The Nexus

• Opinion: Truancies provide path to enlightenment

  March 15, 2010  |  George Jeng
  It was a fine Tuesday afternoon, but Mike Mitchell simply could not decide whether to have an optometrist consultation or an orthodontist appointment. Last week, he had two meetings with his physical therapist and the week before that, he had a family emergency on top of a particularly nasty car accident.

• Song adopts religion of own accord

  February 12, 2010  |  Michelle Song
  Taking a walk with her mom, Jessica Song (12) couldn’t comprehend what her mom was telling her. Her mom had noticed Song reading the Bible a lot and explained to her that she shouldn’t get too involved in church.

• Musical group Tri-M does not play the blues, raises spirit in community

  February 12, 2010  |  Anna Buckley
  Before beginning her solo for the Modern Music Masters (Tri-M) club, co-president Rose Hill (12) scanned her audience and saw the faces of the elderly residents of The Arbors Senior Care Center. With the rest of the Tri-M club standing behind her, Hill began to play an old Disney song on her flute.

• Sophomore meetings discontinued, counselors explore new alternatives

  February 12, 2010  |  Katelyn Hennes
  It started with the pink slips, back in June last year, that the counseling department first began to consider where they would have to make cuts.

• Opinion: Praying for secularism in Senate

  February 12, 2010  |  Katelyn Hennes
  Since the United States was founded, there has been a theoretical separation between church and state. And as time passes, the boundaries of this separation are constantly being challenged.

• Dear John Review

  February 12, 2010  |  Anna Buckley
  Two weeks together was all it took for them to fall for each other, and those two weeks would alter their lives forever.

• Discover San Diego on Foot

  January 22, 2010  |  Anna Buckley
  The Most Thrilling: Hochiman Trail

• ‘Charity:water’ raises money to fill wells with clean water

  January 22, 2010  |  Anna Buckley
  The average Westview student can walk to his refrigerator and grab a bottle of clean, cold water if he’s thirsty. But what he may not realize is that one in every eight people in the world doesn’t have access to clean water.

• Opinion: T.V. dramas diminish severity of pregnancy

  January 22, 2010  |  Joanna Jaroszewska
  Reality TV has become a huge part of entertainment in America, but a new aspect of modern life has been greatly altered by TV’s inaccuracies; teen pregnancy. According to USA Today, the teen pregnancy rate in 26 US states has gone up 3 percent; rising for the first time in more than a decade. In 2006, about 40 out of every 1,000 women gave birth before the age of 19.

• Quinto crowned first in Mr. Bayanihan pageant

  December 18, 2009  |  Katelyn Hennes
  As he stood in line with the three other boys remaining out of the original 16, Brandon Quinto (11) shifted from one foot to another, staring at the judges’ mouths, waiting to hear the name of the winner. Although the venue, his act, his clothes and his responses changed over the three years he participated in the pageant, he was waiting for the same thing.

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