Northwest all six of her classes Offi cer Training Corps the program instructors, the final number Birdville High School, Middle School before to gain knowledge (JROTC) has grown into its said. of students cannot but not all of them going to Northwest High of the skills she role as both an alternative By 2003, the be known until the were students. Viktoria School. At Abilene demonstrates. to P.E. and a strong program had over second semester, it Christian University, “I hope theyʼll organization providing “I think itʼs cool. It makes “Itʼs okay, I guess, though it “I think itʼs cute that you “I think some people go “I“I thinkthink itʼsitʼs cool,cool, withwith aanyny ttradi-radi- 100 members and is safe to assume that Chaffin majored in develop some life unique information oriented it fun and special.” is kind of a distraction and can get mums and stuff.” overboard, but on a whole tion itʼs something that is passed qualified for a second it will approach 200, Family Consumer skills on how to make to building citizenship and mums are a distraction.” itʼs a good tradition.” down from generation, and thatʼs instructor. The district over ten percent of Science and graduated good decisions and life skills. the neat thing about traditions hired Captain (Retired) Birdvilleʼs student in May 2005. provide for themselves When the program even if they change.” George Jons, who had population. There is Chaffin enjoys and families,” Chaffin began in 2001, only 59 been instructing college usually an increase in teaching and said that her said. Autumn Moody Peter Dang Mackenzie Baab Robert Adams Terri Wilson students were enrolled. cadets previously. The enrollment, something class teaches valuable In her spare time, Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Faculty The program has grown program surpassed the instructors life skills to teenage Chaffin likes to play in size to over 180 cadets the 151+ member state is completely students.