Few people in the Leesville area have not heard about the Wake county school board’s ongoing debate about what calendar would best suit the schools on our campus. The changes that have come from switching from traditional to year round have affected the families of elementary, middle, and high-schoolers alike.
Three years ago, Leesville elementary school [...]

April 21 will be the big reveal for the United States’ new $100-bill, featuring a different portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the front.
Mr. Franklin’s release party will be in the Department of Treasury’s Cash Room, the same room that Ulysses Grant held his first inaugural ball.
The reason for the government’s multiple revisions of American bills [...]

Student-school relationships are a sensitive subject for both parties. In the Supreme Court case of New Jersey v. TLO, it was ruled that students have a lowered expectation of privacy while in school. The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) states that student information cannot be given to a third party without the students [...]

Doodle 4 Google is a competition where Google invites kids of all ages to use their artistic talent to decorate the Google homepage logo.  Google says, “we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we’re inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations…”  This year’s theme is “If I Could Do Anything, [...]

Last year Leesville introduced a new course, Holocaust and Genocide, to the Social Studies Department.
Students were attracted to the class for many different reasons. For starters, the course counts for an honors credit, causing many GPA lovers to enroll. However, not only does this course have credit appeal, but the content of the class intrigues [...]

While the vast majority of Generation Y spends its time anesthetized under an unyielding blanket of high-technology, a smaller portion of precocious teenagers are already establishing their own tiny businesses. The prevalence of these teenage entrepreneurs has increased in recent years, lowering the standard age at which it is possible for one to be his [...]

The Leesville varsity women’s soccer team kicked off the season with a scrimmage against Fuquay-Varina. The Pride defeated Fuquay 8-1 in a lop-sided battle.
One part of the Pride’s success would be newly added attacking midfielder, Kelsey Reeves, freshman. The young Reeves started off her high school career with one assist. “She played great and she [...]

While many teenagers can be found indoors playing video games or using Facebook, Sam Freeze, sophomore, is busy in his backyard building a beehive.
Since a young age, Freeze has kept himself busy with science projects such as building a hovercraft in his garage with some friends and building a rocket-propelled potato launcher.
As a kindergartener, Freeze [...]

The Daily Collegian reported a study that revealed college females who rush sororities have lower self-esteem and worse body image than those who do not.
The public’s response: No $%&#, Einstein.
Northwestern University’s Ashley Marie Rolnik and Steven A. Miller of Argosy University, the innovationists who administered the study “Here’s looking at you: self-objectification, body image disturbance, [...]

Need some advice? In need an unsolicited opinion? Look to the internet, the television, any magazine of your choosing. It seems as though everybody has his opinions in regards to any given topic—and he is eager and willing to share them with you. With the advent of the internet, we have, in recent years, witnessed [...]

According to an apocryphal story, Ponce de Leon trekked to Florida from Spain in the early 1500s with intentions of discovering the Fountain of Youth, a legendary spring that is said to mystically restore the youth of anyone who drinks from it. Leon was ultimately unsuccessful, but the trend toward youth restoration never lost its [...]

Shocking news: spending all your time on the computer instead of focusing on studies directly correlates with receiving lower grades in school.
According to Wired.com, students that use the popular social networking site Facebook record an average of a 3.0 GPA, while those who do not average a 4.0 GPA.
This study should hardly come as a [...]

While the Olympic winter sports have never quite equated the with the summer games in national acclaim, this year circumstances seem to have warranted an appreciation for the international games greater than any in recent memory.
For those who’ve tuned in for the events, the stories behind the athletes have made as notable an impression as [...]

The Leesville Road High School men’s tennis team played an extremely close match at home against Wakefield on March 9. The match ended with a four to four tie, and Nathan Miller and Ben Snell’s doubles match was also forced to end in a tie when it grew too dark to continue playing. Leesville’s match against Wakefield [...]

Whether it was a stroke of luck or simply fate, Apollo Ohno tied Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympic medals won by an American on February 14.
Heading into the final lap of the Short Track Speed Skating 1500m event, Ohno trailed two South Korean skaters.
In a desperate attempt to surpass the other racers, Ohno [...]

After a disappointing third place finish in the Cap 7 conference last season, the Leesville Road High School Men’s Golf team is determined to rebound and win states in 2010.
This year’s team consists of strong returning veterans that include Grayson Murray, sophomore and 17th ranked high school golfer in the nation, Nick Wheeler, senior, Michael [...]