It’s a summer night, just a few weeks before you start high school. You are sitting with your friends in the house when they say they’re going outside. Out of curiosity, you follow them to the back...
We’ve all been there. Finals week. The two treacherous weeks when your teachers schedule loads of finals and projects. You pull an all-nighter to finish, but you can’t complete that daunting task without...
Alex Carlon, Online Editor-in-Chief
• April 7, 2019
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Drake, Kanye West, Eminem: these are the names that come to mind when one thinks of “rap.” But, over the past few years,...
ACT, SAT, tuition, housing, acceptance rate, size... All of these are factors that college-bound students must take into account when deciding which schools they want to apply to or attend.
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The trudge from one class to another can be a mundane journey, but students making their way past room 117 might catch a glimpse of Kedi Ochs singing and dancing outside of English teacher Ann Rocarek’s...
The room is suffocatingly silent. In an atmosphere tense with nervous energy, faces go pale, resulting from the decision that must be made within the next six weeks. With this decision profoundly affecting...
When the Founding Fathers set out to create a new country under the declaration that all men are created equal, the phrase "all men" didn't apply to many demographics of people, including women. Due to...
Marta Leira, Print Editor-in-Chief
• March 6, 2019
From new weight rooms to Chromebooks, West High has experienced a multitude of changes over the past few years. However, there is one thing that remains unchanged — the school and district’s carbon...
Natalie Katz, Print Editor-in-Chief
• February 28, 2019
A lot can be done with $6 million. It can provide over 8,500 villages in underdeveloped countries with clean water, give over 700,000 children school supplies, purchase over 1.2 million drinks at Starbucks...
Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief
• February 27, 2019
Draped across a couch, a person heaves the woes of their childhood and innermost thoughts, as a man in a tweed jacket with glasses takes notes. This is how a stereotypical therapy session is portrayed...
English, Spanish, French and Mandarin are just some of the languages one hears while walking through the hallways of West High. However, Ty Waters ’20 speaks in an entirely different sort of vernacular:...
