A fire broke out in a culinary lab at Glenbrook North Tuesday night at 10:02 pm. The North Buildings and Grounds team were safely evacuated and the fire was responded to by the Northbrook Fire Department...

The Career and Technical Education Department (CTE) displayed the feats of CTE students and classes in a showing situated in the main office of South this past week. Staff members selected specific...

Freshman year, adults will ask you how you are liking high school. Sophomore year, they ask you if you are thinking about college yet. Junior year, they ask you if you are looking at college yet. And senior...

The clicking of keys and currents of conversation bounced around room 2158 this past Saturday, Jan. 10, during the elective workshops for incoming freshmen. During The Oracle’s workshop, eighth graders...

The Oracle took third place in the nation in the annual Journalism Education Association (JEA) contest in Nashville, Tennessee, which took place November 12-15. Additionally, 12 editors placed in graphic...

It happens every year, without fail. We often find ourselves picturing our homecoming parties going exactly as planned, but by the time plans are finalized, we realize our beautiful, shiny vision of a...

Glenbrook South ranked 19th among Illinois high schools in U.S. News and World Report’s list 2025-2026 Best High School Rankings.    The ranking assessed percentages such as Advanced Placement...

Friday’s Fall Sports and Spirit Assembly looked a little different than previous assemblies, and  for the better, Dr. Mark Maranto, Assistant Principal for Student Activities, said. The assembly took...

Sitting with my father at Jaspers, he made an observation: The room was full of groups of teens eating together, which to me was common and to him a sort of surprise.  However,  both of us were dismayed...

Chicago is the Glenbrook Musical for 2025, and is all about the crime, jazz, and pizazz of the 1920’s city culture. The performances’ dance-heavy production numbers replicate the chaos and vivacity...

Below the Stage: Performers use the auditorium basement to prepare for their next act, doing makeup and changing in locker rooms. They also pass the time by binge watching movies, eating snacks together,...

Chess Club placed second at the North Suburban Chess League Conference that took place at Niles West High School late last month. The win was a huge comeback for the team, and secured a better position...

Everything in our culture seems to be speeding up.  Fast food delivery services can be at your door in under 15 minutes. Social media algorithms have gotten quicker at getting your attention. If packages...

Living in the moment is a very difficult ask of ourselves, especially in the digital age. Now, the urge to document and record our lives is common, when we have tools like phones to capture our memories...

As South swimmers dive at breakneck speed into the pool, Titan Timers are at the ready, starting their timers at the precise moment fingers touch the water’s surface. The Titan Timers for the girls’...

In order to improve safety and stop unauthorized parking, new parking lot regulations, including ticketing and towing of cars, were implemented in District 225, Deputy Superintendent RJ Gravel said. South...

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,...

Bebop. Samba. Acapella. Scat That covers all subgenres of jazz, the co-curricular club’s specialty. This spring, Scat That will showcase their many vocal pieces for an annual end-of-year concert on May...

South’s library serves as both a bustling center of collaboration, and a serene space for concentration, managed by a team of dedicated librarians and students. The student librarian lab aids are manage...

I recently overheard a discussion in one of my classes about a shopping app called Temu where everything was incredibly cheap. My classmates were speaking about the app half mockingly and half in-awe of...

Lee Listening In: Sophomore Kendrick Lee, Technical Crew member, mans the sound control board for “Clue”, this school year’s Fall Play. He controlled the microphone, music, and sound effect volumes...

What are you afraid of? Take a minute to consider how often a fear has held you back from something, how often it has controlled you. What exactly was it? A fear of heights? Death? Failure?  And...

Clean girl. Tomato girl. Cinnamon girl. Goth girl. Coquette girl.  These tags are everywhere online, invading your Pinterest feed or your TikTok. Teenage girls around the country are expressing themselves...

Imagine this: it is a random Tuesday in spring. You’re in fifth grade. You wake up, and your outfit is laid out perfectly on the floor. The usual foreboding dread of math class doesn’t sink in today....

The Engineering Club attended the SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference April 27 -29 in Peoria, Illinois, Justin Zummo, Engineering Club sponsor, said. If the team is victorious in one of the...

When a genocide broke out in Darfur, Sudan, in 2004, South students gathered to discuss and better understand the alarming news, thus forming Students Taking Action Now for Darfur (STAND) for Peace, Matt...