Pierre Lourens served for The Mycenaean in 2008-2009 as a staff writer. In that year, he took on the project of creating the first online edition of The Mycenaean. The following year, he was a co-Editor-in-Chief with Amy Kreis.
An update to Ubuntu, one of the most popular distribution of Linux, was released on April 29, 2010. The 10.04 update, codenamed Lucid Lynx, touts features like a new music store, online synchronization, stability improvements, and a new standard theme. Ubuntu is a free operating system; its users are able to modify the software as [...]
Chat Roulette, a website that randomly connects users via webcam, embraces the ‘Completely Public’ trend already shown by sites like Facebook and Twitter. Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old Russian teenager, created the website in Nov. 2009. The site employs three simple rules: be 16 years of age or older, stay clothed and please click “Report (F2)” [...]
From March 4 through March 11, the Latin club collected animal supplies in an effort to support the Wake County SPCA. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (SPCA) serves to protect and provide shelter for animals. Brian Jackson, senior and president of Latin club, said, “We chose the SPCA because it is [...]
Will Woodhouse, senior class President, won the Benjamin N. Duke scholarship. The scholarship, awarded annually to 13 students from the Carolinas, provides full funding for four years at Duke University. In addition to paying for Duke’s notoriously high tuition, the scholarship funds one 8-week service trip within North Carolina and one summer service trip to [...]
The massive earthquakes which ravaged Haiti and Chile have deserved much media attention for the past couple weeks, but now that aid has filtered in, most news outlets are again focusing on domestic politics and news. Fortunately for those seeking refuge in these countries, Americans realized their plight and donated money to help them. For [...]
On Feb. 23, Leesville parents and community members met with the WCPSS school board to argue for or against year-round schools. Each speaker had two minutes to address the school board members, and participants were encouraged to talk only about year-round schools, not the highly controversial diversity policy or Del Burns’s resignation. Three years ago, [...]
As expected, President Obama focused primarily on the economy in his State of the Union speech. The overwhelming theme of the night was help for the middle class. By proposing fixes to the economy and renewing his push for health care reform, the Obama administration hopes to help the middle class. Other details of the [...]
By Pierre Lourens Staff Writer Reading, for me, is an experience I cherish; the smell of books, the sound of flipping pages, and the beautiful artwork and typography that are essential in transforming a manuscript into a novel are sometimes as important as the words penned inside. For many of technology’s early adopters, however, this [...]
The Leesville dance department’s fall show, “Traditions,” showed off the talents of all dance students, as well as the fun style of the Leesville Dance Ensemble. The dance, performed on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9, started slowly, with a performance from the Dance Ensemble and choreographed to a song from the highly popular Fiddler on [...]
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 [...]
On Nov. 14, Andrew Christian, Nathan Miller and Woong-Soo Lee competed in WRAL’s brain game competition. Leesville competed against Fayetteville Christian School and Tarheel Challenge Academy. Brain Game, a weekly game show aired on WRAL, includes three teams. Each team competes to answer each question as soon as possible, and the points accumulated by each [...]
Almost all people cite childhood suffering—such as families split by divorce or being an only child—as some of the most difficult times in their lives. For Katya Fouts, senior, and Caleb Underwood, junior, however, their life stories differ because they are adopted. Underwood and Fouts were born in Korea and Belarus, respectively. They are two [...]
Despite a hard fight, Leesville’s women’s varsity basketball team lost the season first’s game 31-90 to Green Hope on Tuesday, Nov. 17. LRHS scored the first 2 points due to a technical foul, but after that, the Falcons began to dominate. “We made a lot of mistakes, mostly because we were nervous,” said Lauren Scollard, [...]
Recent studies prove that America’s economic and cultural domination will end within the century. Whether today’s students like it or not, the U.S. is no longer poised to be the world’s biggest or most productive economy, and American graduates are outperformed and, increasingly, jobless. Wake Education Partnership, an organization that claims to promote excellence in [...]
Ten Leesville seniors attended the district interviews for the teaching fellows scholarship, a $6500 per year scholarship awarded to future North Carolina teachers. Teachers, WCPSS employees, and community members interviewed Michelle Meehan, Katie Putnam, Katie Fair, Erin Takano, Jada Mayo, Elizabeth Hawyrluk, Jenna Polleck, Kelly Dunham, Sarah Beth Duncan and Pierre Lourens for the scholarship. [...]