Leesville’s Political Club is holding a food drive for the tornado victims of North Carolina.  The food drive began on May 18 and will end on Wednesday, May 25. Donations of canned food and other non-perishable goods should be dropped off in the front or attendance office or in room 124. Eli Kratt, Political Club [...]

On May 13, Leesville’s Choral Department presented the 2011 Spring Concert.  The Beginning Chorus, Intermediate Chorus and Capital Pride all performed a variety of songs. The concert began with all the choral groups filing onto the stage–until the entire choral department was present.  Then the first song, Carly Simon’s, “Let the River Run,” commenced.  The [...]

On Saturday May 15, Scotty McCreery, an American Idol top 3 finalist, returned to his hometown of Garner to perform at Lake Benson Park.  To celebrate his homecoming, the town of Garner sponsored a free parade and concert to honor McCreery. It was a hot and humid afternoon when I arrived at Lake Benson Park, [...]

Three Leesville students were selected to attend the Governor’s School of North Carolina for the 2011 summer session.  Michael Elderkin and Brooks Jordan will attend Governor’s School West at Old Salem college.  Gene Kim will attend Governor’s School East at Meredith College. Elderkin will attend for bassoon, Jordan for vocal music and Kim for art. [...]

On April 27 the Leesville Track and Field team traveled to Heritage high school to compete in the CAP-8 Conference Championship. The men placed second overall and the women placed fourth overall. Briefly before the meet started, rain and thunder threatened to force a cancellation, but cleared up in time to continue.

As technology advances, education will only become more digitalized.  The omnipresence of computers is rising steadily–and will only continue to increase.  The globalization of the job-world, along with the technologically-based attitude of society is not declining.  A slower-paced, simple world sounds ideal, but is not realistic.  So the challenge arises: How do educators prepare students [...]

Bobby Griffin, senior, and C.J. Kimmerly, sophomore, recently competed in the State tournament for wrestling. Both finished in the top 4 in the region in order to qualify.  Griffin placed first in the region. Jason Wyss, coach, viewed the State tournament as a success. “Both Bobby and C.J. wrestled well,” said Wyss.  “C.J. had a [...]

A group of Leesville students including Gene Kim, Gabriel McNair, Bilo Hoese and Andrew Byrum recently co-founded a humanitarian group called Caring4Congo.   Caring4Congo is a local movement, with the same ultimate goals as the national group, RAISE Hope for Congo. Byrum was inspired to create the group after taking Holocaust and Genocide and learning [...]

On March 4 Leesville will host an American Red Cross student blood drive in the auxiliary gym.  In order to participate one must be at least 16 and weigh at least 110 pounds. This year’s goal is to recruit at least 170 donors to donate 130 units of blood. Students are recommended to hydrate and [...]

In the 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama spoke about education in America and what Americans must do to improve it. Obama convinced the nation that this is “our generation’s Sputnik moment.”   That the time for increased focus on education and learning is now. Math and Science must continue to be a priority. [...]

True value is never determined until the moment before it evaporates. And as I hung ornaments on the family Christmas tree this year, I realized that soon it would be a fleeting memory.  I don’t know what it will feel like to come home just for the holidays, but somehow I know it won’t be [...]

It is so easy to become disillusioned that many once-hopeful adolescents revert to apathy.  The system of over-testing, memorization based “learning,” and constant (often meaningless) resume building strips students of a desire to learn for the sake of learning.  Students are trapped within an excessively limited sphere of what defines success. If one cannot cram [...]

Metacognition is the awareness of one’s thought process, the ability to think about how one thinks. In “Doing School:” How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Denise Clark Pope, a teacher, explores the way that students think about school. Pope examines what I like to call, “The system.”  The [...]

On November 6 the men’s cross country team competed in the NCHSSA 4A State Championship meet at Beeson Park. It was a cold morning and many sweatshirt-clad runners pulled on gloves and hats before beginning a pre-race warm-up routine. The Leesville boys ran their warm-up in a pack, jogging an easy fifteen minutes to loosen [...]

Urinary incontinence, or the loss of bladder control, is not a laughing matter.  When one uncontrollably pees while running, it is often referred to as “runner’s bladder.” Despite the embarrassing nature of such a condition–of peeing oneself while running–I find nothing wrong with this quite natural phenomenon.  In fact, I find it to be admirable. [...]