Yearly Archives: 2010

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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