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NEWS: Bending Boundaries

Lauren Jackson, Reporter November 5, 2024

Lawrence Public School Board’s Boundary Committee is discussing a revision to the high school boundary that currently resides on Bob Billings Parkway. The committee initially proposed four plans including...

INFOGRAPHIC: Meaning of the Semicolon

INFOGRAPHIC: Meaning of the Semicolon

Eula Heriford, Reporter September 30, 2024

The semicolon being used as a symbol for suicide awareness was popularized in 2013, when Project Semicolon was started as a way for people to express their struggles while choosing to persist. The semicolon...

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Lilly Wall

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Lilly Wall

Lilly Wall, News Editor-in-Chief September 30, 2024

Dear Reader, As the first issue of the year lands at the end of September, it arguably hits the busiest month of the school year. The first month of school sports, homecoming week, childhood cancer...

Surveying the damage, science teachers Julie Schwarting and Sam Gleeson take the Green Team to look at their once full garden that was mowed over by the district.

NEWS: Green Gone

Ember Klein, Online Editor-In-Chief September 30, 2024

At the end of the recent school year, members of the Green Team planted an annual fruit and vegetable garden as well as a native plant garden. The Green Team, formerly the Garden Club, advocates for environmental...

Laying open, this book symbolizes the complexity of political views held by people in specific areas of the United States.

EDITORIAL: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Simon Williams, Co-Online Editor-in-Chief September 17, 2024

I have grown up living in rural Jefferson County, Kansas, but have always identified my home town to be Lawrence. With family roots that run deep in both Rice and Sumner counties, I would label my sociocultural...

Working on a project, sophomore Skyler Hansen examines one of the walls. Hansen explained that Geometry and Construction is usually divided up between two periods. “You do an hour of either geometry or construction, depending on what the teachers want to do at the beginning. Then the next hour, you do whatever you didn’t do in the first hour,” Hansen said. “In geometry, you’ll learn a specific set of [information], and in construction, you use that after you learn the geometry.”

FEATURE: Two Birds with One Stone

Arianna Waller, Reporter September 6, 2024

Imagine a class where math crosses with real world situations, not only solving for X, but creating it too. Requested by woodworking teacher Amanda Torbett and backed by math teacher Laura O’Neil, a...

 Math teacher Lawrence Baker advocates for keeping students' phones put away through his numbered cell phone caddy. “I really think this helps some of the students that just reach for their phone out of habit. Asking the students to put their phones in the caddy still requires them to follow the rules and there will always be students who won’t do that, so this doesn’t help them and I end up still having to police those students. That’s why I want to see a total ban,” Baker said.

NEWS: Forbidden Phones

Lauren Jackson, Reporter September 6, 2024

Lawrence Public Schools recently received petitions from Lawrence educators and parents regarding a revision of the student handbook and more specifically cell phone use in the classroom. The petitions...

Superintendent Dr. Anthony Lewis speaks at the 2023 Free State graduation ceremony.

NEWS: Lewis Resigns

Lilly Wall, News Editor-in-Chief August 23, 2024

After six years of managing budgets, monitoring student success, and envisioning goals, Dr. Anthony Lewis has resigned as the USD 497 superintendent to take on a job in Durham, North Carolina. Lewis’s...

NEWS: United States Department of Justice files lawsuit against Apple

NEWS: United States Department of Justice files lawsuit against Apple

Elliot Skillman, Assistant Copy Editor May 2, 2024

On March 21, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the tech giant Apple, with Jonathan Kanter leading the case, claiming that the company has been violating antitrust laws. This...

Student scrolls on banned TikTok.

NEWS: TikTok Stops Ticking

Claire Heinritz, Reporter April 18, 2024

Many students have used or been affected by Tiktok as the trends and audios have become a part of many students' lives. But there is a proposed ban on the app that has, according to cnn.com, passed the...

FEATURE: Electrifying Women’s Soccer

FEATURE: Electrifying Women’s Soccer

Rakshan Ossen, Reporter April 17, 2024

On March 16, the Kansas City Current unveiled their latest soccer stadium, located in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri. The 117 million dollar project promised a picturesque stadium by the Kansas City...

Individual getting into their car in the Free State parking lot.

FEATURE: Protecting The Parking Lot

Maria Mosconi, News Planning Team April 17, 2024

For many students, earning a license means independence. However, with this newfound freedom come new responsibilities and liabilities, especially in the school parking lot. According to the National...

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