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The Lamplighter Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Lexington, KY
Issue Date: Friday, April 15, 2011 Issue: April 2011 Last Update: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
  • Look out: AP changes are coming

    Wednesday, April 13, 2011 By: Julie Graf

    In the month of April, Advanced Placement classrooms become a flurry of activity as students prepare for the exams in May. Study guides are assembled, pencils sharpened, binders and notes adorn many a

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  • Arab world protests publicized

    Wednesday, April 13, 2011 By: Helen Fu

    An unprecedented wave of revolutionary demonstrations and protests has been taking place in the Middle East and North Africa since December 2010.

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  • Print Moves to Screen

    Wednesday, April 13, 2011 By: Ali Colwell

    Most people can recall a not-so distant past in which paperboys worked the morning streets on bicycles. When reading the daily newspaper was a morning ritual in many households.

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  • Shogun 2: Total War versus Star Craft: Wings of Liberty

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Max Ain

    The days of 2-D graphics, static game play and generic back stories in strategy games have come and, thankfully, gone. The evolution of these video games are now producing new and exciting worlds of f

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  • Are we racing to nowhere?

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Alex Davis

    In the rush to repair and reform the American education system it seems that everyone who has ever gone to a public school feels as if they have the answer as to what is wrong with schools.

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  • The modern "L" word: is it "LOL" or Love?

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Amanda Hancock

    I have a confession to make. I think I missed High School Dating 101. Or maybe I just forgot to pick up the updated manual. I thought wearing Toms and listening to Taylor Swift would help, but I

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  • Confessions of a Closted Nerd: Super Roles for Super Heroes

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Clay Winstead

    If you were to visit the Facebook page of one of your more nerdy friends and looked at their list of “people who inspire you,” more than half of them would be superheroes. Nerds love these masked vi

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  • Teachers honored at FAME awards

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Vicki Harrington

    Cards filled with gratitude, flowers for recognition, and even heartfelt letters are ways to let a mentor or teacher know that you appreciate all they have done for you. If none of those ideas seem

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  • Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Baking with Emaan and Harper

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Harper Smith and Emaan Qureshi

    Everybody loves cookies, but sometimes those cold store-bought cookies just do not cut it anymore. How about some warm chocolate chip cookies, chewy oatmeal cookies or delicious snicker-doodle cookies

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  • Popular patterns for prom

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011 By: Sarah Hadi

    Prom is, beyond a doubt, one of the best and most memorable nights of high school and Dunbar’s prom is no exception. With Dunbar’s prom less than a month away, the prom frenzy has officially kicked in

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Illuminating the News for the Students By the Students

At-a-glance

"We worked all year for two and a half minutes,” said head cheerleading coach Mrs. Donna G. Martin upon returning from the national championships
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Sweep the plate. Dig in. It is game time. The turf-and-dirt diamond is calling back Dunbar’s baseball team to take on another challenging year as the 2011 season gets under way.
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The Dunbar swim teams left several other high schools in their wake as they furiously dove into championship meets this past season.
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Every music fan wishes he or she could have the opportunity to see a favorite act, live. And now, listeners of all different genres of music will be happy to know that this wish is quickly becoming a
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Freefall into this story
The cover of Mindi Scott’s debut novel Freefall intrigued me to pick it up. The image of broken glass was strong, but the cover barely begins to convey the intensity of the book.
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Instead of dribbling a basketball or flipping through pages of Junie B. Jones books, young hands clutch the triggers of machine guns. They are forced to fight. They are forced to kill. hey are child s
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Sitting in the burgundy seats of the James R. Halley Theater as the lights come up for the final curtain call of Hairspray, it is hard to hold my emotions in check when senior Becca Kelly takes her fi
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Prom is, beyond a doubt, one of the best and most memorable nights of high school and Dunbar’s prom is no exception. With Dunbar’s prom less than a month away, the prom frenzy has officially kicked in
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You can’t stop the beat of Dunbar’s Hairspray
If my life was a musical, I hope it would go to the beat of Hairspray, because there is just no stopping it.
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Dunbar has a tradition of great achievement like having Jeopardy! contestants and participants in national cheerleading competitions. This year, future alumni are hard at work maintaining Dunbar’s pre
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