
Seniors in the American Government class are currently writing a new rule that will be added to the school. The project, designed by American Government teacher Eric Ihde, is meant to teach students the...

At approximately 8:55 a.m. on Monday, November 7, lights shut off throughout the school. French teacher Jaqueline Kahler’s room immediately filled with confused mumbles as the minutes ticked by. “Us,...
Junior Omar Moreno, representative of the Latinx Del Oeste Club, was born in the United States. His parents immigrated to the States in their twenties and didn’t know English, so Moreno’s first language...

As a child, Linn County clerk Steve Druckenmiller recalls going with his dad to canvas for president Dwight D. Eisenhower. With his father’s knock on the door and the brochures in his hand,...
Bornheimer, set out a massive bowl of cereal at the beginning of this week and asked the class about their opinions. She noted that...
On Thursday, September 29 at promptly 12:39 p.m., room 136 was quickly filled with a large portion of the bustling student body, with every chair...
Mike Garnier’s days as an adolescent weren’t focused on school. Through weekend and night partying, drugs and alcohol, and hanging out with...

My veins are fraying hung up on this line like a well loved sweater, the one you let me borrow When I brought it from the bin I thought I felt your palm smooth my hair with the sun warmed linen I...

Starting out Zoey Zarkou started dancing originally because her parents put her in dance through parental influence when she was four, but concluded that she liked it. “ [I] thought...

Haily Dinger, a member of drama and theater, has seen how her art form puts together West’s annual play and musical. She sees it as a home for students interested in the arts. According to Dinger, theater...

“Wednesday” is an intriguing, dryly witted, and darkly presented show which takes on the gray, ghoulish, and gothic to make a wonderful murder...

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and other major political centers are a topic most of us were taught about from a young age,...
Lunch at West is a constant issue: what time, what food, even the quality of the food and its nutritional information is a common subject among...

Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. The original “Top Gun” movie had come out. And Micheal Jackson was an icon in the music...
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