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Legacy Rallies for Olivia during L.U.C.K. Week

Olivia Nolley listens to Taylor Swift like most other eleven-year-old girls. Like most other girls, Olivia Nolley dreams of meeting her favorite pop star someday. But unlike most other girls, Olivia Nolley has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Student Council began planning and promoting L.U.C.K. (Legacy Uniting through Caring and Kindness) week for, February 16 through the 19. The four day fund-raising week will sponsor Olivia Nolley, a fifth-grader who has been diagnosed with Ana plastic Astrocytoma , a malignant cancer. “More than anything L.U.C.K. Week started as raising money,” Student Council sponsor Dena Schimming said, “but what it’s turned into is ...

Cyberbullying: A Common Problem

Cyber bullying led to greater consequences than what Katelyn Smith* originally assumed. Receiving multiple threats over MySpace, she decided her life could possibly be at risk. Lucy Jones* which was one of Smith’s friends, lied to her cousin Chelsea Johnson* about her current boyfriend Mark Wallace*. Jones accused Smith of flirting with Wallace many times. Once Johnson was informed of Smith’s encounters with her boyfriend, she decided to send crude messages to Smith on the Internet. (*names have been changed) “It was the most frightening thing I have ever been through. It’s pathetic girls would fight over a boy,” Smith said. Smith decided ignoring ...

LB’ers Club Meetings Begin Monday

Sports Medicine Instructor, Weldon Thompson, created LB’ers (Pounders club) for students and teachers to learn how to lose weight and live healthy. The first meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 8th in Room AH104 after school. “I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I figured with the tools and connections I have being a trainer, I want to help those kids,” Thompson said. Club members will split up into teams consisting of one student and one teacher. They will compete to see which team can lose the most body fat. Each team can make shirts for themselves and their ...

Mansfield Celebrates 100 Years On 100th Day

Mansfield ISD celebrates its hundredth anniversary February 4 at Pirate Coffee with the sealing of the centennial time capsule. Every school in the district contributed something to the capsule and a slideshow of the contributions can be found here. "The time capsule seemed like a natural part to our attempt as a committee to develop a comprehensive collection of events and activities to recognize and celebrate this special year," Centennial Committee chair Patricia Ayala said. Legacy gave a DVD of spirited photos and a brochure from the opening of the school. In addition to the time capsule, a centennial celebration T-shirt ...

Academic Decathlon Team Advances to State

Legacy’s Academic Decathlon team will compete on Feb. 26-28 at San Antonio College at the State level after being chosen as a wild card following their second place victory at the district tournament they competed in this weekend. “We didn’t expect to do as well as we did initially,” Riley Reidmiller said. “It was kind of disappointing coming in second.” Eighty-seven students applied to be in Mr. Austin’s AcaDec class, but only 35 were allowed to take the course. Of the 35 students enrolled in the class, nine students are divided into the Honor, Scholastic and Varsity categories and compete in 10 ...

Legacy Moves Up to 5A in UIL Realignment

University Interscholastic League officials announced the 2010-2012 realignments which moves Legacy to 5A. Timberview also moved up to District 5A-A along with MHS, and because of a slightly lower student population, Summit moves to 4A. Starting in the 2010-2011 school year, Legacy joins Duncanville, Mansfield, Midlothian, Cedar Hill, and many others in 5A district competition. Increased population means a larger potential talent pool to choose from for all of the schools, tougher competition in UIL, and increased prestige in any competitive victories. “We want to be in the spotlight,” Coach Chris Melson said. “There’s nobody on the schedule we can’t compete with or ...

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News

District Evaluates Outdated Tech

written by Nick Failor

The Mansfield School District has recently been switching the network infrastructure of all computers on school campuses. In April of ’09, an outside technology group reported the... Read more »

February 2, 2010 • 0 comments

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Sports

Musselman, Haemker Excel in Diving

written by Dallas Dunn

Starting at the end of the board, freshman Sarah Musselman prepares her approach with full concentration. She comes to the other end of the board and goes airborne, starting the maneuvers.... Read more »

February 5, 2010 • 0 comments

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Swim Team Wins District title February 2, 2010
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Upcoming Events

February 9

Improv Show

PAC | 7-10

February 13, 2010

Saturday School

LHS Cafeteria | 8-12

February 15, 2010

President’s Day Holiday

District Wide | All Day

February 19, 2010

Mr. and Miss LHS

PAC | 6:30-9

February 27, 2010

Saturday School

LHS Cafeteria | 8-12

March 6, 2010

Saturday Taks Tutoring

LHS Cafeteria | 9-12

Features

Man’s Best Friend

written by Brett Walker

Dallas Reid endures the repetitive whistle of the Andy Griffith theme song, petting Leon and Roxie, his young Boxer pups. The aging parakeet , Annie, has forgotten all but the first... Read more »

January 30, 2010 • 3 comments

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Personalities

Mr. Rabalais

written by Nadley Doerge

In 1987, with shaggy long brown hair and black Judas Priest shirt, young Craig Rabalais arrived at high school. Not wanting to be held in by parameters, Rabalais looked for any way... Read more »

February 3, 2010 • 0 comments

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