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The Patriot Press

Gains Kid

Adam Flash, Backpage Editor June 7, 2016

It’s 4:30 AM, and you’re at the gym. By 5:00, you’re already halfway through your set. Squats, pull-ups, push-ups, bench. No pain, no gain. Time to get swoll. At breakfast, you prepare a protein...

#Relatable Kid

Jacob Hepp, Backpage Editor June 7, 2016

You wake up to your alarm clock blaring the sultry sounds of a soothing saxophone. You slap the alarm clock, while thinking, “Literally me,” with a deep sense personal connection. Slumping out of...

The Great Flood: a tragedy to be remembered

Jacob Hepp, Backpage Editor June 7, 2016

The date was April 22, 2016. The hallway in the lower bowels of Liberty was silent. Not a sound was to be heard, not a movement to be seen. Suddenly, this serene landscape was tarnished by the sound of...

Maywood Civil War simulation trivializes history and promotes racism

Sabrina Suen, Opinion Editor June 7, 2016

The Situation If you were an 8th grader at Maywood Middle School, then you know that the annual civil war simulation is a rite of passage. The hallmark and climax of their time at Maywood, students...

Should Liberty’s prom elections become gender neutral?

Logan Allan, Editor-in-Chief June 7, 2016

High schools and universities across the country have started to make their prom or homecoming elections gender neutral. While it’s still a relatively new concept, the idea behind making gender neutral...

Group projects: an opportunity for leadership

Sabrina Suen, Opinion Editor June 7, 2016

We all know that group projects can go one of two ways. In one scenario, by some obscene miracle, you get paired with competent, reliable and trustworthy teammates who are more than willing to split the...

Take advantage of what Liberty offers

Logan Allan, Editor-in-Chief June 7, 2016

With each year that passes by, students tend to become less involved in activities that they once loved. The club that you used to love and go to weekly becomes a name on the announcements heard once a...

Farewell Seniors: You Will Be Missed

Kasey Winter, Staff Writer June 7, 2016

Dear seniors- The fateful time of year has come yet again, where all of us pitiful underclassmen have to watch you seniors leave for college to mold your futures, while us suckers are stuck here for...

Netflix sapping students’ ambition

Wyatt Waters, Opinion Editor June 7, 2016

Netflix: everyone’s greatest friend, and worst enemy. It provides us easily distractible students with hours upon hours of television shows, movies, and more. Thus, many of us drift into a stupor of...

Late work shouldn’t just be accepted, it should be understood

Kasey Winter, Staff Writer June 7, 2016

We all know the terrible feeling when you hand a teacher an assignment late and they give you that dreaded dirty look, from which you can tell the teacher is annoyed at you because you dare ask for an...

Media ruins relationships

Wyatt Waters, Opinion Editor June 7, 2016

Today, Liberty High School is overrun. Not by Martian overlords or fifth-dimensional beings, but by something far more sinister: social media. At all times of the day, patriots are using applications like...

Editor’s Picks: June 2nd, 2016

McKenzie Fysh, The Beat Editor June 7, 2016

Beyonce's Lemonade Released on April 23, Beyoncé’s Lemonade stands as one of the icon’s most accomplished compilations yet. Building from Gospel to Rock to R&B influences, Lemonade is a palette...

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