Quack-To-Quack
November 6, 2015
Rivalry week comes quickly for students at Downey and Warren High School, but this year it took a twist, during the week of Oct. 19 through the 23, as school spirit was everywhere in the halls of both high schools. Students from Warren High School made a diss track speaking poorly about Downey’s school spirit and the school in general; this has also been roaming the halls.
Anxious about the highly anticipated game, junior, Tony Ramirez, stays out of the rivalry drama in order to prepare himself for the game.
“I don’t like to get involved in all the rivalry drama because, at the end of the day, the football players are on the field not the students,” Ramirez said. “The “Quack-To-Quack” diss track made me laugh; I didn’t understand the purpose of it.”
“Quack-To-Quack” was released by a student from Warren as a way to make fun of Downey High School. His idea did not go as planned because the next day at school students came with even more support and spirit then ever.
Junior, Juan Ochoa believes the “Quack-To-Quack” song affected the school spirit and the spirit at the game.
“The track “Quack-To-Quack” was very funny and creative,” Ochoa said, “ rivalry week is always fun and hyped up but this diss track added more to it.”
Turning something negative into a positive the diss track “Quack-To-Quack” brought students of Downey High School together. It created participation in spirit week and for the game.
With the help of “Quack-To-Quack”, junior, Christian Covarrubias participated in every day of spirit week.
“The diss track “Quack-To-Quack” affected school spirit because it led to controversy which made everything more hyped,” Covarrubias said. “Warren tried to diss us but at the end more students got involved.”
Downey High School ended spirit week by playing “Quack-To-Quack” during school and at the big game in order to show Warren their attempt to make fun of us didn’t work in their favor. Downey High remains strong and spirited with help from the student body, ASB, and oddly Warren High School’s released diss track.
“I had gone to the U.S. Open with my best friend Leslie, but this was a different experience,” Davila said. “I’m not one to create a scene.”
Davila talked about sighting what she thought were two sharks while being inside the ocean. She had seen two fins in the ocean; her first instinct was to start yelling about the so-called sharks. She immediately went to let the lifeguard to let them know what she had seen, but the lifeguards couldn’t make out what Davila was telling them because of how bad she was crying.
“It was a mistake; I swear I would have never done that,” Davila says. “Anyone would have freaked out if they saw sharks in the water, even if they weren’t exactly sharks.”
Throughout the chaos she created, she found out those two sharks in the water were actually two dolphins. She received some unfriendly stares and created enemies because of how she disturbed the beach, especially from a mother with three small crying children.
“This mom probably hated me for making her three small children cry,” Davila said. “I felt terrible.”
Leslie Murillo, who had gone with Davila, also provided more details about what had happened that day. Murillo being terrified of ocean water was more than happy to not have been involved with Davila’s chaos.
“I’m terrified of the ocean because you have no idea what is around you” Murillo said, “so I wasn’t in the water with Amanda when she yelled and I am so happy I wasn’t.”
Davila could have had a nice normal day at the beach. Instead she created a mess believing she had seen two sharks while swimming in the ocean. Lifeguards quickly began to evacuate people from the water; in the end to find out those two sharks were instead two dolphins.
“I went from seats all the way at the top of the stadium to being right in front of Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar,” Pena said, “It was an amazing experience to be so close to some of my favorite artists.”
As people settled into their seats at the Honda Center the atmosphere became wild with anxious people screaming and dancing to the opening act: Kendrick Lamar.
Serenity Reynoso, junior at Downey High School, agreed with Pena about the Kanye West concert being an amazing experience.
“I loved the Kanye concert definitely one of my favorites, “ Reynoso said, “The vibes from the concert were great; everyone was just so alive.”
A close friend of Pena, Junior, Leslie Murillo was able to enjoy the atmosphere of the Kanye West concert because she also attended, sharing a familiar experience with a ticket scalper.
“I got tickets the day of the actual concert from a ticket scalper at the door,” Murillo said, “I was in shock because we basically got into the sold out Kanye West concert for free.”
The Kanye West concert became a night to remember for multiple people, especially Beatrice Pena because she was able to celebrate her birthday only a few rows away from Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar.
![Practicing her monologue for the upcoming play, Rachelle Escurel, 10, is auditioning to play Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, which will be held at Downey High School in April. “I’ve previously been a part of a production here at Downey and when I first was a part of it I created so many new memories, experience, and made a whole other family with the people there,” Escurel said. “My heart broke when I [didn’t audition for the last] production and I missed everyone and wanted the experience again.”](https://www.thedowneylegend.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cruciable.cast_-475x316.jpg)
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