1. Community events, such as fund-raisers, as well as events, updates on extra-cirruculars, and features on unusual events. It's a wide mix of people writing.

2. 2004: election. Otherwise, it's a mix of schoolboard and district decisions, including the ever present issues of lack of funding and high enrollment, and political happenings, in addition to a few student surveys or human interest stories.

3. Four every issue for Canned Spam - wide mix of students.

4. Inconsistent amount of staff profiles, but the older teachers seem to show up more often.

5. Natural disasters get their own full page spread - Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami. It appears a special edition was printed just for the tsunamis. I don't know if they're still relevant per se, because it's not happening anymore, but certainly no one's forgotten.

6. Sports was a lot bigger in the Lightning Press than it is now. There is a larger section and more variety of articles devoted to it, including a definitive "What makes a sport?" article. In 2005 an EVHS gymnast was part of the successful junior Olympics team.

7. The December 2004 issue features a lot of changes, such as how Target had banned charity loitering and the SAT's redesign.

8. The paper took a lot of stands on school related issues such as budget cuts and teacher reviews.

9. Mostly budget cuts.

10. More activities than classes - like VOICES.

11. No, unfortunately nothing scandalous.

12. Fashion is pretty generic through the age because of the beloved Eastview hoodies. But I did think the article on senior portraits had some examples that looked a bit dated.

13. Just that fact that students were a lot more involved in the paper then than they are now. Today everyone is worringly apathetic.

14. Award winning literary magazine, and a spotlight on pep band and speech ... not much to be found.

15. Sports in general.

16. Just everyday life - buying snacks, senior portraits, etc. Not much NEWS, except for hurricanes and fundraisers.

17. Big Fish, The Bachelorette, Pixar Animation movies, Muse, Coldplay, the Killers

18. Gas prices

19. It's gotten shorter, both in amount of pages and the length of articles. Design has seemed less 'newspapery' as color is added and the spacing is less squished.

20. No?

21. Traditions include color day and 'chomping' . Rivals have always been Apple Valley in everything, more intensely football. Others include Rosemount and Eagan ... ever since Eastview opened it's been competitive.

22. 1. The building looks like a prison.
2. There are usually several valedictorians in each graduating class.
3. The elitist attitude - did this only come to exist as a result of community expectations?
4. good arts programs
5. the love it or hate it attitude of students