Sophia Cortes, Dreamcatcher Staff
• December 18, 2023
Meta, formally called Facebook, was recently accused of promoting child sexual abuse material to predators on its social platforms and fostering unmoderated user groups devoted to selling and facilitating...
The patient picks up the call from the McDonalds drive-through.
“[He was] looking at the menu when I called,” Dr. Deepa Ponnusamy said.
As the patient’s endocrinologist, she is trying to...
On Oct. 23, the school library posted a National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) flex for anyone wanting to write a novel of their own. The librarians showed presentations of the novel writing process,...
On Nov. 11 and 12, white tents and rows of chairs lined Congress Avenue and the Capitol grounds for the annual Texas Book Festival. The festival was first started to bring readers and authors together...
As December approaches, the prospect of the next presidential election has come to the surface. Following the release of a list of candidates, Americans are anxious to vote, with Westwood students among...
On Nov. 7, voters in the community headed to the polls over Proposition A, a proposal to increase teacher and librarian salaries an additional 3%, with an additional 2% for other staff members in the district....
Amongst the myriad classrooms full of students staring eagerly at bright computer screens, even the minority that were blissfully engrossed in a world still grounded in paper and pen are forced to switch...
Irvin Horn takes an hour to put on his makeup, and he’s not even close to being done with getting dressed. He still has to do his hair and get into costume. In a couple hours he’ll step on stage...
On the coast of Moldova, the Hendrichs adopted a child who had been blind since birth. No matter how many clinics the family attended or how many experts they called, the doctors said Maria would never...
On Saturday, Oct. 21, the nonprofit Paw Plan teamed up with Austin Cooperation Act (CoACT) to volunteer at the Central Texas Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (SPCA) annual Barktoberfest...
On August 8, Alycia Chee’ 26 traveled to Chuncheon-si, South Korea to attend the esteemed Korea Open Taekwondo tournament. Chee has been learning and competing in Taekwondo for the past nine years and...
With school starting again, COVID-19 cases are on the rise. School districts have begun to require mask mandates again in efforts to prevent infections. This has raised many concerns about going back into...
![Smiling, endocrinologist Dr. Deepa Ponnusamy sits at her office desk. Ponnusamy is one of many medical professionals to start implementing remote visits for patients into her job following the pandemic. “[Remote visits are] huge, because it feels like people who live far away are able to afford care, [due to] a hybrid of [remote] visits and face-to-face visits,” Dr. Ponnusamy said. Photo courtesy of Dr. Deepa Ponnusamy](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-09-12.26.19-AM.png)
![With the 2024 presidential election set for under a year from now, students have begun to consider the candidates. However, many have expressed dissatisfaction with all of the presidential options. I think [all the candidates] are untrustworthy, an anonymous student said. They dont address many real issues and difficulties America is currently facing. I think we need to elect a president who really cares about the people [who] support him and the republic.](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/presidential-candidates.png)
![On Nov. 7, RRISD Proposition A was passed through a Voter Approved Tax Rate Election (VATRE). The proposition provides teachers and librarians with a 3% raise and other staff with a 2% raise. [Prop A] would come at little to no cost to taxpayers and could help staff get a raise, an anonymous faculty member said.](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_0055-1200x900.jpg)
![Alycia Chee 26 (right) poses for a picture with her taekwondo group. In August, Chee attended the Korea Open taekwondo competition in South Korea. It’s a larger scale competition, [and] there were Olympians there, Chee said. There were really good national teams, it was just a really cool experience, something you can’t find in the US. Photo courtesy of Alycia Chee](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Alycia_feature.jpg)
