Tag Archive 'Issue 4'

Who won this month's titan showdown?

  • Peter Riley (52.0%)
  • John Montesantos (48.0%)

Total Votes: 23

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April showers bring May flowers, but winter storms bring saddened students

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Geena Campobasso
Asst. Features Editor
Cloud-covered skies, rain trickling down the windows, and a gray, gloomy atmosphere is what one sees on a rainy day. The fatigued and melancholy mood takes over. The gloominess of a rainy day along with other seasonal changes can often affect moods.
More severe mood changes due to weather are sometimes diagnosed [...]

New weight room trainer: from NFL to GBS

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Spencer Rose
Staff Reporter
Last year, South finally finished the new weight room. The next item on the list was to find a group of trainers as polished as the room itself. Enter TC Boost, a weight training and speed company headed by Tom Christian and his colleagues.
TC Boost began in 2002 under the name [...]

Girls live up to tournament-inspired hype, move to 7-2

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Spencer Rose
Staff Reporter
They don’t put tournaments and invites at the beginning of the season for nothing. The point is to give teams an idea of how they will fare in the upcoming year. For the girls basketball team, this early-season test came in the form of the Schaumburg Thanksgiving Classic tournament.
The girls took a [...]

Boys struggle to keep some early leads, fall to Waukegan

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Nolan Hart
Staff Reporter
The Titan boys basketball season will not be without challenge as they enter into conference play with a difficult schedule.
The CSL South Conference is highly competitive, with Waukegan and Evanston coming off third- and sixth-place finishes in the state last season, respectively.
The Titans lost their first conference game to the [...]

Bad memories don’t have to mean bad times

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Kevin Daliva
Columnist
Oh Christmastime, you never cease to amaze me: from memories of leaving cookies out for Santa to sporadic ads thrown on television to entice us into seasonally spending (I actually have a Magic Bullet, and they are indeed magical). But, it is truly the memories that stay with me everywhere and every year.
Memories [...]

Students, faculty react to Proposition 8

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Alyssa Rooks
Asst. Features Editor
In the wake of the historic election of the first African-American president, times may seem to be changing. Racial minorities appear to have made the difference in the 2008 election, but other minority groups are still struggling to obtain rights that have long been granted to other citizens.
Proposition 8, a referendum [...]

Alex ‘Spanky’ Sprau’s Profile: Titan mixes ‘spanky’ new beats

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Becca Spector
Co-Features Edtior
Jamming out to blaring music in your best friend’s car is a typical daily activity for teenagers, but for junior Alex “Spanky” Sprau this same activity could just put him on the map for hip-hop beats.
This is exactly what happened to him just a few weeks ago. Sprau’s brother’s friend was riding in [...]

Are you in the spirit… Or are you out of your mind?

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Chicago Polar Bear Club Annual Plunge
Looking for new way to start off the New Year? How about joining the 1,200 Chicagoland citizens in the annual polar plunge in Lake Michigan? On Tuesday, Jan. 1 at 1600 Lake Shore Drive beginning at noon, the swimmers enter the water in waves. No nudity or wet suits are [...]

Ding, Dong, Can: StuCo travels Glenview in search of cans

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Nicole Frlan
Staff Reporter
Every year when the canned food drive takes place students are encouraged to bring in as many cans as possible. However, it is not just our school that achieves the 100,000 can goal, but also the whole town of Glenview.
Student Council members make this possible by embarking on a planned “canning day.” They [...]

Accomplished students participate in first ‘March of Champions’ of year

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Corinne Chin
Editor in Chief
“Left. Left. Left.”
At 8 a.m. Dec. 8, starting (as mandated by band director Greg Wojcik) with his left foot, Dr. Jim Shellard, assistant principal for student activities, led the GBS Marching Titan Drumline and 20 students who have recently made significant achievements on state and national levels in this year’s [...]

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