Mainstream
Paint Branch High School
Burtonsville, MD
Issue Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 
Issue: Volume 39 Issue 6
Last Update: Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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By Laura Butler

Mainstream: Did you achieve your goals for the season? How? Podosek: Personally, I achieved the goals I set for myself. Students excelled in the classroom and on the court. My seniors graduate full story >

By Laura Butler

Along with being the team’s defensive specialist, Lauren Bradshaw is a very dedicated female athlete. She has played varsity volleyball for the past two years and was voted captain this last seaso full story >

By Laura Butler

As captain and the starting goalkeeper for the varsity soccer team, Cody played every minute of every game. Cody made many highlight –reel saves and was an intimidating presence in goal. . Cody pr full story >

By Laura Butler

Mainstream: How has being a coach affected your outlook on teenage athletes, sports, and yourself? Wiles: I think that teenage athletes are resilient. We played in a couple games that tested us full story >

By Laura Butler

M: If you could go back and change anything about your high school career athletically, what would it be? Kayla: I would have listened to my dad early on in my high school career so that I woul full story >

By Laura Butler

  M: If you could go back and change anything about your high school career athletically, what would it be? Frankie: I would have worked harder in school so that I could go to a b full story >

By Laura Butler

M: What coaches or other advisors have impacted you? How? Shawn: Coach Hopkins, my track coach, because she helped me become faster and increase my running endurance. Also, Coach Eagan, the lac full story >

By Laura Butler

Including my demolishing of Kamau’s ego here every chance I get (he makes it so easy), there has been no shortage of things to talk about. Sadly enough, this is the last ST/BT that will be publish full story >

By Kamau Kangacha

So we’ve come to our final entry of Smacktalk/Backtalk and I would like to leave you with a few words of wisdom for the summer when you are going to be without my intelligent words and total domin full story >

By Laura Butler

M: What coaches or other advisors have impacted on you? How? Cindy: Coach Hopkins- she taught me that determination and direction can not only exist at school, but also on the track.   full story >

By Laura Butler

M: Best sports memory? Raul: The Watkins Mill game my junior year. The QB threw a hitch; then I just demolished the receiver. I even heard him say, "Man, my ribs are broken." M: An full story >

Senior Reflection: Maya Bouvier Lyons
By Laura Butler

M:If you could go back and change anything about your high school career athletically, what would it be? Maya: There were times when I didn’t leave it all on the field. I would definitely go ba full story >

By Michelle DeFinis

"Hey, White Girl, Hey!" You can hear this and other racially descriptive and derogatory language every day, but no one seems to care if "hey, white [or Asian, or fill in the blanks] girl..." is ca full story >

Blink 182: Is the “Indefinite Hiatus” Finally Over?
By Zoe Owrutsky

If you had watched the Grammy awards this year, you would know that the answer to the question above is most emphatically, "yes!" That Southern California 90’s pop punk group we all knew and loved full story >

Crayola-motions: Colors, Clothing, Connection
By Rachel Morgan

As high schoolers and adolescents, we are at a point in our lives when we use our emotions to a greater extent than any other age group of humans. Different feelings evolve out of new experiences full story >

By Janny Ukaegbu

As I walk through the hallway during lunchtime, I turn to my left and I see two people devouring a plate of French fries and I see the famous McDonald’s paper bag laying in the trash can with ketc full story >

By Sope Aluko

After the 2:10 bell rings, signifying the end of the school day, we go in many different directions including to sports practice, to see a teacher, or we run straight for the front door … but what full story >

By Victoria Stewert

A t the end of eleven long months of sitting through lectures, taking notes and exams, and trying to understand parametric equations and the periodic table, students and teachers alike are ready t full story >

Con: Students Should Have Summer Assignments
By Kathryn Cohen

A s exams wind down and the weather heats up, students are counting down the days until summer vacation. But wait! We’ve forgotten one important thing…   After weeks of preparation, and then full story >

By Christina Sayre

Starting in elementary school, we are taught that the Constitution protects our right to speak our mind. It states that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." Although this full story >