• FINALS WEEK 11/19-21
  • 11/19: Girls wrestling @ City
  • 11/21: Girls wrestling vs. Liberty @ Home
  • 11/21-23: All-State Music Festival
  • 11/22: Girls basketball @ Solon
  • NO SCHOOL 11/22
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Graphic illustrates slang used in today's society.

Loose Language

Lea Abou Alaiwa, Assistant Photo Editor and News Co-Editor
April 16, 2024
TikTok, a social media platform known for its For You page, is now becoming a popular search engine.

Is this the end of ‘Google it’?

Ashlyn Brady and Ethan Tisdale
January 22, 2024
Despite the spread of inspiration through social media, fashion trends have lacked creativity and online platforms promote the overconsumption of clothes without being conscious of the environmental impacts.

Dripped out of style

Jay Mascardo, Opinion
October 10, 2022
BLM protesters gather in downtown Iowa City June 6.

Unzipping Gen Z

Maya Chu, Heidi Du, Krisha Kapoor, and Soomin Koh
February 26, 2021
With COVID-19, social media has been gaining popularity, predominantly with Generation Z. Today's youth has pushed several large movements like BLM and Save the Arctic.

#SaveTheArctic: Growing power

Alaina Greenlee and Emma Hall
February 11, 2021
Columns Editor Sumner Wallace ’20 shares her thoughts on the increasingly popular “OK, Boomer” meme.

OK, Boomer

Sumner Wallace, Columns Editor
December 23, 2019
Reporter Mariam Keita '20 stands at the flagpole outside of West.

Young voters have the potential to make a change

Mariam Keita, Reporter
October 12, 2019
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