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West Side Story

Facing the pandemic: working during COVID-19

Facing the pandemic: working during COVID-19

Sara Baroncini, Yearbook People Co-Editor May 20, 2020

To society, fast-food chains and grocery stores are often viewed as playing an insignificant role for the public, but when it comes to a global pandemic, workers are willing to take the risk for the benefit...

Natalie Dunlap '20, Sumner Wallace '20 and Jessica Moonjely '20 discus how they have changed in the last four years.

Looking back on our time at West

https://soundcloud.com/wsspaper/looking-back-on-our-time-at-west2020

In the first episode of the West High Wrap West Side Story staffers Natalie Dunlap '20 and Sumner Wallace '20 discuss the recent AFT change, impeachment and baby Yoda.

West High Wrap: Quarantine edition

Natalie Dunlap and Sumner Wallace May 8, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/wsspaper/west-high-wrap-quarantine-edition  

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Sumner Wallace, Columns Editor May 4, 2020

The West High parking lot has a wide variety of cars—from clunkers to Camaros—but their appearances can be deceiving. This rings especially true for junior Emma Furlong’s car.  “My car...

How graduation might work

How graduation might work

Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief April 28, 2020

We know what graduation won’t look like. Students won’t gather at the end of May in Carver Arena to graduate on stage in front of their family as they have in past years. The way the class of 2020...

West High Wrap: Harvey Weinstein, boys basketball and coronavirus

West High Wrap: Harvey Weinstein, boys basketball and coronavirus

Natalie Dunlap and Sumner Wallace March 13, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/wsspaper/whw3-13-2020

Achieving success in biliteracy

Bess Frerichs, Online Managing and Feature Editor March 12, 2020

Most schedules at school have a strict structure: go to class, do the homework, repeat. But the new Seal of Biliteracy classes are set up differently. Instead of following a set curriculum, they spend...

West High Wrap: Dems drop out and AFT change

West High Wrap: Dems drop out and AFT change

Natalie Dunlap and Sumner Wallace March 7, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/wsspaper/west-high-wrap-dems-drop-out-and-aft-change-wss

No Cap Recap is a sports podcast with sports editor Yaya Orszula and staffer Anna Gibson.

No Cap Recap: state championship edition

Joe Goodman and Owen Aanestad March 6, 2020

What a winter sports season it has been for West High athletics. The boys wrestling team produced three individual state champions in Will Hoeft '20, Hunter Garvin '22 and Graham Gambrall '21 in addition...

Optimizing matchomatics

Optimizing matchomatics

Marta Leira, Isaac Young, and Ken Wilbur February 28, 2020
Two staffers detail the social experiment they conducted with the annual matchmakers survey.
West High Wrap: Wrapping up the trimester

West High Wrap: Wrapping up the trimester

Natalie Dunlap and Sumner Wallace February 28, 2020

https://soundcloud.com/wsspaper/west-high-wrap-wrapping-up-the-trimester

Advika Shah '22 executes a dance position for the camera. Every gesture and limb carries a unique meaning in this form.

Sampradaya Bharatanatyam Troupe of Iowa City

Paras Bassuk and Caroline Barker February 25, 2020

  Bharatanatyam is a story-based dance form that has been taught for centuries.   Characterized by its meaningful gestures, facial expressions, and coordination, learning Bharatanatyam...

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