Elizabeth Lockin

Her favorite book is The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but her favorite way to waste time is to go to StumbleUpon. One of Elizabeth’s biggest goals is to become ambidextrous. She makes up 50 percent of the girls golf team. 2010-2011 were Elizabeth’s first two semesters in newspaper.
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A New Kind of Summer School

The term “year-round schooling” is shudder inducing to most. It brings to mind a tortuous picture of a desperate student traipsing from their home to school every week of every year. Through summer they suffer. In the winter they wither. However, this is term that can’t be taken so literally. A year-round schooling system isn’t [...]

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A Break in the Bahamas

Junior Allison Kaiser shot up to the surface of the water after she realized her scuba diving buoyancy control device had stopped working. “It was so scary. I was freaking out. Everyone was below me. No one knew where I was.” Kaiser said. Kaiser was 60 feet under the water when she realized something was [...]

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Can You Say Sedaris?

I’ll be the first to admit that I am a chronic procrastinator. There is a part of me that thinks I do my best work under pressure. Hindsight can prove this is not the case. Lately I have taken to fueling my procrastination with David Sedaris and his books. And I can’t even get mad [...]

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Parking Lot Mayhem

Sophomore  Rena Knutson laid in disbelief on the cold ground of the student parking lot Feb. 7 after being hit by a car on her way back from lunch. “I was in shock but I remember everything. Did I really just get hit by a car?” Knutson said. “This would happen to me. I was [...]

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