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I Am the High in the Sky, Looking at You

The shortlist of names for the new high school has been announced, and a strong contender is “Skyline High,” presumably to honor the spectacular skyline of A2. “When you look around from the third- and fourth-floor of the new high school, it’s amazing what you can see,” said one school official, who apparently declined to elaborate on these sights (but presumably they will include people walking and parking on the streets at all hours of the day.)

28 Responses to “I Am the High in the Sky, Looking at You”


  1. Maybe the school can get a corporate sponsorship from Nissan to make up for budget overruns…

    posted by Murph on November 17th, 2006 at 11:01 am

  2. For some reason, your headline makes me think of ceiling cat.

    I hope they pick “Northcrest” - and, Murph, then they can get a toothpaste company to sponsor them. Dental health is surely a more Ann Arborian cause.

    posted by Heidi on November 17th, 2006 at 11:32 am

  3. Maybe they can get a corporate sponsorship from the chili restaurant.

    Skyline? Seriously? WTF? What does a Skyline have to do with Ann Arbor? Call it Allen-Rumsey High School or something.

    posted by srah on November 17th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

  4. Also, I’m rooting for the Northcrest High School Northcrests as a mascot.

    posted by srah on November 17th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

  5. Oh Heidi, let’s hope they won’t be doing what ceiling cat was doing!

    While it may be a dumb name, I can’t think of too many not-dumb names of high schools I’ve heard recently. I assume their mascot would be the Falcons or something?

    posted by David on November 17th, 2006 at 12:54 pm

  6. I just gave myself negative 1,000,000 points for getting your (sigh. I’m SO lame) Alan Parsons Project reference, AAIO.

    I hope you’re pleased with yourself.

    BTW Dave, our mascot(s) from Columbine High School were the Rebels. Pretty good mascot that’s a bit ironic due to a rather infamous event.

    posted by todd on November 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pm

  7. I want my kid to go to a school where the team nickname is “The Sprawl”. If we can have River Rats, why not that?

    posted by Edward Vielmetti on November 17th, 2006 at 3:27 pm

  8. Given today’s sad news, what do you think the odds are that someone will float ‘Schembechler High School’ - and are they better or worse if UM wins tomorrow?

    posted by Laura on November 17th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

  9. “It’s amazing what you can see.” Great, maybe they can offer tours so that even more people can stare into my living room.

    posted by The Squid on November 17th, 2006 at 4:35 pm

  10. What can you see from Skyline High School (at least today)? Construction debris, deforestation, habitat distruction, and the expensive (but now muddy) vehicles that conveyed these poet laureates. I suppose I should be glad that its not Domino’s Pizza High School, Gelman Sciences High School or Pfizer Phigh Pschool. I don’t suppose letting the first class of students name the school was considered? As for mascots, I’m partial to the banana slugs, the box elder beetles or perhaps the emerald ash borers.

    Go Borers! Put ‘em to sleep, Rah!

    posted by John Hritz on November 17th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

  11. I could definitely get behind the box elder bug.

    posted by Bruce Fields on November 17th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

  12. Question - why is there a banana bug here if we ain’t got no bananas? Just asking…

    posted by justme on November 17th, 2006 at 6:21 pm

  13. After a long discussion and going through many combinations of school and mascot names, my sister and I have decided that the new high school/mascot should be the Gerald R. Ford High School Soybeans. Who do we need to tell?

    posted by srah on November 17th, 2006 at 7:21 pm

  14. My wife and I saw this coming a mile away as the new h.s. was being built. Only in A2 can naming a h.s. take on a life of it’s own. Dare not offend anyone with a name or mascot!

    posted by Jake on November 19th, 2006 at 9:43 pm

  15. “What can you see from Skyline High School (at least today)? Construction debris, deforestation, habitat distruction, and the expensive (but now muddy) vehicles that conveyed these poet laureates.”

    In other words, the Ann Arbor skyline!

    On the topic of mascots, UC-Irvine challenges Santa Cruz for “most ridiculous mascot” by being the Anteaters. The actual cheer is “Zot Zot” - supposedly the sound of ants being inhaled by the mascot. All sort of puzzling since the coyotes that overrun the campus in the winter would make a much better mascot.

    posted by Nick on November 20th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

  16. I think the anteater “Zot!” sound came from the B.C. comic strip.

    posted by A Different Jon on November 21st, 2006 at 1:16 am

  17. Stanford University didn’t have a team mascot/nickname for years — they were just Stanford. So finally they decide they ought to have one.

