Due to the schools system being hacked, Leaguetown High School will be on a three-week computer shut down to install new security software. There will be an emergency school board meeting whether to rent the journalism department four Mac computers.

This is causing a strain on many groups in the school, specifically the journalism department, who have to meet a strict deadline in order for yearbooks to make it to the school before the end of the year.

Rodney Stephens, the yearbook adviser, is requesting the school board rent four Macintosh computers for $500.00, so his class can finish the yearbook before their deadline. The school board will vote on Friday.

“If the board doesn’t approve this $500 expenditure, I am not sure what we will do,” Stephens said. ” I would rather not think that way. I am hoping for the best and crossing my fingers.”

The district technology director, Ed Robles, is stunned by the hacking job against the school.

“This is some pretty sophisticated hacking,” Robles said. ” The police are getting closer to the hacker, though. We understand the inconvenience of the shutdown, but it is necessary.”

Meanwhile, the student yearbook staff is in panic to meet their deadlines. They had pushed the final deadline back as far as possible, in order to add more coverage from the year into the book.

“We were confident this would not be a problem,” Junior editor, Alex Zavia said. “In fact, before this computer hacking problem, we were ahead of schedule.”

Many student are worried about whether or not the yearbook’s will be in by “Yearbook Day,” a senior signing party held in the gym.

” Yearbook Day is one of the highlights of senior year,” Reggie White, senior, said. “It would be weird not to get my friends to sign my book before I go off to college. Yearbook day is more popular than prom.”