Word: webster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Webster. On with Webster. Fight on for your fame. Fight, Statesmen, fight, And you will win the game...
...student athletes are still celebrities among their peers. They're the ones who bring the parents to the stands on Friday nights. They get their names in the newspaper and get more pictures in the yearbook. Nearly every Thanksgiving since 1907, Turkey Day has capped the football season for Webster and nearby Kirkwood, drawing 7,000 fans and a large local TV audience for what's billed as the oldest high school football rivalry west of the Mississippi. (Webster leads, with 46 wins to Kirkwood...
...senior known as Bee Gee. He grew up in North Webster, the district's predominantly black neighborhood. His father is a supermarket produce manager; his stepmother works at a department store. Bobby once worked at the Gap after school, but with chiseled good looks and at 6 ft. 2 in. and 195 lbs., he looked as if he should be posing in the clothing chain's ads, not restocking its shelves. He has an ability to seduce both kids and adults. When he works as an aide in the principal's office, visitors often just stare...
...rally is over, and about 90 of Webster's teachers and administrators are in the library talking about two of the school's top priorities: keeping students in school--and keeping them alive. The "girl with a gun" scenario is part of an exercise in crisis management--and is based on an incident that happened at the school five years ago. Teachers split into groups of nine to draft a response to various emergencies...
...team in the northeast corner has been assigned the bomb threat, which actually happened more than a year ago. The school was evacuated, but search dogs found no bomb. Police did, however, catch the boys who called in the threat, one a Webster student, who was expelled. It gets the teachers talking about security in general--and Columbine in particular. "The bombs at Columbine were planted beforehand, at night, when there wouldn't be any witnesses," says Ken Winingham, who teaches psychology. "Our school is wide open at night. If you want to plant a bomb here...