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Collecting his belongings after class table
is sophomore Eric Pulver enti. Students Excess Baggage
were also allowed to leave their bags in
their clas sroom s or lockers during the lunch By Dan Eriksen
period. photo by Jennie Gates
Textbooks, writing of carrying backpacks though.
utensils, music patches, "I like backpacks be-
lunches, and anything else a cause they are convenient, but
student might need for school you have to get a good quality
were all stuffed into one small one. Otherwise your bag
container, a backpack. breaks and is pretty much
Students found that worthless to you," junior Cris
backpacks proved to be the Plummer said.
most useful means for carrying According to junior
things from class to class. Rose Hromek, backpacks had
"I need my backpack. more than one negativ~ as-
I couldn't possibly carry all of pect.
the things I need for class with- "I think backpacks are
out it. And my bag is small a nuisance. They create an
enough that it is not much of a excuse for teachers to give us
burden," junior Katie Fenlon heavy textbooks to lug around.
said. They also can cause back prob-
Not everyone enjoyed lems and take up hallways,"
the smaller sized carriers. Hromek said.
"I like big, roomy back- Some students even
packs that hold all of my stuff, used their bags to make a fash-
but I don't like them with a lot of ion statement to others.
pockets that make the bag "I punked out my bag
bulky," junior Jenny Mcivor with patches and wrote the
said. names of some of my favorite
JuniorJenny Schar- bands too," junior Brian Hasiak
tow said that her backpack said.
was so full it was going to Whatever the students
burst. chose to do with their bags,
Not all students were they all served one main pur-
enthusiastic towards the idea pose, to carry books.

Braun , Joseph
Bredensteiner, Andrew
Breyfogle, Jennifer
Bristol, Jordan
Brodhea~ .. David
Brooks, lVIa rc

Brown, Brendan
Brown Colleen
Brown, Lindsay
Broyles,Samantha
Broz, Eric
Bruce, Jenni fer

Bruntz, Michael
Bryant, Mark
Buckingham, Julie
Buhrman, Nicolas
Burnham, Ki mberly
Burton, Moll y

Backpacks