With a 9-2 loss to Millbrook on April 30, Leesville’s first official lacrosse season came to a bittersweet end. The team, coached by Mr. Fullbright, had an impressive record of 8 wins and 8 losses. This was the first year the team played, and for most players on the team, they hadn’t ever played before. [...]

Leesville has participated in several fundraisers in the past: food drives, treats for troops, prom dress drives, and countless more. One particular fundraiser caught surprised me because this fundraiser was more than material items, which are just as vital and important, but it was more emotional and moving. “Striving for More”  isn’t an average fundraiser– [...]

According to dictionary.com, Anime is Japanese movie and television animation, often having a science fiction theme. Leesville’s Anime Club made its first impression on students this month. Not many students knew about the club because they didn’t advertise the club until this past meeting. Being the newest club to form at Leesville, it has several [...]

I was six years old. My brother and I were sitting in the living room watching “The Wiggles” and eating Poptarts. My brother finished his before me and took my Poptart and ate mine too! I did what any normal six year old would do; I bit him. I vividly remember my parents making me [...]

On March 8, 2012, the world celebrated International Women’s Day. First recognized in 1909 as International Women’s Working Day, this day is meant for the celebration of women’s achievements all across the world. “Women deserve a day to be appreciated; after all, we’re awesome,” Kaleigh Thompson, sophomore, said. Countries across the globe have different focuses [...]

Skirts, flip-flops, shorts and dresses fill the halls this winter more frequently than any other winter before. By this time last year, Raleigh had already had three snows and an ice storm. Are we being robbed of our winter? Where’s the snow? School mornings usually start with scarves and jackets, but by the end of [...]

Of the appoximately 2,200 students who attend Leesville Road High School, between 15-20% of upperclassmen are enrolled in AP classes. The maximum number of GPA points a student can receive for an academic classes is 4. If a student earns an A in an honors class, they receive 5 points. What makes an AP class [...]

Due to the lack of ticket sales, this year’s Winterfest Dance was cancelled, but there will still be a Winterfest assembly–Feb. 24. “I’m disappointed because we stayed after school and made decorations, but I’m also slightly relieved because we don’t have to stay after school everyday and try and cram it all last minute,” Emily [...]

Generation Z, today’s 9-21 year olds, is nicknamed the “Do-it-yourself generation.” According to the Institute for Emerging Issues at NCSU, “Generation Z has a casual, personal and direct way of communicating, and social networking is a central part of their lives.” We are characterized by the need to feel constantly connected to the web, the [...]

On Valentine’s Day,  Leesville’s FCCLA club held a “Wear Red Get Fed” event after school. Any student at school wearing red could stop by Mrs. Blackwelder’s room and pick up a cookie. The purpose of the event was to support FCCLA week, which was from February 7th to February 14th. Mrs. Blackwelder, FCCLA supervisor, said, [...]

Students in Apparel I classes are participating in an organized competition by Mrs. Blackwelder: Project Hallway. The name is a spin of the Lifetime Network’s Project Runway, a reality show about designers competing for their own clothes line. “Using the information student learned about the principles and elements of design, students created a sketch of [...]

The WCPSS Office of Special Education Services (SES) is conducting a survey to assess the quality of school and district-level special education for the 19,000 students with disabilities currently enrolled in Wake County Public Schools. SES has identified three specific purposes for the survey: “to identify the strengths and weaknesses of school-level and district-level special [...]

Leesville’s Political Club had its fifth meeting on Tuesday, November 29. They watched about half of the movie W and finished the film the next day. While watching the film, an unexpected announcement blared through the intercom and informed everyone that for the following hour they would be testing the fire alarm. The meeting came [...]

The media in the United States is full of provocative images and stereotypes. We, the television watchers, the radio listeners and the magazine readers, come into contact with the media multiple times every single day. It fills our minds with whatever advertisers want to fill it with. But what does this mean for our generation? [...]

On November 22, 2011 at 2:18 p.m., Leesville Road High School students’ Thanksgiving break begins. The first thing that comes to mind for most students is the 5 day break from school, but the way the spend their time varies from family to family. Most families have the traditional turkey and stuffing, but some are [...]