The Time’s Up initiative has been sweeping the nation. Celebrities, activists and ordinary people are coming together to support women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted in the workplace. Last...

Finals are quickly approaching and classes have started to review a semester’s worth of learning. However, most students dread taking finals and spend long nights studying concepts they learned three...

Drake Breuckmann is a senior. He participates in Forensics and is the vice president of membership for DECA. Breuckmann plans on attending University of Kansas or University of Missouri following his senior...

Imagine walking down the street and almost every person has a chain tied around their ankle. All are struggling to walk, the chain dragging and scraping the pavement. They can’t go far because if they...

Pros  Can you ride a bike? Yes or no? That simple question will help explain why standards-based learning (SBL) is so effective. In previous years, student grades were influenced by behaviors...

From the day students walk into BV West as a freshman, they are looking forward to being a senior and being at the top of the food chain. They look up to the senior class and think about when they will...

One in three women. This is not a statistic for a disease or an illness, nor is it a statistic for some great achievement committed by women. This is the statistic that is found when googling “female...

Vape nation as defined by Urban Dictionary is “a nation dedicated to the homies who set out to rip the fattest vape cloud possible. They're experts in the art of vape tricks, spreading the word and blazing...

In recent events, such as the Las Vegas shooting, many in the media have been questioning the appropriate time to discuss change in policy that would have helped prevent from such a terrible event to occur....