• 11/11: Girls basketball, boys swimming and bowling practices begin
  • 11/13: Signing day
  • 11/15: Cadenza concert @6:30 in West High commons
  • 11/15: Girls swimming state championship @ Marshalltown
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West Side Story
The student news source of Iowa City West High

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

West Side Story
Members of the South Asian group perform a Bollywood Dance as a special act for their section of the show on Saturday, March 9.

Dancing across the world

Alex Carlon, Online Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2019
Kara Wagenknecht '19, Lucy Polyak '19, Maddi Shinall '19 and Sophie Stephens '19 pose at the West High sign outside of the school.

West Side Radio: seniors reflect on 4 years at West

Lucy Polyak, Sophie Stephens, Maddi Shinall, and Kara Wagenknecht
May 16, 2019
Prisca Namutchibwe '19 poses for a photo outside of West High on Wednesday, March 27. She is currently working on a poetry book which she hopes will come out before she graduates.

Amplifying the voices of a nation

Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief
April 25, 2019
News Editor Fatima Kammona '19 talks about mental health in her column.

Tell me I am human

Fatima Kammona, News Editor
March 31, 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 it's unfair that students and their parents can pay their way into a good college when they didn't work hard in high school.

Hard work pays off, but money does too

Sophie Stephens, Online Managing Editor
March 14, 2019
Mayela Pelayo '18 spins on stage to show her skirt as she models during the Latin American section of the show on Saturday, March 9.

Students host third annual ‘Walk It Out’ celebrating diversity

Anjali Huynh, Print Managing Editor, Co-Copy Editor
March 11, 2019
Sisters Mami Selemani ’20 and Jacqueline Selemani ’19 pose together in the West High courtyard. They moved to the United States in 2007 from Africa.

The Selemani sisters

Natalie Dunlap, Online Editor-in-Chief
February 21, 2019
Photo Editor Maddi Shinall '19 poses for a photo as she displays her feminist slogan sweatshirt on Friday, Feb. 15.

A woman’s place is in charge

Maddi Shinall, Photo Editor
February 17, 2019
Online Managing Editor Sophie Stephens '19 talks about the the issue of owing people explanations.

I owe you nothing

Sophie Stephens, Online Managing Editor
February 5, 2019
From top to bottom, left to right: WHSDM set up for their big event on MLK Day; Nic Stone, author of "Dear Martin" answers students' questions in the West High library; members of SASS lead the way in Iowa City's March for Our Lives; The girls basketball team celebrates their championship win at the Wells Fargo Arena.

2018 at West: a year in review

Jessica Doyle, Podcast Editor
January 22, 2019
Anjali Huynh '19 talks about name pronunciation in her column.

The name game

Anjali Huynh, Print Managing Editor, Co-Copy Editor
December 30, 2018
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