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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

The Lego Movie surprises with comedic relief, important messages

‘The Lego Movie’ surprises with comedic relief, important messages

Jay Whang February 8, 2014

Remember those Lego toys you played with when you were a kid? Well, somebody in Hollywood thought that they could make an hour and a half movie out of it, and sell it to younger audiences. Before seeing...

I even shook hands with him! Photo by Theresa Whang

Bill Nye trumps Ken Ham in debate on evolution

Jay Whang February 5, 2014

Teaching evolution in public schools has long been one of the most controversial issues in this country. In 1925, a school teacher named John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act,...

Oversimplified U Matter campaign lacks concrete results

Oversimplified U Matter campaign lacks concrete results

Jay Whang February 4, 2014

In 2008, Columbia Public Schools started a program known as U Matter. The program’s main goal is to prevent youth consumption of drugs and alcohol. Before its start, the organization gathered surveys...

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Speaker uses humor to draw attention to U Matter

Jay Whang January 28, 2014

Motivational speaker Kevin Wanzer will speak in the Performing Arts Center second and third period on Jan. 28 to discuss issues such as bullying intervention and personal integrity. Despite being from...

Internet series RWBY is an action-packed adventure, with some flaws

Internet series “RWBY” is an action-packed adventure, with some flaws

Jay Whang January 19, 2014

An obscure YouTube series known as RWBY (pronounced Ruby) gained traction among Internet-users in the last half of 2013. Fan art, fan fiction and other media praising the show exploded over sites like...

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Sousveillance proves that we should adapt into the new world without privacy

Jay Whang January 9, 2014

More than six months after Edward Snowden revealed the National Security Agency’s corruption, privacy-right activists and civil libertarians certain that they are living in a world that George Orwell...

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Selfies at funerals

Jay Whang December 28, 2013

I can’t remember the last time I went to a funeral, but there was one event that relates to one I went to more than five years ago. This event was my late grandfather’s jesa, a Korean veneration ritual...

Why I Dont Need Mens Rights Movement

Why I Don’t Need Men’s Rights Movement

Jay Whang December 20, 2013

I used to be like those boys who enjoy pulling pranks on other girls, calling out how useless and annoying they are, or as Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes liked to call them: slimy. But after all of this...

The Curious Savage

The Curious Savage

Jay Whang December 9, 2013

[vimeo url="https://vimeo.com/82816727" width="640" height="360"] The two-day audition for RBHS’ winter play, The Curious Savage by John Patrick, was held in room 408. Students got their scripts from...

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Season 4 of ‘My Little Pony’ proves successful

Jay Whang December 2, 2013

Since the show first aired back in 2010, nobody had expected to see the growing periphery fandom of the latest My Little Pony reboot, thanks to its mature writing by a children’s show standard. "My...

Students give back by donating blood at Blood Drive

Jay Whang November 8, 2013

A long line of students waited outside of the Auxiliary Gym today, Nov. 8, each one anxiously awaiting for their turn to donate blood. After a long wait in line, each student was checked by a nurse and...

The Bruins warm-up before their first of two sectionals matches.
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Girls’ tennis breezes through sectionals, prepares for state

Jay Whang October 20, 2013

[heading]Bruins defeat Incarnate Word Academy 24-0 and Parkway Central 23-1, advancing to State.[/heading] Even in the breezy morning weather, the Bruin tennis team persevered through the Sectionals tournament....

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