Letters - Feb. 10, 2011

Blu Cru not banished

As the President of the Colfax High School ASB I would like to correct a “pet peeve” that was published in the Whitman County Gazette on February 3, 2011. It stated “The blu-cru and cheerleaders being banished to the end of the gym.” We were not banished; we as leaders in the ASB made the decision to move to the end of the gym.

Each year Mrs. Landers, the director of ASB, challenges her officers to find a way to make CHS a better place to be for our students. My vice-president, Damon Buck, and I came up with the idea for the Blu Cru to improve school spirit. We proposed the idea to our fellow classmates and Mrs. Landers. With Mrs. Landers guidance and our classmates help we made a large sign, designed t-shirts, made up flyers to advertise, and took orders for the Blu Cru spirit shirts. There are fifty-five students at CHS that have purchased the t-shirts, plus some adults. Other students choose to dress up in spirit gear each week.

As Blu Cru’s popularity grew, we found we were expanding the student section as you entered the gym. As spirited youth, we also found we were standing up on the court and making it difficult for members of our community to walk by to leave the gym or for the cheerleaders to cheer. So one day during ASB class, as we were preparing the Blu Cru area, we came up with the brainstorm to move it from its previous location to the end of the gym.

Our new site gives us more room to spread out. It allows the cheerleaders a place to cheer in front of the student section without being in the way of people going in and out of the gym. It allows more seating for community members as they enter the gym. As student leaders in our school, we felt it was a win-win situation for everyone.

We would like to express thanks to our community for supporting and embracing our school spirit. But we don’t want blame to be misplaced. Good leaders are able to admit when they are wrong; and correct misinformation so others aren’t blamed needlessly.

Tuffy Hickman,

Colfax