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Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

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Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

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Michelle Mullings

Michelle Mullings , Feature Editor, Online Editor

My name is Michelle and I’m a senior. This is my second year on staff as online editor and feature editor. After I graduate, I plan on entering the medical field. When I’m not blaring music at home, you can probably catch me at a concert crowdsurfing or clutching onto the barricade for dear life.

All content by Michelle Mullings

Walking in Remembrance

Local support group hosts 10 year anniversary walk in Parker Square
Michelle Mullings, Feature Editor, Online Editor February 13, 2017

Local organization Touched By Suicide will be holding its 10th annual memorial walk on Nov. 5 at Parker Square. The North Texas based group provides support for family, friends and spouses of individuals...

Breaking the silence

Breaking the silence

Junior girls share their stories about sexual assault
Michelle Mullings, Feature Editor, Online Editor December 12, 2016

Solo cups, ping pong balls, empty handles of vodka and drunk bodies of 20-something-year-olds littered the living room apartment. The once lively mood of the party had lulled into a quiet daze as 2:00...

Michelle's picks

Michelle’s picks

Michelle Mullings, Feature Editor, Online Editor November 15, 2016

Movie/TV show:  Orange Is The New Black Song:                  Call It Losing Touch by Balance and Composure Teacher:              Becky Lee Restaurant:         Rosa's Cafe Book:...

Black and blue

Black and blue

Pastor also serves his community as law enforcement officer
Michelle Mullings, Feature Editor, Online Editor October 24, 2016

Every Sunday, senior Destiny McNeil worships at Grace Missionary Baptist Church. Her stepfather, Pastor Maurice Floyd, stands tall behind his podium onstage. Warm morning light floods through the stained...

All done up

All done up

Junior pursues dream of being a makeup artist
Michelle Mullings, Online Editor, Feature Editor May 6, 2016

When junior Triston Moon was six years old, he got into his aunt’s closet. As he sat before an array of her clothing and makeup, he started to experiment with things he only saw women using. He played...

It's not politics, it's people

It’s not politics, it’s people

Michelle Mullings, Online Editor, Feature Editor April 14, 2016

Of the three weeks I spent in Cuba as a child, I can only recall the bus. I remember climbing up stairs that led me through a gaping cutout in the steel wall and picking the chipping blue paint off...

Brothers by choice

Brothers by choice

Sophomore boys recount friendship over the years
Michelle Mullings and Andrea Garza March 4, 2016

Sophomore Quinn Waldron had known of sophomore Eiler Buck since he was in sixth grade. They passed each other in the hallways and high fived on a regular basis, but their friendship had not truly flourished...

Dr. Shahzad works in the Freshman Center as an Assistant Principal. She was a biology teacher before entering administration.

Between Two Cultures

Michelle Mullings, Online Editor, Feature Editor January 29, 2016

Growing up in Flower Mound, Assistant Principal Dr. Erum Shahzad was a brown girl in a white town. While she didn’t see herself as being different, when she moved to Marcus her junior year she was given...

Algebra II dropped from graduation requirements

Algebra II dropped from graduation requirements

Michelle Mullings, Writer January 14, 2016

Beginning with the class of 2018, students in Texas are no longer required to take Algebra II to graduate. Critics of the new policy worry that the state is lowering academic expectations. Junior Robert...

After the injuries

Michelle Mullings, Writer December 16, 2015

Young Claire Gaber was tottering across the soccer field when she noticed her shoe. After stumbling, the 4-year-old girl looked down at her feet and noticed that the sole of her cleat had separated, flopping...

Moving from Moldova

Moving from Moldova

Michelle Mullings, Writer November 18, 2015

Sophomore Ecaterina Prodan thought that war in her home of Moldova was only a rumor. This past summer, the 17 year old was getting ready to go out with her friends in her Eastern European country when...

Crime in Colombia

Crime in Colombia

Michelle Mullings, Writer November 18, 2015

Last year, junior Carolina Guerrero Sembergman and her friends were walking together on a crowded Colombian street when a teenage boy approached her. He pulled out his switchblade. Sembergman felt him...

Beyond the Borders

Beyond the Borders

ESL students remember their home countries
Michelle Mullings, Writer November 18, 2015

Giving Back to Soldiers

Giving Back to Soldiers

Michelle Mullings, Writer October 7, 2015

They got the news in the car Sitting together in the restaurant parking lot, junior Sitney David watched her brother answer the phone. Before this, he never thought he'd get cleared to go into the...

Marcus Faces: Caren Ruppert

Marcus Faces: Caren Ruppert

Michelle Mullings, Writer September 14, 2015

She never fails to greet every student with a contagious smile. Students order their morning cup of coffee, and she promptly begins to prepare it, wringing her hands and going straight to work....