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Issue Date: Friday, March 05, 2010 Issue: Print Issue 4 and Online Updates Last Update: Thursday, April 15, 2010
  • Finally Breaking Ground on the "Jewel" of Burtonsville

    Friday, March 26, 2010 By: Sundi Myint

    The much anticipated new $100M Paint Branch will finally become a reality in the spring of 2012. The official groundbreaking for the school took place on March 20, 2010.

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  • February Panthers of the Month

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 By: Photo By Teddy Amenabar

    On Friday, March 5, Paint Branch Principal Ms. Jeanette Dixon announced the Panthers of the Month for the month of February 2010. She began by explaining that teachers nominate the students, who earn

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  • Hope for Haiti

    Friday, March 12, 2010 By:

    Friday March 5, 2010 the founder of the Hope for Haiti foundation Jean Elade Eloi spoke to Paint Branch students about the state of Haiti, its history and his organization’s missions.

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  • News Brief: Students Visit the Franklin Institution in Philadelphia to See the Body World Exhibit 2

    Friday, March 05, 2010 By: Photos taken by Mr Eichenlaub

    On February 17th, Paint Branch students traveled to The Benjamin Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to see The Body World Exhibit 2. The trip was organized by Science Resource teacher Ms

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  • Movie: Book of Eli

    Tuesday, March 09, 2010 By:

    Denzel Washington’s latest action film Book of Eli received mixed reviews; on “rotten tomatoes” popular critics battled countless hours and gave the movie a 5.3 out of 10. But those are critics...

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  • Pizza: Ledo's Pizza in Colesville, MD

    Tuesday, March 09, 2010 By:

    Established in 1955, Ledo Pizza truly has the best of the best. From its perfect sauce, to the cheesy pizza, their rectangular-shaped pizzas truly are their trademark.

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  • Movie: Dear John

    Tuesday, March 09, 2010 By:

    The number-one movie in America? Dear John was overwhelmingly underwhelming, whether that has to do with the fact that I put so much hope into a love story that I dared dream might be at least equiva

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  • AP Studio Art

    Thursday, March 11, 2010 By:

    AP classes have a horrible connotation in high school. They are the epitome of stress. The amount of studying that comes with them is horrid. However, there is one class that doesn’t fit the dreaded A

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  • PB Students Roll Out in Style

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 By: Photo by Jennifer Ukegbu

    “Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long. If you’re going my way, I wanna drive it all night long…” Any teenage driver preparing to head out into the “big bad world” can relate to this pop

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  • Cheerleading

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 By:

    On Saturday, February 20, our very own Paint Branch Cheerleaders hosted the 2nd Annual Panther Cheer Competition. Each team energetically presented its loud music, crazy makeup, and fun attitude as it

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Journalism 1

Athletic Awards Night
On Monday March 15th at 6 PM, the athletic awards night was held in the auditorium and the cafeteria. The sports teams being honored at this ceremony were the boys and girls basketball, wrestling, ind
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Pro: The Double A Exemption is a strong academic policy
Should it be an exception for students that get an A for the first and second semester? Should they be able to not take the final exam test if they got the A both quarters?
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Pro: The Double A Exemption is a Strong Academic Policy
Shouldn’t you be rewarded for all the hard work you put in throughout the semester? Why take a final exam when you got an A in both quarters; either way you know you are going to pass the class!
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Getting Up Early
Do students have to get up too early for school? That’s a very loaded question that gets only two responses. If you ask people like Ben Franklin who lived by his early to bed, early to rise credo, h
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The Cause for Commotion: The most anticipated albums of 2010
The year 2009 was a great year in music as far as albums go. Last year we saw the release of top selling albums like Taylor Swift’s Fearless, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3, Eminem’s Relapse, Susan Boyle’s I Dre
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A Closer Look at English Teacher and Yearbook Advisor Ms. Litten
In college, Ms. Litten majored in English, but she knew that she wanted to be a teacher. She realized that she needed a job and decided that teaching would be a good career. She began taking education
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The Literature Magazine
When people first think of Literary Magazine or Lit Mag, they probably say to themselves, “What is a Lit Mag?” Lit Mag is a way to show an often unrecognized talent in Paint Branch students. The magaz
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Con: The Double A Exemption is a Strong Academic Policy
Everyone has at least one of those classes, that class were you know nothing about but somehow, by pure luck and some copying, you get an A in, and for me that would be last year’s in Honors Chemistry
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Con: The Double A Exemption is a Strong Academic Policy
Every year Paint Branch students take a final exam at the end of each semester. Taking this exam determines the students’ semester grade, which is the grade shown to colleges. Students now believe the
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Con: The Double A Exemption is a Strong Academic Policy
Do you believe in a system of double A exemption for exams? The double A exemption is when a student receives an “A’ in both quarters in a semester, and the he or she is exempt from the final exam. It
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