Finals After Break? An Investigation
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
February 15, 2019
Filed under Campus Life, Opinion
Winter break: a time to relax, celebrate the holidays and spend time with family. Yet for many, a once beloved respite from the academic year has turned into a prolonged period of stress over future final exams. Ames High’s current practice of holding finals after break is an unpopular one...
“It smells like broke in here!”
Logan Adams-Bacon, Reporter
February 13, 2019
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase, Uncategorized
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. The Louis Vuitton AirPods have taken the supreme role of first class. So the news is out, if you...
Lazy Language
Seth Bequette, Reporter
December 14, 2018
“What, are you triggered?” Cue flashbacks to freshman year when the only word in anyone’s repertoire was triggered, spit out at classmates anytime they displayed the slightest infraction of annoyance or irritation. The phrase might have replaced ‘and like’ as the most overused and a...
WEB Editorial: Facing the climate threat head on
December 14, 2018
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase, Top Story
At the beginning of the month six hundred and thirteen Ames High students signed a petition asking for the school district and Ames community to take climate action. As a WEB staff we wanted to add our voices to this overwhelming call for action. The reality and scope of the climate change has been b...
Driving is Overrated.
Seth Bequette, Reporter
November 20, 2018
Driving - a sixteen-year-old’s long-awaited ticket to freedom from bumming rides and begging for a lift, it’s now time to chauffeur friends around with the car speakers edging death while the music plays. Teenagers receiving their license is an iconic point of many television shows and movies, long-awaited...
The Humanitarian Case for ‘Sweatshops’
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
November 20, 2018
Filed under Opinion
To many people in the developed world, the dark underbelly of the modern economy is the means through which we obtain the consumer goods we own. While rich westerners splurge on iPhones and designer clothing, the other end of the supply chain reveals long hours, hazardous working conditions, and...
Pro-Meat eating
Logan Adams-Bacon, Reporter
November 1, 2018
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase, Uncategorized
I love meat, and the chances are, if you are reading this you eat meat. People have been eating meat for thousands upon thousands of years on Earth, and no one thinks that it will stop any time soon. So why do we humans eat meat? Is it because it gives us iron and vitamin B? Or is it just because it tas...
Quick Tunes: Iridescence by Brockhampton
Jonathan Watt, Reporter
October 22, 2018
Filed under Archives, Lifestyle, Opinion, Reviews, Showcase
Coming on the heels of a highly-publicized controversy regarding former member Ameer’s sexual misconduct allegations over the Summer, Brockhampton was in a dark place. They had lost one of their core founding members- one that hadn’t only yielded his own superb style of rapping (which would frequen...
The case for an environmentally conscious homecoming
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
October 19, 2018
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase
Homecoming 2018 was the definition of successful. The Beach Bash theme transformed the school into a week long beach party that was made all the more real by the broken air conditioning. The decorations were tasteful and fun, truly showing the hard work that went into them. The get to know the court assembl...
APUSH: a necessary evil
Jonathan Watt, Reporter
September 30, 2018
Filed under Academics and Arts, Opinion, Reviews
You wake up in a drowsy, panicked state. It’s Friday morning, you’re at the kitchen table with papers strewn about haphazardly, and your computer is still playing the same playlist of chapter reviews that you had been frantically combing the night before in place of the assigned American Pageant c...
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
February 15, 2019 • No Comments
Winter break: a time to relax, celebrate the holidays and spend time with family. Yet for many, a once beloved respite from the academic year has turned into a prolonged...
Logan Adams-Bacon, Reporter
February 13, 2019 • No Comments
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...
Seth Bequette, Reporter
December 14, 2018 • No Comments
“What, are you triggered?” Cue flashbacks to freshman year when the only word in anyone’s repertoire was triggered, spit out at classmates anytime they displayed...
WEB Editorial: Facing the climate threat head on
December 14, 2018
November 20, 2018
The Humanitarian Case for ‘Sweatshops’
November 20, 2018
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019 • No Comments
I’m a bit late for the tea party that is M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’, though to be fair the first film of this triple play was two years before...
March 14, 2019
February 13, 2019
Get caught up in the Spider Verse
February 13, 2019