Month: January 2019
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Floral Fever Coming to NCMA
One of the many previous installments that were on display during this annual event. These large, intricate, and organic structures are entirely unique and spectacular to witness. (Photo use by permission of NCMA) Springtime…
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Writer’s Block Can Be Defeated
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us get up and go to work” — Stephen King Running into walls never results in a good time. Upon impact, bones can are…
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Cheez-Its v. Goldfish
If you walk around the Leesville cafeteria during lunch, it is extremely easy to identify Ziploc bags full of salty yellow crackers. More specifically, a vast number of students consume either Cheez-Its or Goldfish…
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Bird Box: Is it Worth the Hype?
SPOILER ALERT I picked up the remote and turned Netflix on. My phone had just sent me a notification that a recommended movie called Bird Box was available. I was bored and…
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Why more people should attend women’s college basketball
North Carolina is home to some of the best college basketball teams in the country with big D1 ACC schools like UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and NC State–college sports are a big deal to North…
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Glass: Make or Break?
The American filmmaker and actor M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Glass, hit theaters last Thursday. The film is a combined sequel to two of his previous movies- Unbreakable(2000) and Split(2016). The large time gap…
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The Possible Death of Tumblr
Tumblr users like to joke that it’s a hell-site but recently that sentiment seems to be truer than ever. Reportedly, users told the Tumblr staff that their bot system meant to filter out explicit…
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Finals are just around the corner at Leesville. Many seasoned students are entering a state of either denial or rushed studying. Freshmen, however, are entering into the unknown Student Views Carter Cruikshank, a freshmen,…
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Students, Time to Put on the B.R.A.K.E.S
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, more teens die everyday in car crashes than cancer, homicide, and suicide. Does this fact surprise you? It definitely surprised me too, at first. But the…
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Winter Break: “just a break”
As of December, 2017 about 90% of Americans celebrated Christmas (Pew Research Center). Many students at Leesville also celebrate Christmas, and associate winter break with last minute shopping, packing to visit family, or hectically…
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Wake County Board of Education approves Ian Solomon as new Leesville Road High School principal
At its January 22 meeting, the Wake County Board of Education announced that Ian Solomon will take on the role of Leesville Road High School’s principal starting February 18. Solomon, who earned his Master…
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Weston Estate: High Schoolers by Day, Hot New Music Group by Night
Marco Gomez, Manas Panchavati, Abhi Manhass, Tanmay Joshi, Ushno Chakraborty, and Srikar Nanduri are seniors at different Wake County high schools. They spend the day taking quizzes and tests, studying, spending time with friends,…
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Exam Week: The Finale
As first semester draws to a close, the pressure of oncoming exams becomes prevalent in every student’s daily routine. We spend days finishing work and nights studying, and class is dedicated to review. Instead…
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Behind the wedding of the Century
It’s May 2009, and you’ve just come home from a long day of first grade. With a cherry popsicle and a bag of chips, you settle down on the couch to watch your favorite…
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Teens at NCMA
Art museums have a reputation of being bland and boring — an archive of paintings that aren’t that unique — and has become a place that don’t seem exciting to teens. Recently however, museums…
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Aquaman: Saving The DCEU
DC Comics was founded in 1934 and has seen incredible success throughout its 85 years in existence so far. Spawning some of the world’s most memorable and influential super heroes ever–such as Batman, Superman,…
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Innovation at Leesville
Over the course of the past two years, a group of sharp Leesville students have worked continuously towards the completion of our school’s first solar car. The car was officially completed in June of…
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Are Finals Fair?
