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The student news site of Downers Grove South High School

Blueprint

The student news site of Downers Grove South High School

Blueprint

DGSs prom will be held at Bolingbrook Golf Club on May 17.

Dressing for the festivities: The search for prom dresses begins

Sydney Richardson, Features Editor February 24, 2022

When COVID-19 caused mass lockdowns in 2020, it led to the cancellation of events that involved several people gathering together. What no one knew at the time was that these same events would continue...

How food allergies affect students

Claire Valenti, Sports Editor February 18, 2022

Senior Bella Chlada sits in front of the Key Club table to sell Cupid Notes during sixth period lunch.

Chlada creates community of caring at DGS

Abigail Culcasi, Photo/Graphics Editor February 17, 2022

Every other Thursday in room C264 amid the lively chatter of students awaiting the start of the meeting, Bella Chlada rings the Key Club bell before leading the club in reciting the Key Club Pledge. “I...

Teachers find true love at DGS

Gwendolynne Royle, Editor-in-Chief February 15, 2022

For some, school work takes place in a classroom at a school, but others find their workspaces to be in their own home.

A look into home-based education

Faith Nelson, Features Editor February 9, 2022

After a year of unprecedented circumstances, students across the country got a taste of a reality foreign to them: doing school from home. For others however, this experience was not one out of the ordinary. Home...

One aspect of this debate is the significance of labels when it comes to sexuality and gender within the LGBTQ+ community.

Discourse over LGBTQ+ labels

Emma Fudacz, Managing Editor February 4, 2022

Labels are often relied on in society to provide comfort and to help put things into categories so that we can keep track of them. Imagine the chaos one would face if they went to the library to find one...

The age of social media and television had created a depiction of adolescents deem is unfair.

The teenage cliche continues through media

Anika Brown, Editor-in-Chief January 27, 2022

Stereotypical teenagers: menaces to society who enjoy loitering on corners, kicking puppies and stealing candy from babies. They live off of sex, drugs and alcohol, swearing too much and skipping school....

While crystals share a beauty to them its important to understand where they come from to ensure we are being aware culturally.

The trend of crystals could be more damaging than helpful to the unknowing

Kassem Ossman, Editor-in-Chief January 23, 2022

From the dangling rose quartz necklace that one student wears to the shiny tiger’s eye ring that wraps around another's finger, the trend of crystals seems to be a wave that has hit some students simply...

Club advisers have noticed a decrease in freshman involvement since the pandemic.

Freshman involvement leaves student activities unfulfilled

Kassem Ossman, Editor-in-Chief January 23, 2022

Freshmen have been impacted by the pandemic more than most understand. As we enter the school year, students of every year get back into the groove of fully in-person learning and extra curricular activities...

Meet the twins of mustang country

Meet the twins of mustang country

Abigail Culcasi, Photo/Graphics Editor January 14, 2022

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