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THE SKIER SCRIBBLER

The student news site of Aspen High School

THE SKIER SCRIBBLER

The student news site of Aspen High School

THE SKIER SCRIBBLER

Aspen High School Gay-Straight Alliance club gathers around pride flags hanging in the lobby of AHS.

Transgender Discrimination

Gia Galindo Bartley, Staff Writer February 7, 2022

Transgender discrimination is a pressing issue and affects over a million people in the U.S. each year. Transgender discrimination, in general, is widely due to heteronormativity, the concept that patriarchy...

Group of AHS students eating lunch before COVID-19 changed school as a whole

The Last Time Students Had a Normal School Year

Kayla Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief February 3, 2022

Recently at Aspen High School, it seems like students have almost forgotten the basic acts and actions that they must have in school. It has become difficult to follow basic rules and habits that were...

by Edie Creamer

AHS students featured in Aspen Chapel Gallery exhibit

Harper Axelman, News Editor February 2, 2022

The Aspen Chapel Gallery’s first show of 2022 will run through February 12, and includes 17 works from Aspen, Basalt, Roaring Fork, and Glenwood Springs High Schools and CRMS. Although the pieces are...

Editorial: Kindness is Key

Editorial Board February 2, 2022

In the midst of everything going on in society at the moment, between a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, Asian hate, homophobia, and the War on Reproductive Rights, the one thing that...

Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) looking at Mindy’s phone after an interview in the film Dont Look Up

A Look Into “Don’t Look Up”

Quintessa Frisch, Staff Writer February 1, 2022

"Don’t Look Up" has passionate reviews debating whether the film leans into a deeper, more political meaning. "Don’t Look Up" is a newly-released film on Netflix by Adam McKay. This film stars well-known...

Gang Starr, photo courtesy of NPR

Gang Starr’s influence on Hip Hop

Brenon Reed, A&E Editor January 17, 2022

The Origin of hip hop can be dated back to 1973 in New York City. DJ Kool Herc threw a house party in the South Bronx. Using turntables, he created a way to isolate and repeat musical breaks. These tools...

Portrait of Dr. King courtesy of Wikipedia Commons under commons license

The Importance of Honoring MLK Day

Oceane Jones, Opinion Editor January 17, 2022

Monday, Jan. 17 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In many cities throughout the nation, this day is celebrated with marches and parades, as well as speeches by civil rights leaders and politicians. Individuals...

AHS focuses on the wrong issues

Jenny Ellis, Editor-in-Chief January 10, 2022

Aspen High School’s administration has to deal with disciplinary actions each day, ranging from minor infractions to major suspensions or expulsions. The line between real problem solving and unnecessary...

Buffalo Child and Deanne Vitrac-Kesslerare at the Shining Mountains Film Festival in Aspen, Colorado

The Indigenous of Aspen on “Walking In Harmony”

Hannah Smith and Oceane Jones January 9, 2022

Although silver mining in Aspen, Colorado dates back to 1879, the people of the Indigenous Ute tribe have occupied Aspen’s mountains long before any settlers or miners.​​ Today, many local Native...

Photo of the Aspen Highlands snow stake, used to measure this years intensive, but delayed, snowfall

Aspen with climate change

Stella Iverson, Staff Writer January 6, 2022

In Aspen, most of our revenue comes from the tourists that come here to ski. As we saw earlier in this ski season snow was very scarce. While we have gotten one of the snowiest years with a 140% snow pack,...

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