The Wild West Press

April 2017

Issue 4

W E S T E R N H I L L S H I G H S CH O O L C I N C I N N A T I , O H I O

“ H O M E O F T H E M U S T A N G S ”

Upcoming

Events in the

Wild, Wild

West!

Hot dog eating con-

test between Mr. Kra-

emer and Mr. Dauwe

on April 4th during

2nd lunch

Pie eating contest be-

tween Mr. Jump and

Ms. Applegate after

school on April 12th

Cap session between

Ms. Heckinger and

Ms. Thole in an as-

sembly on April 20th

during 7th bell

Nasaijah Sill, ‘17

Shylo Brunner, ‘17

Robert Henderson, ‘17

Western Hills Seniors of 2017,

have

been

known

for be-

ing

basic.

We

have

done

nothing

that has

shown

we are

differ-

ent

from

the oth-

er Cin-

cinnati

Public

Schools, so we have decided that

we will be ending our senior year

off and will be absent for remain-

der of the school year.

We would like to thank all the

teachers for making these

“wonderful” high school years a

living hell— literally. As of April

2017, we are breaking what is

known as “Senior Skip Day” and

the entire senior class has officially

decided that we are just going to

end the school year off a

little early.

Therefore,

our last day

will be the

day after

spring

break.

We would

all like to

thank you

for giving us

all the

homework

for giving us

loads of

pointless

essays and

work just for

your pleas-

ure. “I knew

all though detentions and removals

would force these Seniors out of

our school,” Caproni mentioned to

Mr. Dauwe. The teachers didn’t

expect us to last this long in their

game so they applied the pressure.

All the unnecessary homework

and projects were to stress and

frustrate the pupils/test dummies.

Now parents can raise their child

to learn real math and things she

will actually use in the world.

“All we want is for our students

to fail, and

we would

like to say

that the goal

is accom-

plished. You

are all the

future

bums,” says

Licata.

“Although,

you will all

be uneducat-

ed it will be

easier for

me to stay in

middle

class, so

keep up the

good work!”

Licata responds.

We look forward to seeing

the Western Hills University High

School staff and parents for our

graduation ceremony bright and

early on May 16th, 2017 . Hope-

fully the seniors will be there!

All the Seniors Stop Coming to School

President Trump Has Been Abducted by Aliens

Portia Webber, ‘20

It’s like something out of hor-

ror movie—Trump

was seen to be beamed

up from the White

House into a silver

UFO.

The light was fluo-

rescent green and it

was about 100 feet in

length; a strange

sound could be heard

from miles away. Se-

curity came running to

the oval office, but the

frightful aliens locked

the doors. They had to bring in

the strongest branches in

the army to tear the door down. It

took them hours, but they finally

got in . But, by the time they got in

the president had vanished .

An eyewitness said, “I saw it

with my own two eyes; a big sau-

cer came right from the sky above

the white house and BAM!!!!!

Trump was floating straight up to

the saucer. I couldn’t believe my

eyes.”

There was a whistling sound as

he was beamed up! The army had

to cover their ears due to the vi-

brating effect.

“The light was so blinding and

the sound was so deafening that I

had to close my eyes and cover my

ears,” one of the secret services

men stated.

After the abduction, Trump was

gone for six months. During that

time Trump tells us what happened

when he was on the space ship.

Trump said, “First they took me

and put me on a table with a light

blinding my eyes so that I couldn’t

see what they were doing.”

According to him, they injected

him with a poison to convert him

into an alien. But sadly it

only transformed him half

way, so he is half human and

half alien.

When he returned, it

caused him to look on life

differently. For the first

time in history, a Republican

changed his party to become

a Democrat. So some of his

policies started to change--

very mysterious!

Instead of building a wall, he

decided to let everyone

come to America. The al-

iens influenced him to accept

differences. He even divorced

his wife and decided to marry and make

one of the female aliens the first lady, or

otherwise called the first alien. After Trump’s four term was over,

the people decided to make Trump the

president forever. He was loved by

all, especially the aliens.

