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The changing face of gangs
By Sherri Geng | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
A gun blow to the back of the head late last September. A wrecking at Wheaton Plaza in November that nearly ended in death. A brutal beating in June from those she now calls her closest family. A knife fight after a skipping party early last July.
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Blazer offense sputters on Senior Night
By Dan Greene | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
FEB. 18, NELSON H. KOBREN MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM- After a resounding victory over Gaithersburg and a near win on the road at Wootton, Blair fell into their old habits on Senior Night tonight against Whitman, falling 59-45 to the Vikings. The Blazers' (2-17) ineffectual offense, including three points total in the second quarter, and frequent turnovers led to a blowout loss against a team that was far from Blair's toughest competition this season.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first black poets to be nationally recognized.
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2004-2005 PTSA mini grants awarded
By Zahra Gordon | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
The Blair PTSA Mini Grant Committee received 23 requests for funding and was able to meet the needs of all applications, according to the PTSA newsletter. The committee awarded nearly $7,000 in grants in the areas of arts, communications, counseling and mentoring, tutoring, academic support and enrichment.
Blair band and orchestra patrons are making music
By Alexander Gold | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Wherever the band goes, they're there. If the Marching Band goes to perform on "It's Academic," they drive along. If the Honors Jazz Band, Orchestra and Marching Band recruit students at middle schools for next year, they come. If the instrumental music program has a concert, they sponsor a bake sale in the lobby. "They" are the Blair Band and Orchestra Patrons (BBOPs), and they're not superheroes, just committed parents.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
By Seema Kacker | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first black poets to be nationally recognized by both blacks and white readers. He was born in Ohio in June 1872 to two freed slaves and died at the young age of 33 in February of 1906.
Toni Morrison
By Adedeji Ogunfolu | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feb. 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was a precocious, young child, and in the first grade, she was the only student that could read. Her love for literature grew, and she also developed a taste for Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Gustave Flaubert and Jane Austen.
"Hitch" has all the right moves
By Sayoh Mansaray | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Remember back in the day when Will Smith used to make us bust a gut laughing at the jokes he made on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air?” Well, he's still got it.
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Albert John Luthuli, a nonviolent civil rights activist for peace and education.
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By Diana Frey | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Latest »
The Blair Community Ice Hockey team is not affiliated or sponsored by the Montgomery Blair High School athletic program or Montgomery County Public Schools. The team is an independent group of Blair students. Blazers struggle during their first Hockey playoff game.
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By Emma Norvell | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Latest »
Ninth grade CAP students listen intently as Historian Alfred Goldberg talks about World War II.
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By Diana Frey | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Latest »
Senior Nathan Barrymore skates with the puck against Broadneck.
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SGA president Sebastian Johnson speaks at a press conference about vehicle emissions regulation.
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OxyContin: a prescription for addiction
By Katherine Duncan | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Joe, a junior, sits silently amongst a boisterous group of friends along Blair Boulevard during 5B lunch on Dec. 22. After shooting paranoid glances up and down the hall, he is confident that the coast is clear and opens his hand, revealing a 10-mg OxyContin prescription pill. His back turned against the passing crowds in the hallway, Joe works quickly, crushing the pill with his driver's license and pushing the powder into a thin line on the cover of his student planner. In a matter of seconds, he snorts the drug through a pen cap and up his nose, brushes any residue onto the floor and leans back into the wall.
Phillis Wheatley
By Erik Li | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Phillis Wheatley was the first noteworthy black female poet of the U.S. In the fight for black freedom, abolitionists often cited her works in order to refute the claim of black intellectual inferiority. Thought to be born near present-day Senegal in about 1753, Wheatley was kidnapped and enslaved in 1761. She was sold in Boston to the Wheatley family, who treated her as kindly as their own two daughters.
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Sir William Arthur Lewis, a pioneer in economics and the first black to receive the Nobel Prize for a field other than peace.
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