"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln High School Statesman

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln High School Statesman

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln High School Statesman

The LHS Debate team at the District Tournament.

One step short of debate fame

Sophia Boyt, Journalism Student March 9, 2018

The atmosphere was heavy with suspense. There was no laughter in LHS’s debate homeroom. Only dead silence could be heard as competitors waited for the results of their dedication; all 14 hours of the...

Senior Courtney Klatt led the track team to success last season, and is expected to do the same this year.

Lincoln on track for another great season

Slater Dixon, Journalism Student March 7, 2018

Coach James “Jaws” Jarovski and the track and field team are preparing for the new season, which starts on Monday. The year brings bigger goals and another opportunity to win the state title. “Our...

Rise students, Sado Ali,
Destiny Saengkio, 
Alex Rust, Antonio Humann, Lane Zufelt,
Jack Salestrom and
Noah Epling hold up the poster that many LHS students signed to pledge not using the R word. The group had a table set up in the lunchroom during lunch and handed out bracelets to students who were eating. 
Austin Farr (green shirt)

National “spread the word to end the word” day

Katie Kroeze, Adviser March 7, 2018

A word that is thrown around today is equality. It is a layered word, which many people have fought for over the years. Another word that can be thrown around without knowing it’s negative implications...

LHS students plan to participate in March 14 walkout

LHS students plan to participate in March 14 walkout

Summer Ericson, OPED Editor March 7, 2018

Amidst the all-too-frequent school shootings happening in the U.S emerge students who are eager and longing for change. Talk of gun control has been prevalent in our country, but actions have failed to...

Photo: Erlend Bjørtvedt (CC-BY-SA)

After Parkland: businesses cutting ties with the NRA

Cathleen Weng, Staff Writer March 5, 2018

Time and time again, the U.S. has found itself waking up to tragedy based on gun violence and mass shootings, especially in schools and businesses. Nearly a third of the world’s mass shootings take place...

The LHS girls basketball team beat Watertown  54-38 on March 2. The team has advanced to the State tournament.

LHS girls basketball is the No. 2 seed

Kathryn Sweeter, Journalism Student March 5, 2018

In February 2018, the LHS girls basketball team was ranked as the No. 2 seed in SD after playing a total of 19 games and only having three losses. The LHS girls basketball varsity team is made up of...

President Donald Trump wants to use an executive order to bar the use of bump-stock devices that allow guns to fire like automatic weapons. This has been the only definite proposal he has made on gun control since the school shooting in Florida, leaving 17 dead.

Should teachers be armed in schools?

Parker Hibbard, Journalism Student March 5, 2018

All of the school shootings that have happened since the start of 2018 have caused school safety to be a major priority of the government. There have been 18 school shootings in 43 days in the U.S....

The first day of school for the Sioux Falls School District for 2018 will be Aug. 23, a week and a half earlier than the previous year.

Sloppy schedule: shorter summer break coming soon

Nicole Schmitz, Journalism Student March 5, 2018

On April 17, 2017, school board members voted unanimously to approve the schedule for the new 2018-2019 academic school year. The school board members passed the new schedule in 14-7 vote. With this...

Photo by Jenna Becker

LHS band earns its own legislation

Jenna Becker, Staff Writer March 2, 2018

LHS’s marching band has made some big strides this season. Placing 13th at the BOA super regionals and winning seemingly countless awards, but now they can add a  new victory to the list: a piece of...

Photo provided by Google Public Use

The fight for net neutrality continues

Cathleen Weng, Staff Writer February 27, 2018

In Dec. 2017, the FCC voted to repeal the Title II net neutrality regulations that protected open and fair Internet for its users. Outrage spread across social media for awhile before everything died down...

Teachers on strike in West Virginia: all schools currently cancelled

Teachers on strike in West Virginia: all schools currently cancelled

February 27, 2018

The U.S. is currently filled with all kinds of protests: the #metoo movement, the planned school walkouts against guns and now, the West Virginian teacher strike. This week, teachers and other employees...

There were 17 fatalities at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

School shootings: An American epidemic

Abbie Griffin, Entertainment Editor February 23, 2018

On Wednesday, Feb. 14 another school shooting took place in Parkland, FL. At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, former student Nikolas Cruz opened fire on teachers and students. According to the New...

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