Dear freshman Claire,
Put simply, these four years of high school are going to fly by, just like everyone said they would. You will look up one day and be stunned that you are already facing...
Can’t lose that last ten pounds? Pop a pill with breakfast. Have a stress headache? Take a couple Advil. We live in a society with a focus on quick-fix solutions, and a benefit of living in the modern...
For a while now, I’ve thought of myself as a social media addict. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is roll over, grab my phone and check what I’ve missed over the previous eight...
Stephen Hawking is a physicist who has pioneered trailblazing theories explaining the nature of the universe. He is also an author who wrote multiple books detailing such theories. A husband and a father...
Taylor Swift has once again proved that she isn’t leaving the spotlight any time soon. On Oct. 27, Swift released her fifth studio album, titled 1989—to reflect both the year of her birth and the era...
By now, many people at South have heard something about the complex events that have gone on in Ferguson over the past two months. The general story goes as such: on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, 18-year-old...
Social Studies Teacher Terry Benjamin is retiring this year after teaching for 35 years at South. Besides teaching, Benjamin coached boys’ basketball, girls’ basketball and varsity baseball. According...
Pinstripes invited the Oracle staff to an hour and a half of free bowling on the evening of April 21. Since I hadn’t been to Pinstripes since it opened in 2007, I was interested in checking out the upscale...
It’s that time of the year again when the ice melts and the world thaws into spring. Although friends and family might be finished with awkwardly skating around Millennium Park during the holiday season,...
I used to be very judgmental. I was never purposefully mean; rather, my judgment came from an innate sense of perfectionism that negatively affected how I viewed myself and others. Then I developed General...
I’ve been interested in nutrition since my freshman year, when, in my quest for a healthy diet, I decided to try veganism, a diet without any animal products. That lasted an entire week before I decided...
In the distinction between the applied arts and liberal arts, have the math-brained recently won the upper hand? According to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in December 2012,...
“Your color of your skin, your religion, your sexual preference does not matter to me, but it’s what’s in the heart, and my family and I try to live by that. I am here to say that I am so sorry....
Aiming a perfect gunshot right through your friend’s chest. Stealing a car and shooting a cop that’s on your tail. Sneaking up on an enemy and slitting his throat from behind. These may all sound like...
We’ve all sat in class with someone who is obviously sick. It’s the wet, hacking cough that disrupts the teacher’s lecture every few sentences, the persistent sniffle of a student denying the need...
Looking down the halls of South, it's often hard to find a time when there isn't someone with an iPhone out, listening to tunes or getting in their hourly Twitter fix. In the cafeteria, it’s more common...
“The truth is, I am overweight. You can call me fat, and yes, even obese on a doctor’s chart. But, do you
think I don’t know that? That your cruel words are pointing out something that I don’t...
The mission statement of the Police Department, according to the Glenview Police Department’s website, is to protect lives and property, enforce the law and keep the peace. But is this peace accomplished...
Being a teenager today often means busy days and late nights spent scribbling through homework or cramming for tests, when the ability to focus is at an all-time-low and the stress is piling up. Relieving...
Shaking hands, wobbling knees and a cracking voice: symptoms of stage fright, one of the most common held fears worldwide. This is a sight one will never see upon entering the GBS Speech Team office,...
