Mainstream <![CDATA[Mainstream]]> http://my.hsj.org/Portals/2/logos/__TFMF_uuuvio552by3a345wreq40yj_249f6a85-65b7-489f-b770-0ee9f7219f51_0___Selected.jpg en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:16:46 GMT 15 <![CDATA[Varsity Girls’ Volleyball Beats Richard Montgomery Rockets, 3-0]]> By Sope Aluko
On September 25, 2009, the varsity girls’ volleyball team clinched their 6th victory of the season over Richard Montgomery, 25-13, 25-18, and 15-10. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:47:19 GMT <![CDATA[Paint Branch Football Is Making a Run for the Playoffs]]> By Ian Banson
We start to appreciate Paint Branch football more than before as we get closer to the end of the season. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:44:56 GMT <![CDATA[The Lady Panthers Defeat The Blake Bengals]]> By Ian Banson
On Wednesday October 15, the Paint Branch Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Team intensely defeated its consortium rival the Blake Bengals. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:43:10 GMT <![CDATA[The Field Hockey Team Keeps It Rolling]]> By Ian Banson
On October 20, the Paint Branch Field Hockey Team dominated the Einstein Titans on the Panthers’ Senior Night. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:48 GMT <![CDATA[Consortium champion is revealed under pink lights]]> By David Nguyen
Breast cancer is the seventh highest cause of death for women in the world. Most of the time breast cancer is manageable; however if gone unchecked the cancer can spread. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:13 GMT <![CDATA[Nagging hip holds Panther’s back]]> By David Nguyen
All season long the Panthers had been dependent on junior goal keeper Billy Brady; however, for the past four games Brady has been sidelined with a nagging hip injury. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:34:57 GMT <![CDATA[What is the most popular sport in the world?]]> By Trevon Profitt
There are many sports in the world that many people love. Each sport brings up many questions about it, such as why people play it, how people play it, and why it is such a great sport. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:32:39 GMT <![CDATA[Is Attending College Important?]]> By Thomas Harrington
When students enter their senior year of high school, their thoughts begin to venture toward independence full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:28:20 GMT <![CDATA[MSA: A club where all Muslims can be themselves]]> By Sahar Husain
Have you been looking for a place to interact? What about a place to relate to other students that are of the same religion as you? And how about a place to learn about a new culture/religion? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:25 GMT <![CDATA[Video Games traced back to only four!]]> By Robert DelSole
Have you ever played a video game? Chances are the answer is yes, but did you also know that almost every game made today can be traced back to just a few games? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:16:28 GMT <![CDATA[Steroids, is it Worth the risk?]]> By KC Hill
Have you ever wanted to have a nice body and be really strong? To be a little faster? A little quicker off the ground? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:15:04 GMT <![CDATA[Bad Boys, Bad Boys Whatcha Gonna Do?]]> By Kazi Davis
Do you like to step out of your own world and into an intense adrenaline rush? Are you a thrill seeker, an adrenaline junkie? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:13:59 GMT <![CDATA[Ready, Set, Hike!]]> By Manshi Shah
Stands filled, tickets sold, and positions ready; all say it’s time for some football. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:12:29 GMT <![CDATA[Ready, Set, Hike!]]> By Manshi Shah
Stands filled, tickets sold, and positions ready; all say it’s time for some football. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:12:26 GMT <![CDATA[The Pride of Paint Branch On The Gridiron.]]> By Benson Lukose
Last year there was much commotion about the Arizona Cardinals, a team that finished 9-7, making it to the Super Bowl. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:10:39 GMT <![CDATA[Wizards Fan Patrol]]> By Daniella Opabajo
Have you ever been to a Washington Wizards game? Ever been hungry? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:05:15 GMT <![CDATA[Life in Rainbow Colored Shoes]]> By Bianca Bratton
Do you really know all the problems that gay society is facing, or do you just think you do? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:04:15 GMT <![CDATA[OMG! Standardization]]> By Anjna Swaminathan
What is it about standardization, that little monster that often enjoys creeping up on us in the form of College Board exams, college applications, and other mundane tasks? full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:14:33 GMT <![CDATA[Margaret Says]]> By Margaret Shahan
Every year around homecoming and prom there’s another story about a school banning “grinding” at school dances. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:22 GMT <![CDATA[A Laudable Laureate?]]> By Eunice Cho
Like every other president, Barack Obama has wooed us with sweet words: promises of universal health care and an end to the war in Iraq. full story > ]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:07:39 GMT <![CDATA[A New Teacher's Dream, Catching Up With Ms. Freeman]]> By Keionna Reed



Ms. Freeman is in her first year teaching at Paint Branch.

