Month: November 2009
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Leesville Thanksgiving Traditions
The word, “Thanksgiving” generates a variety of mental images: pilgrims, Squanto, turkey, maize…the list is different for everyone. According to many Leesville students though, the most important factors of the holiday are not the…
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Dance ensemble flies south for the winter
Leesville’s Dance Ensemble made arrangements to perform at the 2010 Orange Bowl’s Halftime Show on January 5. The dancers were invited to perform in the show in May of last year and have been…
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Women’s Basketball Falls to Green Hope
Despite a hard fight, Leesville’s women’s varsity basketball team lost the season first’s game 31-90 to Green Hope on Tuesday, Nov. 17. LRHS scored the first 2 points due to a technical foul, but…
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Tween Video Games Propose Harmful Stereotypes
New video games geared for 8-12 year old girls may look fun, but the stereotypes they put on these games can also be harmful to girls. These new games allow girls to become anything…
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Newspaper Staff Accidentally Publishes Secrets of Life
Students were quietly reading the November issue of The Mycenaean on Monday, Nov. 16 during SSR and commenting on how well-written the articles were when Principle Scott Lyons’ urgent announcement exploded into classrooms across…
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Will the Hurricanes Pull it Together?
Hockey fans across the state are appalled at the Canes’ performance this season. On November 11, 2009, the Canes’ suffered their twelfth consecutive loss of the season against the LA Kings at the RBC…
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Siblings at Leesville
The common misconception is that younger siblings are annoying, and do nothing but harass and trouble older siblings. However, according to Simon Burke, freshmen, it is the opposite. “My sister always annoys me. She…
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Miller’s Fall Doesn’t Break Spirit
Mr. Miller was determined to finish his Iron-Man Distance Triathlon on Nov 7. Unfortunately, 80 miles into the cycling portion, he had an accident, puncturing one lung, breaking his clavicle and snapping two ribs.…
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2010 leesville wrestling preview
The Leesville Wrestling team will begin their 2010 season the first week of November. The team is confident in defending their CAP-7 championship from last year. Jason Weiss, the wrestling coach, is optimistic about achieving…
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New teacher takes over class
Leesville gained a new staff member this week when Ms. Rebecca Jones, a first year teacher, took over Mrs. Breeden’s Honors U.S. History and Law and Justice classes. Mrs. Breeden went on maternity leave on Monday,…
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“Haunted” disgusts and delivers
Haunted, a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, takes an old idea of putting multiple short stories in a single book, and adds a unique approach by tying all the short stories together. The short…
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Magnet Schools, a Third Alternative
The Wake County Public School System is going to fail. On Nov. 3 in a runoff race for District Two, John Tedesco secured a school board seat, giving neighborhood school proponents a 5-4 majority.…
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Attitude to Blame for Poor Education
Recent studies prove that America’s economic and cultural domination will end within the century. Whether today’s students like it or not, the U.S. is no longer poised to be the world’s biggest or most…
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Chorus Students Auditioned for Music Conference
Lauren Smallwood, Eddie Hackim, and Mary Robert McGrath were selected out of hundreds of applicants to participate in the annual North Carolina Music Educators conference held on Sunday, Nov. 8, in Winston-Salem. Before being…
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Pride Football Players Discuss Time Committments
From July to December, Leesville’s football team is dedicated to running, conditioning and practicing several hours a day, five days a week. Even when the season is over, the team uses those extra months…
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LRHS’s Dracula Exceeds Expectations
Leesville’s fall production of Dracula, performed November 5-7, exceeded every expectation its audience had. Usually ranked second in quality to the school’s spring musical each year, the fall play left some large shoes to…
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Christmas Here Too Early
The moment I walked into Target on Halloween night, I knew something was wrong: Christmas was here, but it was only October! Alongside the discounted Halloween merchandise, the beginnings of Christmas decorations had appeared. …
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A Day for Veneration, Not Vacation
November 11, 2009 marked the 90th anniversary of Veteran’s Day in America’s history. In 1919, when Veteran’s Day was known as Armistice Day, Woodrow Wilson designated the day as one “filled with solemn pride…
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Modern, Isolationist Attitude to Blame for Decline
Down with a world in which the guarantee that we Will not die of starvation has been purchased with The guarantee that we will die of boredom. –Situationist graffiti Paris 1968 Not too long…
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Leesville Students Attend Military Fair
Leesville Road High School conducted a military fair on November 3, 2009 for students interested in the armed forces. West Point military, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Army met to…
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Capital Pride’s Success Leads to International Choral Festival
For the sixteenth year, Capital Pride has shown its strength in both talent and numbers; Diane Covington’s choral program will participate in an international choral festival that begins on April 22 in Charleston, South…
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Obese NC Workers to Pay More for Health Insurance
North Carolina will implement a ‘fat tax’ on its government workers starting in July 2011, making workers that qualify as “obese” pay more for health insurance, and the tax has been hit with much…
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Leesville, Fuqua Finish Golf Season
The Leesville women’s golf team successfully completed their 2009 golf season. Coach Andy Hunt thought the team could have finished a little stronger. “We felt like we should have played better at regionals to…
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Stolen Art Prompts Search, Frustration
On a seemingly normal Monday morning, Gene Kim was shocked to discover that his artwork had been stolen from the lobby where it had been proudly displayed for two weeks. Enraged, Kim questioned his…
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Seniors Win Homecoming Float Contest
On Friday, October 16, 2009, the Leesville Road High senior student council won Leesville’s annual Homecoming float contest. Beginning on the first day of school, the senior council designed and crafted its homecoming float. …
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Boy cheerleaders add humor to powder puff game
A group of senior boys took on the role of cheerleaders to show their support for the senior girls during the annual Powder Puff game on Oct. 27, 2009. The male cheerleaders were comprised…
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Powder puff causes disunity at LRHS
The Powder Puff game and carnival is supposed to be just another outlet for the Loonies to release their surplus of school spirit. Students come out to cheer on the junior and senior girls,…
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Ten Students Interviewed for Teaching Fellows Scholarship
Ten Leesville seniors attended the district interviews for the teaching fellows scholarship, a $6500 per year scholarship awarded to future North Carolina teachers. Teachers, WCPSS employees, and community members interviewed Michelle Meehan, Katie Putnam,…
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The Skinny on Fad Diets
Since reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan over summer break, I began to think about a question he asks in the beginning of the book; “How did we ever get to a point…
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Leesville Offers Superior Autistic Program
Autism, a developmental disability, impacts the normal development of the brain in the areas of social interaction and communication skills. According to Will Swann, special education teacher at Leesville, twelve percent of Leesville’s students…
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The Curls Prevail
I am not a fan of what the flatiron has done to society. The tool that burns like the flames of Hell has not only roasted and damaged the hair follicles of girls everywhere,…
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Leesville student changes lifestyle
Teenagers often go through high school wondering about what they are, who they want to be, and what they will become. They sit and pick out aspects of their life and that they are…
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2009 the First Year for DST Change
Daylight Saving Time is the system of changing the official local time by one hour for the duration of the spring and summer months. The daylight saved is spent on evening activities rather than…