No cut competition: Every fall athlete will make a team amidst coronavirus regulations
Drew Boone, Staff Writer
September 14, 2020
With the pandemic having canceled the remainder of the past spring sports season along with taking away summer camps from every athlete, the uncertainty that games will be played this fall led the Parkway athletic directors to come to an agreement that there will be no cuts for the fall sports season....
![Blowing into his trumpet, senior and trumpet section leader Karl Oswald practices his instrument outdoors at band rehearsal. Band has resumed rehearsals with restrictions put in place to adhere to social distancing guidelines. “One big limitation is that all of our rehearsals have to be monitored very carefully. That means I can't just pick a random day of the week for the trumpet section and myself to come together and rehearse; everything needs to be very planned out,” Oswald said. “This year, I'm looking forward to having an opportunity to play music in person with people I care about and [perform] my solo.”](https://PWestPathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DSC_0114-475x317.jpg)
Black Lives Matter and how we can create change
Lilly Francis, Staff Writer
August 17, 2020
As the news and social media booms with awareness and activism towards the Black Lives Matter movement, communities across the country are taking steps to support the ongoing fight against racism. “I would like for teachers to put their pride and beliefs aside and treat me as equal to my peers,”...
Podcast: COVID-19 and America’s teacher crisis
Tyler Kinzy, Managing Editor-in-Chief
July 29, 2020
The vast majority of Americans believe teachers don’t receive the respect—or pay—they deserve, but that won’t stop the U.S. from forcing educators to work in potential COVID-19 hotspots with barebones safety protocols. Labor exploitation is anything but a new concept, and on this episode of t...
The killing of George Floyd will change society forever
Tre Bell, Staff Writer
July 14, 2020
As I scrolled through Instagram on May 25, I came across a sickening video of an African American man named George Floyd, laying on his stomach in handcuffs as a police officer kneeled on the back of his neck. George Floyd was unable to breathe. After the cop was told multiple times by Floyd and oth...
“dinosauce313” and an allegedly botched College Board sting operation
Tyler Kinzy, Managing Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2020
Based on his tone, you would have thought he had just busted a wanted crime boss. “It's not worth the risk of having your name reported,” he warned. Instead, he had found high schoolers. The College Board’s Senior Vice President of Advanced Placement (AP) and Instruction Trevor Packer announced May 10 that...
![After receiving feedback from her friends about what they wanted to see on the cover of the school planner, senior Maddy Truka combined her own ideas with friends' to create it. Truka was to hoping to represent diversity in her design. “[Planners] help to just keep track of anything your teacher may assign that’s not listed up on the board like usual,” Truka said. “Also, class set up may be more difficult and there is definitely more work to do so it’s important that students are organized now more than ever.”](https://PWestPathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_4387-300x225.jpg)
