On March 4, multiple Southern California Drill and All-Male teams arrived at West High on large yellow buses to compete in the highly anticipated Spirit Day. The teams prepared to show off their talents in the gymnasium in front of well-known judges and a roaring crowd. West hosted this massive event once a year.This undoubtedly brought some struggles and hardships that West’s Drill and All-Male...

   On Senior Night, Skyler Schultz (number 18 on the field)  scored the only winning goal against the tough El Segundo Eagles. Despite starting the game off 0-0 in the first half and most of the second half, Schultz stepped up her game and brought home the win.     Playing soccer has been a strong passion of starter varsity captain Schultz since she was four. Being a senior this year and...

   When Anika Agarwal (12) was a sophomore, West High’s Chess Club was nearly gone. A few years later, the Games Club co-founder is organizing the largest chess tournament the school has ever had.     No matter how you look at it, the pandemic easily could have wiped out West High’s Chess Club — there’s just something about face-to-face chess that a webcam and microphone can't replicate....

   On Feb. 17, the third installment in the Ant-Man trilogy was released: “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” Over recent years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been under massive stress to put out something astonishing, similar to their largest hit, “Avengers: Endgame.” “Quantumania” promised the viewers a new start into the multiversal world of the Marvel universe and a story...

 “Let’s finish the job.”    President Biden repeated this slogan at least ten times during his 2023 State of the Union address to a packed House Chamber seating the new 118th Congress. The president enlisted lawmakers to address gun violence and enshrine Social Security and Medicare benefits, while simultaneously touting his administration’s success in curbing inflation and unemployment...