(Photo courtesy of The Huffington Post)

(Photo courtesy of moodymiddle-

school.com)

(Photo courtesy of www.tommyb73.com)

(“I’m ready to be outta here!”—Desmond Jar-

mon)

Water Contamination at WWHS

The Western Breeze Issue 4

Page 2 April, 2017

FEATURE

Kenneth Wilks, ‘17

An emergency broke out at all CPS

schools!!!!! It's been found that para-

sites have been throughout all of the

schools' water system. Some have

reported that they have seen some-

thing floating around in their water

and a couple days later

they claimed to be

vomiting and loosing

major amounts of

weight.

It's time to get a wa-

ter check. We need to

make sure all of our

water isn't contaminat-

ed nor dirty. A para-

site is an organism

that lives on or in a

host and gets its food

from or at the expense

of its host. Parasites

can cause disease in

humans. Some parasitic diseases are

easily treated and some are not.

Students and staff were shocked

that they have seen something like

this. English teacher Ms. Silbernagel

quoted, "As I refilled my water bottle

at the water fountain, I somehow

stared into my bottle and saw a worm

like figure floating around in my wa-

ter. I reached into my cup and picked

it out and it sucked into my finger

and I started to feel weird for a cou-

ple days. I didn't think it was any-

thing serious. So one morning I went

to the ER, and they found out it was

a parasite in my and started to eat

away at my skin. The

doctor prescribed me a

medication that killed

the parasite."

Shirraye Jenkins, a

senior that attends

Western Hills Univer-

sity, reported that she

used the restroom and

as she washing her

hands she witnessed a

tan like string hanging

off the faucet. And it

wrapped around her

finger and it went into

her finger, slid up her veins and start-

ed to live in her.

A week passed and she has had a

change in her skin complexion. She

also patches of her skin become rot-

ten and had to be hospitalized. Right

because it's a prank....APRIL

FOOLS!!!!

New Web Site for CPS: PowerSchool Disabled

Mark Jeffers, ‘17

Cincinnati Public Schools Superin-

tendent Mary A. Ronan shockingly

announced

last Tuesday

that Pow-

erSchool will

no longer be

available for

use. All ac-

counts will

be perma-

nently delet-

ed after the

site shuts

down for the

remainder of

the non-

school year.

All account

information

(including

attendance, disciplinary logs, and stu-

dent fees) will be transferred to the

new service that has been voted on by

the board.

“The way logins and passwords are

handled will completely change,” said

Ronan. “Having student’s birth dates

as their passwords wasn’t the best

idea in hindsight.”

Parents have had the opportunity to

try out some of the new features made

specifically for them. One of them is a

grade notifi-

cation system,

which sends

texts and

emails when-

ever their stu-

dent’s grade

goes up or

down.

“I think it’s

a great way to

keep tabs on

our kid’s

school work!”

said one of

the parents.

“We can

see where

they need to

improve and work with them accord-

ingly,” said another.

Yet, the question remains: is this a

good idea or a bad idea? I guess we’ll

find out next year when they make the

switch.

Robert Speaks, ‘17

Western Hills math teacher, Mi-

chael Kraemer,

has decided to

change his life

around after 5

years in prison for

an alleged bank

robbery.

Over the course

of his five year

imprisonment, he

decided to make a

change in his life

for the better. As

the days went by

he decided to stay

focused on what

really mattered to

him. He set a goal

that he wouldn’t

have his family

have to go visit him anymore in his

life in jail. He decided that he

should focus on his true passion:

teaching! During his time in prison

he got his teacher license.

When he was released from pris-

on, he put his plan

into action; setting

out to help chil-

dren in need. Kra-

emer started to

teach math to high

school students.

He also showed

these students how

to stay out of trou-

ble so they would-

n’t mess up their

lives and make the

same mistake as he

did.

