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Girls’ lacrosse rolls on with seven straight wins

Goureesh Paranjpe staff writer After a shaky start to the season, the varsity girls’ lacrosse team has finally found their groove, and they are letting their opponents know it. In a tight-knit match up on April 24, the girls came out on top against their rival team Churchill with a win, to bring their overall [...]

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• Texas fire devastates small town of West; kills 14 people and destroys 75 homes

  Liz Leung staff writer Tragedy hit the small town of West, a town in central Texas, on Wed., April 17, when an explosion at a fertilizer plant swept flames across the town,  killing at least 14 people, including four rescuers, injuring as many as 200, and demolishing an estimated 75 homes. Although authorities have located [...]

• Maryland General Assembly passes marijuana, gun control bill, awaits O’Malley’s approval

  Myles Romm staff writer Throughout the month of March, Maryland lawmakers have been working hard to pass major legislation. The first bill that quickly passed was a bill relating to the amount of medical marijuana a patient’s caregiver can handle and soon after they produced another major bill that will enforce major restrictions on guns. [...]

• They’re still kicking: celeb death hoaxes hit the internet

  Tej Joshi staff writer Imagine being on the internet going on Facebook, Twitter or just surfing the web and coming across an article, tweet, or post incorrectly saying that a celebrity had just died. For internet users, this is a real threat. Over the past year there have been multiple celebrity death hoaxes including Adam [...]

• Rap and hip-hop evolve to return to the truth: Music and artists have changed. Now, some are coming back to talking about life

  Aaron Tian staff writer It started with a hip, a hop, a hip-hip-hop and now the whole team here; the rap game has changed a lot since its conception in the late ‘70s. From the simple times of MCs kicking funky rhymes to olden days of rappers spitting in golden ways, hip-hop has seen an [...]

• Students’ hard work pays off at Arts Festival

  Olivia Benzaquen staff writer Displays, paintings, and drama, oh my! Have no fear; the annual Festival of the Arts is here. From 7 to 9:30 p.m. on April 29 to May 2, the annual Festival of the Arts will celebrate the arts department while recognizing the many talented students the school has to offer. The [...]

• Coachella festival comes to an end after two

  Courtney Pories arts editor The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival concluded its 2013 run on April 21, bringing its longest streak in history to an end. Until 2013, Coachella lasted only one weekend. This year, the festival brought together 175 performers and thousands of dedicated fans to Indio, California, for two weekends of [...]

• Baseball secures winning record in conference play with two wins

  Nellie Allentuck staff writer Coming off of two strong wins over Churchill and Clarksburg, baseball has improved its record to one game under .500, sitting at 5-6, 4-2 at home.   Facing their rival, the Patriots went into the game coming off of their fourth win of the season. Senior pitcher Andrew Craig pitched the [...]

• Tennis drops first match after 57 wins

  Eric Shumacher staff writer Game. Set. Match. These three words define the boys’ varsity tennis team’s 2013 season as they have dominated their competition with a record of 9-1.   In the Patriots’ biggest match up of the season, the team was handed their first loss when they played against Churchill away on April 24. [...]

• Without social media penalties, cyberbullies roam free

  Rebecca Jahnke features editor The Social Network (2010)—anguishing over his break-up with then girlfriend Erica Albright, Mark Zuckerberg creates a site for male students to rank female classmates. Upon encountering one another months later, Albright retorts: “As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever, it would be a crime for it [...]

• College tuition is killing the American Dream

  Mia Saidel Editor-in-chief In order to experience the benefits of the American dream, education is the primary yet pivotal step toward achieving them. However, with steep university prices nearly doubling the rate of inflation, the prospect of higher education is becoming harder to obtain for many graduating high school students.   In 1970, a standard [...]

• All Grown Up: The End

  Ladies and gents, the end is here. Our final installment of “All Grown Up” has arrived. As our send-off, we’d like to leave our dedicated readers with a few gems of advice. As seniors who have experienced it all, we have seen everything from the glories of MCPS education to the scum of the system. [...]

• J & J: March Madness

  March Madness. Every sports fan’s favorite event has lived up to the hype this year. In a first round that saw more upsets than the entire tournament did one year ago, nothing is certain. And this is what brings us to the worst part of the best sporting event of the year. Some call them [...]