Miranda Benavidez, staff writer
April 19, 2011
On Saturday, April 30th, Journalism II students will be competing at the annual IHSA Journalism sectionals in order to hopefully move on to Eastern for the state competition on May 6th. A total of 13 students will be competing aga...
Hannah Tadey, staff writer
April 19, 2011
It’s days before spring break, who wants to go to school, work, or for that matter, do anything? Well, eight dedicated students here at Joliet West spent their Saturday before spring break renovating a building to transform...
Taylor Foote, staff writer
April 19, 2011
The Joliet West Literacy School Improvement Planning Committee held its third annual Barnes and Noble Book Fair on Tuesday, April 12th. The book fair lasted all day, and between 4 and 8 p.m. performances and presentations from clubs...
Tresa Fahrner, staff writer
April 19, 2011
What if I told you that you can get a whole Olive Garden pasta party for your advisory class for only a penny! Well, I’d be lying- you would actually need more than 200.00.
Olive Garden’s Pasta for Pennies is a nationally...
Taylor Foote, staff writer
April 19, 2011
X and Y. On their own, they are just single letters in a big alphabet. Together, however, they represent a great responsibility. They decide who gets to be a guy. Anybody can have two X’s. Those anybodies are called girls. Only...
Sadie McGuire, Entertainment Editor
April 19, 2011
Late night television has traditionally remained a male dominated field. From Carson to Leno over the years, our nightly satirical news has usually been delivered to us by white haired smart-allacks smirking ever-so-satisfyingly...
Rachael Shanholtzer, staff writer
April 19, 2011
After dedicating numerous hours of practicing, the time had come for the Joliet West cast members of this year’s musical to shine. To follow up with the previous successful production of “Beauty and the Beast,” the students...
Connor Relyea, Editor-in-Chief
April 19, 2011
“Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday,” is the chorus to the infamous song by Rebecca Black, “Friday.” With the use of auto tuning, “stars” (and I use quotations because these people aren’t stars in the true...
Ricky Diaz, Sports Editor
April 19, 2011
Joliet West students Joh Wolnik, Rebecca Haller, Hannah Tadey, and Ricky Diaz got an opportunity to work with Kelli Bettenhausen and Tricia L. Simpson the Midwest Public Affairs Manager from Exxon Mobil on making a radio commercial....