His experiences

and knowledge

gave the students a

better understand-

ing on how to be

more productive with themselves

in school and in society

The Breeze Staff

Reporters

DeAyra Lewis, Jalyne Locke, Robert Speaks ,Jordan Reed,

Darrell Janson, Shylo Brunner ,King Diarra ,Tosha Cephas

,Na’Saijah Still ,Jaylin Jamson, Robert Henderson, Zion

Webber, Alaizion Mayfield, Mikayla Hayes, Makala Wil-

liams, Karima Scott, Dominique McCord, Mark Jeffers ,

Jaline Wilson, Dy’lan Shavers, Eric Gilchrest, Jermacio

Booker, Perrish Thomas, Keyonne Mann, & James Colbert

Advisor

Ms. Shannon Silbernagel

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Kraemer Turns His Life Around

(Mr. Kraemer teaches the students

about pi.)

(Photo courtesy of Organic Life-

style Magazine)

girls ARE SMARTER THAN boys

The Western Breeze Issue 4

Page 3 April, 2017

OPINIONS

Jalyne Locke, ‘18

In my opinion girls are smart-

er than boys. Women just seem

to have more knowledge than

men. We are

most definitely

stronger than

them. Men are

thought to be

stronger than

women but in

reality a wom-

en is the most

strongest gen-

der alive. Fun

fact

The current

graduation rate

for men and women is that only

60% of men graduate from high

school by the time they are at

least twenty but women’s rate is

64% of women graduate by the

time they are eighteen.

Women can see things before

they happen. In society today

they are many single parents.

When you hear about single

parents you usually see children

and their mom, its very rare for

it to be a single dad. Not saying

that a man is incapable of tak-

ing on the same task, it's just

not as common.

For a long

time women

had to fight to

have the same

rights as a man,

and still to this

day those rights

are taken from

us! A women

can have the

same job as a

man but the

man’s salary

would be way

more because of the gender

which is just not ok!

There are more women out

here working, going to school,

and taking care of their children

on the day to day basis than a

man. And if you ask me this is

not a easy job to do! It’s about

time women get credit! Well, at

least more than we are given!

Darrell Janson, ‘17

I recently went to see Phantom of the

Opera and what a

surprise Ms.

Thole was in the

play. I can re-

member how

much she said she

hated the play but

how ironic that I

found her at the

play let alone in

it.

More than that,

she was perform-

ing excellently in

the play as if she

was the only pro-

fessional making

everyone else in

the play look

like amateurs.

As she danced

and sang her heart away she seemed

to have the audience blown away.

But most of all she had me blown

away with the way she said she didn't

like it then to pull off a performance

like this was one for the ages. Ms.

Thole put it all out there on the stage

as she was flawless in her perfor-

mance; it was one to remember. After

the wonderful performance was over I

asked Ms.

Thole how

many hours of

rehearsal does

it take to pull

off a perfor-

mance like

that.

She respond

and said that

she is just natu-

rally talented

and nobody

can pull a per-

formance “like

mine no matter

how many

hours you

practices.”

Ms Per-

kins says she was also surprised with

the way Ms. Thole put up such a fuss

because it is not her favorite musical. Ms Perkins also said “what a hypocrite to

say you don't like the play but be in it and

do an excellent job at that, but it was and

all around beautiful display.”

Teachers Now Get Paid more than Athletes

Jaylin Jameson, ‘18

We continue to see mediocre profes-

sional athletes sign contracts for mil-

lions of dollars a year. I have long lost

the ability to fathom how any athlete is

worth that kind of money. People are not

envious, but they’re always struck by

the injustice of it.

Teachers NOW get paid more money

more than professional athletes because

athletes are merely merchandise who

actually produce money from ticket

sales, jersey's, commercial revenue and

the like so there pay is a matter of what

they deserve.

Not all athletes study their craft where

they could've started at high school;

some of them are just natural born ath-

letes. C'mon people running up and

down the field or courts for a few hours

and get a couple mills slapped in their

hands, but a teacher who's been studying

all week, making lessons, and teaching

several classes a day for 9 hours a day

or more, grading homework only get 30

or 40 thousand dollars a year?

Now there is enough domestic tran-

quility for the teachers around the world

getting paid more than pro-athletes.

This is what teachers deserve—the re-

spect and honor that should be reflected

in their salary. Why should a football or

basketball player make a million dollars

when a teacher deals with the future of

our children?

