The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Senior vs. Faculty: it's going down!

Senior vs. Faculty: it’s going down!

Alex Ripper, Staff Writer • February 2, 2013

Feb. 2 marks the 30 annual Senior vs. Faculty Basketball game. The seniors will strive to end the teachers’ two-year winning streak. This year, members of the Drug Free Council and Captains’ Council...

FaceWash your Facebook

Eileen Tully, Staff Writer • February 1, 2013

Admit it; Most people, at one point or another, have either posted or had something containing profanity posted on their Facebook walls. However, Facebook has climbed to the number one most popular social...

Gatorade makes changes to their ingredients

Susie Watson, Editor in Chief • January 31, 2013

PepsiCo Inc. is removing an ingredient called brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from its Gatorade drinks. The ingredient is a synthetic material that is bonded to the element Bromine. However, the National...

A second round of budget cuts in Parkway

A second round of budget cuts in Parkway

Susie Watson, Editor in Chief • January 29, 2013

In addition to the $8 million Parkway School District cut from the budget in 2012,  an additional $2-4 million will be cut in the 2013-2014 school year. “Initially, we knew that this was a two year...

Junior Kimberly Mayden, sophomore Sami Corbitt, junior Megan Reilly, sophomore Stephanie Quoss, sophomore Stefanie Elsperman, junior Gabby Rath, sophomore Allison Hughes and junior Rachel Brown stand in downtown Washington, D.C. the day before the Presidential Inauguration. While in D.C. they visited many different historical monuments and museums. "I wish we could have visited the Holocaust museum and other museums as well," sophomore Stefanie Elsperman said.

There and back again: D.C. edition

Eileen Tully, Staff Writer • January 28, 2013

On Jan. 18, 22 students from West along with 14 chaperones and 66 students from the other Parkway schools left from Parkway Central to begin their trip to Washington, D.C. “The Inauguration itself...

Cafeteria ensures sanitation for students

Kathryn Hunter, Staff Writer • January 24, 2013

New FDA regulations regarding sanitation were passed just last week, ensuring more strict rules regarding the harvesting and transportation of food across the United States.  However, on a more local...

Automated attendance update

Eden Harir, Staff Writer • January 24, 2013

A new automated attendance process began Jan. 7. The process is designed to iron out mistakes made when teachers take attendance, as well as to promote students’ presence, by notifying parents of unexcused...

Filming his hometown howdy, math teacher Patrick Mooney stands next to Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. “Alex is great. He is really smart and funny and he even wants to get a picture with every single contestant,” Mooney said.

Can you trump our Jeopardy star?

Eileen Tully, Staff Writer • January 17, 2013

To kick off math teacher Patrick Mooney’s Jeopardy debut, the library is hosting a contest to see who can beat Mooney at his own game, on Friday Jan. 18, during both lunch periods. “It was a childhood...

Five new Apple products for 2013

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor • January 11, 2013

The five new possible Apple products to be released in 2013 are the Apple Radio, iPad Mini with retina display, iOS 7, iPhone 5S and Apple Television. The Apple Radio is expected to be released in early...

Be there or be square!

Annie Spewak, Editor In Chief • January 7, 2013

As of today, Jan. 7, 2013, Parkway West began Automated Attendance. This program calls parents at the end of the school day if their child has an unexcused absence in at least one class period that day. "Automated...

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