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Basketball girls seek revenge

Basketball girls seek revenge

After losing the district finals game to Jefferson City by one point last season, the girls’ basketball team is wanting revenge. These Bruins believe the disappointment and disbelief they experienced…

Youth step up with loss of seniors

As basketball season rolled around, the team realized the lack of veteran leaders attending tryouts and practice. Besides the five seniors who graduated last year, four returning players will not…

Wrestlers stand their ground

Wrestlers stand their ground

Wrestling coach Travis Craig has emphasized defensive technique. The team’s goal is to avoid take downs and pins by perfecting its defensive skills and outlasting its opponents on the mat…

Swimmers regroup with greater numbers

The girls’ swim team has undergone a monumental face lift this year. In the past, the team was small, with only 11 swimmers competing last year. However, this year’s team…

Preliminary trial set for shooting incident

The Columbia Police Department arrested a former RBHS student for unlawful weapon use near school grounds. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Jan. 4, 2012. Christopher Roseberry, who…

Vaccine preventing HPV now for males

The Advisory Community on Immunization Practices now recommends the human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil, which helps prevent genital warts and cervical cancer, for 11- and 12-year-old males. HPV is a sexually…

School board discusses Battle consequences

School board discusses Battle consequences

Columbia Public Schools board members met Tuesday in part to sort through the more than 1,000 comments they received concerning the changes in boundary lines for Battle High School. Though…

Workers break ground on new gym

Workers break ground on new gym

  A new auxiliary gymnasium for both RBHS and Hickman High School is being constructed thanks to a 2010 bond passed by the Board of Education. The bond, which is…

MAC Scholars presents Poetry for Personal Power

MAC Scholars presents Poetry for Personal Power

With posters headlining the phase “Speak the Truth” plastered around the halls of RBHS, students are invited to attend Poetry for Personal Power Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. in the…

Anxieties trouble, cause harmful physical, psychological problems

Right now Ashley Hong’s most pressing stressor is college. She worries about her ability to excel on the ACT and be admitted to the nation’s most prestigious colleges. Excessive amounts…

The art of lying

The art of lying

Lying in families Cringing, senior Amelia Williams runs through her options. She can tell her dad the truth – that she doesn’t want to visit him because it will caused…

Electric dance club brings back disco fever

Electric dance club brings back disco fever

Dubstep reverberated through the small space, bodies swayed to the grimy music and arms flailed with the music’s beat. Such was senior Jordon McGaughey’s first experience at Dirty Disco Dance…

Holiday floral designs on sale

The smell of pinecones and warm cinnamon candles overcome the senses; the floors are sprawled with glitter and ornaments. What was once a workshop has transformed into a holiday retail…

Global Issues, ZDL team up for fundraising scavenger hunt

Global Issues, ZDL team up for fundraising scavenger hunt

Global Issues club is holding a scavenger hunt on Wednesday from 6:15-7:15 p.m. for a pressing international cause. At $2 per person, the event’s proceeds will be sent to the…