Year: 2010
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Leadership academy boosts Leesville softball
Hoping to create “true leaders” for the softball program, Coach Tadlock, LRHS varsity softball coach, created the Leadership Academy, with some of the varsity softball players as members. “[Coaches] teach their athletes plays, fundamentals…
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Winterfest: a Harry Potter Yule Ball
Senior Class Council and Executive Council are beginning to make preparations for the Winterfest Assembly and dance, scheduled to take place February 11-12, 2011. The theme for Winterfest 2011 is “A Harry Potter Yule…
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Cataclysm
Blizzard Entertainment has produced some of the most addictive games the world has ever seen since it started in 1994. With the release of Cataclysm, the third expansion set of the World of Warcraft…
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Swann named Teacher of the Year
On November 8, Mr. Swann was named Leesville Road High School’s teacher of the year. Swann has been an instructor with the Special Programs department of Leesville for eight years. Swann was caught off…
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Library offers lots of learning
Oddly enough, the biggest room in Leesville Road High School is one of the most neglected. This aforementioned labyrinth of books and computers is more commonly known as the media center. As I pushed…
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Leesville’s triple threat aspires for Broadway
Logan Williamson, senior, is quite the drama queen. In fact, she hopes to get paid to be one someday. Williamson is one of many Leesville students planning to graduate early and pursue a hobby,…
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Republicans need a spanking
Recently, the Senate finally approved a plan regarding the Bush tax cut conundrum. Unfortunately, and to no surprise, Senate democrats meekly obeyed GOP demands to keep lower tax rates on income, capital gains and…
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Freshmen in 2012 must take and pass two U.S. History classes
Freshmen who enter high school in 2012 must pass two U.S. History classes to graduate. The North Carolina State Board of Education approved a modified curriculum for public schools on Thursday, December 2. The…
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Student bands rock out, prepare for Winterfest
Every December, when the year and the semester are nearing a close, the best of Leesville’s talented musicians start to show their faces… to the entire school. All eyes will be on the Winterfest…
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“Book-A-Minute” – because sometimes even Cliff’s Notes are too long
Since junior year, I’ve been in at least one AP class every semester and usually a few honors courses too. Teachers almost always give their students due dates for assigned books a few weeks…
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Leesville defeated at Brain Game
Leesville Road High School suffered a bitter defeat on Saturday, December 4 at the annual WRAL Brain Game meet. Leesville competed against Terry Sanford High School and Jordan High School. Terry Sanford finished with…
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Senioritis: month four
I was sitting in third period, Spanish, when it happened. I tried to hold it in; I fought it for as long as I could, but it just bubbled inside of me, growing and…
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The battle of the flat-irons
My hair straightener is dead. The Remington Wet2Straight I received in eighth grade has survived through five years of daily use. By sophomore year, I had my routine down to a science, turning the…
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WAKE UP!
As the winter months droll on and students struggle to survive the end of the first semester, attending class is less than appealing. Classroom goals transition from understanding the Balkan genocide to simply keeping…
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The rise of video game addiction
According to the University of Washington, video game sales grew twenty-three percent in 2008. Scientists are beginning to see the correlation between the increase of the video game industry and the increase of video…
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The modern school system transforms students into cynics
It is so easy to become disillusioned that many once-hopeful adolescents revert to apathy. The system of over-testing, memorization based “learning,” and constant (often meaningless) resume building strips students of a desire to learn…
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Merry Chri$tma$
‘Tis the season for spending, but who has the money or the time? As you deck the halls with boughs of holly, consider these money-saving techniques. Drawing names If you come from a big…
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“Doing school:” Rethinking the system of modern education
Metacognition is the awareness of one’s thought process, the ability to think about how one thinks. In “Doing School:” How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Denise Clark…
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The masterpiece of music
Berthold Auerbach, Jewish author, said, “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Although many students may find themselves stuck in an endless routine, music can lessen the drudge of daily…
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Leesville’s mean girls: not so mean after all
Before Lindsey Lohan was in and out of rehab, she was Cady Heron, the “mean girl” that teenagers everywhere knew and loved. After its debut in 2004, the movie Mean Girls quickly grew into…
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Sprinter daters run wild
Every year, at least one Leesville student, male or female, is notorious for dating many people in their class for short periods of time. These people usually go on a couple of dates, but…
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Online identity theft: it really happens
I can always tell by my parents’ tones that I’m in trouble. When I hear that tone of anger, I usually remember my wrong doing and prepare to defend myself for that action. The…
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3D TV is on the rise
When I go home everyday after school, I rarely think about doing homework. Instead, I lay down on my couch, turn on the TV and watch a game, a program or the news until…
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John the rapper
John Wolfe, junior, likes to shop at Hollister. He also enjoys hockey, sings in a choir, and cannot wait to get his braces off. He may seem like your average suburban Caucasian male, but…
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Title IX impacts Leesville
Before Title IX was passed in 1972, there was inequity between the funding of girls’ and boys’ education. It requires “gender equity for boys and girls in every educational program that receives federal funding.”…
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Microsoft teams up with Leesville to pilot new program
On the first day of American Education Week, Nov. 15, Microsoft and the Department of Public instruction announced the implementation of the largest IT Academy in the world across the state of North Carolina,…
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The Bucket List #4: Pride Athletics
During the four years at Leesville, many students choose to take part in a variety of activities, such as acting, being on a tech crew, clubs, or athletics. Like many other Leesville students, I…
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Missed Black Friday? More savings to come, experts say
CNN reported Nov. 29 on the fallacies associated with Cyber Monday, the online shopping phenomenon that occurs the Monday after Thanksgiving. It is commonly known as THE day to shop via Internet. Many people…
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Carolina Panthers: officialy the NFL’s worst team
Murphy’s Law – the idea that everything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong. The Panthers know firsthand how this feels. Twelve weeks into the regular NFL season, your local failing felines own a…
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Students share their fears
Everyone is afraid of something. In America alone, 6.3 million adults, ages 18 to 54, suffer from a specific phobia and 8.5 million more suffer from social and/or agoraphobias. Phobias are defined as one’s…
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Leesville’s Mainstage performs Alice in Wonderland
Leesville’s Honors theater class, Mainstage Theatrics, performed the classic children’s story, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, on stage Tuesday, Nov. 23 in the Leesville Auditorium. Erika Martin, senior, starred as Alice.
