Leadership academy boosts Leesville softball
Hoping to create “true leaders” for the softball program, Coach Tadlock, LRHS varsity softball coach,...
Winterfest: a Harry Potter Yule Ball
Senior Class Council and Executive Council are beginning to make preparations for the Winterfest Assembly...
Swann named Teacher of the Year
On November 8, Mr. Swann was named Leesville Road High School’s teacher of the year....
Library offers lots of learning
Oddly enough, the biggest room in Leesville Road High School is one of the most...
Leesville’s triple threat aspires for Broadway
Logan Williamson, senior, is quite the drama queen. In fact, she hopes to get paid...
Republicans need a spanking
Recently, the Senate finally approved a plan regarding the Bush tax cut conundrum. Unfortunately, and...
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....
Student bands rock out, prepare for Winterfest
Every December, when the year and the semester are nearing a close, the best of...
“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...
Leesville defeated at Brain Game
Leesville Road High School suffered a bitter defeat on Saturday, December 4 at the annual...
Senioritis: month four
I was sitting in third period, Spanish, when it happened. I tried to hold it...
The battle of the flat-irons
My hair straightener is dead. The Remington Wet2Straight I received in eighth grade has survived...
The rise of video game addiction
According to the University of Washington, video game sales grew twenty-three percent in 2008. Scientists...
The modern school system transforms students into cynics
It is so easy to become disillusioned that many once-hopeful adolescents revert to apathy. The...
Merry Chri$tma$
‘Tis the season for spending, but who has the money or the time? As you...
“Doing school:” Rethinking the system of modern education
Metacognition is the awareness of one’s thought process, the ability to think about how one...
The masterpiece of music
Berthold Auerbach, Jewish author, said, “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday...
Leesville’s mean girls: not so mean after all
Before Lindsey Lohan was in and out of rehab, she was Cady Heron, the “mean...
Sprinter daters run wild
Every year, at least one Leesville student, male or female, is notorious for dating many...
Online identity theft: it really happens
I can always tell by my parents’ tones that I’m in trouble. When I hear...
3D TV is on the rise
When I go home everyday after school, I rarely think about doing homework. Instead, I...
John the rapper
John Wolfe, junior, likes to shop at Hollister. He also enjoys hockey, sings in a...
Title IX impacts Leesville
Before Title IX was passed in 1972, there was inequity between the funding of girls’...
Microsoft teams up with Leesville to pilot new program
On the first day of American Education Week, Nov. 15, Microsoft and the Department of...
The Bucket List #4: Pride Athletics
During the four years at Leesville, many students choose to take part in a variety...
Missed Black Friday? More savings to come, experts say
CNN reported Nov. 29 on the fallacies associated with Cyber Monday, the online shopping phenomenon...
Carolina Panthers: officialy the NFL’s worst team
Murphy’s Law – the idea that everything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong. The...
Students share their fears
Everyone is afraid of something. In America alone, 6.3 million adults, ages 18 to 54,...