Students explore racial microaggressions in and out of school After meeting in their mosque’s youth group years ago, Japanese-Palestinian junior Hanna Abdulkhaleq and African-American senior Maha Hamed...

 Sophomore Robert Shang sits in the EEE room, surrounded by friends, a binder open in front of him.  As he works on homework, he fiddles with zip of his sweater, worn over a plain T-shirt and shorts,...

Students struggle with maintaining exemplary academics Every day of the fall semester, senior Minna Oba drifted off to sleep around 2:00 in the morning after hours of studying. After a few hours of restless...

Platters of fruit and vegetables lay on the table, and students slowly filed into the classroom , filling the room with a warm buzz of conversation. Some students were in chairs, some leaned against the...

Though it was night, candlelight illuminated the darkness of Speaker’s Circle, spelling three letters: R, D, Y. Razan, Deah, and Yosur; three young Muslim students killed late Tuesday evening at their...

In January two gunmen forced their way into the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters and killed twelve people in retaliation for offensive pictures of the Prophet Muhammad published in the satirical French...

Last January, RBHS Planetarium hosted its first ever laser show. Director of the planetarium, Melanie Knocke, got the idea for the show when she attended a planetarum conference and saw a group presentation...

Throughout the school, tents were set up selling baked goods. Stacy Elsbury’s International Business class teamed up with My Cuisine classes to create “bakeries.” In teams of five, the business students...

The past few years have been ones of change for Columbia Public Schools. With the creation of Battle, a third high school, as well as the implementation of Bruin Block at Rock Bridge High School, students...

In the photo above, RBHS Principal Dr. Jennifer Rukstad talks with police officers during the modified lockdown caused by an anonymous threat on Yik Yak last month. Photo by Devesh Kumar. Recently, an...

Each October high school juniors all across the country take the PSAT, or the preliminary SAT, in hopes of qualifying for the National Merit Scholarship Program. The PSAT has a score index ranging from...