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  • Class of 2005 Graduates

    Thursday, June 02, 2005 By: Marci Gallun

    On Wednesday June 8, 2005, at 2:30 p.m., 484 students will be graduating. The ceremony, which will be held at DAR Constitution Hall, will be approximately two hours. This year the guest speaker at th

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  • Newsweek Ranks WJ as 80th best high school in country

    Thursday, June 02, 2005 By: Erica Schonman

    In its May 16 edition, Newsweek magazine has named Walter Johnson High School the 80th best public high school in the United States. Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews compiled the list of th

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  • Tennis Team Caps Off Strong Season With Late Surge

    Thursday, June 02, 2005 By: Max Lom

    The Walter Johnson Boys’ tennis team finished off another winning season with a strong showing in the Montgomery County tournament. Despite missing several players for the county tournament, incl

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  • Mad Dank Slang Roughly Hits Walter Johnson

    Friday, June 03, 2005 By: Jared Schneider

    They’ve been working their way into American mainstream culture for decades. Whether these words are a passing public fancy, or are becoming mainstays of our American-English language, it appears inev

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  • Yes, I Can Hear You Now! Now Go Away

    Friday, June 03, 2005 By: Andrew Nazdin

    The first public cell phone use began in the late 1980’s, when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) loosened regulations surrounding cell phone frequencies. The first cell phones were the size o

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  • Graffiti Sparks Walter Johnson Debate

    Friday, June 03, 2005 By: Eric Hoffman

    We have seen it emblazoned on album covers, as a calling card in documentaries about street life, and consider it to be a pastime of vandals and gang members. It is graffiti, and it recently struck t

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  • A Glimpse at the Year: Noteworthy Events of 2004-2005: From the football field to the classroom, and everything in between.

    Friday, June 03, 2005 By: Anna Horvai

    Academic SucessWJ’s hardworking intellectuals have brought the school pride and recognition with their triumphs in It’s Academic and the “Build Your Dream Vehicle” competition, to name a few. WJ, coac

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  • Muggles Await Return to Hogwarts

    Friday, June 03, 2005 By: Claire Murphy

    Wizards, Quidditch, the Dark Lord, and Dobby are all back in the latest installment of J. K. Rowling’s every-popular series about an ordinary boy with extraordinary powers. Harry Potter and the Half-

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  • WJ’s Elite Ready for Athletics 101

    Monday, June 06, 2005 By: Daniel Sullivan and Joseph Brody

    For many high school athletes, Senior Night marks the last time playing the sport they love. Coaches, camaraderie and contests fade to memory. But for Rachel Saperstein, Sam Werner, Mike Moss, and Kat

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  • Boys’ Lacrosse Defends Regional Title

    Monday, June 06, 2005 By: Danny Fersh

    A disappointing end of the season for the Walter Johnson Boys’ Lacrosse team did not overshadow the 2005 Western Maryland Regional Champions’ fantastic playoff run all the way to the Maryland state se

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At-a-glance

On May 5th, a United States District Judge Alexander Williams indefinitely restricted teachers from teaching the new sex-education curriculum in all Montgomery County Public Schools at least until Dec
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As the temperature reaches scorching hot and the days grow longer, I begin to think of last summer. After a long, tiring day of working at summer camp, my favorite cool down remedy was a big ice cream
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Come Summer Time, the Hard Work Never Ends
As summer approaches many high school students will lie around the pool and hang out with friends at the mall, but for the athletes, this break is an important time to train for the upcoming season.
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A disappointing end of the season for the Walter Johnson Boys’ Lacrosse team did not overshadow the 2005 Western Maryland Regional Champions’ fantastic playoff run all the way to the Maryland state se
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For many high school athletes, Senior Night marks the last time playing the sport they love. Coaches, camaraderie and contests fade to memory. But for Rachel Saperstein, Sam Werner, Mike Moss, and Kat
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Wizards, Quidditch, the Dark Lord, and Dobby are all back in the latest installment of J. K. Rowling’s every-popular series about an ordinary boy with extraordinary powers. Harry Potter and the Half-
full story 
Academic SucessWJ’s hardworking intellectuals have brought the school pride and recognition with their triumphs in It’s Academic and the “Build Your Dream Vehicle” competition, to name a few. WJ, coac
full story 
We have seen it emblazoned on album covers, as a calling card in documentaries about street life, and consider it to be a pastime of vandals and gang members. It is graffiti, and it recently struck t
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The first public cell phone use began in the late 1980’s, when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) loosened regulations surrounding cell phone frequencies. The first cell phones were the size o
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Walter Johnson is a very diverse school, as you may know, and I am not just talking about race. There are so many different cliques at WJ, as in most high schools. Whether it is Preps, Jocks, Goths, F
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