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Pep rallies, swim meets, band camp,  teachers. Either way, in all these                                    6
       SGA .. .It's all fun and games, right?   competitions, it always feels good
       Wrong! Actually it's all a brutal   to be able to come out on top.
       competition to see who can come     Whether it's the spirit-stick, a medal,
       out on top. There are always the big   or a trophy that you've won, you
       battles between the classes during   can't escape the competition that
       homecoming pep rallies, battles be-  builds up to a gut-wrenching battle!
       tween high school marching bands,
       and of course, the battles that can
       even go on between students and

































                                                                                        Pep  Rallies
                                            You walk through the doors of the overcrowded gym. It opens up to a vast room
                                            full of hyped-up teens ready to cheer on their class. You see experienced seniors,
                                             with their wigs and class sign held high; the freshmen who sit relatively still, but
                                             cheer when they have to; Sophomores, no longer Freshmen, making a place for
                                             themselves; Juniors, almost top dog, but just barely. All classes yell at the top of
                                              their lungs to win the spirit stick, ever changing in size and design, bigger and
                                              better every time. It overwhelms you: the sound, the hype, the energy buzzing
                                             around the gym. Being in high school is about living, learning and experiencing
                                            things for the first time. Pep rallies change as you move up in the totem pole. You
                                             realize that you want to enjoy them while you can, because memories that last a
                                                                life time start when you walk through those gym doors.
       Band

       You may not think it's true, but the battles never end when it comes to
       band. There's the individuals competing to earn the coveted first chair. The
       sections, working their hardest to be labeled "section of the week" and the
       battle between woodwinds and brass to be the best. Of course, you have
       the battle which the whole band fights together to win at competition or
       to earn a "superior" rating. Whatever the competition may be, no one in the
       Columbia band is going down without a fight!




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