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Off limits

Rachel Larsen March 8, 2024

The high school experience is fresh and foreign for underclassmen in grades nine and ten. High school comes with new independence. This new independence contributes partially to students’ desire to leave...

Snow day steps

Rachel Larsen February 19, 2024

It’s a school night in the middle of winter. The house is dark from a combination of dark clouds and falling snow. There is nothing better than the thought of staying home from school tomorrow, cuddled...

Standing in front of the DECA Spirit Box, Izabella Duckworth ‘25 awaits the reopening of the spirit wear vending machine. Scanning the different items in the machine, she sees  daily essentials and fun clothing items.

Spirit in a box

Dillon Lewis January 25, 2024

A vending machine that only holds a gold skirt wrapped in plastic and a phone charger sits idle in a dark corner. Before the pandemic, it was filled with gold spirit wear and beads that students could...

Pride to protect

Music blasted from the party bus speakers as a group of juniors made their way to their school’s Homecoming dance. The year was 2018. What may have once seemed like an exciting night for the students...

Control in the center

Control in the center

Ben Lehman October 8, 2023

As the new school year is coming into swing, so is the new iteration of Monarch’s wellness center.  The wellness center is Monarch’s space for students to calm down, catch up on homework, eat...

Man or muppet

Man or muppet

Maren Holecek October 3, 2023

Twelve years into his career as a high school principal, it might be hard to believe Greg Doan was once a grave digger. He’s also worked at Sonic, and he entered college as a nuclear engineering...

No more silence

No more silence

Brianna Sandoval May 13, 2023

All across America, students are scared to go to school. There have already been 27 shootings in Colorado schools in 2023, and many are fed-up with being afraid and seeing no change in gun legislation. Students...

EMT vehicles and police stand outside Boulder High School on Feb. 22. Police were called to the school with information that a person was entering the school with a gun. The call was a hoax called “swatting.”

A false threat | As real as it gets

Steam rose from Boulder High School Assistant Principal Scott Cawlfield’s coffee mug as he leaned back in his office chair, peering out his office window into the snowy Wednesday morning. As Arapahoe...

Frequent Flyers

Frequent Flyers

Zach Mirviss March 19, 2023

In upstairs B wing, science teacher Eric Gordon watches students buzzing on computers with specialized features. Rudder pedals. Yokes. Throttles. It’s on these computers that a flight training program...

Many high school struggle with mental health issues. Many different medications can help teenagers cope.

Alleviate The Pain

Heart-wrenching loneliness. Emptiness. These feelings may be foreign. Odd. Wrong. Scary. For Vishva Venkataraman ‘23, those feelings were all too real. However, the compassion and understanding...

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