Thole Exceeds Expectations

in Phantom of the Opera

“Women just

seem to have

more knowledge

than men. We are

most definitely

stronger than

them.”

(The crowd gives a standing ovation for Thole.)

Dancing

The Western Breeze Issue 4 Page 4 April , 2017

FEATURES

Zion Webber, ‘18

ATTENTION ATTENTION

ALL WEST HIGH STU-

DENTS!!! Have you noticed

your lock being stolen? Well,

there is an student coming and

stealing locks. We don't know

who it is yet, but we're getting to

the bottom of this.

A student at West High named

Ralph Cox told us that one day

they were going to their locker

and saw someone at their locker.

The person had on West High

uniform but a mask on so you

couldn't see them,

and the student

said “get away

from my locker.”

The student states

“that the thief was

going to get her

lock” and then the

student said “he

was trying to run

towards me with

the lock, but I ran

away.”

Another student

we interviewed,

Ronnie Rouseau,

said that they

seen someone at

their locker and

said, “I’m not

going for none

of that--you trip-

pin on my ma-

ma.”

Then the lock

thief tried to

square up with

the student, but

then the security

saw it and tried

to break the fight

up.

So we interviewed the security

guard so we could get a better

understanding.

The security guard said, “I

heard someone arguing, and so I

went over to see and I saw some

dude in all black that didn't even

know how to fight. He wasn't

even swinging towards the stu-

dent, so I tried to break it up, but

before I knew it, the person in the

black was gone.”

The lock thief is still at large;

there will be a 500 dollar reward

for anyone that gives information

about this crime.

OMG: Bed Bugs Attack West High! Alaizion Mayfied, ’18 February 4, 2017 was the day

when a kid from school made a ru-

mor about the school lockers having

bed bugs in them. All of the teach-

ers and students started to panic

about the situation, so principal Ms.

Applegate had made a flyer telling

all students to take their belongings

out of their lockers.

All students begin to gather their

belongings and put their things in a

plastic bags. Mr. Jump had made

another announcement to the stu-

dents about putting all their belong-

ings back in their lockers so the stu-

dents started to get very angry and

upset about the situation.

One student, senior Fred Smith,

said to his friend, “I saw bed bugs

jumping off people’s coats! It was

hideous.”

Students begin to call their parents,

telling them about how the school

has bedbugs and how the principal

is trying to make them put their be-

longings back. So parents started to

call up to the school letting teachers

and the principal have it. Some par-

ents even came up to the school to

come get their kids.

Everyone was just scared and pan-

icking for no reason, so the student

that went around making the rumor

had came out and made an an-

nouncement that he was just joking

about the whole bedbug situation.

Junior, Brad Mockley said, “I was

just trying to scare people and it

worked!”

Everyone was so mad that he did

that but then everyone started to

laugh because at the end of the day

everyone fell for it and to see every-

one acting so dramatic was so fun-

ny.

Students were running out of

classrooms screaming fake bed-

bugs was all over people things

and all over people. Everyone

couldn't believe how many bed-

bugs there were all over the place,

and everyone was freaking out,

some were even crying because

they were scared of bugs. Some

were allergic and were scared be-

cause they thought they were go-

ing to die. When everyone found

out that the bugs was fake, they

were so angry.

RATS! RATS! BEWARE!

Mikela Hayes, ‘17

Omg! We have rats--they are

going crazy

help help! some-

body better get

the pet rats

They are run-

ning from crack

to crack

here little kitty,

kitty

the rats are com-

ing to hunt on

human flesh—

you better

watch out

you better not cry, you better

step on it cause it might

jump and

bite you in the leg

they will leave little bite

marks on your leg

they are bouncing every-

where

some were crying

and some were

scared

some of them

thought

they was going to

die because they

saw

a big rat with a

bunch of little

rats on the floor

never leave

your stuff on the

floor you

might not never know what

can crawl inside your bag

Attention: Lock Thief Reeks Havoc

(photo courtesy of facepunch.com)

(Photo courtesy of Arlington County)

Time Capsule of 1982 Revealed

The Western Breeze Issue 4

Page 5 April, 2017

FEATURES

Chris Carter, ‘17

Finally the time capsule is able to be

opened after all these years. You

wonder what materials they had back

in those

days? Did

they use cell

phones like

we do?

