Nadya Chase, News Editor
Nadya Chase, Class of 2024, is a second year reporter and the news editor for WSPN. She is a part of the WHS Family Promise club. Outside of school, she enjoys playing tennis, reading, walking her dogs and spending time with family and friends.
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![Posters hang in the mediation training room, the wrestling room, with the plans MetroWest Mediation Services used to conduct their lessons. Im looking forward to becoming a better mediator, junior peer mediator Zackary Goldstein said. [Im excited to] hopefully see a reduction in conflict throughout school or just see the impact mediation makes on people when theyre able to resolve their conflicts.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_4254-900x675.jpg)
![History teacher Laine Winokur is in her second year of teaching at Wayland High School. This year, Winokur has become further involved in the school community as a new advisor for WHS alliance club, a club which focuses on educating people on LGBTQ+ issues and providing a safe space for queer students. “Especially the safe space part [is important to me],” Winokur said. “We’re very lucky in the part of the country we live in and the community that we live in that, in general, it is a fairly safe place to live. But I do think it’s important for our students to have an even safer safe space.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AFEA5AD6-4D1A-43A0-A9AE-C9A733160511_1_201_a.jpeg)
![Sophomore Luke Chisum finishes first in the freshman three kilometer race at the DCL Championship Meet in 2021. This year, I want to get around 16:30 for a five [kilometer race], Chisum said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jkmAbCUUjw5yjE8RwUZibyojsoKHmWEwan85kJDW-900x600.jpg)
![Junior Xande Santos sprints with the ball, attempting to keep it in control. Santos scored the game winning goal during overtime. It felt amazing to score the first [goal] and the overtime winning goal, Santos said. The energy from the fans and the team was electric. I think we played very well and dominated the first half for sure. I’m excited to play our next game against Marlborough because we have a lot of potential.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/05E1ED9E-E7F8-4B59-BD0B-12061FE0606E_1_201_a-X3-900x600.jpg)
![Junior Ava Tang dresses in New Balance, Levis and thrifted clothing. Tangs favorite piece of clothing to dress in are sweaters. I think there [are] a lot of different patterns you can find or different bright colors with different fabrics and stuff,” Tang said](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_5803-L.jpg)
![The Wayland High School history department changes the sophomore and junior required history courses. “I think that [the change in courses] will make [students] more aware of [their] role in American society, and allows them to pursue more stories and multicultural perspectives,” WHS history teacher Katherine Bassen said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Untitled-design-2-900x600.png)
![Wayland High School teachers share their summer plans. For many WHS teachers, summer vacation is a great time to relax and pursue hobbies. “Its a good chance to do things that we [teachers] love and that recharge and prepare us for coming back and starting [the school year] again,” WHS Fine Arts director Susan Memoli said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Maestro-Features-900x600.png)
![WSPN producers Max Brande, Josh Schreiber and CJ Brown record an episode of Wayland Sports Chat in the WayCAM studio. WayCAM has been an important asset of the Wayland community to several people, including WHS students, allowing many to learn how to produce and edit videos. “[WayCAM is] a really great thing that Wayland has that not many other towns have,” sophomore and honors script to screen student Brendan Hines said. “Im incredibly lucky that I get to [gain experience in filmmaking through WayCAM].”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-10.21.10-PM-900x674.png)
![After a St. Patrick’s Day party was canceled a few hours before the event, a rumor, that was later found to be untrue, was spread online that WHS administration and the Wayland Police Department were responsible for the cancellation of the party. “We’re invested in [students] safety, we’re invested in [students] health and we worry and care about [students] outside of school hours,” Mizoguchi said. “[However,] we also recognize that we don’t have a role necessarily in your lives after school hours, and we want to walk that line very carefully.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-06-at-11.34.32-AM-900x668.png)
![The Wayland Leadership Coalition begins to meet and have conversations surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion. “The direct goal [of the coalition] is to support and train the type of leaders students see themselves as,” Innovation teacher Hayes Hart-Thompson said. “The bigger goal is to have a group of Wayland community leaders who are able to engage in conversations with staff, other students and admin about areas that they want to see impacted with change.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-9.20.09-AM.png)
![“Women of Wayland” podcast creator Yamini Ranjan promotes the newest season of her podcast. The goal of the podcast is to share the stories of Wayland women, as well as bring the Wayland community closer together. “I don’t feel alone doing this podcast,” Ranjan said. “I always say ‘we,’ I never say ‘I’ because I feel like it’s a collaboration of women and me together, and that’s how the stories come out. It’s never my podcast, it’s always our podcast [because] its a community podcast.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/iBQPM4XhiWUTyJsafTV5cyMkwshnh018S53wLDb8.png)
![Sophomores and sophomore English teachers prepare for the upcoming English MCAS. Although students have a tendency to get worried before high stakes standardized tests, English teachers are confident that the sophomores are prepared to do well on the test. “I don’t think that anyone should be anxious about [the test],” English teacher Martha Gowetski said. “You should go in, do your best and be proud of your work.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-15-at-9.04.46-AM.png)
![A plastic sheet hangs from the wall of room B102 due to a mold issue behind the wall. “There’s really nothing to worry about unless you’re actually seeing [the mold on frontside of the wall]. In that case, voice your concern, and it will definitely be taken care of quickly,” head custodian Sean Slavin said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-15-at-10.57.29-AM.png)
![WHS incorporates the “A World of Difference” program into its curriculum. Several students and staff hope that this program will make a positive impact within our community through anti-racist and anti-bias work. “[Students who sign up for the program are] going to have a lot of opportunities to grow their own skills in leadership, in leading conversations and in facilitating dialogue,” WHS Assistant Principal Sean Gass said. “Thats a huge thing that even a lot of grown ups dont know how to do.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-09-at-9.10.22-AM-900x499.png)
