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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

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Pregnancy prevention: Government should provide birth control

April 26, 2012

By age 45, half of all women will have experienced an unintended pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute. These unplanned pregnancies have serious consequences. The Minnesota Department of Health...

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...

The story of a paper from a writer’s perspective

Adam Schoelz April 13, 2012

Story Idea Day A paper without stories is kind of like a person without organs — it’s thin, flimsy and kind of gross. For that reason, while everyone was still exhausted and bleary-eyed from the late...

Classical music deserves student attention

Classical music deserves student attention

Parker Sutherland April 12, 2012

So many artists are flashy, auto tuned monsters trudging out single after single; there’s no true quality, but an overabundance of quantity. True artistry lies within our very building in the young...

Comfort blooms in home, familiarity

Abbie Powers April 4, 2012

A spring break spent in Paris, France was only 50 feet from its close. As my driveway grew into sight, I gathered some composure, forced my weighted lids apart and realized how far I’d come. Paris is...

Race dictates nothing; socioeconomic status matters more

Daphne Yu March 22, 2012

Colleges use affirmative action to diversify campuses. The Supreme Court decided to uphold affirmative action in 2003 because colleges favor "underrepresented minority groups" in admissions. However,...

Benefit others with ethical careers

Daphne Yu March 22, 2012

If you could help either one person or 10 people with similar amounts of effort, what would you choose to do? We could probably agree that helping 10 people is the more reasonable choice. Helping one...

Bill conflicts with American ideals

Mahogany Thomas March 21, 2012

House Bill 1186 has a one word description discriminative. While awaiting Senate debate, the bill questions Missouri’s acceptance toward certain ethnicities, alluding to the idea that Missourians find...

AP students should not pay for exams

AP students should not pay for exams

Isaac Pasley March 17, 2012

No matter how they cut it, a hard fact of life for high school seniors is that college is expensive. According to U.S. News, the average cost of college in 2010 was about $20,000 for public schools and...

WWII veteran changes student perspective by sharing life experiences

WWII veteran changes student perspective by sharing life experiences

Mariam Yayha March 14, 2012

These days it is hard to find true sacrifice. When surrounded by misleading organizations and hypocritical leaders, it’s hard to put your faith in people. Today, March 9, a man of a different era honored...

Limbaugh incident highlights double standard

Jessica Jost March 9, 2012

I confess; I never paid Rush Limbaugh much attention until this weekend when on a segment of Limbaugh’s radio show where he called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke “a slut” for testifying in front...

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...

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