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Summit Hosts Varsity Invitational

Summit Hosts Varsity Invitational

Halle Dao, Staff Writer May 9, 2025

Summit Track and Field hosted its annual varsity invite meet, this year called Secure Storage Summit Invitational, on May 3. Twenty different teams were at the meet, making it one of the biggest events...

“I Don’t Fully Support Either”: Political Independence Among Summit Students

“I Don’t Fully Support Either”: Political Independence Among Summit Students

Lucy DeMeester, Staff Writer May 8, 2025

It is no secret that the political climate at Summit leans more left than right. In classroom discussions, social media posts and casual conversations, democratic logic tends to dominate. Students and...

Credit: Arista Records, 2003

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below – Outkast

Finley Gober May 2, 2025

Talk about funk town. Andre 3000 does flute albums now (also wonderful in its own right) which means too many folks forget the Atlanta music legend could lay down absolutely stupendous bars. Don’t even...

Credit: Unitarian Church Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon

Prom 2025!

Josephine Hall, Managing Editor May 2, 2025

The new date for prom is set, and the theme is confirmed so head to the Unitarian Church Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon on Saturday, May 3 from 8-10 p.m. for a great night! The theme is Secret...

Photo Credit: Michelle Heizer and Oliver Buchanan

The Rugby Recap

Tatum Hoffmann, Staff Writer May 2, 2025

The presence of rugby in America has increased significantly in the last decade, and has now become the fastest growing college sport in the nation. With momentum picking up each year, the Summit Storm...

Credit: BBE Records, 2006

Marc Mac Presents Visioneers – Dirty Old Hip Hop by Visioneers

Finley Gober May 1, 2025

This one is straight from funk town, full send. I’m pretty sure this is the most sampled album ever made, but don’t look that up. If you like juicy bass lines and scarce but wicked rapping then listen...

Credit: Duophonic Records and Elektra Records, 1997

Dots and Loops – Stereolab

Finley Gober May 1, 2025

I’m still not really sure what “camp” means in an art context, but I definitely think this is it. I’m making up a new genre called “hip auntie” and “Dots and Loops” is the first album in...

With a recent executive order taking aim at the Smithsonian, the study of American history is at risk.

The Smithsonian Institute Is Not the One Rewriting History

Lauren Shein, Features Editor April 30, 2025

At the museums of the Smithsonian Institute, the past becomes present. Skeletons of long-extinct creatures tower over visitors and historical artifacts combine to tell one collective story: the proud and...

Young driver distracted by her phone while driving

Wow. I Was Not Expecting That

Tatum Hoffmann, Staff Writer April 28, 2025

I woke up Wednesday morning with absolutely no desire to go to school, but my ever-encroaching AP tests and quickly declining grades were a powerful (though unwelcome) motivator to get me out of bed and...

Summit’s Fun For All Club is participating in the 2025 Special Olympics Oregon 5k fundraiser, raising over $2000 for the upcoming prom. 
(Credit: Summit Fun For All Club instagram)

Summit’s Fun For All Club Prom is Making a Splash

Kaia Vrbata, Staff Writer April 26, 2025

Over 1,800 chicken nuggets, a room full of handmade jellyfish and a celebration of community—Summit High School's Fun For All Club is hosting its first ever prom for Central Oregon students with disabilities...

Out of Tune

Out of Tune

Halle Dao, Staff Writer April 25, 2025

Where and what is D-hall? Not only is it quite a distance away from the rest of the school, with more intense temperatures than anywhere else in the building, it’s also home to Summit’s music and performing...

Corben Hyatt, a founding member of the Office Group, stands beside a wall dedicated to the organization’s current and former students. Photo credit: Lauren Shein

An Office of Opportunity

Lauren Shein, Features Editor April 17, 2025

Tucked away in a small office building with a view of the Summit tennis courts, the Office Group has a talent for flying under the radar. It is a humble space, identified by little more than a small sign...

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