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All content by Jasmine Sachar
District moves to accomodate refugee students

District moves to accomodate refugee students

jasmine sachar April 25, 2012

Their English is broken at best, but it’s better than that of their parents, who speak none. Their schooling, if there was any, has been interrupted by civil war, discrimination and time spent praying...

Column: Letter to my homeboy, Weezy

Column: Letter to my homeboy, Weezy

Jasmine Sachar, Editor-In-Chief January 4, 2012

  Dearest Lil’ Wayne, Let me start this letter by saying that I, Jasmine Sachar, am your biggest fan. I have every eloquent lyric of yours memorized. I have perfected your devilish, hostile stare...

PSAT score pattern emerges

Jasmine Sachar, Editor-In-Chief January 4, 2012

  In past years, there has been a widening gap in the number of National Merit Semifinalists between Marcus and Flower Mound High School. This year, Flower Mound has 21 while Marcus has six.   In...

Parent in consumption

Jasmine Sachar, Editor-In-Chief January 4, 2012

  With the completion of Marauder Stadium last fall, tailgating before football games has become increasingly popular. The parking lot directly in front of the stadium is always filled with parents...

Proposed concussion law to combat long term effects

Jasmine Sachar, Sports Editor May 20, 2011

After a head-to-head collision with an Allen football player last fall, senior offensive lineman Mike Wyse received a concussion But he remained conscious. "I actually continued playing the game...

Column: What I remember from my wild weekend

Jasmine Sachar, Sports Editor March 21, 2011

This could get me in trouble. But let me just say, I was sick of being the designated goody-two-shoes of the 11th grade, the "straight edge," never-does-anything-wrong Indian girl who gets good grades...

Column: Ladies, open your own doors

Jasmine Sachar, Sports Editor January 6, 2011

I guess I’ve established that I won’t make a boy a sandwich, but have I gone too far? I don’t exactly know how it got to this point, except I can say that over the past two years, I’ve somehow...

Column: Nerds need to share the spotlight

Jasmine Sachar, Sports Editor December 2, 2010

I’m just going to put this out there: We nerds at Marcus need to stop getting so much attention. We do, of course, appreciate the baskets of warm sugar cookies and Sour Patch Kids delivered to...

Starting quarterback with a name the world knows goes into the game, out of the shadows

Jasmine Sachar, Sports Editor September 30, 2010

Deion Sanders Jr. knows what they say in the hallways. They say he’ll be a terrible quarterback. That he’s too short. That he can’t see squat past the six-feet-something offensive linemen. That he’s...