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The student newspaper of, by, and for Ames High School.

The WEB

The student newspaper of, by, and for Ames High School.

The WEB

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Four classes you may not have heard of

Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor March 13, 2019

Anyone who’s flipped through a student course book knows about the class descriptions plastered on the pages. Reading like an IKEA direction manual, some courses sound nothing like what they actually...

March 2019

Corinne Sailor, Comic Artist March 10, 2019

Mason Jar Jason

Akshata Gandhe, Reporter February 13, 2019

Most of us have grown up watching High School Musical or have at least expected High School to be a tad bit like the movies. But in reality, we all know by now that that isn’t the case. Freshman...

The Hunger Games Book Review

The Hunger Games Book Review

Lauren Gilligan, Reporter February 13, 2019

I decided to do a book review over The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins. It came out back in 2008, yet I only read it this past school year. It was a lovely discovery. I have not been able to find any...

It smells like broke in here!

“It smells like broke in here!”

Logan Adams-Bacon, Reporter February 13, 2019

As we all know, if you don't have AirPods, you're broke. It's just a fact, don't question it. But what if I told you that AirPod owners were the broke ones? There is a new king among the headphone kind....

Saving Private Liam

Saving Private Liam

Liam Struck, Reporter February 13, 2019

Up to 5% of the US general population suffers from claustrophobia in some form, including mild versions of this phobia. I was not one of them, but all that changed Saturday, January 12th 2019. The lights...

Photo by Erin Murphy

Zmolek Spices up Social Studies

Seth Bequette and Erin Murphy February 12, 2019

A punching bag that’s verbally bludgeoned, slaughtered and slandered for being boring, dull, and stale —  history class has been dragged through the dirt by everyone who’s ever been stuffed into...

Photo by Josh McCunn

Maria Kozakova Ain’t No Square

Seth Bequette, Reporter February 12, 2019

“This is so hard, I don’t know how to describe myself. I dunno who the heck I am,” said Maria Kozakova, an Ames High senior. When her interview began, she quickly turned around to a group of classmates...

The secret lives of teachers

The secret lives of teachers

Zoe Mamakos, Reporter February 12, 2019

As you walk into the English hallway and burst into the first classroom on the left you feel a rush of relief that you aren’t sitting the those dreaded chairs waiting to open brown and white textbooks...

Students involved in Ames high garden club learn about grain production at Early Morning Harvest in Panora, Iowa.

Designing a different kind of agricultural pathway

Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief February 12, 2019

In January, the district announced that the high school would offering an agricultural Pathway for the 2019-2020 school year. This offering is in part designed to meet state legislation that requires...

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