This year’s boy’s varsity basketball season was one for the record books. By beating Dundee Crown on March 3, they became the third team in boy’s basketball history at Glenbrook South to win a regional championship.
They were CSL South conference champions and were the first team in GBS history to have a perfect 10-0 [...]

Are you a Republican? Interested in sharing some of your conservative views with others? Or, do you want to find out more about Republicans and their political views? If so, Republican Club just may be right for you.
Just recently, a new club has formed at GBS, the Young Republicans Club, open to any [...]

“I’m not 18 and I can’t vote yet, so I don’t really care about the government,” says a friend of mine. “You’ll be 18 in a few months, though,” I respond. “True, but..” But what?
Most people at south, if not at most high schools, couldn’t care less about politics and couldn’t know any less [...]

Who is Karl Rove? Who is Tom DeLay? What exactly is Abu Ghraib? If you said “I don’t know, I don’t know, and a type of ethnic food they serve in the cafeteria every other Wednesday,” you would be among several of the students here at GBS, uninterested and just plain confused when [...]

In my eighteen years, I have been in one fight, which, in retrospect, is probably one of the more embarrassingly ludicrous things I have ever taken part in. I was about eight, and my classmate Liam and I exchanged blows in the school playground. I can’t remember over what, but I do remember a lot [...]

Often I get frustrated, annoyed, and angry at people – myself included – who immerse themselves in fads. I’d like to say, “Just be who you are. Stop trying so hard.” But, there’s a dilemma to that. What are they really? Who are all of us without the things we’re interested in; who are [...]

Officer Friendly taught me a lot of lessons that were crucial to my development. He taught me to look and listen for oncoming traffic. He taught me not to talk to strangers, even if they had a cool car and just wanted to go for a “little ride”. He taught me to wear fluorescent colors [...]

Freshman worry about getting lost. New students hope they can find a group to sit with at lunch. But imagine having to worry about these two things on your first day at GBS, and not even knowing the language of everyone around you. This was a familiar scene experienced by many immigrant students at GBS. [...]

As the 3:15 bell rings, Junior Jenny Khavinson packs up her bag and rushes out of her Honors Spanish classroom in the link, dodges through crowds of people to get to her locker in the new pit, and backtracks through the link to the old pit in order to get to her car in the [...]

Rules at Glenbrook South are issued for students’ benefit and are enforced to keep students safe, yet there are many inconsistencies with their degree of enforcement. Students have commented on teachers either being hypocritical, too strict or too lenient when it comes to the enforcement of rules.
Associate Dean of Students Sean Garrison comments, “Teachers, [...]