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It’s foolish to think that I could summarize my four-year career in The Nexus with “thumbs up” or “thumbs down,” and yet I feel compelled to at least try. I think I owe it to this publication.  As...

Dear Grace,    As I remember you, you’re waiting — waiting for an awkward silence to fill the Zoom classroom after everyone else has already spoken before offering your opinion, waiting...

Before Maddie Comstock (12) knew anything else about herself, she knew that she was a writer. As her younger brother and the other kids in the neighborhood opted to play outside, 5-year-old Comstock spent...

Next school year, Westview will offer an on-campus, college-accredited Cultural Anthropology course in partnership with Palomar Community College. Students will attend classes during first period on Tuesdays...

Unlike most college valedictorians, Asna Tabassum may never know what it’s like to stand before a sea of her peers and deliver a commencement speech. Despite the fact that she’s earned her opportunity...

The Poway Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education voted unanimously to terminate the contract of Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps, effective immediately as of Tuesday. This vote took place after...

Following Superintendent Dr. Marian Kim Phelps’ paid administrative leave, which started Feb. 1, Associate Superintendent of Student Support Services Greg Mizel was appointed as the Poway Unified School...

When the sky is still tinged with a blueblack, pre-sunrise darkness, Gabriel Sanchez (11) begins his morning routine. He wakes up at 5:45 a.m., showers, gets dressed, brushes his teeth, and then makes...

  Effective at the start of this school year, Westview students are required to take 10 combined credits of fine arts, foreign language, or career technical education (CTE) pathway courses for...

After displaying her charcoal art piece “Halemeoni” (meaning ‘grandmother’ in Korean) at the Del Mar Fair in her sophomore year, Judy Kang (12) did what she does with all of her other completed...

Unlike every other desk in the Wolverine Center, student support specialist Dalia Yacoub’s desk faces the door. It’s a conscious decision made by Miss Dalia and the counseling team so that she...

Effective as of Tuesday, Westview will now start each day with the Pledge of Allegiance led by the front office over the loudspeakers. While the Pledge of Allegiance previously only occurred on Mondays...

For 5-year-old Gowri Ramaprasad (12), the highlight of her every morning was listening to her parents read aloud the daily NASA news releases. Entranced by the thought of space exploration, Ramaprasad...

Due to an excess of approximately 1,311 instructional minutes, Westview has accumulated this past school year, we will be having minimum days on Monday and Tuesday. Annually, California high schools are...

For a Saturday morning, the campus was bustling. Students in black dresses, suit jackets, and button ups rushed onto campus and lugged instrument cases  into the band room, where trumpeters played...

Throughout the past five years JJ Siu (12) has been a part of First Tech Challenge (FTC) team Gear Up, many facets of the experience have been variable—the game manual, the robot’s design, Siu’s...

Juliet Kim’s (9) morning was off to a nerve-wracking start. After complications with organizing a list of female staff members and a growing worry that she hadn’t ordered enough flowers for everyone,...

As a member of Westview’s mock trial team, I have been deeply invested in the upcoming election of our state’s next attorney general. Since the attorney general represents the people of California...

When Ayush Nayak (11) was in elementary school, he often rushed home after school to sit in front of his parents’ old computer and watch video after video about computer hardware. As the computer’s...

As a defense witness for Mock Trial, Aadya Nayak (11) has always had a passion for learning about the legislative system. Now, as the student representative for District 5 of the San Diego County Board...

Cheeyeon (Chelsea) Park’s earliest memory of wanting to become an artist was  when her grandmother invited an art teacher to her home in Seoul. Crouching around a Korean-style low lacquered wooden fold-out...

When she was just 3 years old, Kaila Barksdale (12) could often be found running around a tennis court with a racquet in her hand while her father, coach Keith Barksdale, taught tennis. At the time, Barksdale...

During her first week as principal of Westview in the fall of 2017, Principal Tina Ziegler said that she felt overwhelmed yet excited. Just a few weeks prior to the beginning of a new school year, she...

For any user of the ubiquitous social media app Instagram, it’s easy to see that a change has washed over it in the past few months. Whereas before, my feed was filled with carefully curated pictures...