What did

they wear?

Did they

have ear

phones like

we did, or

did they just

walk around

with a radio

booming

music from

their shoul-

ders?

Some-

times it just has

you wondering

what’s in there and what they put in

there for us to show the significance

of their time at West High. Let’s re-

veal what the items were in there

from 1982.

There was a first ever CD player

that was made in Japan. We saw a

Time magazine names the man of the

year as Steve Jobs. There was a pony

BMX bike. Also, there was the one

of the

most pop-

ular al-

bums to

this day:

Michael

Jackson’s

Thriller.

But

there was

a rumor

saying

that it was

a dead

body

from the

incident

when

someone

had

drown in the west

high pool. The

skeleton was all dusty, dirty bones.

Because who knows how long that

body was in there; we made history

because this is the best senior prank

ever.

Na’saijah Still, 17

Many of the upperclassmen are taking Mr. Licata’s Ameri-can Government class fol-lowed with his Economics class during the second half of the school year. As he broke down all the steps teaching you that in order to be middle class or rich you must be skilled or edu-cated. Along with some poor choices he made in his younger days like us as humans do, Licata refused to let his past hold him down. As he studied, what it takes to be a millionaire he is here to show you that anyone can do this with the steps he has shown as an outstanding teacher. But, he left out a little bit of important information. As of May 2017, Mr. Licata will like to officially announce that he will be leaving Western

Hills High School because of his great investments in stocks, bonds, and even mutual funds. He didn’t want to tell the stu-dents and staff so soon, but he has decided that he will be moving to the Bahamas and will be hitting on his Things To Do When I Become Rich list because of his large fortune of 1 Billion dollars. Therefore, he will not only be retiring as a Western Hills teacher, but he is retiring from being a United States citizen and will be fur-thering his life goals in Europe. He plans to travel with his daughter all over Europe, visit-ing Paris, London, Greece, and Italy. So, if you are a current stu-dent take advantage of the Bil-lionaire right before your eyes and you too can be right behind him. He won’t have to work again!

Ms. Shelly May Return to West High

Teacher Becomes Billionaire

Jontae Alexander, ‘17

After Ms. Shelly left Western

Hills University to go work at

20/20, she decides that she

missed the students at Western

Hills University and would like

to return. She would like her

position back as Dean Of Disci-

pline. She thought she would

like it at her new job but she

didn't.

She realized working at this

school is where her heart be-

longs. She misses working with

the staff of Western Hills Uni-

versity. She mentions how

much we made her smile every-

day she walked in the building.

Working at 20/20 isn't like

working at the school in her

opinion.

As a survey was passed around

to West High’s 12th grade stu-

dents asking if Ms. Shelly

should come back, and 90% of

the population agreed that she

should return to the halls of

Western Hills University. We

all also agree that she was very

understanding with the students.

Ms. Shelly had a phone call

with Mr. Jump and he denied

her request to come back. The

reason for denying her is be-

cause he is scared that she will

leave us again and that it will be

a waste of time.

Mr. Jump believes in moving

forward and leaving the past in

the past. Mr. Rasulis is willing

to go back to his old position if

Ms. Shelly happens to come

back. I personally think it is a

good idea for Ms. Shelly to re-

turn back to West High.

One student said, “I’m really

disappointed that Ms. Shelly

can’t return. Even though she

was tough, she was very re-

spectful of me. She gave me

tough love.”

Mr. Rasulis doesn’t want to

step on anyone’s toes. He really

respects Ms. Shelly.

“I actually learned a lot from

her to do this job,” he exclaims.

“I really enjoyed shadowing her

over the summer.”

Karima Scott, ‘20

Western Hills will now have a

new dress code for 2017-2018

school year; we no longer have to

wear red, white, or ma-

roon polo shits. We

will be able to wear any

kinds of jeans with any

color polo shirt .

Mr. Jump and some

staff said, “Kids wear

anything they want an-

yway, so why keep the

dress code if they don’t wear what

they are suppose to wear “ .

