Juan Ramirez (JC) Delgadillo

May 4, 2022

Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animated film studio that has been around since 1985. It is  known for classic works like  “Spirited Away,” which won the best animated feature in 2003, and “My Neighbor Totoro,” which...

Delia Rune

May 4, 2022

As summer approaches, many students are selecting internships to complete during their months off from school. Students have access to many different options for internships, and LASA students are able to choose whether they...

Lana Giles, Staff Writer

March 28, 2022

Over the summer, many students participate in study abroad programs which provide them with the opportunity to travel to overseas destinations such as Denmark, France, Germany, and Japan. Students get to choose between bustling...

Ella Lilly, Staff Writer

March 28, 2022

Shadowing, which happens every year around January and February, allows for current eighth graders, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to experience the LASA campus, classes, and student population. This process can help these...

Beck Williams and LiLi Xiong

May 5, 2022

Turn off your lights when you’re not using them. Remember to reduce, reuse, recycle. Try to purchase products without excessive packaging. Sentiments surrounding the individual consumer such as these have circulated in...

Emma McBride, Managing Editor

May 5, 2022

The first time I encountered The Liberator was before I attended LASA as an eighth grader at Kealing. I had gone to an elective fair LASA was holding for incoming freshmen and promised my mom I would give every table a chance....

Zoe Klein, Copy Editor

May 5, 2022

I joined The Liberator because I legitimately believed I could become Carl Bernstein. I imagined myself sneaking around in too-luxurious hotels dressed in all black with a camera around my neck. But when I walked into the...

Susan Ballesteros, Entertainment Editor

May 5, 2022

I've been told I can write complete and utter nonsense for this, and I would, except I feel like it ruins the spirit of it a little. I also don't fancy reading this back twenty years from now and cringing away in embarrassment....

Sarah Garrett, Staff Writer

May 5, 2022

Many students participate in studying abroad as a way for students to immerse themselves in a new culture. After two years of travel being limited due to COVID-19, some students are going on study abroad programs this year...

Nayan Kondapalli, Staff Writer

May 5, 2022

The LASA Class of 2022 seniors had a different four years in high school than they expected. Their sophomore and junior year were both affected by COVID-19, which meant many juniors missed many academic and social experiences...

Ava Spurgeon, Staff Writer

May 5, 2022

Purple Haze, LASA’s resident robotics team, attended their first competitions since 2020 this spring. Their first one was in Channelview on March 12 and 13, followed by a competition in Amarillo the weekend of April 1.  Senior...

Lana Giles, Staff Writer

May 5, 2022

Twice a week, upperclassmen go to elementary schools during third period and organize activities with younger students. Their trips are coordinated with the Peer Assistance, Leadership, and Service (PALS) elective class at...

Luci Garza and Malvika Pradhan

May 5, 2022

Transgender term is first used (1965) Psychiatrist John F. Oliven first coins the term transgender, refrenced in his work “Sexual Hygiene and Pathology.” Before this, German physician Mangus Hitchfield had used the...

Malvika Pradhan, News editor

May 5, 2022

Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood is a national organization that originated as a single birth control clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in 1916. Today, there are now about 600 locations across the United...

Luci Garza, News editor

May 5, 2022

In 1993, the Texas state legislature created the recapture program, a form of school financing that sends local taxpayer funding to the state in order to equalize school funding. Recapture, also known as Robinhood, first...

Ava Spurgeon, Staff Writer

May 5, 2022

March 2020 was a turning point when COVID-19 closed schools across the country, and many adapted to adjust their lives by operating virtually making sure to keep a cautious distance. LASA students adapted by starting personal...