Christopher Jackson’s Senior Column
Christopher Jackson, Web Reporter
May 15, 2014
Friends, Someone said once that all relationships end in either death or breakup. Whether marriages or friendships, this is assuredly true. The relationship might be unimportant, and the death might be decades away, but our time with people is fundamentally finite. It is this scarcity of life that...
The Man, The Legend: Brian Todey.
Christopher Jackson, Ames High Reporter
March 26, 2014
The Web caught up with Ames High freshman Brian Todey for an interview about literature, his family, and the meaning of manliness. What’s your favorite class so far? It probably has to be English, since it has been the class that I have learned the most from. How many different grades ha...
The Outside World: Beyond the Ames Bubble
Christopher Jackson, Ames High Reporter, Columnist
February 23, 2014
During my sophomore year, one Ames High teacher claimed that we weren’t living in the real world. He claimed that Ames consists of a couple square miles, bordered by Boone County, Ada Hayden, I-35 and I-30, essentially in a bubble from the rest of the world. As one weekend this January showed me, that teacher was...
Checking in with 2013’s seniors
Christopher Jackson, Writer
December 3, 2013
Last year’s senior class is still in the memory of many students and teachers at Ames High. Now well into the second half of their very first college semester, The Web thought it would be a good idea to check in with some of the most beloved members of the class of 2013. Emily Kressee is at...
Erin Murphy, Reporter
March 3, 2020
Don’t just stand there, bust a move! Everyone can dance when it comes to a party, but not everyone can do it while being competitively judged. Some may say that dance is...
Erik Nelson, Reporter
February 25, 2020
Precision. Fluidity. Large hair. The mysteries and secrets of Irish dancing are held within unassuming senior Sam Johnson. Already an accomplished and active student, you...