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Keri Sivertson


                                                                                                      Brian Skinner


                                                                                                      Robin Smejkal


                                                                                                      Shawn Smith




                                                                                                      Matthew Sommer


                                                                                                      Kelly Sopinski


                                                                                                      Julie Spears

                                                                                                      Heather Stafford




                                                                    powder from his workplace.  “I  volved several senior guys who
                                                                    work  at  Ray's  Buffalo  Wings,   collected Halloween trash bags
      .P r a n k s   C o m e                                        and  we  have  this  hot  sauce  of leaves to be placed in front of
                                                                     there,  it’s called the 'challenge  the school's main entrance. The
       DIVERSITY                                                    sauce’,  and  it’s  a  powder  that  central offices used a large truck
                                                                                                      to  remove  the  bags  before
                          In M a n y
   SHOWN  WITH                                                      you mix with sauce and put on
                                                                    wings.  It's like the hottest thing  school.
            SENIOR                                                  you  can  get  in  O m aha.”       when asked if he had realized
           PRANKS                                                    Homecillo explained.             how  funny  he  and  his  fellow
                                                                                                      seniors were before they pulled
                                                                      An early-in-the-year prank oc­
                            F       l a v o r s                     curred  when  several  seniors,   off the  pranks,  or  if it  was just
    Freshman cheerleaders chok­    ghetti  line on  the fateful day  in   (remaining  unnamed),  snuck  something  they  had  stumbled
   ing  on  extra  hot  chili  powder,   first  lunch  when  the  seniors  onto the football field the night   upon, Homecillo replied: “I guess
   iophomores  fighting  to  keep   laced  the  spaghetti  with  their  before  a  football  game,  and   it  just  proved  how  funny  we
   standing  in  their  oil  saturated  special  recipe  of chili  powder.   painted '94’ on  the hill in white  are.”
   locker  areas,  and  Mr.  Jurgens  Senior Peter Homecillo got the  spray paint.  A fourth prank in­               ELLEN GRADY
   calling a moving truck to remove
   scores of bags filled with leaves
   blocking the front door.  A string
   of  bizarre,  freak  events  that
  f would make the average visitor
   to Ralston question the sanity of
   the  student  body?  There's  a
   name to describe these occur­
   rences: the infamous yet inevi­
   table Senior Pranks.
     Every  year  the  graduating
  I class strives to carry out pranks
  | (hat everyone will remember.  A
  1 good  example  of these  would                                                       e fore a V a rs ity  fo o tb a ll g a m e ,  th e  s e n io rs  s h o w
   be  coating  the  sophom ore                                                        th e ir ow n  s p irit b g  p a in tin g  o n  th e  hill o f  th e  fo o tb a ll
   locker area floor with two large                                                    field. P h o t o  b g  D A W N  A E P N A D ij
  i bottles of baby oil and the hand
  .  rails with a vat of Vaseline.  The
                                                                                             a n o n g m o u s   s e n io r  d o u s e s   th e   s p a g h e tti
  I slipping  sophomores  had  Se­
   nior pranksters Amy Vacek and                                                       b a r  w ith h o t chili p ow d er. P h o t o  b g  A M i j  M A P S H
   Erin Larson to thank for the task
   of remaining in an upright posi­
  tion  while  they  retrieved  their
  I supplies from their lockers.  “Ev­
  eryone seem ed to like it,” Vacek
  said. ‘The sophomores had fun
  sliding  across  the  floor.  The
  seniors had a great time watch­
  ing the sophomores fall.”
    A freshman cheerleader was
  the first lucky person in the spa­
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