High school students prepare for finals in many different ways. Some create flash cards, highlight important information and review their notes. Others might choose to avoid studying and skip reviewing for their upcoming exams.…
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2019: Here we go
We’ve all heard the phrase “new year, new me” before. Everybody strives to make the New Year their best year, but how often does this really happen? Making New Year’s Resolutions is a worldwide…
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The Hidden Hardships of College Application
How would I describe applying to college in one word? Stressful. With college applications stacking up and a taunting timeline staring back at me, I couldn’t imagine this process being completely stress free. I…
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Aquaman plagued by excessive length, subplots
I looked down at my watch as I sat in the dark movie theater—an hour had passed. Later I glanced at the time again—another hour passed. And then finally, after 2 hours and twenty-two…
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Ditch that keyboard for a pen
Technology holds an overwhelming presence in our lives today. The glowing screens of smartphones mesmerize us; we use them constantly, from surfing the Internet to setting alarms and reminders. When we are not on…
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Georgia O’Keeffe in North Carolina
On the sprawling grounds of NCMA, there is a constant cycle of patrons entering and exiting the East Building. Within the brick walls and past the snaking line for tickets, a new world sits…
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Triangle College Basketball: ACC Preview
The triangles’ heralded teams began ACC conference play this past week. All teams have started their seasons well each with winning records so far, NC State at (13-2) (1-1), UNC (12-3) (2-0), and Duke…
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Classic Romance’s in the Age of Tinder
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want for a wife,” begins Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous…
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Dr. Muttillo: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
In 2012, Dr. AJ Muttillo walked into Leesville ready to provide stability to a school that had been through turmoil principal wise. In 2018, he left for the last time with experience and a…
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Leesville AP Exam Registration Opens
With first semester exams approaching, AP exam registration also lurks. The online registration opened on December 6, 2018 and is open until March 4, 2019. Online registration can be found here. The exams are…
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Newspaper Staff Superlatives: “Most Likely To…”
Most likely to buy out Target: Madeleine Bimonte If you’re ever wondering what to get Madeline as a gift just walk into Target and raid the dollar section. It’s full of fun, quirky, and…
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Advertising Impact
Whether you realize it or not, someone is always trying to sell you something. Every day you will see approximately 5000 advertisements. With a large volume of advertisements being presented to us each day,…
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Rural vs. Urban: Education
Isabel Daumen, senior editor 2018-19
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Leesville Road High School Student Creates A Way to Give Back for the Holidays
Families everywhere prepare for all of Christmas’ festivities for the holiday season. Some children or even adults who are fortunate enough to celebrate Christmas with all of its holiday cheer, do not stop to…
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Leesville grad shares his newly published book and gives special recognition to a former teacher
In a recent LRHS staff meeting, Nathan Coffey a 2007 Leesville graduate returned to Leesville to share the recent publication of a children’s book he wrote. Coffey came to not only share his book…
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Early graduates depart Leesville
For most high school students, June 13 of 2019 will be a day for rejoicing, but for some that day came sooner. Friday, December 14 was the last official day of high school for…
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Irish Dance: Overlooked, but not by Levecque
Traditional, or modern dance, is a common after-school activity for Leesville High School girls. The CDC (Carolina Dance Center) (one of the many Dance Studios available in North Carolina) is where students in dance…
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Ability Grouping–Practical or Ineffective?
For over 150 years, students have been grouped by their academic ability in school. This grouping, called ability grouping or ability tracking, has been a continuous and controversial topic in America. Grouping students by…
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Leesville’s Sophomore Class Council Spreads Holiday Cheer to School Staff
Leesville’s 2018-19 Sophomore Class Council wanted to do something meaningful for the school as the holiday season rolls in, and so they did. Jessica Lee, council president, proposed the idea to raise money in…
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Rolling Admission vs. Decision Dates
Every senior is all too familiar with the anxiety of college applications. After all of the initial effort associated with college applications– resumes, essays, and standardized tests– one might think they have finished all…
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Leesville theatre prepares for the spring musical: Chicago
On Monday, December 17 and Tuesday, December 18, Leesville’s theatre department hosted auditions for the spring musical, Chicago. On both Monday and Tuesday, students interested in being a part of the Chicago cast performed…
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10 Cool Scholarships You Didn’t Know About
It is never too early to begin thinking about college scholarships. While applying for scholarships may be even more stressful and tedious than actually applying to college, the reward is worth the effort. Here…
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Twitter’s Thoughts on Therapy
Twitter takes on many different roles as a social media platform — from offering a platform for commercial businesses to connect to an audience, to becoming a space where people can just rant for…
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Now that Muttillo has left, what does the future hold for Leesville?
On November 8th, students and faculty of LRHS shared a bittersweet moment as Dr. Muttillo’s six-and-a-half-year-long reign on the school came to an end. The administrator we all know and love was promoted to…
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Is It Time For New Netflix shows?
Netflix is one of the premiere websites for watching old television shows that have maintained a cult following throughout the early 2000’s and 90’s. Over the past couple years, many teens have flocked to…
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Race Reversal Character Roles
In the ever-expanding realm of film making, nothing is ever certain, and as time passes, films themselves evolve. Be it the shift from black and white to color, the the transition from practical effects…
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How well do you know the 50 states?
Create your own user feedback survey McKenna Daley, print senior editor
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and into our hearts
The past 18 years have seen an influx of superhero movies, leaving audiences to wonder if Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse would simply be an afterthought in a movie industry run by Iron Man, Captain…
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RJ Wilson’s Commitment to Basketball
Basketball season has finally arrived with thrills and excitement with its persistence, tough grind, and outstanding leadership. RJ Wilson, four-year men’s varsity basketball player at Leesville Road High school, strives to demonstrate those characteristics…
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ASMR: Brain Tingles
One of the most debated topics about high school is the stress that it brings to students. Whether the stress is coming from a difficult class, overwhelment of daily activities, or feeling lost, high…