Newspaper Questions

What Back Issues Can Tell Us:

1. What stories are covered every year?
Dances, graduation, sports, and holidays.

• What time of year did these stories run?
Sports ran all year. Everything else happened around the time it happened (ex. Homecoming dance was in October).

• Are any of the same people involved year after year?
I didn't see any of the same names in different years.

2. What was the biggest story of each year?
For most years there is always a newpaper just for homecoming, but in 2005-2006 the biggest article would have been on hurricane Katrina.

3. How many personality sketches of students were run each year?
There were approximately four personality sketches each year.

• What types of students were interviewed? (athletes, student leaders, etc.)
There were all different kinds of students interviewed, people from speech team and athletes.

• Was any one student constantly featured in one year? Why?
I didn't see any constant feature.

• Do you think this was fair?
I think it's fair that there wasn't one.

4. How many personality sketches of faculty were run each year?
There was usually one in each issue.

• Which teachers were featured?
Some examples are Ms. Hanson, Mr. Strey, and Mrs. Strey.

• Why those particular people?
Ms. Hanson because she grew up here, Mr. and Mrs. Strey because they are married.

5. What full page features (or center spreads) did the publication carry?
Most of the full page features were about either homecoming or graduation.

• Are any of those topics still relevant?
Both of these topics are still relevant.

6. What was a great year(s) for sports teams? Activities?
Each year has a whole page devoted to sports and activities.

• Did the school have any state champions?
In 2005-2006 the dance team won lake conference.

• Olympic performers?
I didn't see any articles on this.

• Other honors?
Other honors were Homecoming royalty and just general students of the year.

7. Find a story that uses background information from previous years.
Some of the articles from the world or local events outside of school use past data to show a difference.

8. What topics did the paper editorialize about each year?
I didn't see any editorials in the papers i looked at.


• What stand did the paper take?
Not available

• Has the problem been solved or is it still an issue?
Not available

9. What major news did the paper carry about classes?
They had a story about sleep deprivation, cell phones, and prioritizing.

• Any curriculum changes?
Not that I saw.

• Any major new programs?
Not that I saw.

10. Any new equipment?
Not that I saw.

• Any building programs?
Not that I saw.

11. Any scandals involving students, administrators, or teachers?
Not that I saw.

• What happened?
Not available.

12. What changes in fashion among students can be found?
The only big change i saw was less and smaller glasses.

13. What signs of changing times can you find as mirrored in the concerns of students?
Most of the articles had concerns that we do too. Such as sleep deprivation and texting.

• What concerns never seem to change and would continue to make good stories year after year?
Homecoming, sports, and sleep deprivation.

14. Did the school have any championship academic teams?
There was a feature on the speech team and the science olimpiad team.

• Art show winners?
Not that I saw.

• Band or choir awards?
There was an article on pep band, but I didn't see any awards.

• Science winners?
There was an article on the science olimpiad team, but not any awards that I saw.

• National honors?
Not that I saw.

15. Which clubs were most active?
There were mostly articles on sports, and the occasional academic club.

16. What campus events made the most news?
The biggest events were dances such as Homecoming.

17. What movies and music groups has the paper reviewed?
There was a review on Troy and Big Fish. I didn't see any music groups.

18. What issues did cartoonists choose?
I didn't see any cartoons. The pictures were all photographs the staff took.

19. How has the publication’s format changed?
The issues have become longer with less pictures. They don't put the staff pictures in any more.

20. Did the demographics of your student population change? Why?
I didn't see any changes.

21. What are the school’s traditions and how did they develop?
I didn't see any articles on this.

• Who are the school’s traditional rivals? (Could vary between activites.)
Usually Rosemount, Apple Valley, and Eagan.

• How did the rivalry begin?
They are very close to our school.

22. What are five things most interesting about EVHS?
1. We have canned spam in our newspaper which seems pretty unique.
2. We chomp underclassmen.
3. We have many different club sports.
4. We have articles about pretty much everything in our newspaper.
5. We have teacher features.