    The student body voted overwhelmingly for “Robber Barons”.

    Unfortunately some relatives of Leland Stanford (the robber baron who endowed the school) were still on the university board of trustees, and they weren’t amused.

    posted by Larry Kestenbaum on November 21st, 2006 at 2:45 pm

  18. The “Skyline Schembechlers” has a weird ring to it…

    posted by OFWinsurgent on November 21st, 2006 at 10:06 pm

  19. Larry - they may not have been, but I was very much amused =8-)

    posted by LittleB on November 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 am

  20. Robber Barons doesn’t get at the half of it. They should have gone with the “Stanford Strychnines.”

    http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/sepoct/features/jane.html

    posted by Parking Structure Dude! on November 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 am

  21. The ‘Fightin’ Poisoners’ ?

    posted by LittleB on November 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 am

  22. The Skyline High Sprawling Porkers.

    posted by Morbidly Midwestern on November 23rd, 2006 at 4:23 am

  23. Let’s go with “Schembechler High.”

    and the Schembechler Salamanders!

    posted by Fred Zimmerman on December 1st, 2006 at 3:56 pm

  24. Stanford University has a mascot (and it’s so much more intimidating because it’s not pluralized): The Cardinal. ::shudder::

    it’s so Da Vinci cryptic. The Cardinal… if you don’t think immediately of a big assed redbird, then you definitely get think about block robes and rosary beads that double as assisin’s chokeholds.

    Skyline High is definitely the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard and thought you were just joking and making some reference to a new show on the disney channel.

    posted by sai on December 2nd, 2006 at 12:23 am

  25. Oh, please, not Gerald Ford. Ann Arbor has some many more colorful former residents. Maybe “Robert Frost High School.” Or better yet “Madonna High School.” The team could be “The Virgins”. How about “Iggy Pop High School” or “Kathy Kozachenko High School”? I suppose the “Theodore John Kaczynski High School Unibombers” would be a non-starter.

    posted by Jan Wolter on December 6th, 2006 at 11:59 am

  26. i wish they had named it Schembechler high school or at least sumthin like that…anything is better than the skyline eagles!!!

    yesterday in school they gave us skyline high school t-shirts! $1000 waste if you ask me. kids at school, including me, have circled the skyline logo and crossed it out. we have been writing “Huron 4 ever” “river rats” “dont cut teachers, cut sky” and other anti-sky high comments all over the shirts. we are planning to wear the shirts as much as possible hoping it will catch the attention of somebody who cares.

    posted by hanna on June 7th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

  27. Now, Hannah, shame on you. A lot of really important people worked very hard and did some serious thinking and in fact thought and pondered so hard that their foreheads got all wrinkly so that they could bestow a very creative, non-gendered, inoffensive name on that school and its mascot. To second guess them now is, frankly, very hurtful. Where were you when these important people were sitting with their foreheads scrunched? Where were you while they were validating each other’s feelings? Where were you during the anxious call to Cincinnati to make sure that the trademark didn’t extend to educational institutions? You were out doing drugs, weren’t you? Now you just settle right down and start studying for your SAT’s so you can get into Swarthmore. You leave the drugs and the awkward questions to the Community High kids. We’ve already written them off.

    posted by Parking Structure Dude! on June 8th, 2007 at 11:16 am

  28. I am attending Skyline next year and I think it’s really stupid that everyone is obsessing over the name and mascot.
    IT DOESNT MATTER.
    All the matters is what we learn and how were going to use it. If you don’t like the freakin name, thats fine. Just don’t think that you “hate” the school just because it’s got a bad name and because it’s new.
    As for Parking Structure Dude! who said “You leave the drugs and the awkward questions to the Community High kids.” Leave Community alone. They do just as much drugs as the students at your perfect little Huron. It’s just more brought out by the community because it is such a small school.
    GET OVER IT AND LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE. WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN TO BE MATURE ABOUT THIS AND GET OVER IT!?

    posted by Samantha S. on February 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

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