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Barack Obama re-elected as President of the United States
By Ashton Duncan Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, has laid claim to another four years in the White House. From West High to Washington D.C., many Iowans under-appreciate being an important political battleground state. That means more ads “approving of this message”, but also that the opinions and problems of [...]
WSS grabs awards for writing, graphics at IHSPA conference
by Ashton Duncan The West Side Story garnered two sweepstakes awards from the Iowa High School Press Association on Oct. 17, first place Writing (Class B) and second place Graphics (Class B) for ’11-’12 school year issues. WSS staffers also landed awards in IHSPA On-the-Spot contests. Pombie Silverman ’13 tied for first in the copy-editing [...]
Homecoming pep assembly
By Erin Weathers At 2:45, all students were let out of class early. The 2,000 students packed the gym to watch this year’s homecoming court nominees and teachers alike embarrass themselves in a series of relays, in addition to the introduction of all fall sport teams and a performance by the dance team. The sea [...]
Radish: Green Checks into Oval Office
by Ashton Duncan Note: Radish content is satirical and not meant to be perceived as factual. Senator Bill Green was thought to have fallen by the wayside of the 2012 presidential election, a mere blip on the radar of history books, lost somewhere between last January and election day. Last night, as the last ballot [...]
Free Spirit ’12
Newspapers have tradition, from newsboys to war reels, but it’s not all about being the next Bob Woodward or Walter Cronkite. I don’t want to be molded into another person, and, to me, journalism is about accepting the legacy of the long line of those who came before you and then breaking that tradition–breaking the [...]
Voluntary recall on school lunch lettuce
ICCSD and some surrounding school districts were notified today that River Ranch Fresh Foods, the supplier of ICCSD school lunch lettuce, has called for a voluntary recall of their bagged salads due to a potential Listeria contamination. The school district promptly sent out the following email prompting parents to be concious of any illness within [...]
2+2+2 = to, too, two
Find x in the middle of a haystack the size of Manhattan. Find angle B using only a rubber band, a paperclip and duct tape. You’ve taken MacGyver mathematics, right? Now what’s a comma splice? The difference between their, there and there? At West High an inordinate amount of stress is placed on mathematics and [...]
Brainiac Laroia to go to National Brain Bee
by Juliann Skarda Ruchira Laroia ’12 will be competing at the National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland, March 4-5, after placing as the runner-up at Iowa’s State Brain Bee. Laroia assumed the first place spot, as well as the $1,000 prize, after the winner was unable to travel to the national competition. Laroia became interested [...]
Worry wart
by WSS intern, Fiona Armstrong-Pavlik Sometimes, I worry about myself. And then I worry about everything else that I could possibly have to deal with. Is that kid next to me tapping his pen? Or am I hallucinating that sound? Is there a disease where hallucinating the sound of someone tapping a pen is a [...]
A day in the life
by WSS intern, Alyssa Hancock It has been staring me in the face for about 20 minutes now. It shines in the light and mocks me. I feel as though I may throw up. All because of a stupid hair. This hair is just sitting there. Right on the back of the guy in front [...]
Where are the real athletes?
by WSS intern, Hannah Merrill It is a common headline–another athlete suspended for a drug violation, or a coach fired for his involvement in a sexual scandal. But you probably missed the news that Michelle Kwan, one of the most accomplished athletes in American history and a sports ambassador for the U.S. State Department, had [...]
Falafel fight – restaurant review
by WSS intern, Jordan Rossen You thought it was good, I thought it was falafel. In the past two months at least two falafel restaurants have closed their doors. This highly competitive industry is an eat or be eaten world. Falafel is an economical staple of the Mideast, but may not be familiar to inhabitants [...]
Divergent by Veronica Roth: book review
by WSS intern, Lushia Anson Ever since the Hunger Games topped the bestseller lists, there’s been a scramble among authors to write more dystopian thrillers, (not unlike the vampire literature epidemic of ‘year.) Many of these new novels about futuristic, perplexing worlds are just scorned by readers as knockoffs of the Hunger Games, but debut [...]
Crepes de Luxe Cafe review
by wss intern, Alyssa Mckeone Walking into the dimly lit Crepes De Luxe Cafe I was welcomed by the bold, squash colored walls. I pondered at the menu written in neon colored chalk on black boards featuring two different categories of crepes to choose from: sweet and savory. Sweet crepes feature fruits such as strawberries, [...]
The 200 animals of Benjamin Mee – We Bought a Zoo movie review
by wss intern, Hannah Merrill “There’s no reason for you to know about zoos in order to buy one. You just have to be a bit mad, but I assume you’ve got that part covered,” someone tells Benjamin Mee in his memoir, We Bought a Zoo, now a major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. [...]
The one that (surprisingly) got away – Winnie the Pooh movie review
by WSS intern, Kaitlyn McCurdy With the awards season fully underway after the airing of the Golden Globes, publications are reminiscing on 2011’s greatest hits and misses in the film department. On the animated front, you have features such as The Adventures of Tin Tin and Hugo being praised over and over again for their [...]
The Fault in Our Stars book review
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is the most compelling novel of 2012, and the year has barely begun. A rare work of fiction can inspire each reader to relate their universe to a fictionally composed constellation, and even rarer one set in Indiana. You may have recently seen signed copies hitting the [...]
Randy Hausler (West High then-and-now)
By Brenna Deerberg Believe it or not, there was a time when West High was only a host to grades 10 through 12. There was a time when cows from the nearby farm grazed freely along the main drive, and City High students dubbed West High “Cow Pie High.” There was a time [...]
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