Lost of kids are very excited be-

cause they no longer have to wear

uniform . Molly Wilkins said, “I’m

so happy they took away some of

the dress code, but we can wear

any color polo shirts that we

want”.

Students never thought that Mr.

Jump will ever change the dress

code, and students tried asking be-

fore but he said no .

Mr. Jump also said, “I thought

very hard about this and it was a

very tough choice.” Most staff are

very mad about changing the dress

code because they feel like kids

will be coming to

school wearing inap-

propriate jeans .

Makayla Crocs said,

“I don’t think they

should have changed

the dress code; stu-

dents have so many

black pants, as well as

white, maroon, and red shirts”

Mr. Jump is still allowing stu-

dents to wear the West High

sweatshirts , but you can also wear

the college shirts and the spirit

wear on Mondays & Fridays.

Tisha Specks, the parent of Kyla

Specks, said, “I really like the idea

of changing the school uniform;

they should have been did this a

long time ago. If parents don’t

like this idea than there crazy.”

Uniform Change for 2017-2018

“I really like

the idea of

changing the

school uni-

form.”

Prohibition Alive in the Year 2017?

Issue 4 The Western Breeze Page 6 April , 2017

FEATURES

Jaline Wilson, ‘17

As of February 20, 2017 alcohol has been banned. Alcohol has been banned for everyone not just the underage. The government has decided to ban alcohol due to the rising effects of crime and a overload of violence.

In the summer of 2014 we seen over 55 percent of crimes as the result of drinking alcohol. Over three years we seen that the rate has only increased. We have more than 70 percent of alcohol related violence.

It’s not only the adults fault of this violence but in fact younger people at younger ages have been drinking alcohol illegally. More violence has been caused by the younger people. They have smaller bodies and they get drunk easily.

We have seen and heard more rob-beries, fights, shootings and overall the

death rate has risen.

Because of this, the government have banned alcohol forever. They have made it a permanent thing that cannot be undone. The government officials now be-lieve since their is no more alcohol the crime rates will decrease dramatically.

Anyone seen drinking or distributing alcohol will have life in prison. You will have broken the law tremendously. You are also not allowed to go to other coun-tries to drink alcohol. You must show other countries your id and by your American id no one will be distributing you alcohol at all. If you are seen drinking alcohol in other countries you will get a jail sentencing wherever you are and be placed in a state prison in the state you are from.

Do the crime and drink alcohol you will do the time. There will be a lifetime of jail if you do it so say no to alcohol and live a healthier life.

The Pool-Side Ghost Appears By Jordan Reed, ‘17 Here at West High we have many stories of ghost in this school but the most real one is the Poolside ghost boy. Legend has it that a 9th grader wanted to skip so he went to the Western Hills Pool area. Having found a spot to chill, he relaxed waiting for school to end. A sound made him jump up wondering who would be coming to the pool, and then he heard a whistle. Realizing it was a janitor, he looked around trying to find a place to hide. The footsteps were coming closer and his time was

running out so he ran towards the boys locker but everyone knows not to run around the pool. In a flash, he slipped crashing into the side of the pool knocking his head in the pro-cess. All the janitor heard was a splash so he went to in-vestigate think-ing it was one of those stupid kids that tried to skip. Walking in the janitor looked around the dark room shouting”

Hey, come on out !You're already caught GET BACK TO CLASS!”. Realizing that no one answered, the janitor walked to the pool only to gasp when he saw the body of the 9th grader sinking to the bottom. Quickly he grabbed his

walkie talkie called for

help then through his electronic down jumping into the pool. When he resurfaced he got the boy out

seeing the Principal, and many more staff. ”Hurry try and save him,” said a teacher and one of the security that know CPR tried to revive the boy but they were too late. The boy had drowned and now the pool is closed off, because may students claim to have see the haunting figure of the 9th grade boy floating above the water. For those who know the boys name rumor has it that if you walk around the area where the pool was three time calling his name. You may see the or be a victim of the Poolside Ghost.

