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Wauwatosa East and West Student News

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Wauwatosa East and West Student News

The Tosa Compass

Class of 2012 Graduation

June 17, 2012
At approximately 2 o'clock on Saturday, June ninth, nearly 250 people graduated from Wauwatosa West High School, ending four years at the school. In this article, West reporter Mark Salamone summarizes the ceremony.

Prom: A Bit of History

May 18, 2012
West Side Stories writer Natalie Mullins offers her insights into the history of America's prom tradition, and analyzes whether prom is an example of American decadence or just a great way for students to have fun.

Movies Guaranteed to Get Your Heart Racing

February 14, 2012

It's time for Valentine's! Love is in the air, and trite cliches are flying left and right. Now is the perfect moment for every horror movie fan to go back to the classic collections, and pull out some...

The Ultimate Debate

November 15, 2011

I want some comments. My readers must not be part of the facebook generation: they feel no urge to splatter their opinions over the internet. As part of an ongoing effort to incite debate, I have decided...

Poetry Pleasures

October 26, 2011
It's poetry time! This poem is titled "Fourth Hour," and is a poem for study hall.

A Tale Told by an Idiot

October 7, 2011

Friends, fellows, followers: lend me you ears. I come to you a liberated woman, let loose upon the internet. Mine is a tiny voice, adrift upon vast waves of pointless pontificating. The sea of the internet...

We Need to Talk

January 15, 2011

Crumpled bits of paper flew through the air, littering the hallway with student opin­ions. It was nearing the end of homeroom, and Señor Espar­za’s class was just finishing an in-class activity on...

Soda and Cancer

August 18, 2010

John Meute was only forty four when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “I had been in pain for quite some time,” says Muete, now 45, “a tumor had collapsed the main bile duct of my pancreas”....

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