NEWS BRIEFS WSS recaps winter news from No Tardy December to the state debate tournament. BY HEIDI DU & REEM KIRJA
ART & DESIGN BY ERINN VARGA
The ICCSD has made several new courses available to junior high and high school students for the next school year. Classes such as Student Built House, Geometry in Construction and Introduction to Early Childhood Education will be added to West High’s curriculum. Additionally, Pre-Calculus Honors will be offered as AP Pre-Calculus, Art Forms as Exploratory Art and PALS as Peer to Peer. The ICCSD also removed courses including Residential Construction and Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Design. Course registration starts at the end of January.
STATE DEBATE TOURNMENT
The West High speech and debate team competed in the state debate tournament Jan. 6 through 7.
To kick off their basketball seasons, both the boys and girls basketball teams defeated Clear Creek Amana in their season openers Nov. 30. In a cross-town doubleheader against Liberty Dec. 9, the girls team had a narrow 42-40 win with Dartmouth commit Meena Tate ’23 scoring 15 points. The boys team won 68-51 with Jack McCaffery ’25 and Kareem Earl ’24 scoring 27 and 17 points respectively. The basketball teams faced off against City High at Coralville’s Xtreme Arena Jan. 8, the first high school basketball game hosted at the arena. Carnegie Mellon commit Anna Prouty ‘23 contributed 16 points and 13 rebounds to the girls team’s 58-43 win. The boys team had a narrow 63-64 loss.
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NEWS JAN. 20, 2023
NEW COURSES NEXT YEAR Course registration for the 202324 school year begins in February.
The West High speech and debate team traveled to Des Moines Area Community College to compete in the Iowa High School Speech Association state debate tournament Jan. 6 through 7. The team won the state title for the third year in a row. Andrew Dong ’24 and Ben Kleiman ’24 won Public Forum debate and Lincoln Beihl ’25 championed C-House Congress. In Lincoln-Douglas debate, Nate Weimar ’23, Jayden Shin ’23, and Spencer Thomas ’24 won in a three-way tie. In Policy debate, Maya Chu ’23 and Ashley Seo ’23 were runners-up and Edward Li ’26 and Adam Salem ’26 were semifinalists. Weimar, a nationally-ranked debater, also won the Dowling Catholic Paradigm tournament Dec. 11 and has four Tournament of Champion bids this year.
BASKETBALL UPDATES
Kareem Earl ‘24 dunks the ball against Liberty Dec. 11.