Kara Wagenknecht, Online Editor-in-Chief, Co-Sports Editor
• January 12, 2019
West High School Dance Marathon (WHSDM) held their annual hair drive after school and during seventh hour on Friday, Jan. 11. Students and teachers donated hair to make wigs for children battling childhood...
Deniz Ince, Print Editor-in-Chief, Co-Sports Editor
• January 10, 2019
As of the 2019-20 school year, students at West, City and Liberty high schools will receive weighted GPAs. The class of 2019 will graduate under the current unweighted GPA system. Principal Gregg Shoultz...
Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
• December 29, 2018
He sits in his favorite chair in the house, a gray recliner that has been with him as long as he can remember. Cars stream by his house, slowing at the display in his yard. Families get out of their cars...
At the end of fifth period Principal Gregg Shoultz informed students of a general threat to two other schools in the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD). Teachers were instructed to go...
Six years ago, 26 children and teachers were killed in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT by 20-year-old Adam Lanza. This shooting has come to represent the catalyst for the movement...
Deniz Ince, Print Editor-in-Chief, Co-Sports Editor
• December 2, 2018
Just in time for wrestling season.
A sizeable undertaking in itself, renovating the wrestling room was no simple feat. The project began near the beginning of the school year and concluded before the...
Sidney Kiersch, Online Graphic Designer
• November 27, 2018
Principal Gregg Shoultz announced Tuesday afternoon to teachers that a trial run of two lunches, rather than three, will be held during school in the weeks to come.
Currently, classes are assigned to...
Spider-man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron man, Black Panther and Thor are only some of the beloved Marvel characters that editor, publisher and writer Stan Lee helped to create.
On Monday November 12, 2018,...
Sports
Season of changes: A recap of the 2018 West/Liberty girls swim and dive season: The Trojan/Bolts girls swim team culminated their undefeated season on Saturday, Nov. 3 with a sixth-place finish...
West Side Story journalists traveled to Chicago this week to attend the JEA/NSPA national high school journalism convention and returned with the organization's highest award—The Pacemaker. Last...
Marta Leira, Print Editor-in-Chief
• November 5, 2018
As you enter the room you see six tall tables and chairs with students scattered throughout, Chromebooks open, papers strewn about. This is a common sight in the tutoring center, located in room 214.
When...
Twenty-one WSS staffers traveled with Little Hawk reporters to Chicago for the 2018 National Scholastic Press Association Convention (NSPA) on Wednesday, Oct. 31. After their arrival,...
![Anna Moore 21 watches Julia Bernat 21 cut a strand of Moore’s hair after school in the commons during the annual West High School Dance Marathon hair drive on Jan. 11. “I had wanted to cut my hair for a few months,” Moore said. “[I] waited until the West High Dance Marathon hair drive because I knew people who had donated their hair in the past and I thought it sounded like a cool way to help out. It’s a little thing to do for a great cause.”](https://wsspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/307A9378FEATUREedited-900x600.jpg)
