House Bill 2 has been temporarily repealed on Thursday to an array of mixed public feelings. HB2 established a multitude of statutes from not punishing racial, religious, disability, sexual, and gender discrimination in the workplace to child welfare requirements and minimum wage. However, HB2 is most known for its ruling on state-designated bathrooms, for it denies students the right to
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It was an early morning when Arthur Heeler-Frood said goodbye to his parents as he was about to ride his bike to school. Or so his parents thought… Fifteen- year- old Arthur had a bigger idea. The following day the parents of Arthur received a handwritten letter from him reading, “I have run away because I am bored of my
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The Apex Legacy took a poll, and out of 113 people, thirty-six percent would go take a trip around the moon, thirty percent would not, and thirty-four percent would rather take the trip with an astronaut. Regardless of what decade we’re in, spaceflight will always be dangerous and risky. NASA has lost many astronauts and astronaut hopefuls since the maiden
Read moreWhile most of us have groups of friends to sit with at lunch, this is not the case for everyone. Typically, someone is always found sitting alone. Students at Florida’s Boca Raton High School are looking to change this. A club called We Dine Together is dedicating their lunch time to make sure their fellow classmates are not found isolated.
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The Seventh Annual Break the Silence 5K Run/Walk will be held this Saturday, March 25 to bring attention to suicide prevention and promote the NCSU Student Counseling Center. The inaugural 5K in 2011 was hosted by the Sigma Pi fraternity in memory of their late brother, Marc Haege, to raise money for the NCSU Student Counseling Center. The mission of the race is
Read moreWhile the weather in North Carolina has been freezing, things were only heating up in downtown Raleigh on March 16. An apartment under construction caught fire. The fire was so large that the entire night sky over the capital city was lit up. The Raleigh Fire Department Division Chief John Fanning said, “This is the biggest fire that I have
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The proposal of Apex High School moving their start time up fifteen minutes in the coming years at Green Level High School has students in a panic over this change in schedule. Although waking up fifteen minutes earlier will have little to no effect on the student’s learning opportunities, there are other factors that are feeding their frustration. Green Level
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If you’ve paid any attention to social media or to your local news lately, you might have seen a live feed from Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York where keepers are anxiously awaiting for April, a fifteen-year-old Reticulated Giraffe, to give birth to her fourth calf any day now. Support for the park and the giraffes have been pouring
Read moreWith Western Wake County becoming a hotspot for new residents, many businesses are looking to take part in the sudden sprawl. From grocery chains to popular furniture retail companies, many businesses have their eyes on areas around us. Rumors of a possible IKEA coming to Wake County have sprouted up, and Wegmans has recently confirmed two new locations in the
Read moreRecent studies done by German psychologist Reinhard Pekrun and his colleagues show that there is a connection between how students feel about math and how well they perform in math class. Pekrun and his team of researchers followed over three-thousand German students from fifth through ninth grades and surveyed each student at the end of the year to see how
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