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The Oracle

The news site of Glenbrook South High School.

The Oracle

The news site of Glenbrook South High School.

The Oracle

Fashion offers creative outlet in the professional world

Henry Schleizer, co-opinions editor
April 19, 2019

I’m back. A year ago, my first article about fashion came out. Other than the fact that I’ve started wearing more sneakers instead of boots and started wearing more maroon, nothing has changed. However,...

LEGO LEGENDS:   Returning to the big screen once again, Emmet and Wyldstyle are faced with their greatest challenge yet. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part debuted on Feb. 8, five years after the original movie release. Source: Rotoscopers

“Everything is awesome” in The Lego Movie 2

Tommy Marquardt, asst. web editor
March 15, 2019

The Lego Movie burst onto the film scene in 2014 when it skyrocketed past the low expectations of moviegoers to become a critically acclaimed movie. The public tuned in again in 2017 to see The Lego Batman...

Illustration by Alison Sedenkov

Titan culture fragmented by racial distinctions

Gigi Cepeda, co-editor-in-chief
March 15, 2019

What does it mean to be a Titan? It’s a question I have been asked a lot over the past four years, and South’s administration has been especially dialed into this identity within recent months. For...

Outside adventures prove beneficial for mental health

Gwyn Skiles, asst. opinions editor
March 15, 2019

Adventure. When I lived in Sammamish, Washington, weekends were spent hiking, swimming in lakes and building forts out of fallen tree branches. Now, my time is consumed with school work and extracurricular...

Illustration by Patsy Carolan

Student environment requires conversation about diversity

March 15, 2019

As your eyes scan over the repetitive rows of your history textbook, you read something that should stop you in your tracks. 10.7 million enslaved people arrived in America between 1526 and 1867, according...

Spotlight on South

Aditya Bhalla, guest columnist
March 15, 2019

As a senior in his waning months of high school, I have much time to reflect over my past few years here at GBS, yet little time to accomplish the things I feel I need to do before I graduate. Only now,...

Illustration by Margo Kazak

Homeschooling provides appreciation for learning

Karina Benson, co a&e editor
March 15, 2019

I vividly remember my first day of third grade. I remember waking up as soon as my alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. and I remember walking into my parents’ bedroom five minutes later with my backpack already...

Gap year benefits self discovery, provides needed break

Gap year benefits self discovery, provides needed break

Eliza Schloss, co-editor-in-chief
March 15, 2019

I really should take a gap year, but I won’t. Having endured countless years in school, the past four being the most vigorous, nothing sounds worse than going back to school next year to have to be...

Illustration by Erin Zhou

Desire to remain likeable suffocates opinions, hinders progress

Lizzie Garvey, co-opinions editor
March 15, 2019

Last year, in the wake of the Sutherland Springs, Texas and Las Vegas shootings, I decided I wanted to write a column about gun control. I was new to the opinions section and column writing, and I had...

Paddle    Pals:  Returning a serve, junior Parsa Mir Heydari plays pickle ball with Eddie Brown, adaptive PE Leader. Adaptive PE leaders share similar responsibilities as other PE leaders.

Adaptive PE shares similarities, should offer credit incentives

Sheila Fogarty, Columnist
March 14, 2019

This marks my third semester being a peer mentor or P.E. Leader for an a Adapted P.E. (APE) class, a course modified for a variety of students based on their abilities. It’s taught by Tori Kelliher and...

Rogers reveals feminist journey through Heard it in a Past Life

Rogers reveals feminist journey through “Heard it in a Past Life”

Sheila Fogarty, columnist
February 18, 2019

“Maggie Rogers is a witchy feminist rockstar” tweets the iconic singer, whose album Heard it in a Past Life was released on January 18. If anything can prove this statement, it’s Rogers’s new album...

Breaks during classes critical for student attention

Editorial Board
February 8, 2019

The student’s eyelids begin to flicker shut and her elbow slips as she is magnetically pulled into her desk’s center of gravity. Suddenly, the classroom door clicks shut and the student catches herself...

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