Jaci & Those Guys prepare for tour

February 25, 2011 • Meaghan Miller  
Filed under Features

Summer for “Jaci & Those Guys” starts the second week of June with a 30 day tour across the southern U.S..  While on tour, the band will perform every other day, including an engagement at Cowboys Stadium on June 25. Freshman Jaci Butler fronts the band as lead singer with guitarist Matt... Read more »

Give us a break by giving us phones at lunch

February 23, 2011 • Naome Kadira  
Filed under Opinions

Students are restricted from using their cell phones between the school hours of 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on campus. This restriction includes lunch, when the students are outside of class and aren’t learning. There is no reason why students should be restricted from phone usage during their lunch... Read more »

Employees should be drug tested

February 23, 2011 • Elizabeth Godwin  
Filed under Opinions

Upon employment at  all work places, it should be required by law to take a drug test, testing for all narcotics. It is outrageous, that we allow people to go to work under the influence. Not only is it dangerous to the customers, it is also endangering the other emplyees. Someone’s actions while... Read more »

Extending the grading period was welcome relief

February 23, 2011 • Naome Kadira  
Filed under Opinions

Last week the District made a last minute decision to extend the current grading period a week longer than originally planned. Though it was a last minute, unexpected, and unpopular decision among students, it was a helpful decision to both students and teachers. Because of the five day unexpected snow... Read more »

Family shares tragic story to save one life at a time

February 14, 2011 • Eunique Jones  
Filed under Features, Top Stories

Instead of attending her graduation in May, the Brown family is traveling across Texas to share the story of Alex’s death. Alex Brown died on Nov. 10 while texting and driving.  “Alex was a bubbly and outgoing girl,” mother, Jeanne Brown, said. “She could cheer people up and friends would go... Read more »

Enlistment included waiting and gorging on PB&J

February 14, 2011 • Bryan Lockhart  
Filed under Opinions

 On Nov. 5, at 4 a.m. the hotel phone rang while the alarm clock woke us up at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Market Center. We had only 55 minutes to get downstairs to check out, eat, and get on the bus to go to the Dallas Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS).  Upon arrival at the MEPS, an Army... Read more »