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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Lava Cake Hershey Kisses.

I Lava this chocolate

Steffi Fussner, Liora Hoi, Ella Early, and Lee Naron • February 13, 2023

With Valentine’s Day coming up, a new flavor of Hershey’s Kisses has been released. The new candy is based on lava cake, with the outer part being dark chocolate, and the inner part being a gooey chocolate...

Hershey's Kisses Hugs arranged in a heart.

Hershey Hugs review: A candy worth the buy

Antonio Walton and Isis Montague • February 13, 2023

The Hershey Hugs Kisses is a special candy made for Valentine’s season and manufactured by the Hershey’s company since 1993. These drops of delight are covered in pink and white tinfoil. The chocolate...

Hershey's Kiss: Milk Chocolate Meltaway.

Kiss kiss

Zoya Hasan and Sophie McCarthy • February 13, 2023

Valentine's Day is all about treating yourself… orrrrr someone else treating you. And with that, comes one daunting task: the bright, pink and red candy aisle. Chock full of what seems to be every chocolate...

Junior Krish Bhagat has been on the Debate team for three years and has competed in more than 20 tournaments. Over the years, Bhagat realized how passionate he is about Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate. “LD seemed like a perfect fit for me. I was the only person who could feel the rush of debating LD, especially during my sophomore year, which is not common at all,” Bhagat said.

Krish Bhagat

Samari Sanders, Staff Writer • February 6, 2023

Junior Krish Bhagat has been on the competitive speech and debate team for three years. Bhagat is now on the varsity team and captain of the Lincoln Douglas Debate (LD), where students compete in a one-on-one...

Senior Thomas Bruns has been on debate for four years and has accumulated up to 500 National Speech Debate Association (NSDA) points. Bruns hopes to gain 750 points by the end of the year. “It’s pretty hard to get over 100 NSDA points. I think it's a reasonable goal to get to the next level,” Bruns said.

Thomas Bruns

Samari Sanders, Staff Writer • February 6, 2023

Senior Thomas Bruns has been on the competitive Speech and Debate team for four years. Bruns is on the varsity team, captain of Public Forum Debate, and does Duo Interpretation. “Seniors on the team...

Senior Noah Schell has been on debate for four years and has gained recognition for his dedication to the team by competing in various events and debates. After four years of debating Policy, Schell is thrilled that Policy will still be going. “I've been super proud with the amount of novices that we have this year doing Policy. It gives me hope that once I graduate this year, Policy at Parkway West will still continue to be around. I'm happier with the way the team has grown and just learning how to do policy than I am with receiving the award,” Schell said.

Noah Schell

Samari Sanders, Staff Writer • February 6, 2023

Senior Noah Schell joined the debate team during his freshman year. Schell is now the executive officer of the Speech and Debate team and the captain of Policy debate.   “[Policy] has a lot of abstract...

Junior Dee Tummala is a first-year debater and is learning what it takes to be on the team. Tummala has enjoyed seeing issues through other perspectives during her experience debating in Policy. “I learned from my mistakes easier with my partner. We worked together and built a friendship through the process. It was a really nice experience,” Tummala said.

Deekshanjani Tummala

Samari Sanders, Staff Writer • February 6, 2023

Junior Deekshanjani Tummala took a debate course her freshman year. This year was the first year she competed competitively, and she struggled to find what type of debate she wanted to try. “It was...

Junior Mallory Bricker is a first-year competitor for competitive speech and debate. Bricker would give one of her favorite pieces of advice to all debaters. “Never feel like your opponent is smarter than you and that everything they’re saying is correct because they could be just as nervous as you,” Bricker said.

Mallory Bricker

Samari Sanders, Staff Writer • February 6, 2023

Junior Mallory Bricker is a first-year novice debater for Public Forum. Bricker took a debate course sophomore year and enjoyed the class, so she joined the team the following year.  “When I first...

Schools are not prisons

January 11, 2023

Often holding someone accountable has made our society safer, but in the case of school shootings, this has proven to be a complex task. With other crimes, accountability entails placing restrictions and...

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt ranks third in Congress in receiving the most NRA spending, averaging about 4.6 million dollars thus far, despite 1288 gun deaths in our state annually. Josh Hawley, our second senator, ranks 12th, receiving about 1.4 million dollars from the NRA.

Policy or diplomacy?

January 11, 2023

Only seven months ago, 19 children and two adults were brutally murdered by a school shooter at Robb Elementary School. This was the second-deadliest shooting since the 1970s. And, it worked sufficiently...

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