Due to a breach in security that lead to lost files, the school board will hold a emergency meeting on Friday February 6th, to vote on renting computers for the journalism department to use to complete the yearbook.

For 22 years the school has sponsored a “Yearbook Day,” which is a party on the day the yearbooks arrive for seniors.

“ We have to get our yearbooks before school is out. Yearbook Day is one of the highlights of senior year. Yearbook Day is more popular than prom,” said Reggie White, senior.

This shows right here how important Yearbook Day is to the seniors. Rodney Stephens, yearbook advisor, talked to me about the problem with getting computers to finish the yearbook.

“It’s great that the school board is moving so quickly on the request. I know it will be somewhat costly for the district. MacWorld in southside agreed to let us rent four Macintosh computers with the necessary software for $500 for three weeks. Yearbook Day for seniors is one of the most beloved traditions at the school. If the school doesn’t approve the $500 expenditure, I am not sure what we will do. I would rather not think that way. I am hoping for the best and crossing my fingers.”

This year the yearbook team was looking to add even more coverage to the book.

“This year we pushed our final yearbook deadline back as far as we could to add more coverage to the book. Our yearbook representative warned us that if we didn’t make the deadline, the chances of the book arriving before summer break were slim. We were confident this would not be a problem. in fact, before this computer hacking problem, we were ahead of schedule.”

I spoke to Ed Robles the district technology director.

“ Whoever hacked into our system is bright. They didn’t leave many traces. I don’t think it was a student. This is some pretty sophisticated hacking. The police are getting closer to the hacker, though. He or she left us a few bread crumbs for us to follow.”