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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
Opening opportunities

Opening opportunities

Jack Furlong, Reporter, Videographer
April 23, 2023
Columns Editor Helen Zhang ’22 criticizes the academic culture that classifies extracurricular activities as necessary elements for college applications rather than opportunities for fun and passion.

Helen’s Hot Takes: Exhausting extracurriculars

Helen Zhang, Print Columns Editor
March 23, 2022
For some students, their high school years become a balancing act between their interests and what they believe colleges want from them.

The college conundrum

Lilly Graham, Kamakshee Kuchhal, and Helen Zhang
October 5, 2021
College admissions process Q&A

College admissions process Q&A

Fareeha Ahmad and Alyssa Skala
April 26, 2020
Dan Martin, Dean of Industrial Technologies at Kirkwood Community College and Russ Johnson, Career Center Facilitator, discuss the importance of trade careers and education.

Trading up

Isaac Young, Opinion Editor
February 26, 2020
Art teacher, Christian Aanastead, talks to a group of students about joining art classes in their future years at West High.

Student Senate designs first course fair

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
January 23, 2020
Math teacher Karen Meyer looks toward a student coming up the stairs, greeting him as he passes.

Inspiring the next generation

Luke Krchak, Reporter
December 26, 2019

Recruiting Trail with Tate Crane

Tosh Klever and Joe Goodman
October 3, 2019
This density map shows where seniors will be headed after graduation. Most will stay in Iowa. Not reflected in the map are the six students going overseas.

Senior futures

WSS Staff
May 23, 2019
Seniors Lexi Moore and Allie Harvey share a laugh in the courtyard on Monday, May 6.

From classroom to dorm room

Lucy Polyak, Columns Editor
May 6, 2019
Caleb Kwok 20 displays the college spreadsheet he made to help compare colleges from across the country.

Streamlining the college search

Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief
March 24, 2019
Online Managing Editor Sophie Stephens 19 writes about the recent national college admissions scandal and why its unfair that students and their parents can pay their way into a good college when they didnt work hard in high school.

Hard work pays off, but money does too

Sophie Stephens, Online Managing Editor
March 14, 2019
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