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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

‘The Avengers’ lives up to hype

Avantika Khatri May 6, 2012

The plot, as in most superhero movies, was simple. The bad guys steal something that belongs to the good guys. And the good guys spend the entire movie trying to get it back. The Avengers, the name for...

Today’s election yields 12 representatives for each class

Avantika Khatri April 24, 2012

In today's elections for the 2012-2013 junior and senior class representatives, 33 sophomores ran for junior representative positions, and 28 juniors ran for senior representative positions. Only 12 could...

Spring assembly could use fewer speedos, more substance

Avantika Khatri April 13, 2012

In Rock Bridge tradition, the spring assembly offered more recognition to the school’s athletics than it did to all the recent accomplishments of RBHS combined. It’s not that athletics were not deserving...

Dodgeball tournament draws 120 players

Dodgeball tournament draws 120 players

Avantika Khatri April 13, 2012

[nggallery id=81] Photo gallery by Halley Hollis Global Issues Club hosted a dodgeball tournament last night to raise funds for RBHS' sister school in Darfur, Choula A. The event drew 120 players from...

CACC takes first in JSEHS debate, student continues to nationals

Avantika Khatri March 17, 2012

On Thursday the Columbia Area Career Center took 10 RBHS students, coached by laboratory technology instructor Christine Roberson, to compete in Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium (JSEHS)...

Calc Club, EEE hold afterschool Pi Day celebration

Avantika Khatri March 14, 2012

Calculus Club in collaboration with EEE celebrated Pi Day after school today in room 229. Through pie baking and pi-recitation competitions, the small gathering of people celebrated March 14. The festivities...

MOPTA reflections announces winners

Avantika Khatri March 14, 2012

After receiving 1,324 entries in all, Missouri PTA selected juniors Daphne Yu and Julia Schaller as the only students in the senior category from the Columbia Public Schools district and Heritage area...

Rationalize before supporting Kony 2012 campaign

Avantika Khatri March 7, 2012

Inspiring. Motivating. Sensational. I wanted to do something after watching the Kony 2012 video on March 6. The next day in school, one day after the video aired, I saw posters all over. I was a little...

Summer of Giacomo portrays adolescence perfectly

‘Summer of Giacomo’ portrays adolescence perfectly

Avantika Khatri March 3, 2012

“Summer of Giacomo” was everything a film should be: charming, funny and thoughtful. Most of the Italian documentary took place over one lazy, summer day. The camera, up until the final scene, always...

Enduring ‘Q’ exposes quirkiness of festival

Avantika Khatri March 2, 2012

At 1:20 p.m. documentary enthusiasts filled the side patio in the Ragtag . In spite of the wind and precipitation that the tarp covering did not hold back, they were all there to see "Secret Screening...

Wanderlust exceeds expectations

‘Wanderlust’ exceeds expectations

Avantika Khatri February 25, 2012

“Wanderlust” is more than the goofy romantic comedy trailers make it out to be. The film portrays George (Paul Rudd, "Dinner for the Schmucks") and Linda (Jennifer Aniston, "Just Go With It"), a married...

Custodians labor for school

Avantika Khatri February 25, 2012

When most people are asleep or winding down from a long day at work, thirteen custodians on night duty are still here cleaning up after 1,800 students, scrubbing graffiti off bathroom stalls, picking...

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