Layla Hango, Newspaper Reporter
Hey I’m Layla. I’m from California so I love the beach and miss living on the coast. Although I love journalism and writing for the newspaper, in the future I want to be a movie producer. I like to make and edit my own home movies with my siblings.
![Future leader. DECA membrs pose outside the Fall Leadership Conference on October 21. At the conference, students learned more about DECA and other business programs through workshops. “[DECA] was a little stressful when I joined, but I am glad I did because once you get comfortable and you know what you’re doing, it’s fun,” senior Hailey Cheshier said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_5233-1200x883.jpeg)
![Slam. While she performed in front of an audience at the All Writes Reserved Festival in April of last year, junior Mila Hormann displayed emotion to draw her listeners in. She performed her poem titled, ‘Cloudy Days’. “Slam poetry is important to me because [it] helps me process emotions and makes me be able to connect with other poets,” Hormann said. “I get to connect with poets I see at competitions or become a lot closer with other poets within our school’s poetry club.”](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/mila-cmyk-website-1200x774.png)
![Ensuring safety. If given a reason, the school resource officer reserves the right to search a student’s belongings. As a safety precaution, SROs wear gloves when searching a student’s backpack. “So [for a] backpack search, if we have to do a backpack search, we have to have a few things. We have to have existent circumstances, probable cause, or we have to have reasonable articulable suspicion which we would request from the school administrator or teacher to search a backpack,” School Resource Officer Jonathan Hobbs said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/hobbs-photo-Medium.jpeg)
