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Lawrence Guide 11/22

Sam Boatright, Reporter November 10, 2011

Anthony Bourdain @ Midland Dec. 16 “Food, for me, has always been an adventure.” Chef, travel-show host and culinary expert Anthony Bourdain stops by Midland Theater in Kansas City on Dec. 16 to...

FSHS Principal West Reveals His Weight Loss Secrets

FSHS Principal West Reveals His Weight Loss Secrets

sarah rohrschneider, reporter November 10, 2011

Especially with Thanksgiving around the corner, weight loss may be the last thing students are thinking about. But for Free State principal Ed West, eating right and exercising have been his main focuses...

Local Vs. Corporate

Local Vs. Corporate

emma machell, social media editor October 7, 2011

ICE CREAM Sylas and Maddy's: You will have been there if you’ve ever been downtown. Sylas and Maddy’s is one of the defining stores of Downtown Lawrence. If you have ever walked past Sylas and...

Exchange students from Eutin, Germany

From Eutin, Germany to Lawrence, Kansas

hannah moran and sarah rohrschneider, Reporters October 6, 2011

“Your school here is like a second home,” Mattis Mock said. “To us, school is more like a nasty thing we have to do and we are very happy when it’s over.” About four thousand seven hundred...

Firebird Productions: Students use film skills to give back to community

Natalie Hiebert, Reporter October 3, 2011

You probably have heard or seen some of the work of Firebird Productions, the student run film production class. But many students don’t know that the studio does work outside of the annual homecoming...

The young ones #3- a sophomore’s survival guide to being on the bottom

sarah whipple, reporter September 18, 2011

School is in full swing as teachers begin to assign projects and hand out tests. The weather acclimates into a cool breeze. And the football team settles their plays and starts to have more chemistry as...

The Healthy Option

amani safadi, managing editor September 7, 2011

 Healthier options fill up the birds nest. Last year, Lawrence schools weren’t allowed to sell students carbonated beverages or those with high sugar content, but this year the district is tightening...

Managing Stress 101

hannah moran, reporter September 7, 2011

Junior Grace Oliver knows stress. “My head starts to swim, my heart beats faster and I break into a cold sweat,” she said. Between a frenzy of AP classes, after school jobs,...

The Decemberists

The Decemberists

emma machell, social media editor September 7, 2011

At the risk of sounding like a complete hipster, you’ve probably never heard of The Decemberists. They don’t have the pop sound of Britney Spears or the alternative sound of Vampire Weekend. In fact,...

Rumors & Renovations

hannah moran and kyle freese, Reporters August 29, 2011

Getting a simple slice of pizza has never been so challenging. Despite modifications made to the cafeteria, enormous lunch lines greeted hungry students on their first day of school. Some students spent...

LINKed in for the new year

emma machell, social media editor August 26, 2011

In past years, the sophomores would be greeted by a welcoming committee of specially chosen juniors and seniors in a group called LINK. The new students would be taken to their seminar teacher’s classroom...

To the Freshman….

amani safadi, managing editor August 26, 2011

For many seniors this isn’t the way they imagined their senior year would start. They may feel the freshman are ruining their senior year; a year that is supposed to be the best year of their lives. What...

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