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Ishaan Brahmbhatt, senior, zips up Manaswini Gunturu’s, senior, poncho as she prepares to get slimed. On Friday, May 1, Student Council (STUCO) members celebrated the success of the March 4 Hunger canned food drive. The food drive consisted of a competition between staff and students, resulting in the winning team getting to slime the other. MHS staff won the challenge.
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Dylan Maune, history teacher, pours a bucket of slime over Manaswini Gunturu, senior. Gunturu keeps her face down and under her poncho in order to avoid getting her hair and clothes excessively slimed.
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Drenched in slime, Manaswini Gunturu, senior, walks over to the crowd watching her, trying not to get slime over her clothing by letting it drip off her poncho.
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Chris Atkinson, math teacher, pours a bucket of slime over Ishaan Brahmbhatt, senior. Being the vice president of STUCO, Brahmbhatt was chosen to get slimed during the event.
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Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, laughs as she sees Ishaan Brahmbhatt, senior, covered in slime. As teachers poured slime on students, Zonies created the next bucket of slime.
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Adam Sansom, science teacher, prepares to pour a bucket of slime over Caroline Staley, senior. Sansom said he enjoyed the slime event and plans to participate in upcoming years.
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STUCO members watch teachers pour buckets of slime on students, taking photos and recording their friends. Before a teacher poured slime on a student, STUCO members chanted a countdown.
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Excited to pour her bucket of slime, Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, sets up a chair for her to stand on in order to pour slime on Nick Dragnev, senior. Dragnev is the president of STUCO this year and has been a part of STUCO for his entire high school career.
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Nick Dragnev, senior, screams as Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, pours a bucket of slime on his head. Unlike all other STUCO officers, Dragnev chose to not wear a poncho and kept his shoes on when getting slimed.
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Immediately after getting slimed, Nick Dragnev, senior, shakes off the slime from his head to try to get rid of any excess slime that he can.
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Nick Dragnev, senior, runs to give his friends a hug, covered in slime from head to toe. Those watching Dragnev ran away, to avoid getting their clothes covered in slime.
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Caroline Staley, senior, wraps herself in a towel after getting slimed. Emma Pieper, senior, hugs Staley as she watches other STUCO officers get slimed.
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Manaswini Gunturu, senior, pours water over Nick Dragnev’s, senior, head in order to get rid of the slime stuck in his hair. Because Dragnev was the only student who chose not to wear a poncho when getting slimed, he had slime stuck in his hair and on his clothes.
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Juniors Yvette Yaroshenko and Abhijith Nair fist bump upon finding out they will be co-presidents of STUCO for the 2026-2027 school year. Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, announced all new officer positions after all current officers had been slimed.
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Because they will be co-presidents, juniors Yvette Yaroshenko and Abhijith Nair recite a speech to their STUCO members, alternating words of the speech and making it up as they go.
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STUCO members cheer after the speeches of new officers for the 2026-2027 school year.
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Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, hugs juniors Natalie Grill and Nina Schlottman while announcing they will be STUCO’s secretaries of media for the 2026-2027 school year.
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As the Student Council (STUCO) members cheered, Adam Sansom, science teacher, poured slime over Caroline Staley, senior, during STUCO’s slime event.
Sansom had never met Staley before and found it interesting to have his first interaction with her be dumping slime on her head.
“I apologized and said ‘sorry this is the first time we’re meeting, but this is what you earned and you deserve this’, and it felt great,” Sansom said.
Kara Zonies, STUCO adviser, created a competition between teachers and students, and whichever team donated the most amount of cans for their March for Hunger event would get the opportunity to slime the losing team during the STUCO slime event on Friday, May 1. The teachers won the competition.
This year, STUCO collected about 700-800 pounds of food from March 4 Hunger.
Sansom had planned to slime Ishaan Brahmbhatt, senior, but after finding out there was another teacher who was there to slime Brahmbhatt specifically, he stepped up to slime anybody. Staley wore a poncho as Sansom slimed her to ensure that not too much slime would ruin her clothes.
“I was really looking forward to sliming Ishaan and accidentally spilling it inside of the poncho,” Sansom said.
He said he was glad to be slimming someone rather than being slimed, as he had originally volunteered to be a teacher who would get slimed by a student.
“That was definitely a load off my mind that I wasn’t gonna have to do any extra laundry,” Sansom said.
Sansom said the threat of being slimed made the students work harder to donate, as well as make the teachers more determined to win.
Brahmbhatt is the current vice president of STUCO, and said the idea for March for Hunger was created when STUCO attended the National Association of Student Councils (NASC) conference.
“The teachers immediately jumped onto it and they all wanted to see us get dumped slime on rather than them getting dumped slime on,” Brahmbhatt said.
Brahmbhatt said there were a substantial amount of donations and hopes that the amount continues increasing in coming school years.
“It was definitely a success,” Brahmbhatt said. “Everyone who was there enjoyed it, at least all the people who were there.”
Abhijith Nair, junior, is a senator for STUCO and was also elected to become co-president for the 2026-2027 school year. Leading up to the slime event, Nair campaigned for his position, as officer positions for the next school year were also announced at the event after students had been slimed.
Nair was also a lead organizer for the “March for Hunger” event and helped come up with the idea at the NASC conference after seeing someone else at the conference successfully carry out the idea.
Nair said the slime event has helped him see how big of a community STUCO is and has allowed him to help people get out of their comfort zone and push to vote for different positions.
