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West Side Story
The student news source of Iowa City West High

West Side Story
The student news source of Iowa City West High

West Side Story

This includes work created by students enrolled in Foundations of Journalism, the prerequisite course to joining a publication staff at West High. FOJ students are considered interns and are not West Side Story staff members while enrolled in the yearlong English elective. FOJ students can apply to join a publication staff after completing the course.

How do we feel about name tags? I dont like them too much.

No Name Tags. Thank you

Sophie Richardson, WSS Intern • May 4, 2021

Name tags. Are they really all that helpful? I decided to write this opinion article about name tags because many people really don’t like name tags, but many other people find them really useful. Since...

Students outside Columbia University. Photo credit of Pixabay.

America’s college admissions system is broken

Lilly Graham, Print Managing Editor • May 4, 2021

Like almost every lengthy conversation I have with my friends, our discussion reached the prospect of college applications, even though we are only rounding out our freshman year. My best friend reasons...

Embraced: Born in Iowa City, English teacher Mrs. Winterberg was 10 days old when she was adopted and raised in the Des Moines area. She found her way back to Iowa City after college and has lived here since. “I was adopted. I was actually born in Iowa City, Winterberg said, so finding my way back here is kind of cool, but I was adopted when I was 10 days old and didnt come back until I was in college.”

Howaida’s Photo Essay

Howaida Musa, WSS intern • April 26, 2021

Prior to this project, I didn’t know much about Mrs. Winterberg, except that she’s an English teacher and her mother had Alzheimer's disease. Throughout this project, I was given an opportunity...

Lucybelle Gerlieb’s Monochrome Photography (Photo Essay)

Lucybelle Gerlieb, WSS Intern • April 22, 2021

The theme of my photos is simply Black and White. It was tough for me to choose a theme because I knew that I would want to take pictures that wouldn’t match my designated theme. I’ve always liked...

BRINGING VIBRANCE TO THE DARK On a night of curiosity, I try to decide on what to paint for the day. Rather than seeing the color white as a blank canvas, my brother, Ali Khalil, viewed black as a blank canvas. “It’s a lot more beautiful to bring vibrance and color to the dark than to what was already light,” Khalil ‘21 said.

Fia’s photo essay

Fia Khalil, FOJ Student • April 15, 2021

Photography has never really been my thing. Although I am a very artistic person, I’ve always had trouble with taking photos. The perfectionist side of me would constantly hold me back, making me think...

Cayden Bridges Photo Essay

Cayden Bridges Photo Essay

Cayden Bridges, WSS Intern • April 12, 2021

TDOV: Colorful chalk messages decorate the sidewalks. They are there as reminders that everyone matters.

TDOV: Transgender Day Of Visibility

Jem Alden, WSS Intern • April 11, 2021

This year, there has been a record number of anti-trans bills proposed in U.S. state legislatures. International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is March 31, and it was celebrated by LGBTQ Iowa Archives...

The open sign from Aspen Leaf Frozen Yogurt in downtown Iowa City on April 5. This is a B&W photo I took from a worm’s view.

Ijin Shim downtown photos

ijin shim, WSS Intern • April 10, 2021

The photos I took are from downtown Iowa City because I wanted to capture the beautiful light at night downtown. From the shoots, I learned you need a little bit of luck and a lot of experience. It was...

The sun sets over Foxana Drive at 7:33 PM. A particular perk to spring that many look forward to are the longer days caused by the Earth’s tilt towards the sun. “My mood is always higher when the days are longer” Christina Weitz an ELL teacher at West says.

Eleanor’s Photo Essay

Eleanor Weitz, Managing Editor • April 10, 2021

Spring has always been my favorite season. It’s a season of new growth, new warmth, and new beginnings. Most have heard the phrase ‘April showers bring May flowers’ said in some kind of explanatory...

MUSIC Spinning on an old turntable is Harry Styles’s album “Fine Line.” This album has brought an immense amount of joy into my 2021 experience. Each song has a memory of mine attached to it.

Tessa Gibson’s Photo Essay

Tessa Gibson, Profiles Editor • April 10, 2021

My photo essay revolves around the theme of 2021. Each picture shows a different aspect of my life this year. It is already springtime in Coralville and it is mind boggling that time is flying so fast....

Bought in a small scale store in Japan, a pair of shoes that mark the first step into the journey that is my life.

A Childhood Portrayed in Pictures

Huilin Cui, WSS Intern • April 10, 2021

Although my life has never been significantly interesting, I believe that even I have a story to tell, and what better way to do that than with a photo gallery of some of the most memorable moments in...

Nature by Nate

Nature by Nate

Nathan Weimar, FOJ Intern • April 10, 2021

Nature offers a very wide variety of things to photograph and is always there to photograph at all times. I wanted to show this and to get outside, so I made my photo essay about Spring in Iowa. I tried...

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