Ordinarily, when I’m seeking out a word for the next issue’s What a Wonderful Word, I turn to my recent life. Sifting through moments both remarkable and quotidian, I attempt to find a feeling, descriptor,...

Armin Kamsi’s (11) video game, Gun and Dun, was horrible. Plain horrible, accord ing to a video game critic who left a review of it on STEAM, the gaming platform where 14-year-old Kamsi had uploaded...

I am many things, but an optimist is not one of them. To label myself an outright pessimist would be an overstatement, but as anyone who knows me can attest, I tend to dwell on the morbid. Perhaps that...

On April 10, 1989, President George H.W. Bush signed the Whistleblower Protection Act into law. Effective immediately, government employees who made allegations regarding legal violations, misconduct,...

As a senior, I’ve tried this year to attend as many school events as I can while I’m still local. Among these events are sports games, of which there is a steady flow throughout the year, that always...

I've heard a great many people assert that they'd rather receive no gift at all than something so "thoughtless" as a gift card. Gift cards, though, are neither. They still take time and money to obtain,...

It has been alleged on the internet that dust consists of 80% dead human skin. This is false. What is true, however, is that, regardless of what dust is made out of, around 30% of the population, including...

I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of a hoarder. Walk into any space that I occupy, and you’ll find it overflowing with things.  Well, one thing, really: books.  For those of you who know...

If you’re an integrated member of modern society, you’ve likely seen Mean Girls. You may also recall one of its most famous scenes, in which protagonist Cady Heron declares that “In girl world, Halloween...

One of the things I’ve always found inspiring  is the ability of an individual to create change. Gandhi, Marie Curie, Harvey Milk, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman– all of them propagated their ideas,...

One Direction, British boy band extraordinaire, hasn’t popped up into my playlists in some time. For a few years now, I’ve taken a liking to instrumental music: classical, neoclassical, string quartet...

  We, as minors of all ages, have been told to “do our part” to save the environment: to recycle, to plant a tree, to walk or bike to school instead of driving. That’s all well and good,...

I must echo the sentiment of Noah Kahan’s fandom: we made the right person famous. Kahan’s cathartic set August 9 at SDSU’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theater left no heartstring untouched and...

Track and field athletes PR throughout CIF competition, Welton advances to state finals The 2023 San Diego Sections CIF finals were a long day for Westview’s track and field team, but after nine hours,...

The ride to Arcadia was Taylor Swift through and through. For 129 minutes, over 120.3 miles, Kaitlyn Arciaga (10), Olivia Kooyman (11), Irene Penev (11), and Delaney Hennigan (9), wound down their stress...

EVAN ERICKSON Boys Volleyball There is nothing that gives Evan Erickson (12) more joy in a volleyball game than yelling for his teammates. Since joining the program as a freshman, he’s found his...

If you were asked to define your life from start to finish in 800 words—your wildest dream to worst nightmares, personal philosophy  to political affiliation—you’d probably ask for more words. If...

In the basketball world right now, it’s a tough time to be a UCONN Huskies fan. It’s a downright awful time to be a Stanford Cardinal fan. It is, though, a great time to be a woman.  This March...

Once you’ve hit perfect, it’s hard to know how to move up, especially for the gymnastics team, which comes into the 2023 season having been as close to perfect as anyone could’ve been last year....

We’ve all seen them. Armies of e-bikes, whizzing through road lanes in metallic, screaming waves straight out of a war film. Rather than tattooed, grizzled motorists, though, these wheels are manned...

New Year’s resolutions are the most spurious things I’ve ever heard of. “New year, new me” and all that balderdash. Why on Earth should you buy into the delusion that you, flawless you, should...

Kevin Wetherell (12) said he wasn’t exactly the most popular kid as a sixth grader at Mesa Verde. He didn’t have many friends, and he had a hard time making them because he didn’t know what friends...

Cursive is for dead people. That’s the first thing I remember a classmate of mine remarking in third grade when our teacher informed us we’d be entering a unit on cursive, which we’d need to produce...

It was late, and it was dark, but inside Westview’s stadium, the energy was bright and tireless. Parents, siblings, friends, even neighbors, ignored the chill and cheered on girls field hockey.  On...

While it may not be the US Supreme Court, elections for the Supreme Court of California are still important. California’s Supreme Court Justices see appeals from inferior state courts, such as the district...

KAEDEN BERNER Boys Cross Country Kaeden Berner (11) is third-ranked on the boys cross country team, setting a new three-mile PR of 16:39:2 at the CCA Ravens Fleet Feet Invitational, Sept. 3. He...