From Staff Reports | The varsity cheerleaders received top honors at the Cheer America Capitol Cup Championship in Austin on Nov. 23. The team placed first in their division and received the title of overall Grand Champions in the school division. They were also awarded the Capitol Cup High Point award for being the highest [...]
By Desarea Gonzales | Photos by Allison Boerger | Every day, students across the country get their feelings hurt or even get physically hurt through bullying. When that happens, they can’t pay attention and learn, and they do not enjoy school. So they are more likely to be absent, drop out or even take their [...]
By Diana Diaz and Aaron Shimooka | Cover Photo Courtesy Student Council | Today Student Council and Principal Melvin Echard presented counselor Carolyn Lockamy with a check for $1000 to help with her medical costs for her cancer treatment. Lockamy had surgery for her cancer two weeks ago, and is seeking additional treatment at M.D. [...]
From Staff Reports | More than 100 students, faculty and staff donated blood at Student Council’s blood drive Nov. 21. Each pint donated can help as many as three people. Senior Khalid Mitchell was one of the students who donated. “I donated because I want to save lives,” Mitchell said. Students could sign up in [...]
A dozen clubs, organizations and academic departments, along with individual donors, came together to create the fixings for 49 turkey dinners for cafeteria and custodial staff. Each dinner contains a turkey, and donated fixings including potatoes, stuffing, corn, green beans, gravy, and pumpkin pie filling, all in a reuseable bag donated by H-E-B. Dinners will [...]
By Jesus Tirado | Photos by Francisco Turrubiates | At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11thmonth of 1918 the Great War ended. Those who fought in it might not be physically present, but are still present in our hearts and are celebrated each Nov. 11 for Veterans Day. On campus, JROTC [...]
By Victoria Garcia-Avila | Roosevelt had students that were commended for their achievement on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They include Matthew N. Disiena, Luke Danielson, Jeanie Suh, Zachary Vahle, Rachel Singleton, Samantha Valdez. “I thought it was pretty awesome,” Valdez said “The PSAT was pretty easy, I had took a prep class [...]
By Christopher Herrera | Two students from the debate team are traveling to West Texas A&M University near Amarillo this weekend for a tournament. It is the fourth competition for them this season under new debate coach Jennifer Purcell. Purcell said students who joined debate this year have one at least one competition each. Sophomores [...]
By Kelton Hill Creating a novel is a lot of things. It can be a privilege, a hobby, a distraction, a burden, and many other things. It is not naturally good or bad, but it’s what you decide to do with it. But writing to make a whole series of books takes a lot more [...]
Reporting and photos by Francisco Turrubiates, Chrisopher Herrera, Victoria Garcia-Avila, Jennifer Solis and Sierra Solis | As the football season drew to a close, students celebrated with one last spirit day – the crowd favorite Nerd Day. “I’ve been waiting for it all year,” sophomore Dru Estes said. On Thursday, Nov. 7, students donned their [...]
By Emarald Robinson | Photos Courtesy Russ Claughton | For Phu Trinh, there used to be rivalry. But that was before this year. The school’s two magnet programs, Design and Technology Academy and Engineering Technology Academy, are starting to have more activities together. One program is the Spirit Bell, brought to the campus by new [...]
By Richey Daniels | Wrestling coach Lee Miller worked at Roosevelt for nine years before taking a break in the spring of 2008. He has now returned to coach wrestling and teach art. Miller has done a little bit of wrestling himself. Miller’s high school coach inspired him to like wrestling very much. Miller also made [...]
By Francisco Turrubiates and Victoria Garcia-Avila | Photo By Clarissa Herrera | The Lady Rider basketball team continued to prove themselves with a convincing 70-28 victory over Fox Tech Tuesday night. “ I really think we will do really good this year, we have a small team we are all individuals but we all get [...]
By Francisco Turrubiates | Senior Chubaka Bahindwa was competing against 100 other students at district Saturday. He was going to be third place for most of the race, but all of a sudden five students passed him up. “I really didn’t feel good that I was in eighth place, but glad I made it to [...]
By Alex Del Rio | Theodore Roosevelt’s theater department is at it again with their upcoming play Electra, directed by Anthony Hardaway. It’s said to be about revenge and that’s the biggest give away about the play. This is the first time the theater is doing a greek tragedy not about a god, so it’s something new [...]
By Antonio Watson | The gaming medium has greatly changed as the years have gone by. Shelves that were once flooded with games with originality, such as Ice Climber, Rayman, PaRappa The Rapper, Gitaroo Man, and even PONG are now flooded with games that have no emotion and flow that are just the same [...]
By Aliyah Dixon In one of the most anticipated albums of the year, “Nothing was the same,“ Drake takes a look at his new life, and likes what he sees. The release date of the album was set for Sept. 20, but the album leaked almost a week prior to the release date. [...]
Cheer takes top honors at state
From Staff Reports | The varsity cheerleaders received top honors at the Cheer America Capitol Cup Championship in Austin on Nov. 23. The team placed first in their division and received the title of overall Grand Champions in the school division. They were also awarded the Capitol Cup High Point award for being the highest [...]
Student Organizations Come Together Against Bullying
By Desarea Gonzales | Photos by Allison Boerger | Every day, students across the country get their feelings hurt or even get physically hurt through bullying. When that happens, they can’t pay attention and learn, and they do not enjoy school. So they are more likely to be absent, drop out or even take their [...]
Miller Returns to Coach Wrestling
By Richey Daniels | Wrestling coach Lee Miller worked at Roosevelt for nine years before taking a break in the spring of 2008. He has now returned to coach wrestling and teach art. Miller has done a little bit of wrestling himself. Miller’s high school coach inspired him to like wrestling very much. Miller also made [...]
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