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  • HalloweenMoCo Style

    Friday, October 28, 2005 By: Jennifer Perlmutter

    Halloween: A holiday once synonymous with the phrase “Trick-or-Treat.” For high-schoolers, it is no longer the childhood novelty it once was. Fortunately, there are more things to do on the 31st in th

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  • LFI Program Draws Criticism: Parents Accuse Administration of Neglect

    Friday, October 28, 2005 By: Laura Littman

    Parents have spoken out recently about the minimal preparation and support of the WJ administration for the Learning for Independence program, otherwise known as LFI. Mary Ann Dawedeit, a parent of a

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  • New Clubs Arrive At WJ

    Friday, October 28, 2005 By: Julia Shedlin

    Are you a senior who is lacking extracurricular activities, or a freshman who wants to be more involved with your school? Walter Johnson has over fifty clubs that can fit anyone's interest. Everyone k

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  • Student Artists Contribute To Cancer Fund-raiser

    Friday, October 28, 2005 By: Lindsay Deutsch

    Between November 4 and 27, the Yellow Barn Studio at Glen Echo will hold the Paint to Cure benefit to raise money and awareness through the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Walter Johnson art

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  • Why MCPS Can’t Teach You to Love the Ones You Hate

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Steven Ellis

    I look at the “tolerance” paper in my hand, pondering its questions about my personal life. “Have you ever made fun of someone different than you . . . Engaged in stereotyping . . . Left someone ou

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  • Sweet CarolinePhenom Dominates the Field

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Danny Sullivan

    The singing of the national anthem, the roar of the crowd, the bright lights illuminating the field, and the inspiring pre-game speech from the coach: these are what senior athletes are accustomed to,

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  • Fatal Stabbings Prompt Security Changes at Football Games: Will increased security solve the problems?

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Colin Calder

    Following the fatal stabbings of two fans after high school football games, Montgomery County Public Schools have responded with higher security at these games. But heightened security is not the ans

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  • Volleyball Serves up a Turnaround

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Luc Brown

    When was the last time you thought about the WJ girl’s varsity volleyball team? Did you go to a home game, or do you know one of the players? The season has played out like a roller coaster, wit

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  • We're Big Kids Now

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Lauren Kaplan

    At 10:55 a.m. the bell rings and students rush out of their classrooms for 43 minutes of pure freedom from their school classes. Open lunch is a privilege and a freedom that Walter Johnson students of

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  • CurveballHow I Got My Groove Back

    Monday, October 31, 2005 By: Carl Woock

    When I went to my first Homecoming, I was but a wide-eyed, frail-limbed, primitive freshman still roughing it in the harsh Colorado back-country. I remember that sense of anxious anticipation that tin

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The Student Government Association is taking over homecoming! They turn away from the school and form their own government, gathering their own group of followers. Soon the SGA is fighting with the se
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Heading into the playoffs, Coach Mike Williams and his boys have as good a chance as any soccer team in the state to win the big one. They finished the regular season with an impressive 10-2-2 record
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Music charts all over the globe display a mix of both local and international artists, most of them American. However, if you listen to the songs on MTV or the albums at the top of the American charts
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The Walter Johnson girls’ tennis team finished with an 11-1 record for the third consecutive year after falling 4-3 to Winston Churchill HS in the final match of the season on October 19. The los
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English teacher and former varsity basketball coach Mark DeStefano has replaced Neal Owens as an assistant coach on the varsity football team. He was hired just days after a situation occurred in the
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"Homecoming is the biggest dance of the year for us freshman," says freshman Tulsi Griffiths as she mingles from dress to dress with her friends Anna and Rachel. She feels the material, looks at the d
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The Wildcats field hockey team had a suprising 3-2 victory over the Damascus Hornets in the first round of playoffs on Thursday, October 27. While both teams volleyed goals back and forth for the lead
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When I went to my first Homecoming, I was but a wide-eyed, frail-limbed, primitive freshman still roughing it in the harsh Colorado back-country. I remember that sense of anxious anticipation that tin
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At 10:55 a.m. the bell rings and students rush out of their classrooms for 43 minutes of pure freedom from their school classes. Open lunch is a privilege and a freedom that Walter Johnson students of
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