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Oracle After Hours: The truth about Coke versus Pepsi

Oracle After Hours: The truth about Coke versus Pepsi

Kate Shambo, Web Editor
November 18, 2024

The battle of the red and white-themed bubbly drinks. With dull color yet fizzy carbonation, Coke and Pepsi have taken the soda world by storm. The longstanding rivalry has existed ever since their creation,...

Boys' golf hits off the tee

Boys’ golf hits off the tee

Nathan Weeks, Staff writer
November 18, 2024

Qualifying players from the Boys’ Varsity Golf team, seniors Kevin Shuch, Lucas Shin, Isaiah Paek, Jamie Kim, and juniors Tad Collete and Skyler Joseph, attended the Illinois High School Association...

Girls' golf putt to state

Girls’ golf putt to state

Kami Shames, Staff Writer
November 15, 2024

The Girls’ Varsity Golf team ended the season with freshman Nia Minumula, junior Sonam Konanahalli, and senior Jenny Park going to sectionals, and with Konanahalli continuing to the Illinois High School...

Oracle After Hours: Gender disparity in sports

Oracle After Hours: Gender disparity in sports

Rahm Sheinfeld, columnist
November 11, 2024

During the winter of my sophomore year, I spontaneously picked up badminton. What began as a casual attempt to accompany my friends to their practices quickly became a passion I looked forward to each...

Oracle After Hours: The Validation Trap

Oracle After Hours: The Validation Trap

Kate Rogula, asst. editor
November 4, 2024

We often claim we don’t care about others’ opinions, but deep down, most of us do.  I was one of those people. Every compliment, every critique, and every bit of attention felt like a measure of...

Honor wall will recognize veterans

Honor wall will recognize veterans

Kaitlyn Jiang, managing editor of design
November 2, 2024

For Veterans’ Day this school year, the Social Studies Department is hosting a new tradition in order to honor veterans from, and connected to, the Glenview community, Jeannie Logan, Social Studies Instructional...

Navigating the in-between of academics, athletics

Julia Szmajda, Kiera Egan, and Violet Gonzales
October 4, 2024

When the 2024 Paris Olympics were ongoing, many sat glued to the television waiting for the greatest athletes to spill their secrets on how to balance high athletic performance with their personal life,...

Fall Play strikes down stereotypes

Fall Play strikes down stereotypes

Erin Walker and Staff Writers
October 4, 2024

In this day in age, it is important to love and respect one another, but this respect ultimately starts with the ability to grasp what it is like to see the world through another’s eyes,  sophomore...

Bird Eye View:  Math Teacher Joe Karlovsky (left) and English Teacher Phillip Ralston (right) sit inside the box during the South Varsity Football game versus Lake Zurich while commenting live on the game.

Voices of football

Kate Rogula, asst. editor
October 4, 2024

High above the John Davis Titan Stadium, tucked inside the press box at the top of the bleachers, a team of commentators narrate the play-by-play of a South football game. These unseen voices capture every...

Design and photos by Maia Weissman and Molly Tomcyzk

Breaking the language barrier

Molly Tomczyk and Maia Weissman
October 4, 2024

Your heart pounds in your chest as you step into class. Carefully, you slip into a seat in the back, head pounding with nerves as you await class to begin. Scrawled on the white board are the words “In-Class...

BIENVENIDOS!: Students from high schools Tháder and Gabriel Miró from Orhiuela, Spain smile for a photo with South exchange students.
The Spanish students visited South and embarked on several trips to and around Chicago in September. The Spanish group stayed for 10 days, and
participated in many South activities, including Homecoming.

Spaniards take on South

In late September, students from South and two public high schools in Spain, the Instituto de Educación Secundaria (IES) Tháder and IES Gabriel Miró, participated in South’s Spanish Exchange Program,...

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,...

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