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The student news source of Iowa City West High

West Side Story

Sketched on the inside padded wall of a seclusion room at Northwest Junior HIgh reads the warning message, KEEP OUT. Also found along the walls of the seclusion room were footprints, scratch marks and unidentifiable bodily fluids.

Alone

Anjali Huynh and Anna Brown
December 22, 2017
Aside from counseling, Greg Yoder  occupies himself with other activities.  “I actually am a camera operator for Iowa basketball games [...] we provide the in-house feed for the big screen so students may see me there.” said Yoder

Greg Yoder

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
December 20, 2017
Kelly Bergmann attributes her interest in going into education to both her high school teacher and her mother. “According to my mom, I always wanted to be a teacher. My mom was a teacher so I’d always play teacher.”

Kelly Bergmann

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
December 20, 2017
“I like to work with people and I like to help people and I see that [my] job is doing both of those,” said Kay DiLeo, who has been a counselor at West for 22 years.

Kay DiLeo

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
December 20, 2017
Paul Breitbach has been a part of West high academics and athletics since 1995. “Its fun to see what young people want to do and kind of encourage them to dream, said Breitbach.

Paul Breitbach

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
December 20, 2017
West High class schedule are full of many choices for students during the day.

Beyond schedule changes

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
December 20, 2017
Wests Girl Up club members pose for a photo after their first fundraiser on Dec. 8 in the cafeteria. The club raised well over $1,000 for girls programs in need of assistance.

First ever Girl Up fundraiser raises over $3,650

Alyson Kuennen, News Editor, Photographer
December 19, 2017
The completed cake balls have been dipped in the melted white chocolate and stacked onto skewers, using mini Oreos as the hats of the cake ball snowmen.

Snowman Cake Pops

December 18, 2017
Kathy Bresnahan shows the West High Athletic Hall of fame to the camera crew and producer of The Miracle Season on Dec. 15, 2017.

‘The Miracle Season’ crew stops at West High

Nina Elkadi, Print Editor-in-Chief
December 15, 2017
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