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Meredith Bill

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Titan Timers make it count

Meredith Bill, asst. sports editor
November 22, 2024

As South swimmers dive at breakneck speed into the pool, Titan Timers are at the ready, starting their timers at the precise moment fingers touch the water’s surface. The Titan Timers for the girls’...

Security doubles down

Security doubles down

Meredith Bill, asst. editor
October 4, 2024

In order to improve safety and stop unauthorized parking, new parking lot regulations, including ticketing and towing of cars, were implemented in District 225, Deputy Superintendent RJ Gravel said. South...

Disconnect to reconnect

Disconnect to reconnect

Olivia Richards and Meredith Bill
October 4, 2024

By passing laws that ban student cell phones during class time, school districts across the nation are racing to create phone free learning spaces, The New York Times reported. Florida, Indiana, Louisiana,...

Singing into summer

Singing into summer

Meredith Bill, opinions editor
May 23, 2024

Bebop. Samba. Acapella. Scat That covers all subgenres of jazz, the co-curricular club’s specialty. This spring, Scat That will showcase their many vocal pieces for an annual end-of-year concert on May...

Stacking Up: Senior Shiza Dawood has her own system for putting returned books back on the shelf. She organizes each book by their colored tag -- each color indicating a different genre -- and puts books back on the shelves by genre.

Get to know Glenview libraries

Meredith Bill, opinions editor
April 26, 2024

South’s library serves as both a bustling center of collaboration, and a serene space for concentration, managed by a team of dedicated librarians and students. The student librarian lab aids are manage...

TEMU and the trouble with online shopping

TEMU and the trouble with online shopping

Meredith Bill, Opinions Co-Editor
March 22, 2024

I recently overheard a discussion in one of my classes about a shopping app called Temu where everything was incredibly cheap. My classmates were speaking about the app half mockingly and half in-awe of...

Lee Listening In: Sophomore Kendrick Lee, Technical Crew member, mans the sound control board for “Clue”, this school year’s Fall Play. He controlled the microphone, music, and sound effect volumes for the play.

[Photo] Star student sound engineer

Shayna Fitzershtein, staff writer
March 22, 2024

Lee Listening In: Sophomore Kendrick Lee, Technical Crew member, mans the sound control board for “Clue”, this school year’s Fall Play. He controlled the microphone, music, and sound effect volumes...

Feeling my fear, finding its humanity

Feeling my fear, finding its humanity

Meredith Bill, Opinions Co-Editor
December 22, 2023

What are you afraid of? Take a minute to consider how often a fear has held you back from something, how often it has controlled you. What exactly was it? A fear of heights? Death? Failure?  And...

Illustration by Cez Kruzhkova

Pick your pressure

Meredith Bill, Opinions Co-Editor
November 17, 2023

Clean girl. Tomato girl. Cinnamon girl. Goth girl. Coquette girl.  These tags are everywhere online, invading your Pinterest feed or your TikTok. Teenage girls around the country are expressing themselves...

Mourning the death of the field trip

Mourning the death of the field trip

Meredith Bill, opinions editor
October 13, 2023

Imagine this: it is a random Tuesday in spring. You’re in fifth grade. You wake up, and your outfit is laid out perfectly on the floor. The usual foreboding dread of math class doesn’t sink in today....

Students work on their entires at the SkillsUSA competition. Photos Courtesy of Gabe Blumenfeld

Engineering Paradise: Engineering Club to Attend SkillsUSA

Meredith Bill, staff writer
May 1, 2023

The Engineering Club attended the SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference April 27 -29 in Peoria, Illinois, Justin Zummo, Engineering Club sponsor, said. If the team is victorious in one of the...

Progressive Posters: Senior Mia Burshteyn, STAND for Peace member, helps hang Universal Declaration of Human Rights posters.

Taking a stand for human rights

Meredith Bill and Peyton Knorr
December 16, 2022

When a genocide broke out in Darfur, Sudan, in 2004, South students gathered to discuss and better understand the alarming news, thus forming Students Taking Action Now for Darfur (STAND) for Peace, Matt...

Canned food drive CAN-cels hunger

Molly Tomczyk and Meredith Bill
November 16, 2022

The theme for this year’s Canned Food Drive, which began Nov. 1 and ends Nov. 18, is “CAN-cel Hunger”, Claira Paul, Sophomore Class President, said. Donations will go to the Northfield Township Food...

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