By Sam Berkman
October 13, 2010
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It’s been six years since I’ve stepped foot in Niles West, but the memories and feelings that I left with are still vivid. You may think that when I graduated in 2004, such feelings included sadness due to friends going separate ways, or heartache stemming from the ...
By Breana Brill
October 12, 2010
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Dear Freshmen:
On Tuesday or Wednesday of last week, we all attended the NAMES assembly. I attended the Wednesday one. The whole time I was there, I felt like I was in MTV’s reality series, If You Really Knew Me. If you don’t know the show yet, it’s ab...
By Breana Brill
October 8, 2010
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Dear Freshman class of 2014:
Hello everyone! This is officially the first FRESHman blog of the year. I capitalized "fresh" because we are the freshest in the school, and this is the freshest blog (freshest meaning the coolest (:). I’m Breana Brill, your p...
By Lauren Zeinfeld
September 28, 2010
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When I was in high school we used AIM instead of Facebook. We were limited to the 27 pictures on a disposable camera. When we wanted new music to play on our Discman, we begged a friend who would spend the 45 minutes it took to d...
By Seve Loubriel
September 19, 2010
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Hey my name is Seve Loubriel. For some odd reason, I was picked to write a column for this newspaper, and I thought to myself, “What kind of ridiculous idea is that? I can’t write!” But I guess I’ll give it a shot.
For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve played footbal...
By Maggie Wibright
September 19, 2010
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Music is the art of thinking with sounds-Jules Combarieu
Music is bipolar. It goes from bubbly to sad to angry and back to bubbly again. I love how there is a song to fit every mood you have. This past decade America has bred the most random, diverse artists I think we’ve ever seen: Lady...
By Ivana Kosir
September 19, 2010
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As everyone knows by now, the freshmen have been generously given netbooks this year. With the internet and programs like Skype, a laptop can supply hours of entertainment. Lucky them, right? Wrong.
Staring at textbooks for hours a day can be straining enough on our eyes. Now imagine sta...
By Rozy Kanjee
September 19, 2010
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Being a teenager, I know that reading a newspaper is not an ideal option. On my list of things I’d rather do, it’s right below licking my foot. So I’d lick my foot and then read the newspaper. But now that I’m writing for one and now that it’s online (anything online seems so much...
By Colene Gibson
September 19, 2010
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Everyone always says that high school is the best years of their lives. Who knows if that’s true or not, and honestly who cares? What I do believe is that these four years are going to be full of drama, stress, nights you don’...
By Nick Goldwyn
September 19, 2010
Filed under Blogs, Homepage, Sports, West Word
FANTASY Football sucks. There, I said it. Don't break your computer, just yet. To clarify--before you go off and do something you and your wallet (computers aren’t cheap) might regret--reread my first sentence. Notice in all c...
