Black lives matter vs. all lives matter
September 20, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
"Whose streets? Our streets!": this chant is a reference to the fact that black people are often criminalized simply for existing in their own neighborhoods and is chanted by the Black Lives Matter movement. On Sept.17 people took to the streets in St. Louis after a police officer was found not guilty...
Plus-sized problems
Sophie Stephens, Online Feature Editor
September 18, 2017
Filed under Columns, Fashion, Opinion, Showcase
Even if you don’t keep up on all the latest fashion trends religiously, there’s a good chance you heard about one of the most important events in the fashion world: New York Fashion Week (NYFW). NYFW is an exemplar time for designers to get their name out in the world through expensive runway...
The home of the brave
Fatima Kammona, Reporter
September 11, 2017
When did the fear of other people, whether it’s their religion, race, ethnicity or all of the above, outweigh their right to be respected? I was born and raised here in America. However, my parents weren’t. The color of my skin is white, I’m a female and I wear a headscarf. I am a born and raised...
Try to monitor my closed Chromebook
Nina Elkadi, Print Editor-in-Chief
August 31, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
The joys of a new school year. The thick air in the classrooms without central cooling, the excitement of finishing sixth hour so you can experience AFT and the peace of mind knowing your parents can view every website you go to on your brand new Chromebook! My mom was more subdued than I was w...
Column: A tip for freshmen
Nina Elkadi, Print Editor-in-Chief
August 2, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
Change is everywhere. It’s in your fridge, as milk changes from liquid to clumpy. It’s in your mom, whose mood can turn sour with lightning speed by a mere “Fine” that you utter at one of her requests. More than any change, I would argue that the most difficult kind is the one that affects who...
Opinion: Say no to the trans ban
Emma Brustkern, Print Entertainment Editor
August 1, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
In response to the Pulse Shooting in Orlando, then presidential candidate Donald Trump told audiences at last year’s Republican National Convention that he would “do everything in [his] power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful, foreign ideology.” The statement...
Do students take AP classes to make their college application stronger?
Lauren Katz, Copy Editor
May 31, 2017
Filed under Opinion
At Scarsdale, New York’s public high school, parents, critics of AP courses and faculty sat down and asked a question circulating the country: Should we be manufacturing students with an advantage on college applications? Or should we be cultivating an exchange of ideas to be subjected to debate and r...
Global warming under the Trump administration
Lauren Katz, Copy Editor
May 27, 2017
In April, Earth Day came and went, although, only four months into Donald Trump’s Presidency, the Trump administration showed there wasn’t much to celebrate. Despite being ineffective in certain areas of policy, the Trump Administration has proven successful in demolishing lifetimes of work to protect pl...
The happiness project
Fenna Semken, Online Editor-In-Chief
May 17, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
Define happiness. Just try. What comes to your mind? I’ll give you a couple paragraphs of white space to fill with what you see in your personal happiness. Okay. What was on your mind? Did it have to do with anything outdoors? Maybe you thought of swimming at the beach, traveling to Florida, s...
“Loving blacks as much as you love back culture”
Ala Mohamed, Profiles Editor
April 17, 2017
Filed under Columns, Opinion, Showcase
I first heard the term ‘selling the Negro’ in the film “I am not your Negro,” which came out in February. In the 1800s, the term referred to the slave trade, but nowadays the term associates with the popularity and appropriation of black culture. For centuries, blacks have been out...
Dear Westina
Westina, Reporter
April 8, 2017
Dear Westina, I have two friends, a guy (let's call him nacho), and a girl (let's call her strawberry). Nacho and Strawberry don't really know each other that well. They've talked maybe like once. Still nacho insists that he is interested in strawberry. This understandably makes strawberry uncomfo...
The Gun Control Debate
April 7, 2017
Filed under Columns, Continuous, Opinion, Showcase
English 10 Honors. Two sophomores, Daniel Stewart (left) and Steven Yuan (right) wrote competing research papers about gun control, diving into the details for each reason gun control is good or bad, creating chains of logic and statistics. Here, they answer each other's points, until eve...
Reporter
Natalie Katz is a sophomore at West High. It is her first year on staff as a reporter. She loves to read in her free time, as well as water her grape vine, which has many large leaves and no grapes.