Ms. Freeman, Paint Branch’s new first-year math teacher, grew up in Rhode Island, where she attended Barrington High School. After high school, she went to the University of Delaware, where in the las full story > ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:22 GMT <![CDATA[A Bad Year for Tomatoes, A Good Year for Paint Branch Perspectives]]> By Danny Scher
A Bad Year for Tomatoes, a play written by John Patrick, is about a Hollywood actress, Myra Marlowe, who writes her autobiography. full story > ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:58:52 GMT <![CDATA[The Effects of the Economic Downfall on the Youth]]> By Alexandra Galloway
Have you seen unemployment rates rise, home values plummet, and people changing the way that they spend their money? If so, then you are a witness to the economic recession that is taking place right full story > ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:10 GMT <![CDATA[Spirit Week - 5 Days of Fun]]> By Maya Lowe
Duck pajama pants tacky tourist’s layers of madness blast-to-the past maroon and gold? That’s right, it was Spirit Week at Paint Branch where everyone grabbed everything in their closet, and showed so full story > ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:54:47 GMT <![CDATA[Give Your Taste Buds A Lil Texas!]]> By Jillian Pelzer
Is there a special girl that you wouldn’t mind taking on a date? Is there a place that you want to just chill with your friends, yet still eat something a little better than a McChicken? If so, then full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:55:09 GMT <![CDATA[Past, Present, and Future - Preparing for the Biggest Week of the Year]]> By Ashton Cane
In Paint Branch’s 40 years of existence, homecoming has been an annual tradition. Class T-shirts, banners, decorated hallways, and floats leave little to the imagination of students, staff, and the co full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:52:42 GMT <![CDATA[Hot Trends of 2009: Statement Clothing Shines Throughout PB Hallways]]> By Ashlynn Denny
School is back in session and with new classes, books, and friends, new fall trends are a must. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:26:04 GMT <![CDATA[Wisdom And Other Lies That Society Told Me: Timing Is Everything]]> By Laura butler
It’s been three years since "I Just Realized…" debuted in the Mainstream for the first time, and it’s been quite a ride, both for you and for me full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:24:29 GMT <![CDATA[Random Memorandum]]> By Eunice Cho
A fatally infectious disease is spreading across the nation. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:23:19 GMT <![CDATA[Gigidy Gigidy Get it Right]]> By David Nguyen
So anyone who knows me well knows I hate people who think too highly of themselves…and one of those people is Kanye West. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:18:36 GMT <![CDATA[OMG! College Applications]]> By Anjna Swaminathan
So, we’re seniors now. Great! But, whoa! We have to think about college? full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:17:00 GMT <![CDATA[What is the Big Deal about Senior Year?]]> By Anjna Swaminathan
When the seniors graduated last year, all of my friends began freaking out. "Oh my gosh! We’re seniors! This is so amazing!" full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:13:32 GMT <![CDATA[Secret Life of the Teenage Faster..]]> By Niny Abbadi
You come home from a regular day of school, dying of thirst and hunger, so you decide to watch television to distract yourself from eating. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:12:27 GMT <![CDATA[County Does Away With School Fees]]> By Christine Corkran
Montgomery County Public School students are at least five dollars richer this school year, since the county updated its fee policy for the 2009-2010 year. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:10:11 GMT <![CDATA[Paint Branch Back to School Night]]> By Danny Scher
On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, Paint Branch held it s annual Back-to-School Night. full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:09:29 GMT <![CDATA[Proposal for National Education Standard in the Works]]> By Sneha Rao
Due to recent advances in international education standards, the National Governor s’Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers along with a group of experts have proposed that certain full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:08:33 GMT <![CDATA[5 PB Students Named Commended Students in NMSC Program]]> By Sneha Rao
