In light of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, The Southerner staff would like to extend our condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Though the heartbreaking...

“Hey you with the shorts,” a staff member once called to me, “get over here.”  I slowly approached, tentatively pulling on my frayed shorts, knowing that I found them appropriate and my mother...

In my years at South, I’ve noticed blatant anti-republican statements which are not necessarily backed up by facts. I’ve heard claims as broad as “I hate Republicans.” The lack of reaction has...

           Every September, the Jostens Company comes to South High and gives each grade an hour-long assembly presentation. In these assemblies, the importance of graduation and going to college...

    When I first moved to Minneapolis from a Maryland suburb outside Washington, D.C., I was doubtful that the highly touted “Minnesota nice,” of which I was assured, really did exist.  After living...

From the Vestal Virgins of Rome, to the Hester Prynnes of Colonial times, to the Sarah Flukes of today, a double standard has existed for women and men. Men are praised for their sexual abilities, and...

I have gone to high school for almost four years now. And while I have heard many slang terms, ranging in offensiveness from a slight eyebrow raise to a flat-out dropped jaw, the most offensive term I...

In his March 9 opinion piece "District zoning causes segregation among public schools", Gabe Bethke claims that when the district’s Changing Schools Options (CSO) plan went into effect, it forced more...

In the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin the media has come up with a variety of things to enrage and entertain the general public. One thing which we were not expecting is the blaming, not on the...

 Why is it so impossible to admit that white privilege is a problem? This is the question we asked when the news of Duluth’s reaction to an anti-racism ad campaign reached our ears. The campaign, titled...