Second Year of Ignite Coming to End

LaQwitha Thomas, Sports Editor
January 27, 2012

When a freshman comes to high school they enter a whole new world where the people are meaner, the school is bigger, and the grades actually count for something. LHS adopted a new program last year, Ignite, to solve this problem and to let the freshmen know and understand things about high school. According... Read more »

Kay Hopes to Rebuild Aca-Dec

Ceejae Molina, Managing Editor
January 26, 2012

For the past two years, LHS has had little success in forming an Academic Decathlon team. Science teacher Erin Kay hopes to change that. In order to spark interest, Kay recruited some freshman volunteers to help work the Academic Decathlon meet LHS hosted. “We had 41 student volunteers working... Read more »

LHS should be embarassed

Ceejae Molina, Managing Editor
January 26, 2012

This past weekend, LHS hosted an Academic Decathlon regional meet where a total of 19 schools competed in 10 academic disciplines: science, social studies, language and literature, economics, art, music, speech, interview, essay and something called  Super Quiz. The schools were divided into large schools,... Read more »

The State of the Union

Nathan Smith, Staff Writer
January 25, 2012

On the night before last, President Obama addressed the nation in the annual State of the Union speech – an event that allows the president to speak directly to the Congress and the American people about his goals and promises to the country.In the speech, Obama recapped on the accomplishments... Read more »

Congress Looks to Control Internet Sites

Fatima Youssef, Contributing Writer
January 24, 2012

Many people were probably wondering why on Jan. 18 the Google logo was blocked on the computer, but most people did not stop to think twice about what this black strip blocking the Google logo’s meant. There was a more in-depth meaning that would affect society in general. The House of Representatives’... Read more »

Swim team performing well in pre-district period

Elsi Hernandez, Staff Writer
January 22, 2012

Despite having nearly a month off, the swim team was right on track in reference to their performance at their last meet of the pre-disdtrict season Monday afternoon. Both the girl’s and boy’s teams placed first and the whole team placed first overall against Pinetree and Nederland. Other... Read more »

Perry Drops from Republican Nomination

Nathan Smith, Staff Writer
January 19, 2012

Chart showing TV ad spending in South Carolina ahead of the Jan. 21 primary by Super PACs on individual GOP presidential candidates. Los Angeles Times/MCT 2012 Just hours before the final GOP presidential debate last night, Rick Perry announced that he is dropping out of the race and has endorsed Newt... Read more »

Lissette Gonzalez

January 19, 2012

Lissette Gonzalez is a senior and is a very outgoing person who loves to smile and laugh. She also loves to make people laugh and goof around. She loves being with her friends and family. When she is not with her friends or family, she is at church with her dance ministries. In her spare time, she likes... Read more »