Robbie Gray (12) is in his fourth year in The Nexus. He enjoys long walks on the beach, pondering with his friends, and staring blankly into the distance while reciting poems in his head.
Gabriel Sanchez Franz (12) was adopted from Guatemala and brought to the United States when he was 2 years old. Sanchez’s only connection to his family back in Guatemala is a single wrinkled black-and-white...
On my first real day as a Wolverine, I arrived at the Westview pool ready for my first day of playing on a high school sports team. On that day I biked to the gates of the Westview pool, 20 minutes before...
Since the start of this school year, Emily Fulton and Bree Zermano, graduate students at USD working to get their master’s in school counseling, have been surveying students in AP classes across Westview...
In some ways, contemporary society is marked by a newfound culture of tolerance for all sexual identities. Pride parades line our streets in June, anti-discrimination statements adorn many institution’s...
Most students grow up with the privilege to maintain the friendships they make from the first day of kindergarten to the last day of high school.
But the 115,000 children of active duty service members...
Proposition 33 is the solution that California, and specifically San Diego, needs to stop greedy landlords from demanding huge rents from their tenants, because these demands crush San Diegans under astronomical...
The moonlight glowed faint against the pitch black of the sky on day five of Malea Wiener’s (12) 21-day sailing voyage around the British Virgin Islands as she and her 12 boatmates suited up into their...
Throughout his life Jason Kim (12) has been physically bullied. Kim has a mild form of Cerebral Palsy, a disability that affects people's ability to move and maintain balance. While walking through the...
As the water polo game entered half-time against Classical Academy and the Wolverines huddled with their coach, goalie David Carr (10) crossed his arms over his chest to cover the deep chasm that sits...
At five years old, my mom gazed at her 1970s-era wooden TV that sat on the floor and doubled as a piece of furniture. On this monstrosity played a Sesame Street cartoon called “I Can Remember.”...
State funding for Westview is based on the average daily attendance (ADA) of the 2,146 students currently enrolled at the school. ADA is calculated as the total number of days of student attendance in...
In a series of several meetings in the spring of 2002, the original teachers and staff of Westview met in then-English teacher Cathi Dow’s basement to discuss what day-to-day life, including Homeroom...
Marko Huisa (12) takes pictures for the boys volleyball team during their match against Classical Academy, Feb. 29. Players also commission Huisa to film videos during the games and edit them together...
On Jan. 25, Keneth Eugene Smith was put to death using nitrogen gas in Alabama. This was the first time nitrogen has ever been used to execute a human in a court-approved way. The death penalty is already...
As the girls’ water polo team was starting their practice in the school pool, on Dec. 20, Kiara Schray (11) and Kamila Nava (11) started feeling differently than they normally did while in the water.
About...
Running
Every morning since the summer, Hector Galvan’s (11) alarm goes off at 6:30 a.m. announcing that it’s time to run. His morning runs are part of the training for his dream of becoming a professional...
From 6-9 years old, on Friday nights, Lily Andreassi (11) always looked forward to free time after her Ice Hockey practice at the San Diego Ice Arena. There Andreassi and her friends Andreassi donning...
Whenever any sporting event bears the crowd-drawing title ‘Westview vs. Mt. Carmel’ tense emotions are held within the stands and on the field. Whatever the sport, the players on both teams know each...
Vaughn Stromberg (12) received the puck as he skated down the ice while playing on his youth hockey club team when he was 9 years old. As he got closer to the goal, he could faintly hear someone yelling...
Over the dewy chilled grass next to a tan chipped bench at the Peñasquitos Creek Park on a cloudy Sunday morning, Delaney Hennigan (10) kicked a soccer ball to herself. She was excitedly waiting to...
Ava Hooshmand (11), was 7 years old when she walked in on her father and his band having ‘a boys’ night in’ and playing Persian pop music. Enthralled by the music she heard, Hooshmand snuck up the...
When someone hits what seems to be an insurmountable roadblock in their life, it can be easy to wish that the affliction they faced would no longer hinder them. But in 1996, two researchers showed...
Lester Ngo (12) gleefully gazed out at the crowd of onlookers and firmly gripped the lower neck of his dad’s hybrid classical/acoustic guitar. He sat down in the black plastic chair placed by Emily...
During an eighth-grade history test, Mika Brahmbhatt (12) experienced short lapses in consciousness. Not knowing what was happening, she continued to take her test. Eventually, her teacher saw her staring...
To me, awe is anything that inspires a moment of deep reflection about the world around me and how I live in it.
Recently I was inspired by the Podcast “The Science of Happiness,” hosted by Dacher...
As an avid surfer, Nate Reyes’ (12) happy place is Trestles in San Onofre. There, waves come in from the right in bursts that seem almost endless.
“They’re so long, your legs start getting...
Proposition 29 is worthy of your vote because it holds dialysis companies—worth billions of dollars and responsible for many lives—accountable to work for the well-being of their patients, not the...
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Dianna Lee
Dianna Lee (12) has been golfing ever since she could walk. From a young age, she was inseparable from the sport and very soon, she will be at the prestigious campus...
A small pile of cash and gift cards has been building for months on the back left table in English and social science teacher Kellie Oydna’s classroom. As of Wednesday, June 1, 2022, there is, with a...
Before his performance, Vincent Chen (11) walked onto the stage confidently, guitar in hand, ready to perform in front of a crowd of onlooking students. Though he had never performed for an audience...
Growing up, Sydney Hubbard (12) always felt that there weren’t enough places where she could find support as a woman. It was only two years ago that Hubbard really found a community with the app,...
In the final league game of the season, the girls water polo team defeated Poway 19-10 to clinch the final game of the Palomar League championship. As the Palomar League was the final game before the team...
