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...
Mary Vander Weg, Online Graphic Designer
• November 22, 2016
Hundreds of children, students and adults alike lined up outside the Englert Theater, some clutching books, some chatting excitedly and others peering over shoulders looking to see if the doors had opened...
“Let me give you an impression of six million,” the man began in a heavy Slavic accent. “A door opens, and a Holocaust victim comes in front of you and says, ‘I was murdered in the Holocaust.’...
This morning, The New York Times featured West High students and teachers affected by the 2016 presidential election on their front page. The article illustrates the impact the election had on the school...
Iowa City is home to more than seventy thousand inhabitants. People from all over the world come here for an education, making it seem like a community flourishing in diversity, yet the level of true acceptance...
