1) The Portrait in the Hub that Watches All:
Everyone has seen him, staring down at students as they rush to finish their Science homework, or as they stir their hot chocolate, always watching. And yet no one knows who is. He’s certainly not someone seen around the school. And there’s a reason for this: the portrait in the Hub is not a teacher or one of the principals, but it is Westminster’s first board president.
“The Academic Hub was dedicated to him, and he actually came to the christening,” said Mrs. Peters, the reference and electronic sources specialist.
2) What’s in here?
Westminster’s new campus is big; no one can deny that fact. There are too many classrooms and not enough classes, so there are multiple abandoned rooms that are always locked and filled with equipment or nothing at all. There’s nothing strange about having extra space or using it for storage. Some day these rooms will accomodate increased enrooment.
However, there is one room in the eighth grade hallway that is neither empty nor used for storing equipment. Room A215 is full of unused pool toys..
But worry not; this room is not haunted by the ghost of an orphan child who was murdered on the campus grounds centuries ago, or anything else Hollywood Horror movie writers might claim. It’s just another storage room.
“A215 is a storage space for Church on the Rock. They hold church services her on Sundays,” said Rosemary Anderson, administrative assistant – facilities.
The toys in the room are used for the church’s Sunday school.
3) I Smell Bacon
Walking down Westminster’s science hallway is the equivalent of walking through a kitchen. Wonderful food smell permeates throughout the wing, with everything from bacon to burnt chocolate.
It doesn’t seem strange, at first: it’s probably just the smell of lunch cooking from the kitchen, which is below the science wing.
But there is one problem with this conclusion: the smell of the science wing is never what is for lunch. It smells of bacon when Asian noodles are being cooked for lunch, and of brownies when the lunch is a ham sandwich.
Many a student has been disappointed when they come down to the cafeteria and find a lunch nothing like the smell in the science wing. And these students deserve to know why they are suffering this injustice.
Hollyberry does not only cook Mediterranean Chicken Sandwiches and Asian noodles for exhausted highschoolers; they are also a catering company. During the day, Hollyberry cooks desserts and other meals for out-of-school events.
“Hollyberry, who runs our lunch program, is also a catering company. They are constantly baking cookies & desserts as well as preparing different dishes for catering events – all while cooking & preparing our daily lunches,” said Rosemary Anderson, administrative assistant – facilities. The smell of these pasteries and dishes is most likely what students smell when they trudge to their science classes. It’s the food for other people, not for them, so they should stop getting their hopes up of having a lunch with bacon. It’s not going to happen.
The change from the deafening shriek to the polite attendant was never explained, and continues to puzzle students.
As it turns out, the fire alarm changed because those who selected the new system were sick of having their eardrums blown out whenever there was a fire drill.
“The fire alarm is a voice simply because it was a newer system, and using a voice as opposed to a loud, buzzing alarm was an option. I have to guess they felt it is simply much easier on the ears, and less annoying,” said Rosemary Anderson, administrative assistant – facilities.
