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Titan pride is more than just dances and football games

Titan pride is more than just dances and football games

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
June 12, 2020

I always thought having school spirit meant that you were banging the buckets with Titan Nation at a football game, marching in the Homecoming parade and going to pep rallies and school dances. There is...

Illustration by Ella Prillaman

Thank U, Next: Students learn from romantic relationships

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
February 14, 2020

In third grade, Valentine’s Day meant a class party in your homeroom. It meant Sweetarts, Hershey’s Kisses, and conversation hearts. It meant telling your crush on the playground that you like them,...

Amazing Adventures: Ziplining through the trees, Science Teacher Jessica Pritzker stands on the Monteverde zipline, the longest in Costa Rica. Pritzker spent her pre-honeymoon in Costa Rica in December before
getting married the next January.

Teachers travel around the globe, learn essential life lessons

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
April 22, 2019

It’s wasn’t until he traveled solo around the world that Ceramics Teacher Kurt Webb realized there is adventure to be found everywhere. After traveling within the United States and out to Japan, New...

Cool Kayaking:   Kayaking through the Prince William Sound, Junior Ellie Ruos (second from the right) navigates the waters with her friends. Ruos went on a backpacking trip throughout the Alaskan wilderness, with nothing but the untouched world ahead of her. Photo courtesy of Wilderness Adventures

Environmental awareness promotes new way of life

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
September 28, 2018

All my life I have lived the same routine. I’ve grown up in the same Glenview culture, surrounded by the Glenview “bubble.” I use that word, “bubble” not in a negative way, but with a more bittersweet...

Sophomore Phillip Norton takes to the skies, pursues aviation career

Sophomore Phillip Norton takes to the skies, pursues aviation career

Ellie Ruos, asst. features editor
February 9, 2018

Flying a plane solo at the age of 15 isn’t usually considered “common,” according to Franklin Burbank, professional flying instructor of Citrus Soaring Club in Pierson, Florida. But this is a reality...

Illustration by: Sophia Lau

Test anxiety proves prominent at South

Ellie Ruos, asst. features editor
December 22, 2017

Junior Lily Dolan sits down to take her next round of ACT tests, hoping to score a few points higher than last time in order to receive a scholarship from her dream college that she knows her family wouldn’t...

Running in a cross country race, freshman Luke Gregory smiles toward the finish line.

South goes gold to support the Gregory family

Caroline O'Shaughnessy and Ellie Ruos
November 10, 2017

In 2017, roughly 15,270 children and adolescents up to the age of 19 will be diagnosed with some form of pediatric cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. This year, when freshman Luke Gregory...

GBS honors generational teaching

Ellie Ruos, asst. features editor
October 6, 2017

It’s no secret that South is filled with many former students who come back to become teachers in the same classrooms they grew up in. However, most don’t know a number of these GBS graduates now work...

Music festivals give opportunities to discover new music, see favorite artists

May 31, 2017

Live music, summer sun, dancing and singing shoulder to shoulder with best friends- all experiences one could have at a music festival, according to students at South. According to an unscientific Oracle...

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