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Issue 4 The Western Breeze Page 7 April, 2017

FEATURES

No Seniors Expected to Graduate

Robert Henderson, ‘17

Is this a joke? Are you seri-

ous? Is this even legal? Word

around, Western Hills High

School Will Not Have Any

Graduates For The Year of

2017… This

is outra-

geous and

unaccepta-

ble. All of

west high

students

should be

ashamed of

themselves.

A bunch of

lazy bums.

On a serious

note how

could this

happen?

So all I

have been hearing all over the

west side of town is how par-

ents are furious and upset that

their child and/or children will

not be able to graduate. West

High is the black eye of the

West Side. The students have

lost it; senioritis must have hit

hard this year. All seniors

GPA’s are under a .1. The Apex

classes are full and no more stu-

dents will be accepted.

All year seniors have been

complaining about the senior

year. “Senioritis is really affect-

ing my life right now,” one sen-

ior says. “I

just don’t

want to be

here,” an-

other one

says. Every

senior at-

tendance

has went

down hill

since the

beginning

of their sen-

ior year.

Many sen-

iors have

missed 30

days plus.

“At this rate we will have at

least 300 seniors next year,”

Mr. Caproni said.

We will have to hire twice as

many senior teachers to help

these student earn their credits.

And they will not be able to

pass with Apex.

Karima Scott, ‘20

West High is moving to a new lo-

cation! We are moving to Kentucky.

The main reason we are moving is

because of the bedbug and rat issue.

Western Hills will no longer be a

Cincinnati Public School. Some stu-

dents are very happy and some are

very mad because they know the

school so well . Mr. Jump said, “I’m

very sad to leave this building, but

It’s for the best.”

The move will happen this summer

they will be tearing the school down

and building new mall for the West

Side of Cincinnati.

Kia Stewart, ninth grader, said,

“I’ve been here since 7th grade, and

I’m very upset that I’m not going to

spend my Senior year here at West

High, but I really do hope the Ken-

tucky students treat Mr.Jump right.”

Most staff are going to be teach-

ing at the new school and some are

leaving . Parents think that the move

is stupid and that we

should stay in the location we are

currently in .

In the new school it’s going to

have a new pool, a golf course, big-

ger football field and a building just

for basketball.

Students currently at West High do

not have to enroll in the school be-

cause they will automatically be ad-

mitted. There will also be transpor-

tation from Price Hill, Westwood,

and Covedale to the new school.

We hope students and family enjoy

the new and improved building!

To top it all off, there will be no

uniforms at the new location. Stu-

dents instead will be able to wear

whatever clothes they want, even

ripped jeans and hats.

“We want to make this more like a

college campus,” said Ms. Apple-

gate, assistant principle.

This will also be a draw for stu-

dents to continue to get their educa-

tion at the new West High location.

“We will also offer college courses

that can be applied to both UC and

NKU,” said Mr. Jump.

West High Is Moving Locations

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Mr. Yisarel’s Confidence Grows with Hair Implants

FEATURES

King Diarra, ‘19

Before I tell you fellow readers

about Mr. Yisrael’s plastic surgery,

you would have to know what plastic

surgery is and

what types are

there. Plastic sur-

gery is the process

of reconstructing

or repairing parts

of the body, espe-

cially by the trans-

fer of tissue, either

in the treatment of

injury or for cos-

metic reasons. The

top surgeries done

are: Fat Reduc-

tions, Body Lifts,

Face and Neck, last Male Specific.

Mr. Yisrael said “I'm tired of being

called milk dug head; I'm tired of my

coworkers, even my boss, butter neck-

ing me, and don't get me started with

the students.”

In the past Mr. Yisrael had said he

had a very big afro when he was

younger and when he started to go to

college he got a perm to look like Ea-

zy-E the rapper. During his last years

of college, he

started to lose his

hair to the point

he had a bald spot

so he got all his

hair shaved.

He said to me

“once I cut my

hair, it was hard

because I didn’t

feel like me; my

hair was my iden-

tity.” His co-worker and friend

Ms. Irby said, ”I

never laughed so

hard in all my life after seeing that he had

cut his hair; we took so many pictures we

have those pictures to this day”.

