Senior Staff Editorial
Three years and nine months ago, the class of 2012 consisted of pubescent kids ready to be hit by the brand new experience of high school. Our hopes, our interests, and even our friendships were only budding. After going through all of high school, we’ve experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows, and since […]
Attendance Policy
As those who have had the pleasure of receiving one or more “red slips” know, this school year marked the beginning of a change in West Side’s attendance policy. A student is now allowed nine non-exempt absences per semester, a decrease from last year’s twelve, before they are removed from the class with no opportunity […]
Proma Drama
Staff Editorial Prom. Many claim it is the best experience you will have during your four years in high school. For that reason it becomes all we can talk about for the last quarter of high school. We have dreamt over it, cried over it, and practically drooled over it. Now that it […]
#Kony2012
Invisible Children is not the organization to spearhead Joseph Kony’s arrest On March 5, 2012 an internet video went viral, attracting more than 50 million views in one day . The video was titled “Kony 2012.” Its aim was to make the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA, Joseph Kony, […]
Staff Editorial: Our high school is not like Hollywood’s
By Abby Bien We’re not like Mean Girls; there’s no “burn book” here. When you think of a cliquey school, you will probably picture the cafeteria in “Mean Girls”. During lunch, there are the jocks, nerds, artists, and obviously, the mean girls. The school is a human food chain with the star football player and […]
Differences in social media
With the wide array of social media available at our fingertips today, everyone has options of which one they want to spend their time obsessively posting to. Some say Google plus is lame; others say it will make Facebook obsolete. People might spend their time tweeting away, thinking up ways to condense their joke or […]
Bottom 5 Movies of 2012
Every single year, Hollywood decides to release one hot mess movie that everyone talks about and makes fun of. It’s usually all fun and games until there’s an ENTIRE YEAR of these kinds of movies. That was basically what 2011 was in terms of movies. Whatever theoretical movies you could think of in your brain […]
Publications Deserves Credit
If you were planning to enroll in Student Publications, you were probably disappointed to see that it does not count as an English credit class. You see, in Indiana, the class only counts towards your graduation credit, which is great–unless your schedule is completely full and you have to take just one more English class. […]
Is open lunch in jeopardy?
Most West Siders are well aware that this school is different than most. We have diversity and opportunity that a lot of schools don’t, we have the Junior High and high school in the same building and we have a lot of freedoms other schools don’t. The biggest of these freedoms is namely open campus […]
Tony Bennett is coming soon to a school near you
Tomorrow, the man who proposed all the education reforms your teachers hate is visiting our school. And no, I don’t mean Mitch Daniels. On December 15th, Tony Bennett will be at our school. “Who is Tony Bennett?” you may ask, “an old singer my grandma listens to?” Well, yes. Unfortunately we get the other one. […]
