One of the nation’s largest threats in this day and age is the rapid and almost imperceptible disease known as depression. A mental illness spreading far and wide, depression, is heavily hitting a very familiar place, one we thought was safe; school. The US Department of Health and Human Services listed that approximately 36% of Nevada high schoolers interviewed in 2017 had reported feeling sad or hopeless for about two weeks in a row; a definitive symptom of depression, ofte

What even is a PBL? A PBL is West CTA’s spin-off on a personal well-being day which shortens the classes of students on a day once every couple of weeks and lets them participate in activities for about an hour which is supposed to help them relieve a bit of their stress. The idea behind it is to also try to relieve some of the stress on teachers by helping them take a break from their hectic days. Although the intentions behind the creation of PBL’s are very good, when this

After months of preparation, and the combined forces of many individuals, the raid has finally come to pass. With its origins rooted with a joke on Facebook and quickly becoming one of the most relevant memes of its time, the eventual turnout for the popular event came to be only one percent of the actual amount of individuals who said they were interested. On the day of the event, the few thousand individuals showed up on the designated meetup point, the tiny town of Rachel,

Area 51? More like West 51! The week of Sept. 20 on Friday, as the sun was still rising, the class of 2020 had their Senior Sunrise on the West Tech field.The theme for this year's Senior Sunrise was “West 51” based on the Area 51 invasion on the same day that had a lot of people talking. Almost the entire class of 2020 kicked off their senior year by getting up very early in the morning to get together for the start of the end, their last year together as high school student

“Friendship. Teamwork. Action.” Freshmen, Tri Huynh said that these characteristics are essential to a superhero movie. Huynh continued in-depth to explain that in the making of a good superhero movie, “the characters need a good backstory, the action needs a purpose, and there needs to be closure.” What movie comes to your mind when thinking of a good superhero movie? Most likely the movie you’ve thought of is from the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- better known as the MCU. Th