Mr. Yisrael also said that was not the

only reason for wanting to get air im-

plants he wanted to feel the way he felt

back when he had hair back when life was

simpler.

Tosha Cephus, ‘17

As I was reading the irritating head-

aching book of Macbeth, I heard a knock

at the door, so I ran down the stairs and

peeked out the window to darkness; there

was nothing there but streetlights and

cars, no children no adults not anything. I shut the door and ran upstairs with a frus-

trated look. I got a little irritated because I

thought kids were playing on my door in the

middle of the night again. As I lay back

down in my bed, I heard another knock.

I got angry I stumped down the stairs this

time furious I screamed at the top of my

lungs “who is it?”....no one answered. I

looked through the peephole to see who its

was. I saw no one.

As I opened the door, a man jumped out

from behind my bushes and said “Ayo

thee cry of a distance crave the crying

man.” I looked at him crazy and curious.

He had on a full blown jumper, he had on

some type of long shirt, with a haircut

where he had hair on both sides of his

head and in the back, but none in the

front; he had a moustache that looked

like he came from another time—his

whole look looked like he came from

1567.

He looked at me and said “shall thy

kingdom of mine be rewarded with a prin-

cess but with no lips of poison?”

I even got more aggravated I yelled with

more bass in my voice, “How can I help

you man I'm busy”? He looked at me with

a confusing look.

He looked at me than the book in my

hand and asked why I didn’t like the

book, he didn’t actually asked why I did-

n’t like the book he said it in a different

way but I understood.

He spoke in English this time “You

don’t get it because you are not trying to

get the book; you are reading, but you are

not really paying attention to the story.”

Once we read together, Shakespeare gave

me a better understanding of the book.

Western Hills’ Amazing School Lunch Jalyne Locke, ‘18 Guess what guys, NO

MORE PACKED LUNCH-

ES!!!!!!! Shout out to our

amazing lunch crew! Our

head chef Ms. Debby has

changed the entire menu

around. We have came along

way; we came from having

the same old same old week

to week to a different menu!

No one wants to eat the same

thing every week; it’s nice to

switch it up from time to

time. Usually we are use to

chicken ball Wednesday with

mash potatoes gravy and

greens or the historical nacho

Friday, oh and don’t let me

forget the welted salad bar,

but now we have a new and

improved style of eating.

This is a awesome change to

all the West High students!

Our new pizza is so cheesy

that your mouth waters just

from the site of it, and the

crust is glazed with a brush of

garlic butter--mmmm how de-

lightful!

The steak we have is cooked

to order just the way you like

it straight off the grill, served

with a nice hot baked potato

with your choice of toppings

such as bacon, cheese, sour

cream, butter, and chives!

Ohhhh

boyyy!

My fa-

vorite

Wednes-

day

meal is

pot roast

with

gravy;

the meat

is so

tender,

which is

smoth-

ered in

onions

carrots

and po-

tatoes!

This

comes with your choice of a

green vegetables and macaro-

ni. The macaroni cheese is

made fresh every Wednesday

morning!

We our so honored to have

Popeyes Chicken cater our

lunch on Thursday! Served

with hand picked greens and

nice sweet buttery corn! On

Tuesday we have a option of

BBQ ribs from the grill or the

oven,

and this

comes

with

fresh hot

fires

straight

out the

grease!

Curly,

shoe

string, or

waffle

fries!

Yes I

know

you’ve

never

seen a

menu

like this

before! We have also upgrad-

ed our lunch room! We have

now installed a candy ma-

chine, pop machine, Slush

Puppie machine, and best of

all we now have soft serve ice

cream in five different fla-

vors! Chocolate, Vanilla,

strawberry, cookies and

cream, and rainbow sherbet!

You also have a choice of top-

pings! We hope you all enjoy

the new menu as well as the

new lunch room additions!

Enjoy!

Issue 4 The Western Breeze Page 8 April, 2017

“Our new pizza is so cheesy that your

mouth waters just from the site of it, and the crust is glazed with a brush of garlic but-ter--mmmm how de-

lightful!”

Happy

April

Fool’s

Day

West

High !

Shakespeare is Alive!

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