Principal Jeremy Mitchell attends Rosh Hashanah service at a local synagogue
September 22, 2017
Fifty-two area high school principals were invited to attend Rosh Hashanah services at United Hebrew on Sept. 21 with Jewish students and faculty. Principal Jeremy Mitchell was one of the two principals who accepted the offer. “The community thought it was really terrific because it gives the opportun...
Virtual Enterprise kicks off for second year, adding a second business
Hannah Hoffmann, Technical Design Editor-in-Chief
September 22, 2017
Although the 2016-17 academic year marked the debut of Virtual Enterprise International at West, the program quickly drew national attention with its first company, Spire. Growing student interest in the class brought about a new challenge: kicking off the 2017-18 year with not one, but two, student-l...
Feeding into societal division: what happened when West failed to acknowledge Sept. 11
September 20, 2017
Filed under editorials, showcase
The last time America was truly unified as a nation was 9/11. It didn’t matter who were you were, the color of your skin, or your political party of choice.
Read more »BREAKING NEWS: St. Louis prepares for largest social justice demonstrations since Ferguson
Carly Anderson, Managing EiC Intern
September 15, 2017
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Parkway’s food policy benefits athletes
Sabrina Bohn, Features Editor
September 14, 2017
Filed under news, showcase, sports
Although Parkway’s "food safety expectation" policy, implemented for the 2018 school year, has created uproar among students and staff, it does not apply to extracurricular activities, including athletics. “Originally, the policy wasn’t going to allow us to do what we needed to do after school, beca...
Athlete Spotlight: Vickey Karl
Hannah Hoffmann, Technical Design Editor-in-Chief
September 8, 2017
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For sophomore Vickey Karl, summer meant memorizing six pages of music on a vibraphone and learning her performance part for the 2017-2018 season of band. Summer also brought about the sudden news that after weeks of learning her part in the performance, she would not be able to perform. “The week...
Community hosts drive to raise money for Hurricane Harvey relief
Emily Dickson, Conceptual Editor in Chief
August 31, 2017
Producing devastation so critical that critics are comparing it to Katrina in 2005, hurricane Harvey has already dumped more than 50 inches of rain on the Houston, TX area since midnight of Aug. 25. Recovery is expected to cost at least 40 billion and take years. Recognizing the impact of this disaster, West alu...
Editorial: School-wide Snapchat warrants Parkway technology policy updates
August 28, 2017
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Despite the app being banned on school wifi, students are among the 150 million worldwide Snapchat users that utilize the platform to send 'disappearing' photos and videos. The latest craze? A school-wide Snapchat story on which students are publicly posting material ranging from drug sales to vapi...
Video: Students react to the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Hannah Hoffmann, Technical Design Editor-in-Chief and Staff Writer
August 21, 2017
Filed under multimedia, showcase, videos
Parkway gears up for solar eclipse
August 21, 2017
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