Jerin Saji, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2012
Filed under News, Web Exclusives
Escaping choke holds, practice on hitting pads, learning to combat like real life. These are the skills learnes in the new Self-Defense unit added into the freshmen/sophomore curriculum, according to Dawn Fendt, physical educ... Read more »
Tammy Craven, asst. news editor
December 26, 2011
Filed under News
GBS Latino students attended the tenth annual Latino Summit Nov. 18 at Harper College.
According to Socorro Rogers, GBS Latino Summit representative, Latino Summit consists of about 40 GBS freshman and sophomore Latino students,... Read more »
Julia Jacobs, asst. web editor
December 16, 2011
Filed under News
District 225 Board of Education voted to lay down turf on South and North foot- ball fields at the Dec. 12 Board meeting, a $3.5 million project that has been dis- cussed for five years.
According to a memo written by Kimberly... Read more »
Evin Billington & Sarah Jaleel, co-editor-in-chief & co-news editor
December 16, 2011
Filed under News
South’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) hosted a Winter Wonderland dance Dec. 2 for the first time in ten years. GSA members invited all South students as well as GSA clubs from surrounding schools.
According to GSA co-president... Read more »
Chris Callahan, staff reporter
December 16, 2011
Filed under News
GBS Radio (WGBK) is going to hold a 30-hour radio broadcast to celebrate their 30th anniversary starting this evening, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m.
According to Faith Savaiano, WGBK public relations director, each hour of the broadcast... Read more »
Charlotte Kelly, staff reporter
December 16, 2011
Filed under News
The Glenbrook United White volleyball team took home the gold medal from the state volleyball competition Oct. 30 in Rockford.
Glenbrook United is the district’s Special Olympics program. Players are GBN, GBS, transition... Read more »
Kelsey Kiwaiko, news editor
December 16, 2011
Filed under News
The old pit got a hint of Latino culture as muralist Hector Duarte temporarily donated five of his murals to be put on display Dec. 7.
Terrence Jozwik, instructional supervisor of the Social Studies Department, decided to... Read more »
Nirali Dave & Tammy Craven, editor-in-chief & asst. news editor
November 4, 2011
Filed under News
Illinois State Representative Daniel Biss of the 17th District visited GBS and shadowed Principal Brian Wegley Oct. 5 to become informed about the school and public education.
The day began at 7 a.m. with Biss attending a Rotary... Read more »
Nirali Dave, editor-in-chief
November 4, 2011
Filed under News
Eleven gold, four silver and three bronze: these are the collective medal totals of Sanya Richards-Ross, Olympic track and field runner, Tatyana McFadden, Paralympian track and field runner, and Matt Stutzman, armless archer for... Read more »
Claudia Nadolny, staff reporter
November 4, 2011
Filed under News
Various middle school teachers came to observe freshman English classes as part of the biannual articulation Oct. 11 to help ease eight graders’ transitions to high school.
According to Susan Levine-Kelley, instructional... Read more »
Evin Billington, editor-in-chief
November 4, 2011
Filed under News
In the past month, protests have sparked nationally over corporate greed and congressional and corporate ties. These protests, called The Occupy Movement, starting in Wall Street, have quickly spread across the country, including... Read more »
Julia Jacobs, asst. web editor
November 3, 2011
Filed under News
Instructional Norms, a set of five teaching guidelines intended to increase student learning, are to be implemented in classrooms as part of a three year goal led by GBS administration, Instructional Supervisors and Instructional... Read more »
