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Let's Skip The Theatrics!
By Alexis Butterfield
Drama Club has a goal: bring people together through fun holiday socials throughout the year, without an audition or previous theater experience. “Our club’s goal this year is to bring as many people together as we can… We want all different types of people from different types of backgrounds to come and share one space,” says Brinklee Darling, a senior. Darling tells us that theater is a place where you can be yourself and that they are more than welcome to everyone. They meet once a month and during every major holiday with fun socials. This year, they have plans for a Halloween, Easter, and Valentine's social.
Drama Club meets once a month and around any major holiday. They are especially looking forward to doing Easter and Valentine's Day socials this year for the first time. If you have never tried theater before, no need to worry! There is a place for everyone in theater- on stage or behind the scenes, beginner or expert. Good news for everyone! Drama club has no fees. It’s never too late to sign up! Michael Mortensen is this year’s drama president, with Mr. Tony Akin as the advisor.
A 'Yappers' Gotta Yap
By Anna Whitchurch
This audition-only club is wowing the school with its hilarious banter and jokes. The West Jordan High School Yappers are made up of 12 people, all stemming from different backgrounds, all with one goal in mind.
Under the direction of Captain Camryn Ridley, they learn to better their skills. They meet every Friday in the theater room and are preparing to perform at various events this school year. They are most looking forward to SLAAP Improv Fest (a festival/competition where varying groups from Utah high schools come together to show off their improv skills). “This year we are looking forward to SLAAP Fest,” says co-captain Canon Dahl. “We placed third overall last year, and we are hoping for a higher spot this year!”
HOCO Pep Rally
Photos by Bree Jones
Why "Rio"?
By Raquel Lockhart
It seems like every school is the same in choosing “Rio” as the theme for their homecoming dances. Last year, I got invited to go to homecoming at Murray High School and their theme was Rio, just like ours. After learning about said theme, I went on TikTok to get dress ideas (since I was completely clueless about what to wear), and I assumed only a few videos would pop up since the theme wasn’t very popular; but I couldn’t have been any more wrong. Many people had posted about it, all the videos being recent as well. As I looked through the comments, there were many people saying, “Why are so many schools doing Rio for the Hoco theme??” or, “This is like the tenth video about a Rio Hoco theme” and with no one answering the questions I had, I asked a couple of my friends whom I was going with. All of them had the same answer, “I don’t know, it's probably just a trend.”
And so, I let it go, assuming it was just a trend every school was doing.
I bet you can imagine my reaction to when the theme got announced, and West Jordan was doing the same thing. Immediately I wanted to know why. When I asked my friends and none of them had an answer, I went to the SBOs. I interviewed Camryn Ridley about this topic and finally got an answer. This is what she had to say. “Since we have a lot of people from the Pacific at our school, we chose this theme because it's very diverse, tropical, colorful, ‘very summer vibes’, and easy to decorate for.”
Now, is this the case for other schools? That I'm not so sure of, but I can say without a doubt in my mind that West Jordan isn’t just following a meaningless trend. But they take a trend that everyone follows like mindless zombies and they make it meaningful. They took the “Rio” theme and put culture and actual meaning behind it.
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