Throughout the entire pandemic, state and city governments have been in opposition regarding the issue of mask mandates, especially in schools. On Feb. 7, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds banned school mask...

From the beginning, Frances Haugen '02 knew that she was going to make an impact on the world so much that her senior future published in the May 2002 issue of the West Side Story outlined, “4 year plan:...

Ten years ago on Aug. 11, 2011 tragedy struck the West High volleyball team when their beloved setter Caroline "Line" Found passed away in a moped crash. Behind former Head Coach Kathy Bresnahan, the team...

After a year of isolation, the general public was ready to get back to a version of pre-pandemic life. With widespread availability of vaccines and quickly decreasing case counts, the summer of 2021 was...

Since the start of 2021, several laws have passed in Iowa, including laws that ban masks mandates, require that students have an opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance and forbid diversity training....

“In the middle of the derecho I heard things coming down on the house, it sounded like the house was going to cave in. When I came upstairs, there was a limb that had gone through our roofing and through...

If asked, most students might say that they know of Haiti. They might mention the country’s history of natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, or the enormous amounts of poverty seen there....

  August 30, 2021, marks the end of the “forever” war in Afghanistan. After nearly 20 years of conflict, the U.S. finally pulled all military personnel out of the country. But to really...

Every year in late September or early October high schools, colleges and universities celebrate homecoming. The event that was originally created in the 19th century to bring alumni back to campus has...

To be named as National Merit Semifinalists, these seniors scored among the top one percent of students nationwide on the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The...

In recent years, construction has been a major part of high school across the Iowa City Community School District. In 2019, missing ceiling panels, cranes, construction workers, loud noises, the displacement...

As the fourth week of school comes to an end, midterms loom only two weeks away. As Homecoming inches closer as well, the administration would like to remind you that any repairs due to stolen objects...