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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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FSHS Principal West Reveals His Weight Loss Secrets

FSHS Principal West Reveals His Weight Loss Secrets

sarah rohrschneider, reporter November 10, 2011

Especially with Thanksgiving around the corner, weight loss may be the last thing students are thinking about. But for Free State principal Ed West, eating right and exercising have been his main focuses...

Free State Scouts Making a Difference

kyle freese, reporter October 27, 2011

For every 100 boys that enter Boy Scouts, only four manage to reach the level of Eagle Scout. For those who do, the accomplishment serves as a great resource for resumes and general life experiences. Free...

The End of an Innovator: Steve Jobs

sarah rohrschneider, reporter October 20, 2011

The night of October 5, Steve Jobs, the innovator and co-founder of Apple died from pancreatic cancer. “I was sitting on my couch on Facebook when I saw all the status updates that Steve Jobs [had]...

A Day in the Life of a Chesty Lion

A Day in the Life of a Chesty Lion

allison harwood and miranda davis October 6, 2011

Allison’s Blurb: Every Harwood who has ever lived in Lawrence has gone to Lawrence High School. I grew up going to  my cousins’ LHS choir concerts and baseball games. My dad’s cousin is the cheer...

Halloween Express: The New Guys in Town

Kimberly Messineo, Reporter September 30, 2011

Glowing skeletons, scary clowns, bloody vampires and numerous pretty little princesses. Enter what used to be a well-known bookstore in Lawrence, and this is some of what one can find. This...

Free State National Merit Scholars

September 19, 2011

Congratulations to Dawson Conway, Alan Shi, Emily Melton, Sisira Srisutiva, and Meixi Wang for becoming National Merit semi-finalists! They are among 157 students in Kansas to compete for National Merit...

Teachers: Where Are They Now?

allison morte August 22, 2011

There are 40 new teachers in the building, and this year’s roster may look unfamiliar even to a returning senior. With names like Karakas, Finck, Eisert, Rothrock, Nichols, Willson, Rogers, Duran and...

Social Media

miranda davis May 26, 2011

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past several years you probably know what facebook , twitter or myspace is. Teenagers use these social networking sites as a lifeline, even for their...

Rewards in Store for Students who Soar

Rewards in Store for Students who Soar

miranda davis March 31, 2011

Seniors Kelly Phipps and Savannah Franz have spent the past three months writing a thirty page paper in their spare time. The paper is something they have chosen to do for DECA, a business club at school....

Appreciation of the Arts

jacob caldwell March 31, 2011

Our school was well represented at the recent protest against the move to replace the Kansas Arts Commission with a private, nonprofit organization. Several students including Liza Farr, Alec Fitzgerald,...

Snow Day Swap

katie guyot February 21, 2011

The school district is currently working to find a suitable way to make up Douglas County’s five snow days. The Kansas State Department of Education requires school to be in session for 1,116 hours...

Have Heart

Have Heart

katie guyot February 9, 2011

Teacher and volleyball coach Nancy Hopkins is building Free State a cardio fitness center that is quickly packing on the pounds in exercise equipment. “When the school was built, we had a weight room...

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