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The South High School student news site

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The South High School student news site

The Southerner
This year, South’s baseball team has gotten a new head coach, Luke Pettersen. He played baseball for the U of M, which he graduated from last May. Following graduation, Pettersen then had a short stint playing for the Saint Paul Saints. Coaching is a new and exciting experience for Pettersen. “I think that a lot of what I’m going to try to do is kind of bring my own unique twist on how we play the game, but I don’t know what their styles were in the past, so a lot of what I’m trying to do is make sure I create a really fun culture for the players and try to make them really enjoy playing baseball, because I do believe it is a really important sport as far as learning life lessons for off of the field,” he said. Photo courtesy of Gopher Sports

Luke Pettersen, a fresh face to South baseball

Kinsley Wilcox-McBride, Staff Writer
March 18, 2019
Students statewide walkout, gather at Capitol to protest gun violence

Students statewide walkout, gather at Capitol to protest gun violence

Soline Van de Moortele, Web and News editor
April 20, 2018
"The field trip was for a program called ‘Trout In The Classroom,’” said Mick Hamilton, who is raising Rainbow Trout in his Earth Science classes. The summit was organized into sessions, each having something to do with nature and ecology. As senior Esteban Gutama said, “[The field trip] is about learning more about the fish and how to take care of them.” Photo: Oliver Hall

DNR ‘Trout In The Classroom’ workshop get students fishing for more

Oliver Hall, Staff Writer
March 14, 2018
This morning, congressmember Keith Ellison came to South to speak with a group of 73 students about gun control, in light of the recent school shooting in Florida. Sophomore Anas Abukr said he thought the panel, “went really good. We touched on a lot of hard things, and there were a lot of ideas I heard. [Gun control] is a big problem in schools and there should be a lot of steps taken higher up to ensure students are safe.” Photo: Soline Van de Moortele

Keith Ellison discusses gun control at panel with South students

Soline Van de Moortele, News and Web Editor
March 1, 2018
Pictured above is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Principle Ray Aponte listening to a student's question. Said Frey, “I already met a few [South students] during the march just like a week ago,” referencing the student led gun control protest at city hall last thursday. He said at the senior class meeting that the students at the protest, ““you are the NRA’s worst nightmare.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sits down with students at breakfast meet and greet

Izzy Willette, Features editor
February 27, 2018
An Augsburg college study done in 2014 recorded every known instance of redlining within Minneapolis and placed them on a map of the city as a red dot. As they went through year by year of reports (from 1911-1951) the dots became blots that covered entire districts. This was what their map looked like in 1951.

Reading between the redlines: Minneapolis’ hidden history of denied housing

Tannen Holt, Staff Writer
December 4, 2017
Graphic planes flying out of South's front entrance as students have the option on going to one of many trips abroad. “I think that kind of immersion and being in a country like that is really beneficial for language proficiency,” said junior Astrid Berger, who is attending a school trip to Cuba.

Immersion, leisure and worldly history: Annual trips abroad offer wide variety of interest to students

Zoë Chinander-McFaul, Staff Writer
October 10, 2017
Students (far right) Minnewa Burris, Clifton Hallow, Joe Sciece, Destin Capers, Daymin Perze-LaRoque, Tyler Bonnete (far left) stand on an outlook of the "The Windows" hiking trail located in the Badlands on their first day in South Dakota. Photo courtesy of Ray Aponte

Black Hills trip brings a new outlook to the students of All Nations

Kinsley Wilcox-McBride, Staff Writer
October 9, 2017
Junior and varsity player Addie Scott (6) jumps to hit the volleyball in a game against Southwest on October 5th. “Volleyball is a huge part of my life… it's where I've met some of my best friends and have some of my best memories," said senior and varsity player Rose Letofsky.

Volleyball team serves some close scores, bright smiles

Henry Holcomb, Sports Editor
October 6, 2017
Pictured Above students in Contemporary Literature: Women’s Studies finish up their daily class work. Since the class is co-created, students and their work is “not just being lead by an adult, but learning from other people who are your age and demographic,” said senior Lydia Zupanc, pictured bottom right. Photo: Gabe

“A class that needs to be taught” New women’s studies class is already impacting South

Gabe Chang-Deutsch, Staff writer
October 5, 2017
On Friday April 21st a group of Washburn students came to South to perform their spoken word performance called “This is Our Fight Too.” The group of students are in their third year of Washburn’s Black Box theater program, and they all worked together to create the piece. “This is Our Fight Too” plans to visit other other schools in the area and may be coming back to South for Racial Justice Day. Photo: Madeline Mahoney

Washburn performance sparks important discussions at South’s Friday Seminar

Madeline Mahoney, Staff writer
April 23, 2017
South students and staff as well as outside community members came to lead workshops on race and identity on May 23rd at South. This day was organized and led by SUSOSH (Stand Up Speak Out South High), a student led group aimed to dismantle insitutionalized racism. Photo: Abby Rombalski

Racial Justice Day sparks school-wide conversations on race and identity at South

Soline Van de Moortele with reporting by Livia Lund, Nara Coldwater, Evy Murphy-Wilson, Eli Shamanski, Noura Abdukhadra, Nico Mercadal, , and
June 4, 2016
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