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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Heart of Los Angeles

Sydney Kinzy, PHOTO EDITOR • April 21, 2016

Last week, miles away from home and surrounded by strangers, eight student journalists interviewed ordinary people on the streets of Los Angeles. Every individual had a story; but it was not that simple...

Juniors Joe Fuller, Jeff Arnell and Judson Martin lead a canga line at a Safe Drug Free sponsored middle school mixer on Jan. 20.

SADF leaders strengthen program by addressing integrity issues

Betsy Wait, MANAGING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • April 18, 2016
On March 15, the lunch room was abuzz with rumors of hypocrisy in the Safe and Drug Free programs at West. A controversial exposé revealing that a minority of drug free leaders engaged in drug and alcohol use elicited strong emotions from students, teachers and administrators alike.
Behind the screen: installing the Jumbotron

Behind the screen: installing the Jumbotron

Gwenn Pietrowski, Staff Writer • April 18, 2016
The new Jumbotron will provide internship opportunities and sports broadcasting experience to students.
B. Kottmeyer poses with her two triplet sisters. "On most days though my sisters and I are really close. They are kind of built in best friends and there for safety. You are almost never bored and you almost never are alone," she said.

“Multiples” face day-to-day sibling comparison

Hannah Hoffmann, TECHNICAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • April 13, 2016
Twins, triplets, quadruplets—When it comes to siblings from a multiple birth, life can easily become a game of comparisons. Who is the tallest? Who has the best grades? Who is the most athletic?
Middendorf holds a flower bouquet from staff.

Dr. Beth Middendorf named St. Louis Assistant Principal of the Year

Emily Dickson and Emily Wind • April 6, 2016
Beyond the job requirements of assistant principal, the award seeks to honor a person who makes a substantial and outstanding contribution to the school community.
Freshman Cody Corbin skates around the bowl.

Flip kicking on a homegrown board

Bridget Noonan, STAFF WRITER • April 3, 2016
Refine Skateboard Co. began three years ago when freshman Cody Corbin and his dad, Mike, decided that they would rather skate on boards that they made than the boards you could buy in the store.
Senior Abby Larsen and sophomore Kennedy Brown pose in the library with the app, Whisper. The app has over 87 users from West so far. “I think most of the time when people first hear about it they think it’s mostly for negative things because that’s how most anonymous apps work. But on Whisper, there is a place for just our school. That’s where I am most of the time. Everywhere else, there are mean comments, but mostly at our school it’s just positive things,” Brown said.

Anonymous app Whisper: safe space or cyberbullying?

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor • March 29, 2016
Another anonymous outlet for students... is it a force of good or evil this time?
Kumar presents his research to the board during the judging panel. The young computer programmer had to face two rounds of rigorous judging before being awarded second place. "I was surprised that I won. First they announced all of the finalists and when they skipped my name my mom started crying and somebody next to her said not to worry because I probably won something higher, but she was crying because she was happy," Kumar said.

Dinky data tables

Emily Dickson, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • March 28, 2016
Evidently, Parkway doesn’t see its students like scientists in their science fair. The narrow judging rubric treats science like a one-size-fits-all equation, when in reality, the most successful and ground breaking projects often develop not as rigid experiments, but as ideas, inventions and cumulative research.

Voter turnout sees extreme highs and lows

Justin Cupps, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • March 15, 2016
Compared to other countries, we are terrible in that that we do not have everyone participating, and voting is truly the center of democracy.
DISCLAIMER: Student pictured above is not a member of Safe and Drug Free programs nor is quoted in the story.

Integrity in Parkway SADF falters with some student volunteers

Betsy Wait and Claire Smout • March 15, 2016
In the eyes of health teachers, high school students in Drug Free programs are role models for younger students on how to live a healthy lifestyle—for the most part.
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