The newly formed club, High Schools Against Cancer (HSAC), sponsored the “Taste of South” event in an effort to fundraise for the American Cancer Society (ACS), Friday, May 22.

Katie Phillips & Fatima Hooda
Co-Features Editor & Staff Reporter

The Champions for Children’s second annual walk was held Sunday, May 17 by the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Illinois (CACI) to raise money and public awareness about child abuse.

David Goldman & Ilana Craven
Staff Reporters

GBS administrators have made decisions regarding the addition and elimination of certain classes for the 2009-2010 school year.

Katie Phillips
Co-Features Editor

Members of the Illinois Council of Students (ICS) lobbied in front of state legislators intending to advance their platform of equality in the Illinois educational system, Tuesday, May 12.

Habitat for Humanity unites North & South
A South tradition will be extended to North students, as both schools will be doing a Habitat for Humanity “blitz” build in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, June 20-27 and July 11-18.
A total of 60 North and South students will participate: one 20-student section from North and the other two [...]

Yara Shams
Asst. News Editor

With the 2008-2009 school year winding down, GBS physics and chemistry teachers discovered that some students have been cheating on various online homework assignments, such as WebAssign and Minds on Physics Modules (MOPs), since the beginning of the school year.

Philip Han
Staff Reporter
HB 2354 was recently presented to the Illinois General Assembly.
The “Reproductive Health & Access Act” prevents doctors and nurses from refusing to provide medical care and engage in practices they consider immoral.
It also mandates informing patients about the full range of their medical options regarding abortion. It would require comprehensive sex [...]

Mario Karatasios
Staff Reporter
The Quest Health Fair took place in GBS’s west cafeteria during lunch periods Thursday, March 26.
A lot of people thought the Health Fair was just a day that the cafeteria was giving away food, but it was more than that.
The Health Fair, run by Quest, was designed to figure out what types of [...]

Ilana Craven & David Goldman
Staff Reporters
High Schools Against Cancer (HSAC) is a club recently founded by sophomore Hallie Herrmann to help raise awareness and money for the American Cancer Society.
HSAC’s first meeting was March 11. In order to start the club, Herrmann participated in many meetings with Jim Shellard, assistant principal of student [...]

Fatima Hooda
Staff Reporter

STAND hosted Genocide Awareness Week April 13-17. This week was an effort to raise awareness about atrocities occurring in Darfur, Sudan.

STAND organized and constructed a Refugee…