The AcDec team sat around a Starbucks table reading aloud "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf. The story was a detailed description of a snail on the wall that supposedly represented sexism and the modern age. These are the kinds of abstract concepts students met twice a week to discuss and study in preparation for competition. Their work paid off.
In the first UIL Inaugural Student Congress meet, Richardson debaters placed in the top quarter, with senior Berryman Toler qualifying for the State competition next January.
Richardson students no longer have to rummage through their backpacks or retrace their steps to retrieve the school's lost books. Students also no longer have an excuse for not having their assigned books in English class.
Communications Magnet students spent the past weekend working on the annual Weekend Race assignment. The project, which started eight years ago, requires all communications students to group up, film and edit a five-minute video in one weekend.
As a six weeks project, biology students in past years were given the task of presenting the arguments for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Next year, students might be required to explain the “Creationist Theory,” if the Texas Education Agency (TEA) passes a new bill.
After playing their last home game of the year, the varsity volleyball team prepares for the playoff game against Wylie. The game starts at 7 pm, at Wylie.
Dressed in dog-eared grey pants, a decaying shredded pale brown shirt, face scarred stitches and a zombie attitude, cheer coach Jeff Bivins fit perfectly into the crowd, dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
RHS orchestra director Sara Long clenched her baton as she stood up on the podium, ready to conduct the Chamber Orchestra for their Honor Orchestra Recording competition at St. Barnabas Church.
Baseball season is around the corner, and this year the baseball field has been undergoing renovation. Construction of the new field started since last summer and is estimated to be complete by early next year.
With the golden R embroidered on their hats, band students looked overwhelmed with the trophies in their hands after the Golden Eagle Band placed third in the 27th Annual Desoto Marching Classic.
