Opinion
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Alex Spills Her GUTS on Rodrigo
![Writing Editor Brooklyn Slie makes delicious hot chocolate cookies and white chocolate candy cane cookies.](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_3767-1200x900.jpg)
Must Have Holiday Treats
![Writing Editor and senior Brooklyn Slie concocts a salted caramel hot chocolate and peppermint mocha mudslide.](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-10.18.03 PM-1200x909.png)
How To: Make Holiday Treats
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What Broke the Box Office?
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Top Five Albums of the Year
![Least Wonderful Songs of the Year](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-10.33.28 PM.png)
Least Wonderful Songs of the Year
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Top Five Christmas Songs
![New Year, Same Me](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-10.42.23 PM.png)
New Year, Same Me
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(left) and Pedro Carreon (right) lock elbows and smile to the crowd.](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-6.34.31 PM-948x1200.png)
The History of Homecoming
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K-Pop: A Glamorized Industry
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Quitting Cold Turkey
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For the past three years in a row, Lamar has been the district champions in cross country. Recently, the team won their fourth district championship in...
![After being crowned homecomiang king and queen, Andrenai Turbin
(left) and Pedro Carreon (right) lock elbows and smile to the crowd.](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-6.34.31 PM-948x1200.png)
Homecoming is an exciting part of almost every high schooler’s life in America, for most people it’s fun and exciting to get asked out and then to...
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Last year, I wrote a story about the unfair practices our field hockey team has experienced. We used to be one big team playing on the front lawn of the...
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touchdown and avoids being tackled.](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-7.11.09 PM.png)
It’s no surprise that our varsity football team is one of the best in the nation. Along with their great reputation on the field, they also have a strong...
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Writing Lab “Any Piece of Writing, Any Stage in the Process” – that’s the motto of the Writing Lab. The Writing Lab allows students, who have...
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If you asked anyone in the 1950s what revolutionary inventions there would be in 2023, they would tell you flying cars, colonies on Mars and robots running...
![The Chess Club is Back: Checkmate](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/new-chess-club-900x619.jpg)
After years of being inactive, the chess club is back and better than ever. However, this time they’re under a whole new team. The journey to becoming...
![If You Can’t Play Nice, Play Water Polo](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/EditedPhoto2-900x596.jpg)
Boom! Just like that, Lamar’s water polo team has, at last, balled its way into becoming an HISD UIL sport for the 2022-2023 season and for seasons to...
![Mason Martinez, Matthew Wu, Mischa Wijesekera, and Soumil Goyal at the Bellaire debate tournament](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/4377BE0E-8461-462D-A21C-388843650980-900x675.jpeg)
As the debate team attends more tournaments, they will continue to set many ambitious goals. The team is working hard with each other to not only increase...
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On Sept. 12, Lamar’s Writing Lab opened. Located in the old alumni room, N212, the Writing Lab serves Lamar students’ writing needs through a different...
![Wrapping It Up: End of Softball Season](https://lamarlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pexels-pixabay-54330-2-900x600.jpg)
It is the end of yet another softball season, and with the new head coach Brandy Mardis leading the way this time around, there has been a significant...
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There are many benefits to playing baseball, or any other sport. You learn to handle pressure, how to work well with others, communication, problem solving,...
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The Broadcast Journalism department competed in the district-wide “When I Grow Up Contest” in which students from across HISD schools get the chance...
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After an eventful year filled with rigorous competitions, the robotics team is sad to announce the end of their season. The team went to the VEX World...
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An integral and universal component to the International Baccalaureate program is that of Theory of Knowledge: a class dedicated to better understanding...
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