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Summer Daydream

Summer Daydream

Kamariyae cotton, Cartoonist/Artist May 19, 2025

The Slow Decent Into Fantasy: A Short Rant About the Growing Skepticism of Academic Knowledge

The Slow Decent Into Fantasy: A Short Rant About the Growing Skepticism of Academic Knowledge

Kamariyae Cotton April 24, 2025

Flat Earthers, Creationists, Pseudohistory/ Pseudoscience/Pseudoarcheology; what do these all have in common? They all actively work to debase, disturb, and fight the active scientific principles that...

The Job of a Coach

The Job of a Coach

Matilda Riemer February 25, 2025

A Mentor for the individual The coach is, for a lot of students, an important mentor. They teach technique, tactics, also values such as perseverance, discipline and a sense of responsibility. Coaches...

Planned Obsolescence: The Rant with Big-Tech

Planned Obsolescence: The Rant with Big-Tech

Kamariyae Cotton February 6, 2025

Have you noticed your having to bend your chargers a certain way to get it to work? Your phone battery draining a bit faster than usual? Headphones breaking after a couple of weeks? Trust me, its not your...

The Listening Lockers

The Listening Lockers

Kamariyae Cotton January 29, 2025

A new, strange help has arrived for the students of South High. The Listening Lockers! A way to get anonymous way to get students the help they need. Just find one of the particular listening locker forms,...

Wichita in a nutshell ~Tyke Edition

Wichita in a nutshell ~Tyke Edition

Kamariyae Cotton November 13, 2024

Our fall lowkey sucks, But then again Tyke doesn't care either way.

Getting to know Pep Club

Getting to know Pep Club

Hannah Poyner October 9, 2024

Here at South we have a new club in the making, Pep Club! The goal of this club is to raise school spirit and encourage student involvement. The pep club makes signs for sporting events, makes up South...

Aaaah~ Fall...

Aaaah~ Fall…

Kamariyae Cotton October 7, 2024

The fall season is ironically coming in hot, We are seeing Pumpkin Spiced everything at this time of year! At this time you can always find Tyke indulging in a nice Pump-o Spiced whipped cream fizz crunch™...

Happy Spook-a-days! MEET TYKE!

Happy Spook-a-days! MEET TYKE!

Kamariyae Cotton September 25, 2024

Happy Spooky month y'all! As we know Halloween is a month-long affair! To celebrate and to give gifts straight from the SHS Journalism offices, Meet our new Toony character- Tyke the Titan cat! A rambunctious,...

The Tunnels; South's Untold Stories

The Tunnels; South’s Untold Stories

Ollie Cockrum April 28, 2024
Reading Time: 9 minutesBeneath South runs an intricate system of maintenance tunnels. What secrets and lessons lie deep under this school?
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