west side story

By Velarchana Santhana and Tyler Voss Two Latin dancers came to West High to show the Spanish 4 students many popular Latin dances such as rumba, cha cha, salsa, tango and mambo.  Derek and Susie have each been dancing for 12 years and competing in competitions all over the country for about 6 years now.  They [...]

West High Debater Kai Trepka and his partner Richie Zhang won the Great Midwestern Debate Tournament, April 5-7th, 2013. The West Side Story sits down with Trepka to talk debate details and what it takes to succeed in a debate. Want to learn more? WSS Intern Akash Borde gives a primer on the basics of [...]

by Ashton Duncan and Kaitlyn McCurdy Payton Myers ’13 and Chandler Myers ’15 are siblings born on the same day two years apart. The WSS interviews them to see how similar they really are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv3gUW59rMQ

Check out Joe Feldmann playing the guitar, ukulele and banjo. A photo story by Megumi Kitamoto and Juliann Skarda

By: Jordan Rossen and Katie Mons A photo story about all the problems Savannah Wilson ’13 has with her car.

West High girls’ and boys’ soccer teams are on their way to a successful season. By Frannie Rizzo and Blake Oetting

by Megumi Kitamoto Check out Akash Borde ’15 talking about his favorite piece to play, his influences and many more.  

By Fiona Armstrong-Pavlik and Abbie Skemp   West High’s EATS begins their new season of planting vegetables in the garden to give to the cafeteria and local community.  

I’m sure everyone knows about the ELP program for gifted students at the elementary level but now its coming to the high school level too.  Starting in the fall of 2013 a new ELP program will be coming to West High.  By Tyler Voss and Brenna Deerberg  

By Hannah Merrill and Olive Carrollhach

Students share their experiences from the Spanish language trip. By Erin Weathers Photos used with permission from Alex Nelson

COLORS adviser Kerri Barnhouse and Dan Kauble ’13 share their perspectives on this year’s Governor Conference held on April 3 in Des Moines by Alyssa McKeone and Aileen Norris

Olive Carrollhach ’13, Paul Curry ’14, Aileen Norris ’15, Leela Sathyaputri ’14, Pombie Silverman ’13 and Frank Weirich ’13, all earned Gold Keys for their work in the 2012-2013 West Side Story from the Quill and Scroll Journalism Honor Society. Sara Whittaker is the newspaper’s adviser. A Gold Key is the highest honor a journalist [...]

By Zora Hurst The week of April 8th through the 12th was a true whirlwind. This edition of MWM was full of extremes: be that sheer giddiness at the blessing of warm weather, or sheer awe at the sky’s ability to be the same shad of not-quite-gray for three days. A few tracks that recorded [...]

by Aileen Norris and Kaitlyn McCurdy We don’t know about you, but we’re really sick of Twilight. So, of course, the moment that series ends, here comes another franchise from Stephenie Meyer. When Earth is taken over by an unseen enemy, called Souls, that is implanted into the human body, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) is [...]