black-white issue completely buried. In the mid-1970s, a state-of-the-art media center was added at Ball High South campus and air-conditioning was installed for the first time. The forty-year-old school received a major $1.5 million renovation and update in 1980. The most recent repairs, in 2004 and 2005, were made possible through school bonds which were in political standstill for seven years. In the 2000s, rising real estate costs in Galveston forced many families to move to other areas, including League City, Texas City, and La Marque. This meant an exodus of children from the Galveston ISD and into other school districts. If Hurricane Katrina evacuees and out-of-district students are excluded, Galveston ISD lost 12% of its students between the 2002-2003 school year and the 2006-2007 school year; Ball High School is affected as it is the only public high school in Galveston. Dress code On September 3, 1969, the GISD superintendent approved a proposed Ball High School dress code that was drafted by a committee consisting of the school principal, the associate principal, students, and faculty members chosen by the students. This committee deliberately allowed an amount of vagueness to balance free expression and the ability to enforce the code. It allowed students to have facial hair while many American high school dress codes at the time did not. This code was in effect in addition to the general GISD dress code, which was issued by the GISD superintendent in March 1967. The son of Texas senator A. R. "Babe" Schwartz, Richard A. Schwartz, was enrolled at Ball; he challenged the dress code's hair length regulations in court after school officials threatened to expel him if he did not change the length of his hair. In December 1969 attorney David H. Berg, hired by "Babe" Schwartz, filed a Section 1983 to prevent enforcement of the hair length rules. federal judge James Latane Noel Jr. dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the plaintiff should have sought state legal remedies first. Notable alumni Charles Alexander, former NFL running back Kimble Anders, former Pro Bowl NFL player Brandon Backe, former MLB player Reginald Ballard, film actor Patrick Bates, former NFL player (safety) Vince Courville, football player Adrian Devine, former MLB player Mike Evans, NFL player Casey Hampton, former Pro Bowl NFL player Eric Hill, former NFL player Carl Hilton, former NFL player Mike Holmes, former NFL player and CFL All-Star Emma Hwang,