On September 25, five of Paint Branch’s very own, Carol Barnes, Arjun Chhabra, Salena Jacob, Reshma Muppala, and Sneha Rao, were named Commended Students in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program full story > ]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:06:37 GMT <![CDATA[From the Principal's Desk: A Visit to the White House Garden]]> By Principal Jeanette Dixon
One of the wonderful aspects of being an administrator in Montgomery County, in addition to working with students is working with other administrators and the friendships and ties that are forged that full story > ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:37:55 GMT <![CDATA[Suspect involved in dangerous conspiracy arrested]]> By Zoe Owrutsky
Twenty-four-year-old terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi was arrested by officials and indicted by a federal grand jury during the past week after a thorough investigation by the FBI, starting on Septem full story > ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:29:20 GMT <![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize winner William Safire dies at the age of 79]]> By Zoe Owrutsky`
William Safire died at the age of 79 this past Sunday. A close family friend told the Washington Post that the cause of his unfortunate death was pancreatic cancer full story > ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:17:39 GMT <![CDATA[16 year old student beaten by peers in Chicago]]> By Zoe Owrutsky
On Thursday September 24, 2009, sixteen-year-old Derrion Albert was brutally beaten to death with wooden boards by a few of his peers at Fenger High School in Chicago, Illinois. full story > ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:15:11 GMT <![CDATA[iPods Make A Comeback]]> By Chloe Lucan
"Put your IPod away!" "Take out the headphones!" "Turn off that music!" Orders heard throughout the hallways on a regular basis. full story > ]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:13:16 GMT <![CDATA[Financial Aid Dilemma]]> By Sneha Rao
With last years senior class beginning college classes, this year’s rising seniors begin the gruesome and tiresome process of applying to colleges. Higher unemployment, rising tuition rates, and larg full story > ]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:06:18 GMT <![CDATA[Seniors Unite at Smokey Glen]]> By Laura Butler



Paint Branch’s seniors gathered at Smokey Glen Farm on Thursday, September 10 in order to unite with their fellow seniors and conduct senior business. full story > ]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:02:16 GMT <![CDATA[Myanmar Military Junta Sentences Opposition Leader]]> By Eunice Cho
In a crumbling shore-side bungalow, the activist Aung San Suu Kyi lived confined for 14 of the past 20 years, a time which was regularly extended by the Myanmar military junta CNN reported. full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:44:02 GMT <![CDATA[Summer Reading: It's such a drag]]> By Sope Aluko
In June, when the last bell rang, releasing students to go home, many students ran for the door and didn’t look back because the only thing on their minds was a two-month break filled with partying, h full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:42:55 GMT <![CDATA[Paint Branch v. Montgomery Blair]]> By Ashlynn Denny
On Thursday the 24th of September, the Paint Branch Panthers Varsity Field Hockey Team played against the previously undefeated Montgomery Blair Blazers. full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:41:35 GMT <![CDATA[Skin Cancer - the Silent Killer Among Us]]> By Eunice Cho
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and about 1 in 5 Americans will develop the disease in the course of a lifetime. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, 90% of skin full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:40:34 GMT <![CDATA[Pro: H1N1 is a serious condition]]> By Taylor Collignon
Lately we hear about swine flu everywhere. It has become one of the most talked about topics in the United States. full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:35 GMT <![CDATA[Varsity Girls’ Volleyball Beat Richard Montgomery Rockets, 3-0]]> By Sope Aluko
On September 25, 2009, the varsity girls’ volleyball team clinched their 6th victory of the season over Richard Montgomery, 25-13, 25-18, and 15-10. full story > ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:29 GMT