Quill and Scroll selected the West Side Story staff as the winner of the Blue and Gold Award for Staff Excellence Award, which is the highest achievement a staff can receive in the International Quill...
School lunch has usually gained a bad reputation in pop culture and on social media as being unhealthy, disgusting, and inedible. However, West High's cafeteria has definitely stepped up their game and...
Today the University of Iowa, located less than five miles from West, announced they would be moving their classes online for at least two weeks beginning on March 23. Iowa is among many colleges that...
Club West has sponsored an instructional yoga series for student-athletes on Sundays during the spring. The program aims to help athletes increase their flexibility and mobility while also proactively...
Alex Carlon, Online Editor-in-Chief
• March 6, 2020
The Iowa City Community School District sent an email to families on Mar. 6 to notify them of recommendations made by the Iowa Department of Public Health concerning international travel. In the message,...
Alex Carlon, Online Editor-in-Chief
• March 5, 2020
A West Student was arrested on March 5 after bringing a BB gun to school and making threatening remarks. According to an email sent to parents from Principal Gregg Shoultz, the student in question was...
The Iowa High School Press Association and the Iowa Newspaper Foundation chose Natalie Dunlap '20 as Iowa’s Journalist of the Year. Along with the honor, she receives a scholarship and is now eligible...
One thousand four hundred eighty-five students. All with different backgrounds, and most importantly, different germs. With 1485 opportunities for disease, the school can provide a breeding ground for...
Alyssa Skala, Yearbook Managing Editor
• March 4, 2020
The administration has decided to re-evaluate when the time given for AFT is. Students returning to West High on Tuesday to begin their third trimester were met with a schedule change. In the latest weekly...
On Saturday, February 29th, the West High Jazz Ensemble was awarded the grand champion trophy for its competition in the Jazz in the Meadows Midwestern jazz festival in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
As...
Jack Harris, Online Copy Editor and Arts Editor
• February 26, 2020
Last Sept. Carolyn Walling announced to her chemistry classes that the EPA was having a contest with a $6000 grand prize. To enter the contest, students had to make a two minute educational video about...
Each year School Newspapers Online offers student newspaper programs with outstanding journalism the opportunity to apply to become a SNO Distinguished Site, according to a press release from SNO....
