Students and staff alike filed out of the building during 1st Hour on Sept. 21 following a ringing fire alarm. Outside, students and staff stood in the drizzling rain while waiting for the fire department to arrive. Once they got to Lafayette, it was doubly confirmed that the fire alarm went off due...
Caoimhe Farris, Staff Reporter
September 7, 2021
Make-up photos will happen on Sept. 9 during the Academic Lab period, and this will be a final opportunity for underclassmen to have photos taken. All photos are taken by Inter-State Studios. The picture is part of a student's official school record...
September 3, 2021
“I believe the dress code has its ups and downs. I get [it if you’re] showing too much cleavage and obviously wearing swimsuit covers, but showing your shoulders or even a tad of your stomach? It just doesn’t make sense. Women should be proud of...
Morgan Vehige, News Editor
September 1, 2021
Lafayette is welcoming 11 new staff members to the hallways this year. Each of them, in their own ways, is excited to join the Lancer community and to learn more about the student and academic culture at the school. Their positions range from math teacher,...
Morgan Vehige, News Editor
September 20, 2021
Freshman Josie Alspaw got her cat Bob early in the age of quarantine. Over the year and a half of having her cat, Alspaw has dressed her up in numerous outfits, each more intricate than the last. When Alspaw had a lot of time on her hands with the...
September 17, 2021
In honor of the people who died during the 9/11 terror attack that occurred 20 years ago, Lafayette hosted it's annual Patriot Day Ceremony the morning of Sept. 10 by the football field. Students and staff as well as local military recruiters, veterans...
Devan Ellison, Staff Reporter
September 14, 2021
Senior Corban Leslie is a member of numerous music groups throughout Lafayette High School. He is a member of the Lafayette Lancer Regiment, where he plays the sousaphone. He plays the euphonium in 6th Hour Symphonic band and the trombone in 7th Hour...
Boys Cross Country: After back-to-back top ten finishes, the Lancers continued their success behind senior Nikolas Malek, who finished first individually with a time of 16:01.41 and junior Lukas Groenewald,...
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In honor of the people who died during the 9/11 terror attack that occurred 20 years ago, Lafayette hosted it's annual Patriot Day Ceremony the morning of Sept. 10 by the football field. Students and staff...
June 1, 2021
Following the events of last school year, students and staff at Lafayette hosted a Senior Salute parade in order to give the Class of 2020 the opportunity to celebrate their senior year in a way that adhered...
Riley Philipp and Chiara Bouckaert
May 29, 2021
In the last year, freshman Patty Kirtley has dedicated her self to competitive weightlifting. With her eyes set on the Olympics, she hopes to inspire young women everywhere to get into the sport of strength...
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![History teacher Stephen Klawiter has been skateboarding for around 25 years, and has continued into his late 40’s, with his first time picking up the board being in 8th grade. ⠀
His inspiration for starting came from an unlikely source. “I saw the movie Back to the Future, where he makes a skateboard and I said ‘that looks like the coolest thing ever’”. Klawiter said. ⠀
After that, things took off for Klawiter as he discovered his passion for skateboarding. “I did participate in contests. I also worked at a skate shop called Splash and had a small sponsorship through that,” Klawiter said. Even with competing on a regular basis, Klawiter’s friends would usually win. ⠀
After graduation from high school, Klawiter decided to take a break from boarding. But after his college graduation, an observation of his local area changed his mind. “Once I got out of college and started working for a few years, they started building skateparks. And these are things we didn’t have as kids. [When we were kids], you would skate at a strip mall and the cops would show up and chase you out of there. Once they built these skate parks, all these old skaters came out of the woodworks like this is what we wanted when we were young, and they jumped back into it. So, I got pulled back into it. Suddenly there are all these old guys everywhere. Now I’m part of the St. Louis Old Man Skateboard group,” he said. ⠀
Despite his break in the middle, Klawiter has been skateboarding on and off for 25-30 years. “If I’m in a good stretch, I’ll go every Saturday morning,” he said. ⠀
With his competition days in the past, Klawiter has found a new reason to continue his favorite hobby. “Nowadays it’s just about fun. When you are old the fear is there, when you are young you have no fear,” he said. (Story by Keria Coverdell and photos courtesy of Stephen Klawiter) #connectedlancer](https://lancerfeed.press/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
