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The news site of Glenbrook South High School.

The Oracle

Oracle After Hours: Why multitasking doesn't work

Oracle After Hours: Why multitasking doesn’t work

Kate Rogula, Web Editor
September 29, 2025

I sit down at my desk and open my Chromebook to Google Classroom, ready to complete my homework. I tell myself I'll reward my productivity with a quick glance at my phone, but within minutes, I'm sucked...

Oracle After Hours: The Ultimate Battle

Oracle After Hours: The Ultimate Battle

Evelyn Junia, Assistant editor
August 28, 2025

With a bucket of popcorn accompanied by a Diet Coke™, I marched into the movie theater, ready to recline my chair and battle my summertime boredom with a film. Even though I’m not a superhero fanatic,...

Graphic by Meredith Bill

Oracle After Hours: Focus First: Why South Got The Phone Policy Right

Aarya Nigam, Columnist
May 27, 2025

Focus. A hard thing to have, and a hard thing to do. What makes it even worse is a phone in your hand, especially where focus matters the most: in the classroom. At the start of this school year, South...

Graphic by Reese Foxman

Oracle After Hours: Personality matters: making your style true to you

Olivia Richards, Co-news editor
May 21, 2025

This column is not going to help you find your personal style, only you can do that.  I constantly see videos on the internet that aim to help people struggling with their personal style. These videos...

Oracle After Hours: "I don’t know how it gets better than this," Taylor Swift released her own version of Fearless

Oracle After Hours: “I don’t know how it gets better than this,” Taylor Swift released her own version of Fearless

Anne Ribordy, managing editor
April 15, 2021

If you have not been following Taylor Swift’s battle to own her own music, it might be confusing why she would re-release an album that came out 13 years ago. Swift released Fearless (Taylor’s Version),...

Oracle After Hours: Being a teenager: overrated

Oracle After Hours: Being a teenager: overrated

Sophia Pinc, columnist
January 21, 2021

When I was in elementary school, I would wake up on a cold winter morning and rush to look out my window. The sight of snow on the ground would excite me.  I would bolt down the stairs, eager to eat...

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