![STILL LIFE: Itamar Raizman ‘14 paints a picture based on a photo he took . He is currently in advanced painting. “I like [this painting] because it’s very colorful. It looks pretty realistic to me. I just had a ton of fun painting it,” Raizman said.](http://www.scarletteonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/itamarweb.gif)
Infamous sickness strikes everyone
When seniors finally receive their college letters of acceptance, seniors’ minds seem to go blank… for the rest of the semester. Second semester seniors all seem to have one thing in common,the lack of effort in class, but through different representations of it. Some seniors seem to try just a little less, while on the […]
Local music exceeds expectations
Most high school students listen to music made by well-known stars, signed with large record labels and living thousands of miles away in LA or New York. But what about music found right here in Lafayette? Simply walking around downtown Lafayette, going to music nights at local cafes, or attending events like the Farmers […]
Do College Courses and High Schoolers Mix?
A typical high school student has a hard enough time managing their high school classes. But there are always students who are rising above that challenge — and Westside has more than a few of them. “This semester, I’m taking [French] 241, which is an introduction to French literature, which is a lot of fun, […]
College Board Changes SAT
The SAT has always been a source of stress and anxiety for high school juniors and seniors. This coupled with the fact that most of the knowledge necessary for the SAT is knowledge that would be tough to find a use for in the real world has caused the College Board to announce changes for […]
Seniors move forward
Sara Abdelsalam Ivy Tech International Relations Amanda Abdo Gap Year Summer Adams Purdue University Nursing Maya Alexander Miami University Undecided Maha Ali Purdue University Biology Aubrey Allred Purdue University Elementary Education Adam Anderson University of Washington- Seattle Biomedical Emily Anzaldua Christina & Company Cosmetology + Aesthetics Connor Beaver Ball State University Architecture Julia Bell Indiana […]
The World’s game, America’s team
This summer’s World Cup in Brazil is shaping up to be one for the ages. With one of the toughest fields in recent years, all teams should have to work to get through the group stages. The United States Men’s national team has one of the toughest roads to the round of 16 having to get […]
There are too many D-list celebrities
Ever come across someone getting thousands of likes on their pictures or retweets on their tweets, and you can’t for the life of you figure out why this person is so well known? Me too. This pandemic of over-hyped semi-celebrities, usually girls, are taking over our social media, and it needs to stop. When did people […]
Top books to read this summer
SARA’S PICKS: 1. “Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger Franny is basically Holden Caulfield 2.0. Franny, who comes from a prodigious family, experiences a mental breakdown after obsessively reading a religious prayer book and sees the world around her in a corrupt way filled with phoniness. The second part of the book is from Zooey, […]
Burritos of West Lafayette
Taco Bell. By far the cheapest option on this list, Taco Bell makes up for its drop in quality with an increase in both variety and convenience. Taco Bell’s focus is on providing the most possible options, which means that they don’t do any one thing as well as some of the other restaurants. If […]
Unified Track and Field runs for charity
This spring season West Lafayette became one of 15 Indiana schools with a Unified Track and Field team. The program is being managed by coach David Joest. Unified teams are made up of “approximately even numbers of athletes with and without intellectual or developmental disabilities,” said Joest On Friday, May 9th, the West Lafayette Unified […]
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