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June 2009

                       Welcome to The Lafayette Times!

 

 

Our last update for this school year will be June 6.  We will return September of 2009 with a new set of newspaper students and articles.  Good luck to all seniors in your future endeavors.  Have a good summer!  Be safe.

 

Lafayette's Graduation is tentatively scheduled for Friday, June 5th. 

 

Ceremonies will begin at 4:00 p.m. and will be held at Rupp Arena.

News

Youth Speak Out
By: Haley Kirk

Mayor’s Youth Council- Youth Speak out



Order your 2009 yearbook now!! 

Questions?  Contact Dr. Sallee at jonel.sallee@fayette.kyschools.us


Features
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Here @ Lafayette
Battle Of The Bands
By: Keely Schafer

Students and Teachers will rock out at Friday's Battle of the Bands...

Introducing Dawn Brown
By: Zenas Rother

Striving to succeed and thriving with school spirit is what makes a great student and helps great teachers...


Opinions
Senioritis, And Why I Am Too Lazy to Come Up With a Better Title For This Article
By: Carter Daniels

There are certain things that destroy one’s desire to try...

Economic Waterfalls
By: Carter Daniels

Economics sometimes works like a waterfall...

Obama Overlooked Something
By: Carter Daniels

“There is no doubt in our minds that we are on the cusp, the precipice if you will of something great and or devastating"...


Entertainment
Blasts From the Past
By: Haley Kirk

Do you remember the top music from ten years ago?...

How Music Inspires Fashion
By: Katie Mullen

Fashion and music are joined, inspiring each to greater heights...

Saturday Night Show at Common Grounds
By: Katie Mullen

Shane situated himself on the stage and gave a quick warning to his captive audience...


Sports

 



Visual Arts

The Art of Greg Misner
By: Greg Misner




Reading Nook
Read These Books Now!
By: Carter Daniels

Five Lafayette teachers discuss what students should read before leaving high school...

Mr. Matson’s Choices
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
1984 (George Orwell)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
World War Z (Max Brooks)

Mrs. Reid’s Choices:
Bible, Torah and/or Koran
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Howard Zinn’s American History (Howard Zinn)
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)

Mrs. Jolliffe’s Choices:
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Odyssey (Homer)
some dystopian novel (1984 or Brave New World or Anthem) (George Orwell, Aldus Huxley, Ayn Rand)
The Great Gatsby ( F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Doc Sallee’s Choices:
Flatland (Edwin Abbott)
Inferno (Dante)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren)
One novel, preferably published in the last ten years or so, by someone whose ethnicity is different from your own. (Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns…etc)

Carter’s Choices:
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koelster)
I, Lucifer (Glenn Duncan)
Love & Hate in Jamestown ( David A Price)
The Dress Lodger (Sheri Holman)
Crime & Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)



Watchmen: The End is Not Nigh for Comic Book Movies
By: Carter Daniels

You won’t find Alan Moore’s name anywhere in the credits of the Watchmen movie...



Paper Towns
By: Haley Kirk

Paper Towns, a young adult novel written by John Green.

Photography Shoes
By: Julie Niklas

These are not photography shoes...

Showcasing Lafayette Alumni

This month: Michael Whitaker




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