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Community School of Davidson (CSD)’s front parking lot is packed full of various vehicles, several of which can often be seen parking without much care for guidelines or other drivers and regard for reserved spaces.

Cars here, there, everywhere, nowhere

Parking at CSD is an issue but, thankfully, the issue has the attention of those who may help find a solution
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor
May 10, 2025
Many first time and young drivers get overwhelmed by the complexity of the school parking. With cars surrounding all four sides of the building, side street parking lining the neighborhoods, and empty lots at nearby establishments left unmarked, it can be difficult to determine where you are wanted and where you’ll get in trouble for leaving a car.
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The CSD high school auxiliary gym sits empty. As one of three gymnasiums across both campuses, mats could be rolled out for wrestling practices and tournaments.

Room to wrestle

It’s one of the nation’s fastest growing high school sports and it’s time CSD adds it for women and men.
Ben Gallagher, Editor-in-Chief
May 9, 2025
Building a team (or teams) would take time and CSD has shown it can make it happen. A perfect example of a sport people showed interest that is now a reality is men’s volleyball. Over the course of my four years at CSD, many athletes voiced their opinion that CSD should have a men’s volleyball team.
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A CSD spring sports athlete wears a walking boot due to an overuse injury. Injuries can be tough for an athlete, especially at the high school level, but coming back strong is how a team can bounce back. Longing for the court, field, track, etc. will happen through a successful rehab. (CSD Journalism class photo.)

Roster opening, athlete ruled out

How injuries impact and change professional and high school sports teams
Dylan Sherman, Deputy Sports Editor, Staff Writer
May 6, 2025
While injuries are tough, successful teams find ways to steer around them and bounce back. By doing this, a team learns how to have resilience and learns to get out of tough situations. Injuries can’t be avoided, but a season that goes to waste can be.
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CSD’s Europe ‘25 travelers share a smile at the Charlotte Douglas international Airport. Across eleven days, the group visited 5 different cities and countries in Europe, including Dublin, Wales, London, Paris, and Amsterdam.

CSD’s Europe ‘25 trip takes flight

A group of CSD upperclassmen student travelers and chaperones return from the adventure of a lifetime
Callie Hobbs, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Visual Media Manager
May 3, 2025

When the Community School of Davidson’s (CSD) Europe ‘25 travelers reunited with their families in the Charlotte Douglas International Airport during the late afternoon hours of Friday, April 18, 2025,...

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Community School of Davidson Student Life Leader, Leslie Bragg, stands behind her desk on Learning Street, the school’s busiest hall. It is an appropriate location since her job entails listening to the voices of students and serving as a bridge between students and administration with the help of the building community.

Spartan Questionnaire* (#12) featuring Leslie Bragg (*where we take a break from AP Style writing and get right to the good Q&A stuff with CSD people)

Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor
April 22, 2025
Often found at her desk on Learning Street, her job is to listen to the voices of CSD students and implement suggestions on an administrative level, to hear what works and what doesn’t.
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That’s a wrap. Subversive TV finales through the years run the gamut of being well-received and praised to widely panned.

Subversive TV finales that divide audiences

Subversive TV finales run the gamut from effective examples, like “The Prisoner” (1967) and “Angel” (1999), to finales that some people perceive to be anticlimactic or unsatisfying, like the endings of “Lost” (2004) and “How I Met Your Mother” (2005).
Liam Bradley, Features Editor, News Editor
April 21, 2025
After all, some students and teachers don’t mind it when finales throw them for a loop, so long as they believe the subversion is executed well, fits the show in question, and works on the basic fronts, like acting, direction, structure, etc.
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Community School of Davidson sophomore Katelyn Casiday (‘27), clearly in distress, sits alone and works in a school hallway surrounded by flashcards. With both scheduled and unplanned changes, it is often difficult to get into a steady rhythm.

Beware of burnout

Balancing workloads, maintaining mental health and navigating the school year (especially around school breaks and vacations) can be a challenge when next to nothing seems normal
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor
April 7, 2025
The science behind burnout is fairly simple. Caused by stress, it is essentially a mental block against continuing your work.
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(Standing at center) As a member of the Duke Pep Band, CSD alum, Will Harris, celebrates on the baseline during the 2025 NCAA Men’s Elite 8 tournament game in New York City. (Photo courtesy of Megan Harris.)

CSD grad, Will Harris, trombones his way to the Final Four

Conner Shelton and Brandon Amaya
April 3, 2025
When the buzzer sounded and Flagg and Knueppel celebrated Duke’s 85 - 65 win, Harris picked up his trombone and began playing Duke’s fight song. Flag and Knueppel had done their jobs, now it was time for Harris and the other members of the Duke Pep Band to provide the victory energy.
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Community School of Davidson Senior Assassin player Mia Kirsch holds her water gun which is decorated with care bears stickers and stars. In Senior Assassin, players use water guns to eliminate their targets.

Eliminated

Senior Assassin (Round 1) wraps up
Mia Kirsch, A & E Editor, Podcast Editor
April 2, 2025
Senior Assassin is a recent, school non-affiliated senior tradition, a phenomenon that is both making national headlines and is consuming a substantial amount of high school seniors’ time, energy and dedication.
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High school students are usually best seen in hoodies not ill-fitting suits. Dress codes are different at Model UN.

(HUMOR/SATIRE) Delegates, decisions and ill-fitting suits

Embracing the chaos (and hilarity) of a Model UN weekend
Evan Mulligan, News Editor, Staff Writer
March 26, 2025
Model UN is, in essence, an activity in which (in its original formulation) primarily high school students get together for the purpose of pretending to be delegates to the United Nations, a situation which is admittedly quite ridiculous on the surface but nevertheless is something in which hundreds of thousands of students take part just in the U.S. alone.
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It has to be spring sports season when bats, sticks, rackets, cleats and bags line the walls outside of Griffin Gym. CSD spring athletes are excited to get outdoors and compete at Spartan Park representing the school.

Spring Spartan athletes take it outdoors

Previewing CSD’s spring sports with hopes of wins, championships, spirit and camaraderie
Avery Nardone, Deputy Sports Editor, Staff Writer
March 25, 2025
As temperatures rise with the approaching spring months, so does Spartan enthusiasm for the upcoming season. Community School of Davidson’s 2025 spring sports offer a range of sports as athletes break out from winter’s indoor competitions and under the sun on the courts, fields, track and golf course. Spring sports are a great opportunity to form bonds, push physical boundaries and just get outside.
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Maw Maw and Paw Paw (mother and father to Community School of Davidson‘s founder and first executive Director, Joy Warner) brought energy and purpose to a now established school which grew from a napkin and hearts overflowing with love. (Photo courtesy of Joy Warner.)

Remembering Maw Maw: A heartfelt tribute to a CSD legend

CSD students share memories and lessons learned
Conner Shelton, Sports Editor, Podcast Editor
March 24, 2025
If you were to ask current and former students about their favorite Maw Maw memories, most would probably say it was being a "trash kid" in elementary and middle school.
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