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Influential Seniors: Sara Osborne [video]

What did you get out of high school? Starting high school, I was involved in a lot. I did journalism and StuCo, and I was involved in Club 121 and swim team. I had so much going on, and that was great.

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Influential Seniors: AJ Spencer [video]

How does the pressure to perform in sports affect you? It pushes me to do well because everybody expects me to be good. I don’t think anybody is getting on me if I have a bad game or anything. If I do have a bad game, I just come back and try my best the second time around. I think the pressure goes away because you don’t think about it anymore.

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Influential Seniors [video]

KUGR also interviewed seniors who finished 6-10 in voting. Their videos are below:

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Walk in their life

NW students talk about what religion means in their life. Meet six students for whom religion is the utmost priority, whether that means abstaining from certain literature, fasting, waking up at 4 a.m. for worship or spending long hours studying text from scrolls dating back to 1312 B.C. Junior Sunny Dharod began studying Jainism at [...]

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Cafeteria renovations

It’s 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday. As the bells sound for second lunch to begin, students make beelines for the cafeteria where the friendly staff of lunch ladies wait to help. Today is just like any other with students standing in lines stretching out to the mall area for Mom’s Kitchen. Some wait for the chicken [...]

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Best fit

Finding the perfect dress for prom is important, so here are a few tips to help you choose. Everyone has a different body type, I’m sure that’s nothing new. But did you know that certain articles of clothing are better suited for certain body types? Everything from jeans, shirts and shoes can make a difference [...]

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Jan. 2: Dinosaurs Unearthed

The largest dinosaur exhibit in Kansas City history features 24 anamatronic models and five fully articulated skeletons, some as large as 62 feet. The exhibit also features more than 40 fossils. Location: Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo., 64108 Time: 11 a.m- 5 p.m. Admission: $13.50

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Movie a Day: Jan. 2

She’s Out of My League (R rating: sexual innuendos, strong language). Kirk (Jay Baruchel) meets the girl of his dreams in an airport security line, and Molly is the perfect woman. But when he takes her to meet his family, complications arise. Get ready to go back to school with this hilarious movie.

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