Zoe Cramer, Design and Online Media Editor
• December 8, 2017
It’s strange to think that you’re here today, but there were so many people before you, building your family tree until it eventually reached you. Your ancestors had whole lives before you. Maybe one...
At AHS, students commonly consider the staff to be a group with uniform traits and values, homogeneous in almost all aspects. However social studies teacher, Christopher Wheatley, sticks out amongst the...
About 38 billion plastic water bottles are wasted annually; more than $1 billion dollars is spent on plastic per year. At Aspen High School, 16 cases of 24 water bottles are purchased on average each school...
“I have not been able to avoid the memories resurfacing. I have felt sick in the pit of my stomach. I have felt such a flare of rage that the experience I recount below was not a unique incident with...
While there are ways that cellphone use in a classroom environment can be quite disruptive, I truly believe there is a way to utilize cell phones in class that most teachers at AHS have yet to integrate...
Shots fired off behind us, and without hesitation, we picked up our pace. I checked to make sure all eight of us were together and continued to power forward, refusing to look at the possibility of what...
In 1962, Gertrude Ederle became the first women to swim the English Channel. She set a world record for swimming 35 miles in 14 hours. Ederle believed that she could do anything, especially during the...
Waking up in a drenched tent only to unzip the tent door to 36 degree weather seems like pure torture. However, it’s worth it when you reach the top of a 2,000 vertical foot pass huffing and puffing...
They are flooding your social media outlets and taking the internet by storm. No, they aren’t viruses,* they’re Whos. The world is divided into “Whos” and “Thems,” at least according to my...
High school students believe that they are independent and freer than ever. After years of being tied down and always told what to do by their teachers in elementary and middle schools, students would...
On the Friday night homecoming football game, an avalanche of rowdy AHS students filled the stands to capacity wearing white from head to toe. The large turnout and loud voices lifted the energy and spirit...
President Trump is treating a potential war on the Korean peninsula like a cliffhanger on a T.V show. He has repeatedly threatened to wage total, and possibly nuclear, war on the small nation of North...
