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...
How the meat we buy will shape the future
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
September 20, 2018
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase
I never thought I would be the person who would author a pro-vegetarian article, especially one as passionate as the following one. As someone who has been attempting to pursue as eco-friendly a lifestyle as possible, I came to the realization that I simply could not continue to try to live an environmental...
Selaam Dollisso’s Senior Column
Selaam Dollisso, Online Managing Editor
May 21, 2018
Filed under Archives, Opinion, Showcase
Writing a reflection on four years worth of high school with only two weeks left is a daunting task—proportionally, it just doesn’t work. Not to mention the hindrance of slow motion brain-clutter that many seniors are now experiencing as the final days of our secondary education come to a swift hault...
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...
December 14, 2018 • No Comments
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...
Seth Bequette, Reporter
November 20, 2018 • No Comments
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...
The Humanitarian Case for ‘Sweatshops’
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Quick Tunes: Iridescence by Brockhampton
October 22, 2018
Jonathan Watt, Reporter
December 14, 2018 • No Comments
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! I have a confession to make: I’ve been living two lives. For the past month, my entire world has been more or less consumed by a Wild West...
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