By Laurene Karajah Staff Writer Y2K Comes Back. Let’s Talk About it. The early 2000s: Low rise jeans, thongs, baby tees, tiny sunglasses, tiny purses. To average teens at the time, it was the Holy Grail of Fashion. Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Naomi Campbell and more, were the goddesses. Teenagers now are bringing back the 2000s. The reactions to
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By Alex Diaz News Editor Established in 1948, the Met Gala has been a staple in the New York fashion scene. With the rise of social media as well as an increased public interest, the Met Gala has grown bigger and bigger each year. Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor in chief, has been in charge of everything concerning the Met Gala;
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By McKenna Seegmiller News Editor *This article will include spoilers from Phase 4 of the MCU as of October 2021* In need of saving or a prize for a man, female roles in the MCU were initially created to support the male characters; it came as no surprise that the first female Avenger was a victim of classic
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By Theodore Gim Staff Writer I’m sure you’ve heard of K-pop; a global cultural phenomenon and gateway to Korean culture as a whole. However, it becomes easy to forget that just like the US, music in Korea is not characterized exclusively by a single genre. Although pop is certainly popular as its name suggests, both American and Korean hip-hop and
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By Akhil Gunasekaran Staff Writer Summit Public Schools, a public charter high school system, offers a program called “Expeditions”, courses that are an exciting alternative to your usual electives offered at traditional high schools. Rather than having one block in your daily schedule, Expeditions crunches that time into two-week blocks four times a year which focus solely on the elective.
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By Ashwath Vimal Staff Editor Esports has not been considered seriously by many since it started gaining popularity in the 2000s. One main reason for this was the launch of Major League Gaming in 2002, which hosted many esports tournaments. While it has been on the rise for over a decade, many say it is not on the same level
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Sarah Rusali Staff Writer I want to start this article off with a personal story. Currently I am a sophomore at Summit Shasta. This school was drastically different from any other school I had attended. Firstly, it was small. Small enough where I could learn everyone’s names in all my classes. As a freshman, I knew people
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The family of George Floyd met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House today. From NBC News. Your Summit Weekly Briefing By Alex Tananbaum and Ashwath Vimal Disclaimer: Though the Weekly Briefings are no longer tagged in the Opinions section of Summit News and we try to remain as unbiased as possible, our opinions
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By Donovan Pelton and Kazuma Posley Staff Writers Yumi Ando, an east-Asian studies major, stated many of the “East Asian studies books I read were still mostly written by American authors. We did not read very many native texts.“ Even the novels considered as “classics”, such as “1984”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “Nickel and Dimed”, “Great Gatsby”, even the “Iliad”, are all
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By Keith Dinh and Angela Hwang Staff Editors Summit Denali reopened for in-person classes on April 1, following negotiations between the teachers’ union and the administration. The negotiations concluded on March 29 with the teachers being allowed to return voluntarily. In March, students were given the option to return to in-person classes. Those who chose to go back remain in
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