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Luke Loving

Luke Loving, Reporter

My name is Luke Loving, and I’m a senior at West High School. I am a new writer on the Beak ‘n’ Eye staff this year. I enjoy English classes as well as math classes. I am on the tennis team, and I like to play basketball for fun. I am also a huge St. Louis Cardinals fan. I want to learn more about the process behind making a newspaper and be more involved with the school. I think being on the newspaper staff will improve my writing, while also being something new and fun to try. 

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One big happy family. West High students perform their final dress rehearsal before their big performance. The Addams Family musical was supposed to be performed last year before it was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Dressed for the part

Luke Loving, Reporter
May 21, 2021
Nothing is going to stop her. Irakoze is working hard in her class. Her favorite class she’s taken so far is Art class. “[My sister made me get into drawing] because I was drawing in my room and she was like ‘I like your drawings, you should actually start drawing’,” Irakoze said.

New faces and new places

Luke Loving, Reporter
April 23, 2021
According to The Local Project, there are roughly 6 billion texts sent per day in the U.S. 50 percent of West students say most of their screen time on their phone is from social media.

Who’s controlling whom?

Luke Loving, Reporter
April 14, 2021
Lantz still holds Kansas close to his heart. He has been a fan of Kansas athletics his whole life. “Nothing is going to change. [I will cheer for Iowa] if I go to the games, but I was born a Jayhawk,” Lantz said.

Decisions, decisions, decisions

Luke Loving, Reporter
March 31, 2021
Who will play who? Find out what roles your fellow classmates will be performing. “Come see it! It’s going to be great!” Andersen said. “It’s a fun musical that I feel like a lot of our students and community can connect with.”

The second time’s the charm

Luke Loving, Reporter
March 12, 2021
Passing time can be hazardous with the risk of COVID-19. Principal Williams has made it a point of interest to keep the students as safe as possible throughout the day. “With the COVID, I wanted to limit that extra movement. We’re already back, it’s already kind of new, and then you throw in an advisory, that’s a whole brand new group of kids that you have to worry about contact tracing,” Williams said.

A new look to the school day

Luke Loving, Reporter
February 24, 2021
Arnold wasn’t always sure about what he wanted to be growing up. He wanted to be a teacher, but did not originally plan on becoming a science teacher. “Early on I thought I wanted to [be a teacher]. I wanted to be a history teacher actually when I was in my early twenties, but I just was a little misguided,” Arnold said.

More than a teacher

Luke Loving, Reporter
February 18, 2021
Erwin shares some qualities with his older brother, Brett Erwin, who graduated from West in 2018. They both played basketball all four years of high school. “They’re both hard working. They were obviously raised really well so they’re both great kids. I think Derek is a little more outgoing towards everyone else,” Paulson said.

Never give up

Luke Loving, Reporter
February 10, 2021
Talk about a game face. Boys swimmer Nate Hagedorn '23 uses the breaststroke technique during a home swim meet vs. Muscatine. Hagedorn swam multiple races at the swim meet versus Muscatine. "I like that [breaststroke] is more challenging than freestyle. It gives me more to do and it's a fun stroke," Hagedorn said.

Just keep swimming

Luke Loving, Reporter
January 28, 2021
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