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The news site of Glenbrook South High School.

The Oracle

The news site of Glenbrook South High School.

The Oracle

Political clubs offer a space for South’s varying voices

Political clubs offer a space for South’s varying voices

Dani Carr, co-features editor
December 18, 2020

From community projects to a national election, South students are ensuring their voices are heard. With South’s clashing political beliefs, students can feel silenced, but these clubs provide a space...

New Year’s brings new hopes for South

Hailey Cho, staff writer
December 18, 2020

As crowds count down the seconds until midnight, the promise of a new year is in the air. Even just the potential for a better life is enough to prompt many to put pen to paper and rack their brains for...

Illustration by Mia Carr

South students get a taste of their heritage through traditional foods

Sarah Al-Jawhar and Mia Carr
December 18, 2020

When sitting around the dinner table with her family, senior Marina Markovic often enjoys a mouthwatering Serbian dish known as gibanica. With an alluring smell and a cheesy, crispy taste, this dish is...

In dark times, students look to holiday traditions for light

In dark times, students look to holiday traditions for light

Chloe Arciero, Dani Carr, and Grace Clark
December 18, 2020

Hanukkah  The aromatic smell of latkes drifts around the room and friends and family chatter away as they cook up fried oreos, doughnuts, snickers and anything else they can get their hands on. This...

Altruistic Artists:  Socially distanced, Interact members participate in their yearly Paint-A-Thon. Both Interact and Key Club have found safe ways to help out in their community during the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Grace Cullum.

South charity clubs inspire positivity, selflessness in members during pandemic

Sarah Al-Jawhar and Justine Liu
December 7, 2020

Bright and early before school starts, South service members eagerly hop out of bed to join Zoom calls for their 7:30 a.m. club meetings. Like all clubs at South, Key Club and Interact, two of South’s...

illustration by Sneha Augustine

Lumos shines light on child institutionalization

Victoria Appel and Clare Lanscioni
December 1, 2020

Who is your favorite Harry Potter character? What is your Hogwarts house? These are the types of questions raised in South’s new club, Lumos, which is not only filled with Harry Potter discussions, but...

Illustration by Makayla McNamara

An unseen disease, toxic masculinity plagues south

Chloe Arciero, Dani Carr, and Tommy Marquardt
November 20, 2020

It can be heard as a hush settles over the audience and the enchanting first notes of the choir float over an awed crowd, five baritones struggling to be heard over 20 sopranos. It is even more obvious...

South students escape into literature during quarantine

Shannon Mathew, staff writer
November 20, 2020

When the pandemic limited people to their homes, restricted social activity and caused school to move into an online space, many students experienced screen time overload, librarian Lauren Gruber said....

Illustration by Aubrey Palaganas

Seal of Biliteracy opens up new cultures, communities for South students

Hailey Cho and Madeline Hussey
November 20, 2020

Language students spend hours in classrooms stumbling through vocabulary and trying to understand countless articles. Some students strive to achieve the Seal of Biliteracy which, Danita Fitch, World Languages...

Aspiring Adamji: David Adamji replaced Thomas Kucharski as the instructional supervisor of the English Department. Adamji is grateful for the welcoming environment of South that has helped him settle in to his new position. Photo courtesy of David Adamji.

English department welcomes new instructional supervisor

Maddie Cloutier and Sloane Shabelman
October 3, 2020

The world looked a lot different when David Adamji, English Department instructional supervisor was hired in January. Pre-pandemic, he had not expected his first year of teaching at South to be through...

Illustration by Natalie Cronin

Kaylee Calito uses migraine glasses to assist her zoom fatigue

Hailey Cho, staff writer
October 2, 2020

As South’s annual freshman assembly roars, only one thing is on sophomore Kaylee Calito’s mind: she cannot see through her left eye. While she stumbles to the nurse’s office, she feels her left hand...

Illustration by Natalie Cronin

Juggling the worlds of Zoom and parenting; teachers persevere

Lexi Babich and Grace Clark
October 2, 2020

From teaching their students on Zoom to helping their own children with schoolwork, a teacher’s job is never done. Tara Tate and Emily Ekstrand, social studies teachers, have both been challenged with...

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