This story has been updated to reflect a change in The View's schedule.
Sunny Hostin, Clay Aiken and The View production team paid a visit to West High today, Jan. 6, to film a segment regarding...
West has been the center of media attention recently. The front page The New York Times article thrust West High school into the national spotlight. Now, another news organization has thrown their...
Mason Wang, Broadcast Copy Editor
• December 19, 2016
Give high school students a new gimmick to get free stuff on their phones, and it takes less than a month for them to cheat on it.
A number of students have exploited the new app, getting tens of thousands...
Standing in a dazzling costume, with dramatic makeup on your face and hair slicked back, you wait off stage. While butterflies dance in your stomach, you look off into the crowd and wait to hear...
Cameron Cook, Reporter / Videographer
• December 6, 2016
Next time you get a message, you may not want to check it right away. West High principal Gregg Shoultz announced last week that an app called Pocket Points was going to be launched at school.
“I...
Nina Elkadi, Print Editor-in-Chief
• November 30, 2016
The rumors are true, Trader Joe's will be opening up at the Iowa River Landing in Coralville.
According to Coralville Mayor Pro Tem and social studies teacher Mitch Gross, the California-based grocery...
Luke Reynolds, Copy Editor, Anchor, Reporter
• November 29, 2016
In a room tucked behind a shelf on the top floor in a building of books, you’ll find people gathered together, going full speed ahead on their projects of choice. Most have headphones shoved over...
Fenna Semken, Online Editor-in-Chief
• November 26, 2016
Whether you live in Iowa City now, or went to the University of Iowa 20 years back, these landmarks are timeless, so find out which landmark you identify as with five simple questions. And when you're...
Twenty students from West and City High met with the Iowa City School Board to discuss the increase in bigotry and racism following the 2016 Election at six pm on Nov. 22. The students helped get their...
When the thoughts of crazy characters, scenes, plots, coffee addiction and nights of literary abandon all in the span of one month are mentioned, writers around the world can only think of one thing: NaNoWriMo.
NaNoWriMo,...
Cameron Cook, Reporter / Videographer
• November 22, 2016
Every November is National Novel Writing Month. Commonly abbreviated as NaNoWriMo, the purpose is to write 50,000 words during the month of November. Finishing is winning, because finishing is hard. Below...
