2008-07-29T21:25:43Z tag:voices.washingtonpost.com,2008:/hs/roosevelt//378 Copyright (c) 2008, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2008-07-29T21:25:43Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-05-11:/hs/roosevelt/2008/05/riders_in_the_news.html

Bianca Edwards a.k.a. Miss B performs her new hit single No Lip Gloss Baby, at a block party near Howard University. The national and local news media have often been criticized for only publicizing negative stories about DC public schools, but this school year has been an anomaly with respect to that type of coverage, at least for Theodore Roosevelt High School. Positive stories about the accomplishments of students and staff at Roosevelt have...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T12:21:24Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-22:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/college_411.html

A Production of the Arts Media Communications Academy at Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School Producer & Host: Darnell Lee...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Amy L. Kovac 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-21:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/the_wonders_of_golf.html

Roosevelt Golf Program Provides Stress Relief By The Aging Adolescent Members of Roosevelt's Golf Club work out at East Potomac Golf Course (l-r Lamar Bradley, Marcelles Young, Marcus Gladney, David Smith, Roger Wood, Tommy Swinton). The sun began setting against an auburn sky. A cool spring breeze rustles through the trees singing a song of calm and serenity. The awesome silence was interrupted by a flock of geese swooping down and landing on a golden...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-18:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/rumor_has_it.html

Chancellor Michelle Rhee Announces That Roosevelt Will Change Next Year By Carrington Gibson and Rashauwn Foreman Staff Writers Will Roosevelt become a charter school next year? Will all of the teachers and administrators be fired? Will students have to apply to attend Roosevelt? Who is all of this new construction really for anyway? Inquiring minds want to know! Rumors are running rampant around Roosevelt these days concerning what the school will look like next year...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-10:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/expression_or_mutilation.html

Does The Practice of Tattoing Hurt or Enhance Our Bodies? By Becky Okorie Staff Writer Rider basketball star Roderick Harris has 11 tattoos. "It might affect me later because when I go look for a job people might think I'm a gangster." They come in all shapes and sizes and usually if you get one, you'll get two or three or four. Professional athletes sport them, entertainers show them off, and even some adults are...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-06:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/the_year_of_the_rider_1.html

Roosevelt Teams Take Their Share of Championships The Roosevelt boys varsity basketball team completes an historic season finishes with a record of 19-5 and capturing their first DCIAA championship since 1972. While college teams scramble through the madness of March, trying to see who could get to the coveted championship game, members of the Roosevelt athletic department can easily shed some light on that subject. Like the Rider football teams of the 1970's or track...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-06:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/roosevelt_scholars_take_center_1.html

Roosevelt students William Idrissi and Veronica Torres receive the coveted Trachtenberg Scholarship worth $250,000 to Gearge Washington University. As students and parents filled the auditorium of Banneker High School yesterday (Friday, April, 4, 2008) they were met by a gauntlet of television cameras, professional photographers, new reporters, proud teachers, counselors and well wishers. Students and staff members at Banneker are no strangers to celebrations of achievement because the majority of the students who attend...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-04-05:/hs/roosevelt/2008/04/stomp_the_yard_and_rep_your_se_1.html

What This Fraternity/Sorority Thing Is All About By Bianca Edwards Rider Times Staff Writer Dean of Students Aubrey Brown demonstrates the steps he employed when he Stomped the Yard at Virginia Union. On the playground and streets, there are different neighborhood crews or gangs, with different street names, boys and girls wearing different colors, using scarves, tattoos, handshakes, or other body language to represent what 'set' they claim, but on the college campus there are...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-03-27:/hs/roosevelt/2008/03/roosevelts_school_of_communica.html

By The Aging Adolescent Guess Writer Roosevelt student photographers (l-r) Carrington Gibson, Darnell Lee and Anthony Woodland get the opportunity to shoot the 70th Annual Pigskin Awards Banquet where they meet Hall of Famer Redskin Art Monk. As collegiate teams prepare to march through the madness that is the NCAA Basketball Tournament, a group of excited and very talented members of the Young Journalists Development program sponsored by the Washington Post sit in anticipation in...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler 2008-05-14T03:25:48Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2008-03-02:/hs/roosevelt/2008/03/children_are_the_future.html

By David Smith Staff Writer (l-r) Tomeka Brooks, Li Thompson, and Brittany Nicholes. Li Thompson is a winner! She is a product of DC Public Schools (H.D. Woodson High School) and went on to become a successful female in a male dominated industry. She became the first female and first African American professional stadium manager in the country (she worked for RFK Stadium in the District of Columbia). She has been responsible for organizing major...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Maurice Butler