On Friday, Sept. 5, Consol’s Varsity Girls volleyball faced Magnolia West at home, winning the game in only three sets.
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Gallery: Tigers gather at pep rally to ‘wipe out’ Falcons
Consol’s student body, faculty and organizations gathered in the gym in anticipation against tonights football game against the Richmond Foster Falcons.
Confidence campaign encourages new outlook
When all mirrors are covered for a day as a part of a campaign to increase confidence, people are forced to look behind appearances and rethink an old message.
Success Time provides new opportunities, challenges for students
Instead of going to lunch or Advocate after 3rd period this past week, students have been going to Academic Success, a new 25-minute-period that focuses on helping students become more successful students during the 2014-2015 school year.
Memorable works of late comedian revisited
Actor, director, writer, and comedian Robin Williams (1951-2014) was a celebrated figure of the contemporary age. He is credited with over 100 works and an enormous impact on the many generations of the 20th century. In honor of his enormous contribution to some of the best-known films of the last five decades, The Roar revisited and reviewed three of his most iconic works.
“The Giver” shines in details, neglects plot, characters
A flash of red in an apple thrown into the air. A gleam of green on a tree. The stark black-and-white beginning of “The Giver,” punctuated by occasional colors that escalate in clarity through the film, hints at the coming discovery of something essential, something intangible, something pure: emotion.
Summer’s end leads to reflection on high school experience
On one hand, I’m pretty much the same awkward 14-year-old I was two years ago (as my sister loves to remind me), but on the other hand, I have learned a few tips and tricks that would have made my first year of high school a little more bearable. If I could travel back in time and have ten minutes with my former freshman self, I think I would say something along the lines of this…
Nearly 50 years old, Beatles album stands test of time
49 years ago today The Fab Four released Help!, their second movie soundtrack and 5th album. The Beatles certainly don’t need much of an introduction. At the time of its release it was lauded as a critical and commercial success. Being a Beatles album pretty much guarantees it’s sacred to a large portion of music lovers today.
‘Queen’ turns homophobic fears into tools of empowerment
Ominous, industrial sounding synths scream and whir as Mike Hadreas becomes the embodiment of everything America fears from the gay community. “No family is safe when I sashay,” he almost hollers in Perfume Genius’s new single ‘Queen’.
Worth of SAT prep courses ultimately dependent on self-motivation
As Regina Brett says, summer is one grand permission slip to be lazy. But for some students, the threat of the PSAT and SAT looming just around the corner replaces that permission slip with a ticket to summer SAT prep courses.
