Have you ever witnessed a girl being put down simply for being a girl? Is sexism an issue at Wayland High School? Graduated senior Sasha Panosovoy thinks so, and she has more than a little bit to say about it.

The dictionary states that prom means, “a formal dance, especially one held by a high school or college class at the end of an academic year”. For most high school students, however, prom is much more than a single sentence definition.

A longstanding rule barring students from using the athletic fields behind the academic building during thescho

“Teens often underestimate the power of their words, and likewise, the power of their jokes,” writes Zoe Corner. Students who lie on the annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey don’t understand that their actions will have consequences for the whole community…

“There is a vast gap between expectation and reality with physical education,” write seniors Sasha Pansovoy and Ben Schattenburg. Is gym class at Wayland High an effective and efficient way of keeping us fit?

“Why should teachers get special treatment when it comes to parking, while students, the future of our great country, are left to divide up the leftovers?” writes David Murphy.

If you are one of the few brave souls who is concerned about what goes into our bodies and environment, Food, Inc. will treat you to thought-provoking visits to places of mass beef, pork, poultry, and corn production…

On Friday, December 11th, regional law enforcement executed a k-9 assisted drug search at the request of the administration. Students were placed in a lockdown while over a dozen dogs swept parking lots and a handful of homerooms. No drugs were found, a fact that didn’t surprise many students. The drug search and the date of its execution were secret, so naturally many students knew about the search well in advance.

On Friday, December 11th, Wayland High School students had a “shelter in place” during homeroom and for an additional twenty minutes afterward. The “shelter in place” was used to run two protocols, one for safety in the event that there is an outside threat, and one K-9 assisted drug search.

Last Friday’s k-9 assisted drug search has proved that there’s little agreement as to how to handle the use of drugs in the high school community, both off-campus and on. WSPN writer Ben Schattenburg takes a look at anti-search side of the argument…