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Education
8:10 am
Mon May 20, 2013

Douglass High celebrates largest graduating class since becoming desegregated

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Seventy two students received their diplomas on Saturday, May 18, as Douglass High School celebrated its largest graduating class since becoming a desegregated high school in the 1980s.
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Columbia’s Frederick H. Douglass High School celebrated its largest graduating class since the building reopened as a desegregated high school in the 1980s.  

“This day, we celebrate the triumph and determination and hope of, hear this number, people, 72 graduates,” Douglass principal Eryca Neville announced to a roaring auditorium, packed full of proud family and friends. 

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Politics
4:40 pm
Tue October 30, 2012

Preparing for the election, even though they can't vote

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Oakland Junior High student Johnson Hunter in front of his poster board on Vice President Joe Biden on October 25.
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Oakland Junior high students Abby Theroff and project partner John Dingo talk to the candidate they researched, Vicky Hartzler, at the mock political convention on October 25.
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Teacher of Oakland Junior High's Honors Government class Joshua Johnson talks to his students at the mock political convention held on October 25.
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By Jessica Reese

What if there was one political convention where all political parties were represented? Well, a group of people not even of voting age did just that in Columbia. Oakland Junior High 9th graders spent the last two months preparing for a mock political convention representing local, state, and national candidates.

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