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![On Tuesday, Nov. 23, the Alliance Club hosted Anonymous Ask, an event in the auditorium where WHS students asked panelists about sex, gender, relationships and many other topics. The event was held entirely in the dark, except for lights on the panelists, to use anonymity as encouragement for students to ask questions that they otherwise may feel too awkward or uncomfortable to ask. I definitely feel that there’s a big need [for this event],” librarian assistant and co-advisor of Alliance Kassie Wright said. For one, this school teaches abstinence, which is great and I definitely think is good, but we also have to be realistic and know that there are kids who are going to be practicing sex and this is a way to teach them safe sex, safe gender, safe things about their relationships [and] any type of thing that they may not have known.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-06-at-9.09.28-AM-900x655.png)
![History department head and Attic Archeology teacher Kevin Delaney uses a tool for students at a farm in Sherborn as part of a project on how life was like on a farm. Field studies are an important part of the course and students must be open to taking part in more unconventional forms of learning. “To be part of Attic Archeology, [youve] got to be willing to get dirt under your fingernails and be like ‘I don’t care, I’ll go muck around in the woods and see if we can find something,’” Delaney said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-09-at-9.45.55-AM.png)
![The sun sets in Wayland through a haze caused by smoke from the California wildfires, brought to the East Coast by the jet stream. The fires are the worst in 18 years and have burned over 3.1 million acres. [Wildfire] activity this year has been tens to hundreds of times more intense than the 2003–2019 average in the US in general, as well as in several affected states, Europes Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reported.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-28-at-1.40.29-PM-900x604.png)
![Students from all grades taking many languages took part in the original Latin Club. The club was very popular, and in 1983, boasted 115 members. “The Latin Club, under the direction of [founder Frank] Smith, is easily one of the oldest and most popular clubs at WHS,” the WHS Reflector yearbook wrote in 1983. “For over 20 years, club members have sponsored dances, banquets, dramatic productions and other activities revolving around classical and especially Roman Themes. This year’s club ran a very profitable late summer car wash, sponsored it 22nd annual initiation ceremony, the Saturnalian Banquet, an evening of dramatic readings, a Medieval Pilgrimage and a Greek Tragedy.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-08-at-9.22.22-AM.png)
![Vice principal Laura Cole poses for a photo in the Commons. Cole spends her day engrossed in activities that include working with students and other teachers. Most of [the day for me] it’s like observing classes, walking around being visible in the building, interacting with kids, Cole said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-02-at-8.42.39-AM.png)
![The books a part of the banned books display were wrapped in paper bags to hide their titles until until they were unveiled at the end of September. It is an annual tradition for the WHS Media Center to participate in Banned Books Week, an event organized by the American Library Association that celebrates the importance of reading freely and without censorship. “I think [students] are lucky in Wayland and Massachusetts to have such a wide variety of things they are able and encouraged to read either in class or for independent reading, Librarian Joanne Schmidt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-17-at-8.37.57-AM.png)
![UNICEF advocates Feyi Adebayo and Pallavi Nair, Human Rights Watch fellow Nesha Abiraj and Tammy Monteiro (left to right) witnessed the Massachusetts Senate vote that banned child marriage on July 25. “[My husband] told me that I was God’s chosen people, that I was chosen,” Tammy Monteiro, a protester who was a victim of child marriage, said in an interview with Mass Live. “He said that God somehow sent me to him to be his bride.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-27-at-10.09.39-AM.png)
![A new art gallery sponsored by Arts Wayland, pictured above, opens in the Wayland town center. [Arts Wayland] encourages kids to engage with art, and the fun part about the creative arts is that by putting something out into the world, youve actually created change in the world, said Peter Curran, Wayland Middle School art teacher and a director of Arts Wayland.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DSC_0109-L.jpg)
![Freshman Madeeha Syeda (back row, second from right) poses with her karate class, holding her trophy after coming first place in a tournament in 2016. Syeda began karate when she was 7 years old and practiced the martial art for five years before she began mixed martial arts. “[MMA] gives me one thing that I feel good at,” Syeda said. “Its something that I can feel proud of myself about.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Madeeha-Syeda-e1553834694838.jpg)
![Following the departure of a number of key members last year, the WHS all-female a capella group, the Muses, are prepared for a fresh start. “[To prepare new members includes] a lot of going back to the basics and not just working on ensembles. [A lot of] just working on harmonizing and blending and that sort of thing, Kiernan said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_2499-900x600.jpg)