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SoleBros SENIOR Curtis Harrison IV (left) and SENIOR Spencer Boyd (right) getting ready to air live on the Kelly Clarkson show. These two, along with SENIORS, Kellen Newman and Breiland Anderson, started SoleBros to share the confidence they get from wearing a new pair of shoes. “SoleBros has been very humbling because I am able to give kids confidence through a pair of sneakers.” Harrison IV said.

SoleBros make a difference from head to sole

Mackienzee Rasheed
March 3, 2020
On March 9, 2020, no women living in Mexico will attend school, work, go to the supermarket or do house chores. Making up 51.9 percent of the population, men will see the impact women have on Mexican society, since their roles are constantly undervalued.

‘One day without us’: women in Mexico protest femicides and promote equal rights

Renata Altuzar
February 28, 2020
Border wall construction at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. To clear the path for the US-Mexico border wall crews have begun “controlled blasting” in areas such as Monument Hill, where a O’odham burial ground lies.

‘Controlled blasting’ begins at the border

Kat Swift, Managing Editor of Viewpoints
February 27, 2020
Students in the Green Club come and cultivate the trees from “seeds to sprouts” every Wednesday from 2:35 to 3:30. Volunteer days for the woods project itself are on Saturdays.

Behind the Walnut Woods endeavor

Azariah Cuff, Staff Writer
February 20, 2020
Oscars 2020: The controversies and big winners

Oscars 2020: The controversies and big winners

Matthew Proietti, Staff Writer
February 20, 2020
SENIORS Alan Zhang and Meoshea Britt stand alongside Justin Chan, ‘22, and Sanjay Luckwitz, ‘21, while waiting for the next train on the Green Line light rail. The students wore face masks while traveling in Boston, Mass. to minimize the chances of them contracting the Wuhan Coronavirus.

COVID-19 taking the world by storm

Shiv Malhotra, News and Features Section Editor
February 20, 2020
"What Schools Could Be," a book by Ted Dintersmith, highlights how intrinsic motivation is important when it comes to learning. This was a book that inspired the Nine Honors teacher Lisa Brokamp, spurring the new Genius Hour project.

Honoring a new project in Honors

Mesgana Mekibib, Staff Writer
February 20, 2020
Sara McGuire-Jay teaches AP World History. Club writer, Otto Kindel, encourages WHHS students to " to do something bold and give history a second chance" by taking this course.

More students should be optioning for AP World History

Otto Kindel
February 9, 2020
A multitude of students from all over the Greater Cincinnati area compete in one multiple of the CSCS tournament sections for a chance to win a medal and bragging rights.

Check-ing in on the competition

Azariah Cuff, Staff Writer
January 29, 2020
Joan Kuethe retired Dec. 20, just before winter break, after 30 years as a secretary. Kuethe plans to travel with her husband in the coming months, already having planned three trips.

A lasting legacy as lead secretary

Isabel Nissley, Deputy Online Editor in Chief
January 29, 2020
Here at WHHS, there is a visible gap in the student demographics of who take these advanced courses. “My classes over the last 14 years have been, as a majority, white,” WHHS AP Literature teacher, Blake Taylor, said.

The unseen barriers in AP classes

Mesgana Mekibib, Staff Writer
January 28, 2020
WHHS hosted Winterfest on Jan.11 before the girl’s varsity basketball game and during the girl’s JV basketball game from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Arcade.

A Night of Winter Fun At WHHS Winterfest

Tobey Logan, Deputy Editor in Chief of Broadcast
January 25, 2020
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