Welcome to the new website of Iowa City West High School's newsmagazine the West Side Story!  The WSS is a student run and produced newsmagazine, and is published monthly by a staff of students at West High.

On this website, you'll find some information about us, you can subscribe to our newsmagazine online, you can check out our advertising deals and rates, and you can also view our entire publication online.  PDF versions of our newsmagazine are available under "Issues", and full online print versions of all our stories are at wsspaper.com.  For your convenience, we've picked our best and main stories and placed them below, with links.

Check out some articles from our May 2009 issue!

September 2009 articles COMING SOON!

In-depth: Prescription Drug Abuse
New teenage trend: Prescription drug abuse  by Zach Wahls
The lives of high schoolers are filled with stress. Schoolwork, girls, sports, college hunting, college applications, girls and living up to the expectations of our parents, peers and teachers. The result, according to University of Iowa Peer Counselor Cody Shafer, is a steadily increasing abuse of prescription drugs. ...
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Staying Focused: Misuse of Adderall  by Emily Winkler
A train leaves Los Angeles at 1:00 p.m. traveling at 120 mph. Another train leaves Albuquerque at 11:00 a.m. traveling at 90 mph. Did you glance at the clock shortly after the implication of trains, and speed, and distance, and… well, problem solving? ...
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Water Polo  by Rachel Carmen (sports)
Along with the usual sports like track, soccer and tennis, a less common sport is in season at West High: water polo. ...
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What's Up With That?  by Madhu Srikantha (opinion)
There are many times I love hearing the question “What do you want?”  “What do you want from me?” which most commonly followed by...
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