When my parents told me Santa wasn’t real, I cried for hours.  How could the kindly, old celebrity with the toy-making genius of Hasbro, Fisher Price, and Mattel combined, not exist? For me, it was...

Fatty.  Big back.  Fat-tivities. These joking slang terms were thrown around Sophia Wang’s table at a hotpot dinner with her friends. Sitting in the middle, Wang felt incredibly uncomfortable,...

  The Hawaiian islands are known for their touristic draws: the clear turquoise waters of their beaches, the dense foliage of the jungle, and for the ubiquitous palm tree, swaying in the breeze.  The...

Sanchay Koppa (10) demonstrates how to build a Legos with the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Explore Engineering Notebook, Oct. 9, Koppa mentors elementary school students to prepare them for the engineering,...

  Walking up to the pitcher’s mound in Detroit's Comerica Park, Philadelphia Phillies’ pitcher Michael Mercado (’17) was surprisingly unruffled as he stood in front of a crowd of nearly...

Sébastien Wenger - University of Alabama Sébastien Wenger (12) began swimming when he was only 2 and started competitively by 4 years old. After trying football, rugby, and lacrosse in elementary...

In the beginning, I felt optimistic. My taxes should be easy: I had one job over the summer and did not own any property, have any spouses, or run a business.  Taxes are a right of passage into...

    Rosemary Cabanban (10) stood on stage at the United Spirit Association’s (USA) Dance Nationals in the Anaheim convention center, March 22-23, balancing on one foot and staring into...

It seems that production conglomerates like Disney and Warner Bros. have been pumping out large-budget films as of late. The number of Marvel movies coming out has skyrocketed to 33, Star Wars and...

Picture young Aspen, about 7 years old, standing outside of the local Vons, sulking. Wearing a bright blue vest, I had been standing for two hours behind a table piled high with unsold boxes of Girl...

The Poway Unified Student Superintendent Advisory Committee (SSAC) was awarded a Golden Bell award for the committee’s current and past work promoting student health and wellness through the many programs...

It has recently come to my attention that not everyone knows the name Bob Ross. Apparently, my English teacher and a small group of friends had never heard this amazing man’s name and knew nothing...

On July 10, San Diego’s The Union-Tribune was sold to a newspaper publisher run by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital. If Alden’s history offers any indication, this business deal will have extremely...

Politicians like to scare people. It’s a tried and true method of immediately getting the public’s attention and urging them to action. However, sometimes the things that politicians mention aren’t...

I have many hobbies; however, most of them are in the back of my closet, gathering dust. From my quarantine obsession with painting rocks, to my short-lived interest in making earrings, my hobbies,...

My father is a quirky man in many respects. And because of these quirks, he fits perfectly into the universal stereotype of what most teenagers would consider a “dad.” My father, of course,...

  Many teachers have animals in their classrooms, ranging from fish to bearded dragons, snakes to turtles. But what role do they play?  These animals are not just for show, as science teachers,...

Option 16, Westview’s First Robotics Competition (FRC) robotics team has almost 4,000 hours of community service and outreach compiled over the past few months. With this extensive time spent in the...

Sitting on my couch, with the ashes of my Integrated I and II notebooks dusting my hearth, I went over every single thing I did or said last year. While thinking, I came to an undeniable conclusion: freshman...

I, like many who have taken Honors Humanities and were subjected to the horrors of Dada and Cubism, developed an extreme distaste for “modern” art. I originally planned to write a 500-word article...

Stepping onto the stage at the 24 SEVEN Dance Competition, Elizabeth Zalevsky (10) took a big breath, trying to calm her nerves. It was her first-ever solo performance, and naturally, she was eager, but...

I love my friends, at least, most of the time. As all of us know, friends can be the bright spot of light in our otherwise dreary school days. After what feels like four hours of learning about the...

    In the weeks leading up to Election Day, advertisements for propositions are common. These propositions are citizen-made laws that are put on a ballot for the public to vote on once enough support...

This year’s Homecoming dance, themed Party with Pixar, will be hosted at Westview from 7-10 p.m., tomorrow. The event, pep rally, floats, decorations, and spirit days are all based on Pixar movies. To...

This year I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that I am too tall to trick-or-treat. If I don my Ron Weasly costume and parade door to door with my gaggle of friends, I will be met with strange...

An ongoing competition has been sweeping Westview students into a frenzy, almost as long as this school has been around. No, it’s not senior assassin. We have all seen students plop down into their...

Ah. Freshman year. A time, according to the media, filled with wedgies, 7-foot-tall seniors ridiculing your every move, and homework. Lots and lots of homework. Many upperclassmen look back on freshman...

  Kailyn Donnelly (10) had just barely gotten through another school day, exhausted beyond belief. She had felt tired and nauseous the entire day, which had been happening more frequently in...

A food critic’s job may seem easy, yet I find that, as the pickiest eater on campus, I am the person best suited for this position of extreme importance. Without me, the average student would not know...

I remember the first fitness test I ever took. I was in 6th grade, and panicking. It was about three months into my first year of middle school, and coming up in a week, was fitness testing. They expected...

Poop-slinging predators and war crimes: a study Westview’s native population is a diverse array of species, perfectly adapted to surviving in this beautiful but brutal environment. In this environmental...