• 12/16: Pajama + stuffed animal day
  • 12/17: Jersey day
  • 12/17: Girls basketball vs. Wahlert Catholic
  • 12/17: Boys basketball @ Wahlert Catholic
  • 12/17: Boys swimming @ Linn-Mar
  • 12/17: Band concert in Arganbright Auditorium
  • 12/18: Pink out day
  • 12/19: Throwback Thursday
  • 12/19: Boys wrestling @ Linn-Mar
  • 12/19: Girls wrestling @ Solon
  • 12/20: 2 HOUR EARLY RELEASE
  • 12/20: Ugly sweater day
  • 12/20: Boys and girls double-header vs City
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The student news source of Iowa City West High

West Side Story
The student news source of Iowa City West High

West Side Story
Comedy leads act out one of the ten ways to survive the apocalypse

SPIT performs annual production

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
January 19, 2020
An increase in the number of in-school altercations has garnered the attention of students and faculty.

Fighting for change: examining the combative culture at West High

Alex Carlon and Joe Goodman
January 7, 2020
Spicing up the holidays: 8 winter festivities

Spicing up the holidays: 8 winter festivities

Sara Baroncini, Yearbook People Co-Editor
December 11, 2019
Grace Hinrichs '21 would love to continue her theater involvement after high school. “I am definitely thinking about majoring in college and not necessarily Performing Arts, but in directing and casting and producing, because I want to continue theater as my career in any way that I can, even if it’s not being an artist myself," she said.

Performing with grace

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
November 29, 2019
A student's desk sits ready for the ACT, equipped with a pencil, calculator and water bottle.

West pilots online ACT

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
November 20, 2019
DeGowin Blood Center hosts the annual fall blood drive

Annual blood drive comes to West

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
October 15, 2019
Maia DeGrazia '20 entered her senior year while recovering from spinal fusion surgery. "I was coming back to school looking normal and feeling like hell," said DeGrazia.

Postoperative

Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief
October 1, 2019
Athletes all over the world have pre-game or pre-meet rituals that they can never break in fear of jinxing the outcome of their event, and West High athletes are no different.

Two schools, one city

Wylan Gao, Reporter
September 25, 2019
Emma Kearney '21, runs at the first and only home meet of the season.

An uphill battle

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
September 16, 2019
Merry and bright

Merry and bright

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
December 29, 2018
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