The 95 Theses of Alta

Jorja asked Mr. Packer, the student government advisor, if she could do the ping pong tournament. This is the first year that Stockton has been there that they haven't had a tournament. They had it every year Maysen was there too. One of the many frustrating things for Stockton is the attorney general is in charge of the ping pong tournament. That is the office Stockton ran for and lost. The kid that won just didn't do the tournament. Jorja asked him several times if he was going to do it. He always said he was, he just never did. Mr. Packer told Jorja that it was too late for her to do the ping pong tournament. He said that he even got a huge list from someone taped to his door with 95 reasons of why they should do the ping pong tournament. Turns out, it was Stockton that taped the reasons to his door. He wrote them all himself and printed them out on five sheets of paper, all taped together. Stockton was so funny when he described his secretive mission. He had this whole elaborate plan of looking up teacher schedules to figure out when Mr. Packer would be out of his room, finding lulls in class time to sneak into the halls, and taking detours that let him avoid the janitors and hall monitors. He kept the whole operation a secret so nobody could bust him later. He said he had had everything written up for two weeks before finding the perfect moment to tape it on the door without being seen. He would even stop by Alta on the way to his English class at SLCC to check and see if there was an opening. Now that's dedication. His English class started at 7:00 am on the SLCC campus.

Mr. Packer is the World History teacher. When Stockton was a sophomore he learned about Martin Luther's 95 Theses in his class. The original had 95 reasons why the Catholic Church was corrupt for practicing indulgences, which was when the church leaders told the people that they were doomed to hell unless they paid money to have their sins forgiven. So Stockton decided writing his own version would be the perfect way to get his message across.

Too bad it was all for naught. No ping pong tournament this year; but another example of Stockton's awesomeness.