A new policy adopted by the state board of education outlines the standards for a student’s electronic transcript.  This transcript, an official record of a student’s grade point average (GPA), class rank, and end-of-course test scores, is many students’ ticket into college.  Without it, highly competitive universities would have no idea of the difficulty of [...]

The winter season is a time of many holidays, and many students wish to communicate their well wishes to family, friends, and even strangers during this time. There is a dilemma, however, that arises, the question of how to communicate these well wishes.  What phrase is most suitable: “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas”? For Alexa [...]

Argatha Williams is the custodian that we all know from the halls. She smiles, waves and greets every student she sees. Her gleaming optimism puts a smile on any weary student’s face, and she loves that. Argatha is, in entirety, a ray of sunshine. “She’s really nice, and she lifts my mood if I’m having [...]

Public schools nationwide are trying out a new system of organization in the classroom: gender separation. After noticing a trend of female students consistently scoring higher on reading tests than male students and then the opposite on math tests, the eighth-grade teachers at Woodbridge Middle School in Virginia decided to take action. They formed single-sex [...]

Mainstage is the honors theater program offered by Leesville High School. Every year, Mainstage prepares a short show of one or two scenes and competes with other high school drama companies in the area. This is not your average theater class, though. Mainstage is a class with an audition process. “Auditions are scary, but auditioning [...]

International Thespian Society inductions took place Thursday, Dec. 10. Students who have logged one hundred hours or more in at least two aspects of theater (acting and tech, two different tech crews, etc) are eligible for induction. There is a tradition among the club members that, on the day of the induction, the newcomers must [...]

The end of the world may be a lot closer than the Mayans ever guessed. Only this time, it will not be because of some environmental disaster, and it will certainly not be an event starring Nicholas Cage. Iran is actively pursuing nuclear power, claiming that they only intend to use it for energy needs. [...]

Leesville Road High School students and faculty participated in another successful annual food drive.  The drive lasted from November 13 through December 1 to benefit people of Central and Eastern North Carolina. The executive council collected money and canned foods for every second period class.  Each dollar counted as five pounds of food, and the [...]

Sometime in the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov 29, several  individuals broke into the modular units at Leesville Road High School. “I woke up Monday to Ms. Floor calling me at 6 in the morning because a janitor had called her complaining about broken glass in the modular unit,” said Officer Faust, the second [...]

On December 8, America celebrated the anniversary of E.C. Segar, the cartoonist who created Popeye the Sailor. That cartoon, along with other classics such as Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons epitomized the American way of life. Yesterday, I turned on the television to watch what I assumed would be the [...]

The Leesville Varsity football team wrapped up its fourth consecutive winning season on Friday, Nov. 20, with a 36-8 loss against Fayetteville’s Jack-Britt High School in the second round of the state playoffs. Even though the Pride finished the regular season with an 8-3 record, some fans see the season as a disappointment. “We didn’t [...]

This year, as the nation’s economy plummeted into a downward spiral, thrift stores’ popularity skyrocketed.  According to The National Association of Resale and Thrift Stores, www.Narts.org, their business grows at least five percent every year.  Second hand stores usually get stereotyped as unworthy for North Raleigh’s upper middle class and only a place for the [...]

For many students at Leesville, student teachers have become commonplace.  By the time most graduates have concluded high school, they will have had at least one student teacher.  The opinions regarding these individuals, however, tend to differ among the actual student teachers, veteran teachers and students.  So the question remains—how beneficial is student teaching? Student [...]

Maybe the country should have expected that President Barack Obama’s first State Dinner would not pass without notice.  Few could have guessed, however, that Tuesday, Nov 23 would mark yet another sensational incident in the president’s political career. Within hours of their attendance, Michaele and Tareq Salahi’s notorious party crashing of the White House State [...]

Geoffrey Phillips, junior, cheers for the Elite Cheer and Dance team in his spare time. Recently, Phillips aided his team in winning an Americheer competition on November 14 and 15 in Columbus, Ohio. For Phillips, cheerleading is a newfound talent. Previously an avid gymnast, Phillips was in peak physical condition to join the Elite Cheer [...]