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The Nexus

The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus

The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus

Water polo tops Nighthawks at RB Invite, 7-6
Arianna Tapia, Staff Writer • August 29, 2025

Boys water polo dove into the season with a ninth-place finish at the annual Rancho Bernardo Invite, Aug. 22-23. The team won two of their three...

Black & Gold
Black & Gold
August 29, 2025
Water polo tops Nighthawks at RB Invite, 7-6
Arianna Tapia, Staff Writer • August 29, 2025

Boys water polo dove into the season with a ninth-place finish at the annual Rancho Bernardo Invite, Aug. 22-23. The team won two of their three...

Black & Gold
Black & Gold
August 29, 2025
Yi works with Feeding San Diego in collaboration with Poway Library
Athena Schmelzer and Samaya Cruz August 29, 2025

When looking for volunteering opportunities this summer, Matt Yi (11) was eager to make more of an impact in their community. He began volunteering...

Water polo tops Nighthawks at RB Invite, 7-6
Arianna Tapia, Staff Writer • August 29, 2025
PUSD board reduces online courses
Leanne Fan, Opinions Editor • August 29, 2025

The start of every school year is marked by a flurry of students changing classes, dropping classes, and fighting for spots in coveted courses. Select online courses have been canceled due to recent budget cuts, intensifying this phenomenon.  Many students rely on these online courses to meet credit...

Voluntourism harms vulnerable orphans
Rosemary Cabanban and Lauren Wagenknecht August 29, 2025

In recent years, voluntourism, volunteering-tourism, has become increasingly popular among over 10 million tourists from the affluent Global North, generating over 2-3 billion dollars annually, according to the Human Rights Research Center. Unlike traditional tourism, voluntourism gives participants...

Ed Board: Unified PE classes benefit general ed and special needs students
August 29, 2025

Starting this year, Westview is rolling out a new opportunity for both general ed and special ed students to make new connections and fulfill...

Teaching piano built life skills
Teaching piano built life skills
August 29, 2025

Having taught piano to a plethora of kids from ages 4-11, I’m used to it all. Kids come in fuming after a fight with their sibling or tired...

I’m excited for the new homeroom system
June 6, 2025

The summer before freshman year, I was, like any middle-schooler who had heard about the horrors of high school and had a stereotypical perception...

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