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Cookie Collective sweetens South

Cookie Collective sweetens South

Evelyn Junia, Staff writer
April 25, 2025

Mix together a non-profit business with a before-school club. Then, fold in one cup of care, add two cups of meticulous work, and one teaspoon of love. The delicious creation is the club called Cookie...

Investment Club stocks up skills

Investment Club stocks up skills

Maia Weissman, Co-features editor
April 25, 2025

The stock market can feel foreign and unwelcoming to high schoolers due to its complex systems and strategies, but Investment Club wants to help students feel more comfortable exploring the financial world,...

Parent-Student Days: Dan Gregerman (top left), Benjamin Widner (middle left), and Charlotte Tryfonopoulos (bottom left) work as teachers. Jacob Gregerman (top right), Jake Widner* (middle right), and Amalia Tryfonopoulos (bottom right) participate in Autos, Volleyball, and The Etruscan. Photos by Andrew Collaku
* Photo by Nolan Miller

Home meets hallways, Titans with parents on staff

Reese Foxman, assistant editor
April 25, 2025

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have your parents teaching at your school? This is an experience a small group of South students whose parents work somewhere in the building encounter daily....

Training teachers of tomorrow

Training teachers of tomorrow

Phoebe Mann, Assistant Editor
April 25, 2025

Ever since junior Jessica Traub was in the class of Julie Boczek, Westbrook Elementary second grade teacher, Traub has wanted to be an educator. Boczek made every student feel loved and noticed which inspired...

Five years gone

Five years gone

Molly Tomczyk, co-features editor
April 25, 2025

The cancellation of what was supposed to be a Glenbrook Academy of International Studies trip to Germany became just one of the many links in a chain of events of broken plans, shock, and confusion. Eventually,...

Buzzer beaters

Buzzer beaters

Maia Weissman, features editor
April 25, 2025

After months of preparation, the South Academic Bowl Team is seeing its hard work pay off at their competitions, Carrie Fraher, Math Teacher and Academic Bowl sponsor, said. With two primarily student-led...

Putting the team in STEAM

Putting the team in STEAM

Mady Yap, Staff Writer
April 25, 2025

As students work together to complete challenges with a small remote-controlled robot, they celebrate each success with high-fives and excitement, capturing the spirit of Glenview’s Got STEAM, freshman...

Meet your Instructional Supervisors (continued)

Meet your Instructional Supervisors (continued)

Molly Tomczyk, co-features editor
March 14, 2025

From playing in a band to directing one, and now supervising programs, Cody Halberstadt, Instructional Supervisor (IS) of the Fine Arts Department, is driven by desire to share the community he found in...

A&W Detailing: Seniors Ammar Khan (left) and Will Weinstock (right) pose, showing off shirts with logos of their car-detailing business, A&W Detailing, on them. Khan and Weinstock are both student entrepreneurs.

Student-founded businesses

Maia Weissman, co-features editor
March 14, 2025

Starting your own business can feel appealing to high school students. From gaining financial independence to developing leadership skills, there are many different aspects of business owning that draw...

Ambassadors welcome, embrace new students

Ambassadors welcome, embrace new students

Zoha Suteria, Emily Browne
March 14, 2025

As soon as classroom doors fling open, students stream down the hallways, rushing in opposite directions down the well-worn paths they have traveled to dozens of times before, their voices bouncing off...

A FRANK DISCUSSION: Paraprofessional Frank Stankowicz (right) engaged in a conversation with students such as Mariam Iddir  (left) during lunch one day. Stankowicz surveys the lunch rooms in addition to State & Madison, the  halls, and other areas of South.

Frank’s Fond Farewell

Molly Tomczyk and Madeline Kim
March 14, 2025

In South’s parking lots, one man in neon yellow attire stands amidst the organized chaos of teens making the morning commute. Signaling them to stop, turn, and waving them forward, Paraprofessional Frank...

Breaking gender molds

Breaking gender molds

Maia Weissman, Sofia Cole, and Molly Tomczyk
March 14, 2025

Pink and dolls for girls, blue and trucks for boys’: Gender stereotypes that were planted from a young age persist through one’s life. However,  these stereotypes go beyond just colors and toys; they...

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