On April 5, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” hit theaters with an overall mixed response. Critics slammed the movie for multiple issues, whilst audiences praised it for its unique take on the Mario series. It recently became the highest grossing animated movie of all time, beating “Frozen II.” Does the movie deserve the praise? Or are the critics right?    Initially, fans of the Mario...

   What’s the product of 2½-hour daily practice after-school, rigorous discipline, ten additional subjects to study, and over 700 pages of literature to read? A 2nd place win for West High’s Academic Decathlon at the county competition, a 7th place ranking at state, and indelible memories created along the way. Acadec, whose competition season ran from late January to late March, began to prepare...

   Before West High’s Games Club Co-Presidents Anika Agarwal (12) and Claire Perry’s (12) efforts, there hadn’t been a chess competition at West High for years –– much less one between multiple schools. Now, West’s Games Club is proud to take home a first-place individual competitor medal, won by finalist Dulnaka Jalath (12) in a tournament of more than sixty students and seven schools.     Previously,...

The ocean is a place of endless possibilities; no one truly knows what lies in its pitch-black darkness. However, if you’d like to learn more about this fascinating underwater world — from seabed-dwelling organisms to how the ocean was formed millions of years ago — you should consider taking the new and restructured Marine Science course next year.    Marine Science has been taught at...

   More than 45 million Americans have taken out student loans, totaling to a whopping $1.6 trillion of debt. Their situation has been thrust into the national spotlight after the Biden administration announced in October 2022 that it would forgive a significant portion of student debt for many borrowers, allowing Americans who have received federal student loans to have up to $10,000 in debt forgiven...