Every year during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, junior Yasmeen Mohammed Rafee has playful fasting competitions with her sisters. On Eid al-Fitr, the last day of Ramadan, millions of...
This year, the PE Department decided to change some rules and expectations, specifically concerning dress code and grading. The Oracle’s Editorial Board believes there is room for improvement in both...
Throughout the years of elementary school and middle school, many students earn a reputation for notoriously faking sick. Whether it be heating a thermometer under a warm faucet, drawing red polka dots...
Your alarm rings on Thursday morning and you sigh with dread. Another day of tests and quizzes that you know you should have studied for, but didn’t. It was an off week, and you just didn’t have the...
In light of college application season, many students may suddenly realize that the way they represent themselves on social media is not the way they want admissions counselors to see them. Some students...
Emma Hartman, former South student and daughter of South Social Worker David Hartman, is thought to have been in the middle of sending a text message when her car crossed a highway median into oncoming...
As South has become an increasingly technology-based environment, students and teachers alike have become more familiar with the content-filtering system, known as Securly, that is used to limit material...
Even though the outside world buzzes with activity and the state of important world affairs is constantly fluctuating, many students are lacking this up-to-date part of their education inside the walls...
Last fall, when District enrollment projections predicted that South would surpass its 3,100-student capacity by the 2016-17 school year, parents started talking about the possibility of redrawing boundaries...
When a student talks about being embarrassed or teased at school, most would assume the provocation is coming from a peer. However, according to a non-scientific Oracle-conducted survey of 221 students,...
As South students plan and organize their future academic goals, according to an Oracle-conducted survey, 47 percent of 202 South students said that they plan to pursue a certain field because of money.
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Life is full of different struggles, including fights with friends and family, stress from schoolwork, loss of loved ones and mental disorders like anxiety and depression. Although some of these issues...
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