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Slackers reach the end of the line

Ian Stowe walks a slackline
Ian Stowe walks a slackline

Every Thursday during lunch, a group of friends go slacklining around the Redwood campus. Slacklining is an activity that is like tightrope walking, but the rope gives the performer a little more give, similar to a trampoline.

The group has been slacklining for the seven or so months, despite several warnings from the administration. However, on Thursday, Dec. 6, their weekly activity finally came to an end.

Campus supervisor Levi Hooks, who found and stopped the students, said that slacklining is a liability for the school because the students could injure themselves.

“If we don’t tell them that they can’t do it, then if something happens to them, it’s the same as us giving them the O.K.,” Hooks said.

Hooks also said that he stopped Redwood alumni Andy Lewis, the slackliner who performed during the Super Bowl halftime, from slacklining on campus when he attended Redwood.

“If we don’t tell them that they can’t do it, then something happens, it’s the same as us giving them the okay,” Hooks said. “We can’t take that chance.”

According to sophomore Drake Murphy, the students have been caught three times on campus. Murphy said that they slackline because it gives them something to do during the long lunch break, and are not trying to cause any trouble.

Murphy said that an average of eight to nine students slackline every week. Although they usually do it behind the football field, it was especially wet on Dec. 6, so they decided to take a chance and go behind the gym, according to Murphy.

Hooks said that because the school has a progressive discipline system, this was only a first warning, but disciplinary actions may be taken if it happens again.

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