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Best Buddies Thanksgiving is a success
A week before thanksgiving, a Thanksgiving dinner was organized by West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School’s Best Buddies club. This dinner involved activities such as a scavenger hunt for the attendees to participate in, as well as a Thanksgiving meal. After eating, everyone was able to hang out, chat, and get to know each other. The […]
The wild, wild weather hits USA hard
Over the last couple years the weather in the USA has been changing drastically and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Last winter the mid west was frozen in the cold as it was one of the coldest winters on record. Along with the cold, there was also record breaking snow in many […]
10th anniversary of Reveillon sure to be a success
The French Club will be hosting their annual Reveillon Dinner, here at West Side on December 12th. It is the tenth year that the club will be hosting the dinner. In France, the event it us put on to celebrate Christmas Eve. “Reveillon means ‘the Awakening,”. People would go to midnight mass and have their […]
REACH aims to keep students away from drugs
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a Drug Enforcement Association (DEA) agent who was dealing with the drug trafficking issues in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1985, and his pilot Captain Alfredo Zavala-Avelar were brutally kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by drug dealers. Citizens of Calexico, California, Camarena’s hometown, wore red ribbons to honor his efforts fighting against substance abuse. Since […]
Ebola is not a concern
“I don’t know what it is really, all I know is I don’t want it.” is all Lorelei Turner ’15 had to say about Ebola. With its recent spread to the United States, the responsibility falls to citizens and student to keep themselves less susceptible to disease. The first step to prevention is understanding the […]
New PE equipment introduced
This article previously ran in the printed edition , but has since been revised online to include the perspective of the PE department. Freshman this year have a lot of things to look forward to. A new lunch hour, a new student section at football games, and….heart monitors. Incoming 9th graders taking Physical Education […]
Sensors help keep team safe
The West Side football team took a big step in concussion research this off season and will continue throughout this season with sensors that measure the intensity of sustained hits. While players aren’t required to wear the sensors, the ones who decided to volunteer are now feeling safer playing football. “Knowing that if i had […]
New guidance offices debut
This coming year the student body will get to know two new guidance counselors and the re-vamped guidance system. What does this mean for this years’s senior class? What good can students expect from this new system, but also what issues can arise? “Accessible” is how new guidance counselor Mrs. Sheffield described the new guidance […]
Students use twitter for change
Cold water suddenly running down their backs, thousands of people have posted videos shivering under cold water doing the Ice Bucket Challenge. Social activists have long engaged their communities in order to achieve their goals, but in a world where community outreach has changed, how does that affect activism? In recent months, the connective power […]
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 […]
