Category: News
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Breaking Down Collaborative Work
It’s a common issue: Your partner for a project is unresponsive and unwilling to do their share of the work. You’ve tried to communicate with them, tell them what to do, and how to…
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My experience with the Carolina Hurricanes
At a young age, I became a huge fan of the Carolina Hurricanes. My family always tells me about how I was obsessed with Bates Battaglia– or how I said it at the ripe…
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A Look at Leesville Students Consistent Complaint Through the Years
In August, 1993 Principal Richard Murphy opens Leesville Road High School to over a thousand students and sixty staff members. Since then, Leesville has started and ended many high school traditions and has seen…
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Mental Disorders in Teens
Keeli Johnson, staff writer
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Open Letter to Juniors
Dear Class of 2020, You are juniors! Hard to believe, right? It seems like just yesterday it was your first day of freshman year, and now you are only a couple short years from…
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A bright future for the Leesville XC team
After a successful season of racing, the cross country teams have started to buckle down and focus on the most important meets of the season: CAP-7, Regionals, and the NCHSAA 4A State Championships. Looking…
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Morgan Street Food Hall: Raleigh’s Hidden Gem
Downtown Raleigh is a bustling, lively area that is growing more popular as reconstruction and development progresses. Many new unique and trendy shops, restaurants, galleries, and offices are springing up — as well as…
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The 2018 NC State Fair Opening Day–Students React
On October 12, the annual NC State Fair had its big opening day, originally supposed to be Thursday, the 11. Due to weather conditions caused by Hurricane Michael, Kent Yelverton (NC State Fair manager)…
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What Will Instagram Look Like in 10 Years?
Instagram is a popular social media platform, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, sold to Facebook in 2012. Most recently, instagram has added features that allow you to automatically schedule instagram posts, filters…
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A Crowded Murphy
Leesville Road High School’s campus contains two buildings. Each building holds several classes for students to attend. One of the two buildings is the Murphy building; it is connected to the main building of…
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Art on the Ocean: Robert Patterson’s Art Career
In the great era of comic books, there were plenty of sources of inspiration to any aspiring artists. For one young boy in particular, it was the beginning of a life-long career in a…
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“Sticker Bombing” at Leesville
Sticker Bombing at Leesville by Lucelia Leen on Exposure Lucy Leen, editor in chief
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Demographics of Leesville
It’s predicted that by the year 2045, the white population will make up only 49.7% of Americans, a phenomenon known as “the white minority.” The world today is engaging in more cultural and racial…
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Venom Movie Review
Venom is the origin story of the classic comic anti-hero of–you guessed it–Venom. Eddie Brock, played by Tom Hardy, is an investigative reporter and an anti-hero in his own right. Brock utilizes shady and…
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Leesville Road traffic through the eyes of a Loonie
One parking lot entrance + hundreds of student drivers = one daily chaotic mess. Any Leesville driver can tell you that entering and exiting the student parking lot is no walk in the park.…
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October Print Edition
McKenna Daley, print senior editor
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UNCW Students Launch We Wilm Rebuild
As Hurricane Florence fizzles out, devastation to cities throughout North Carolina continues to pile up, requiring many students enrolled in eastern North Carolina colleges to remain with family and friends. The University of North…
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Leesville Welcomes a New Assistant Principal!
With each new school year comes new staff and new students. This year Leesville Road High School has the privilege to know assistant principal, Mr. Stewart. He assists students with last name A-C. With…
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Homecoming 2018: A Recollection
Homecoming Week 2018: A recollection by Matt Wiener on Exposure Matt Wiener, senior staff writer
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How Large Class Sizes Affect Students
Every day approximately 2,800 students walk through the doors of Leesville Road High School and into the classrooms of approximately 140 teachers. Class sizes vary amongst however the average class size is typically 25…
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Relief After Florence Volunteer Day
Wednesday September 19 was a day off for all traditional Wake County schools. While others were peacefully sleeping in my family and I decided to do something that would benefit others. My mother, who…
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Why you should join SNAC
Special Needs students make up around 1% of the school’s population, but they are often overlooked at Leesville. SNAC — Special Needs Awareness Club — gives students at Leesville the opportunity to interact and…
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Photography Club’s First Meeting of the Year
On Thursday September 27, Photography Club met in room 223 to introduce new members and some new changes to the club this year. With new leadership in place, the club has new goals and…
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Infographic: The U.S. Supreme Court
William Dunn
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The Importance of AP World History
LRHS offers a selection of classes with a variety of difficulty levels ranging from academic to honors to AP. Students choose classes that they feel will challenge them. Austin Ferrand is a freshman this…
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2018 Spirit Week
Spirit Week is fast approaching for Leesville Road High School and is set to commence in the first week of October. Monday is designated as marvelous Monday, Tuesday as character day Tuesday, Wednesday as…
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Does Working During the School Year Affect Student Performance?
