The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship The Cooke Foundation College Scholarship Program is the largest undergraduate scholarship program available to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend the nation’s best four-year colleges and universities. In addition to the monetary award, Cooke Scholars receive comprehensive educational advising, significant cohort-based programming, and graduate school funding, as well as a thriving network of nea

There are many Christmas traditions all over the world. West High has welcomed many students from other places in the world. Ginevra Pampaloni is one of them from Italy. Pampaloni celebrates Christmas a lot. It is one of the most important holidays in Italy. Pampaloni states, “ We start celebrating on Dec 24 with Christmas Eve dinner at my grandma's house.” On the 25 she says, “ We have a big lunch with the whole family, usually at my house, which usually lasts from 1 P.M.

As Christmas approaches, people are getting into the Christmas Spirit. While Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, it is also the most stressful time. Not knowing what to get someone for Christmas can be really stressful and time consuming. On top of that it is especially challenging to know what to get a girl. They can be picky and specific sometimes when it comes to what they want. However, if you know what to look for, girls are actually really simple. Some

Santa eating illistration by Emanuel Isaac There's one thing that makes times with your loved ones even better during the holidays. That is obviously eating out and enjoying the holiday food. a variety of food to choose from and from a lot of places as well. McDonalds McDonalds has been here for the holidays and it's always great having the Grinch™ meal, Orange chocolate McFlurry, exclusive drinks, everything Sunday, McShaker fries, holiday pie and McRib. Chick-fil-a has a

Many people across America celebrate Thanksgiving in many different ways such as different recipes and different places. One of my personal favorites is watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade before a delicious meal. Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade Sonic and Snoopy sonic snoopy The Thanksgiving parade that Macy’s has put on for 101 years soon to be 102 years starting At 9 a.m. on the sunlit morning of November 27, 1924, Macy’s gave the children of New York lots of charact

Welcome to the new basketball season! Good luck to our boys’ team and coaches Coach Bryant, Coach Dobbins, Coach Williams, and Coach Decker, and to our girls’ team and coaches Coach Larance and Coach Bradly. We congratulate you all on the start of a new season and wish you an exciting, successful year! Go West!

Energy drinks can cause severe physical and psychological health risks towards high school students who exceed the recommended amount they should intake. While teens often use energy drinks for late night studying or work, the extreme amount of consumption could trigger cardiovascular stress, raise anxiety, and impact a proper sleep schedule. Over time as teens continue to consume energy drinks, they can adapt to a dangerous cycle of dependency towards these drinks. This incr

In many schools, students do not get enough sleep, so a study to make sure students are getting enough sleep was made, the team found out that 78% of students do not get the right amount of sleep in Missouri. Who performed the study? Wendy Troxel performed a sleep study on teenagers with these findings: “Pediatricians and sleep specialists—such as the American Academy of Pediatrics—recommend a [school] start time of 8:30 a.m. or later for middle and high schools. Because adol