The school's mascot is the Roughrider, depicting Theodore Roosevelt on a horse in his role as commander of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry.

Football, baseball and soccer games are played at Civic Field, a city-owned stadium about 1.5 miles from the school.

Notable performances it has hosted include Arlo Guthrie and the internationally acclaimed men's choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Students claimed that the letters had been featured in the puzzle unintentionally and that Cameron did not have any legitimate basis for restricting distribution.

A few pages later in the edition, students had written a story about President Barack Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage in which the word "gay" was used multiple times.