Being a high schooler has become relatively more expensive, as upperclassmen gain the privilege to eat off campus during lunch and have their own car. With that privilege, it tempts students to run through…
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After 17 years, We Will Never Forget
Seventeen years after the tragedy, America is still shaken up from those planes that hit the Titan Towers and Pentagon. The amount of lives affected by the terrorist acts that occurred on September 11th,…
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Leesville’s Orchestra
In a crowded room with forty students inside, beautiful harmonies come streaming into the hallway. The look of focus on the student’s faces show their passion for their music. Instruments held with grace and…
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What is ‘Red4EdNC’?
‘Red4EdNC’ may just look like a jumble of letters and numbers; however, it represents a teacher organization in which teachers and supporters wear red in support of North Carolina education on Wednesdays. It began…
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Tardies: Should Students Be Excused for Morning Athletic Practices?
Students who play sports and have morning practices as a part of their athletic schedule are penalized for being late to school after their morning practices. Should athletes be excused for the inconvenience of…
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Senior Privileges
Senior year has begun for Leesville Road High School’s class of 2019. As the students kick off their final year at Leesville, they can take advantage of the perks that come with being a…
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Real ID in North Carolina
Throughout the school year at Leesville, many students make the horrid trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles to test for their driver’s permit or driver’s license. Recently, the lines at the DMV have…
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Following the class of 2021 into Sophomore year
One year ago the class of 2021 reflected on their first days of high school. With their freshman year under their belt, they are now reflecting on the start of their sophomore year. As…
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AP Summer Work: Why It Is Necessary
The bane of many student’s vacations, summer work is a staple for nearly half of all advanced placement (AP) courses at Leesville Road High. While many students find the prospect of completing school work…
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James Bunton: Aspiring Medieval Blacksmith
Everyone has their hobbies. Some people like sports, some like knitting, and some people like to spend their weekend forging weapons. James Bunton, a sophomore at LRHS, spends his free time blacksmithing. While blacksmithing…
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Foreign Language Classes and the Future
Today, a total of 7,106 languages are spoken around the world. At Leesville, students have the opportunity to learn three of them. The two credits in either Latin, French, or Spanish are a controversial…
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Yo, Vikings!: What is it?
School is back in session, and with it the theater department is getting ready to start their fall season. Similar to one of last year’s fall productions, this year’s fall show is actually a…
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Preparing for Florence
Preparing for Florence | Piktochart Visual Editor Source: Preparing for Florence Mariana Herrera, senior editor
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Leesville Takes the Student Section Seriously
As summer comes to an end, football season at Leesville is beginning again. As the weather starts to cool off, the excitement from the student section is as vibrant as ever. The varsity football…
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Ciao from Italy and Spain!
Imagine a gorgeous landscape, with towering churches and open air markets along with endless cultural festivities and gorgeous beaches. Spain and Italy are the epitome of these characteristics, and are breathtaking to visit. This…
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Chess Club In Action
Chess Club is a new organization to Leesville Road High School inspirited by Jonah Gronstein. Gronstein is the president of the club, trying to inspire the game of chess to our community and youth.…
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Al Neuharth Journalism Conference: Looking back at my D.C. trip
Page by page, I browsed through my Google search for scholarships. As I scrolled through the list of web pages, nothing grabbed my interest. Not until I came upon one link, about a scholarship…
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Wave Em’ High: Leesville’s Color Guard
Bright, colorful flags flying in the air as students dance beneath them, completely in tune with the Symphonic band nearby. Rifles tossed in the sky as the group marches onward with determination. While associated…
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Last Weekend of Summer
The reward after the first week of school for students comes in the form of Labor Day weekend. It is often considered the last weekend of summer and for many, it is the last…
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Freshmen React to Their First Week of High School
The transition to high school is a different experience for all students. Some middle schoolers transition to high school with a breeze, and others may have a harder time adjusting. Andrew Stepanian–a freshman at…
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LEO Club 2018-2019
The Leadership, Experience, and Opportunity Club, also know as LEO Club, held their first meeting of the year during lunch this past Wednesday, September 5. The interest in the club was large with over…
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Phone Pouches at Leesville
This school year, the Leesville administration and school improvement team decided to implement a new cell phone policy in classrooms. The new policy includes “CellSlips,” pouches designed to block all signals to the phones once…
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Leesville Liaisons Host Another Successful New Student Lunch
During the first three days of the 2018-2019 school year, Leesville Liaisons organized new student lunches in order to introduce new students to the Leesville community. The lunch offered a variety of food spanning…
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Asian Representation is at its peak- Just not for dark-skinned Asians
Tum khali ho jaogi, a Hindi phrase that roughly translates to “You’ll turn dark”, and something I heard often as a child. Every time I wanted to play outside, my family would remind me…