FEB. 13, 2025
Rogers Heritage High School
Volume II, Issue III
Heritage Girls Bowling Defeats District, State Bound
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Girls bowling poses for a photo on their last home game of the season, which was also their senior night. The girls won the game against Springdale by 796 pins.
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trict, leading to a first place victory at conference sending the girls to Talon Editor-in-chief & Reporter state. These student-athletes have The unstoppable girls bowling team remained successful through- put a lot of work into beating rival out the entirety of their season, schools while also thriving in their defeating every school in their dis- academics. Bowling practice oc-
curred every Monday and Wednes“The season has been amazing. day starting all the way back in Sep- Our girls team has remained undetember. After tryouts, there were feated all year. The coaching staff 14 girls accepted onto the team. has witnessed this season a team The team were able to unite before the season began, creating a group of strong and supportive women. Bowling continued on p. 2
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However, during the ban, people quickly moved to the next popular app, Red Note. Red Note is the Jordan English translation of the Chinese social media app “Xiaohongshu” Talon Reporter that is a mixture of Instagram, Tik At the start of the 2024-2025 Tok and Pinterest. The app comsemester, Heritage High School bines the virtual aspect of scrolling through videos as well as finding began using a new campus mandaily inspiration or simple how-to agement app meant to create sessions for Eagle Period and club videos, etc. “I was very sad [when Tik Tok Fridays called Minga. Replacing Flex, Minga was was banned] so I downloaded Red Note to see if it was as good as Tik put into place for organizing Eagle Tok, but everything was in Chinese Periods. This was altered due to an and I couldn’t read anything on my abundance of teachers and students profile. Then I woke up to it being finding flex to be glitchy and the back and I was so happy,” Macie opposite of user friendly. “Flex was all kinds of wrong, Laundy (9). I didn’t understand it,” said math When TikTok made its highly sought out appearance on Monday, teacher Jammi Bice. When questioned about the January 20, life returned to its old benefits Minga would supposedly ways, and everything seemed to go back to normal as people watched have over Flex, Principal Chip the presidential inauguration on the Minga continued on p. 2 reinstated platform.
Heritage Responds to U.S TikTok Ban Talon Editor-in-chief The ban on the popular social media platform TikTok has officially been delayed by a 75 day period and while the app is available for most users, TikTok will not return to the AppStore until ByteDance sells to a U.S party. The U.S Senate passed the bill on April 23, 2024 that would pressurize the TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell to an American party in nine months which fell on January 19, 2025. The day was being dreaded by the 170 million American citizens and businesses nationwide who use the app to promote and sell their products, as well as the two other apps following the ban: Capcut and Lemon8. On the evening of January 18, hours before the ban was supposed to take place, TikTok was shut
down. TikTok left a message on the home page of the app saying, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now. A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S...We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office.” Fortunately, what was supposed to be a day of digital mourning ended up becoming an emotional roller coaster. Not even 24 hours after the supposed ban, it was undone, allowing users back into the app with zero issues to be found. “I think the tiktok ban was unnecessary. There have been a lot of other political debates going for years now such as the economy in itself and gun laws. Why have we focused on an app so much? Many people have also said that Tik Tok has been a way to exercise their 1st amendment right, so why take that away?” said Brandon Sanchez (11).
Breaking Up Not Breaking Down p. 4
2025 Grammys p. 5
Minga App Replaces Flex
Baseball and Softball Aim For Success p. 7
“I’m very passionate about the subjects I teach.” - Richard in “Staff Spotlight” p. 5