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Harry Potter fans experience the new movie and midnight
The newest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, released November 19 at midnight, made $330 million worldwide on opening weekend. Ticket sales made it the largest opening for the…
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Tar Heels athletics struggle
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. For basketball juggernaut North Carolina, that adage could never be more true. After stumbling twice in three days, the reeling number-eight team in the country was…
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Fro yo at Yo Mo
In mid-November, a new frozen yogurt location, Yogurt Mountain, opened in Raleigh on Creedmoor road next to Five Guys. I’m a huge fan of frozen yogurt–I possess frequent buyer cards at both Freshberry and…
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Turkey-day tactics
For most people, the Thanksgiving holiday centers around “the big game.” This game is usually a football game. Because I am not a big sports fan, for me, “the big game” is the Thanksgiving…
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Middle Creek brings dramatic end to Pride’s thrilling season
The 2010 Leesville football season was brought to a spectacular and down-to-the-wire finish in overtime on Friday, November 12, as the #10 Middle Creek Mustangs upset the #3 Leesville Pride 41-40. The connection between…
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Sports in Canada: Not so different
The third round of this insightful column concerns Canadian sports. Now, I am perfectly aware that if there is one thing Americans know about Canada, it’s that Canadians love hockey. Yes, hockey is a…
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Hockey team shows promise
Leesville Road High School offers a vast array of sports teams that effectively display the natural athleticism and skill of the student body. Although most students’ athletic interests are represented by the current selection…
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Originality: the latest fad
In my life, the importance of ‘being original’ is stressed by my parents, peers and the media. “Be Unique!” is a mantra used repeatedly by my parents when I present them with any social…
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Phillips starts Film Club
On Friday, November 5, Leesville’s newly-formed film club had their first meeting, led by advisor Mr. Robert Phillips. Film Club is an extension of a new elective offered to students this year, called Cultural…
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No-Shave November separates boys from men
On Sunday, October 31, LRHS students raised their razors for the last time before No-Shave November began. The month of November is a thirty-day period in which participants resist the urge to shave their…
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Golden joins administrative staff
On November 15, Sherri Golden joined the ranks of the other administrators to fill the gap left by Germaine Jackson, who is leaving in December. Golden will oversee discipline problems for students with last…
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Cheerleaders place second despite injury
On Nov. 13, the Leesville Cheerleading squad placed second in their Small Varsity in the NCHSAA State Cheerleading Championships at the Convention Center. They managed to do well despite having completely changed their routine…
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Women’s Varsity Basketball seeks success
From Nov. 1 to 3, Leesville held women’s basketball tryouts. Coach Poole, women’s varsity basketball coach, said via e-mail, “Tryouts were competitive and intense. We had good numbers, maybe a few more than last…
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Where heart attacks are born
It’s a well-known fact that half of our country is overweight and more than a quarter are considered obese. Or to be a little more blunt, most Americans are a tad hefty. With McDonald’s,…
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Obnoxious girls spark inspiration for blog
Whether you live in an apartment, trailer, townhouse or mansion, every neighborhood has “that neighbor.” The neighbor who evokes a groan from all the surrounding neighbors as they recall the loud-mouthed, 3 a.m.-music-blasting and…
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Senioritis: month three
Upon completing the last of my college applications (which really don’t matter after getting the one acceptance letter I care about), not much has caught my attention regarding the real world. Were those Chilean…
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Mens’ cross country 5th in state
On November 6 the men’s cross country team competed in the NCHSSA 4A State Championship meet at Beeson Park. It was a cold morning and many sweatshirt-clad runners pulled on gloves and hats before…
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Leesville swimmers try out for team
Swim team tryouts took place the week of November 8. They started before school at 5:30 a.m. and concluded at 6:30 a.m. The swimmers started the tryout by swimming 500 yards. After the warm-up,…
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Pride prepares for playoff tests
If the Pride is to make a deep playoff run this year, they will have to start by preparing for one of their toughest challenges of the season Friday, November 12. Game time is…