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Sorting cans, senior Abby Grant, student body president, and junior representative Matthew Baumstark work to box donations from students and staff. This year, instead of accepting both money and cans, Student Council is moving toward only food donations.

Canned Food Drive adopts point system for donations

Mary Grace Reynolds, co-news editor
November 10, 2017

GBS Student Council replaced the numerical structure of the Canned Food Drive from a dollar being worth four cans to a hierarchal point system to restore values of humanity and service back into the annual...

PASSIONATE PROFESSOR: Smiling at one of her classes, Yearbook Advisor Brenda Field goes over the deadlines with her students. Field was honored for her journalistic achievements in and out of the classroom with the NSPA Pioneer Award.

Field receives Pioneer Award for educational achievements

Chaerim Park, staff reporter
November 10, 2017

Yearbook Advisor Brenda Field received the 2017 Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association, or NSPA, on Sept. 11. The Pioneer Award is the highest honor journalism educators can receive...

Graphic by Rachel Nwia

Community reacts to student protests

Sofia Snyder, co-sports editor
November 10, 2017

After members of the marching band and cheerleading squad knelt during the national anthem at the home football game on Sept. 28, anonymous community members have reached out to the school in reaction...

KOO KOO FOR HOCO PUFFS: Beaming at the camera, Josh Koo, assistant principal of student
activities, celebrates on the stage at Homecoming on Oct. 21. This was the first Homecoming that South
has held using the company BOOM Entertainment. Photo courtesy of BOOM Entertainment

South reflects on revamped homecoming

Katherine Schurer, staff reporter
November 10, 2017

South held its first Homecoming using BOOM Entertainment last month. The school sold 2,200 tickets as opposed to 1,500 last year, according to Abby Grant, student body president. According to Josh Koo,...

PASSIONATE PROFESSOR: Reading a textbook, Pa’al Joshi, special education teacher, helps one of his students with math. Joshi receives Symetra Heroes in the Classroom Award for his contributions to South’s special education program.

Joshi receives Symetra Heroes Award for educational achievements

Imra Tajuddin, co-news editor
November 10, 2017

Pa’al Joshi, special education teacher at Glenbrook Off-Campus, head coach of Glenbrook United, the Special Olympics team, a Glenbrook Evening School teacher, and assistant sophomore football coach,...

SPEEDY STEVE: Standing up in amazement, senior Steve Cho smiles as he realizes he solved the 3x3 Rubik’s Cube solve in 4.59 seconds at the ‘ChicaGhosts 2017” on Oct. 28. Cho has been cubing since 2012, and over the course of five years he has attended thirteen American Cube Association competitions. Photo courtesy of Steve Cho

Steve Cho breaks Rubik’s Cube world record

Abby Grant, co-opinions editor
November 10, 2017

Senior Steve Cho broke the world record for fastest time solving a standard Rubik’s Cube with a time of 4.59 seconds at the ‘ChicaGhosts 2017’ competition held in Chicago on Oct. 28. In a Youtube...

Summer removal  of asbestos at GBS completed safely

Summer removal of asbestos at GBS completed safely

Molly Stryker, asst. news editor
October 6, 2017

Molly Stryker asst. news editor Over the summer, GBS planned to install new carpeting when floor tile under the carpet in several old pitclassrooms tested positive for asbestos, according to Kimberly...

MEMORABLE MIHARA: Speaking to South students, Sam Mihara, a first-generation American with Japanese ancestry, informs others about his experiences in a World Warr II Japanese internment camp. Mihara visited South on Sept. 13 for this special address. Photo courtesy of Tara Thorne

Guest speaker shares experiences in internment camp

Isabella Albrecht, staff reporter
October 6, 2017

Sam Mihara, a first-generation American with Japanese ancestry who was in an internment camp during WWII, came to speak to the GBS U.S. History classes on Sept. 13. Mihara was born in San Francisco in...

illustration by Raya Shoilekova

Student Services limits schedule changes

Mary Grace Reynolds, co-news editor
October 6, 2017

The GBS Guidance Counselors implemented a new policy that limits the reasons a student can change their schedule for the 2017-2018 school year. According to Guidance Counselor Matthew Drone, there are...

South honors custodian Cliff Williams’ memory

Grace Shin, co editor-in-chief
October 6, 2017

Custodian Cliff Williams passed away on Sept. 9 in his sleep. Williams, commonly known as Cliffy, worked at South for 15 years in the Maintenance Department. The school held a memorial in his honor on...

CROWDED CORRIDORS: Walking down the busy hallway as the bell rings at 3:15, South students make their way through the mob. South’s student population has been increasing over the last few years and the district has been making accommodations for this increase.

District compensates for rising GBS population

Jack C. Davis, asst. news editor
October 6, 2017

Since 2012, the student population at Glenbrook South has grown by over 300 students each year and is expected to increase by another 100 by 2021, according to District 225’s tentative budget for the...

BOOMING WITH ENERGY: Riling up the students at Minooka High School, an MC walks down the catwalk at a dance facilitated by BOOM Entertainment. South also recently hired BOOM Entertainment to aid them in organizing the upcoming Homecoming dance, themed Windy City South.

BOOM revamps GBS homecoming

Ann John, Caylie Jeruchimowitz, and Noah Walch
October 6, 2017

Student demand for a better homecoming at South has caused the school to hire a third-party company called BOOM Entertainment to facilitate this year’s homecoming dance for the first time, according...

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