Talk:Glenbrook North High School

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[edit] Athletics

For some reason, and I assume it is because they are GBN students/alums, someone is inserting a very wordy section on the athletics, academics, and activities at GBN. Please keep in mind this is an encyclopedia article about GBN, not a chamber of commerce ad for GBN. These sections have been deleted for a second time and I hope they dont come back again. These items are very trivial and are not unique to GBN. I have a problem also with people writing about sports when they can only include what has happened recently and thus does not warrant inclusion in an encylopedia article because it is not unique. As the original author of the GBN article, I have noticed several edits from people that are students/alumni of GBN who are not grasping the context of this article in that it illustrates the uniquness of a suburban high school. Please dont use this article as a forum to toot your horn about your basketball team, debate team etc. Cordd

Instead of a paragraph about Scott Sanderson, I added sections on sports and notable alumni. Winning state championships is pretty significant for a high school, and I'd say that some of the people on the list of alumni are pretty notable, too. Cheers. --BaronLarf 21:24, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, I like the notable alumni section.Cordd
Does the disciplined character of the GBN article, which I like, mean that we must go forth and wield our cleavers on countless other high school entries (New Trier, Lake Forest Academy, Philips Exeter, etc, etc) which are many times longer with much more minutiae (it's travelogue, really)?
Still, even by the dryest standards, GBN has been sold short. I suggest it is noteworthy that GBN is the only large (Class AA in hoops) Illinois high school to win the state title in each of the big 3 sports, football, basketball and baseball. However, I have refrained from adding this sentence (ready to go with citation), in deference to the author, until there is more discussion. Jrgilb

[edit] Votes for deletion

Glenbrook North High School survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Glenbrook North High School -- Wile E. Heresiarch 16:09, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)


Another non-notable high school. I wish other articles could be this long. RickK 06:10, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

  • Keep, but cut it down and NPOV it. The "power-puff" hazing incident made national headlines in the U.S. --Slowking Man 06:13, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, I agree with Slowking Man. It's notible enough that it merits a place here. It has close to 4,000 google hits which is significantly more than a non-notible high school that I tested it against (my own, no claim to fame). -SocratesJedi 07:54, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep: Kinda sorta wish the puff paragraphs were shorter, but I have no real gripe with them. Probably a good idea to amend the opening sentence so that it's clear off the bat that this article is here because the school has been in the news, and not because everyone should want to go there. Geogre 12:41, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Needs some cleanup. Speaking as a diehard nonnotable-secondary-school-deletionist... my argument has been that "local interest" pieces are far more acceptable if they say something interesting about the place. One of the arguments for keeping articles about high schools is that alums will get a warm fuzzy when they see the Wikipedia article; but the typical stubby article (address, district, number of students, name of principal) is pleasing to nobody, alum or stranger, and are not valuable nuclei that will induce bigger articles to crystallize around them. I think the combination of a) being setting for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a notable movie IMHO, b) one silly "in-the-news" item, and c) one significant "in-the-news" item, justifies its inclusion. Plus it gets more Google hits than my own high school. Actually, I'll go further than that. IMHO, this article is a model of how to write a (marginally) keepable article about a marginally notable high school. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:03, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) P. S. While Northrop High School is a model of what not to do. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:14, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Comment: Have we seen Northrop High School here yet? Also, Baltimore City College is a different model of what not to do (very notable school, so definitely not VfD). I know two Wikipedians, one who went there and one who worked there, who can't persuade themselves to help it out. Geogre 04:04, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
      • Just put Northrop High School up for discussion. (Incidentally, I vote Keep on this page, but please slim it down.)
  • Well beat me with a frozen turd and call me Ferris Bueller, but this is one high school article I vote to keep. Never thought I'd see the day, but there is enough actual newsworthiness her, plus sufficient salacious comment, that it provides info plus chuckle. Denni☯ 01:53, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)
  • Keep. What a nice change. I remember when the "powder puff" thing made national news. While I wouldn't probably vote to keep based on just that, when you throw in the Ferris Bueller connection and the other somewhat notable stuff, you get out a school easilly worth an article. Isomorphic 04:17, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. For the news & film reasons mentioned above. Sahasrahla 04:03 EDT, August 10, 2004
  • Yeah, keep - although I'll admit I initially thought that they had a Powerpuff-themed hazing. DS 22:47, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keepski - I went to this school and I was at the hazing incident. You guys who write stuff on Wikipedia are a bunch of nerds, but that's cool. Anyway, I made some changes that make the original entry better. Also, it's not Powerpuff, that's a t.v. show on Cartoon Network, it's Powderpuff, as in the sporting event where girls play the sport and guys are the cheerleaders. - Babb

End. Survived VfD. Moved discussion.

[edit] FYI

GBN also stands for Glenbard North High School -- a school in Carol Stream, Illinois — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 02:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality?

Just an observation, the "Media attention" section seems rather biased, hardly neutral, and not very well supported in claims (i.e. the media will do anything for attention, etc).

I believe I said that, "the media would do anything for better ratings for a couple of days," and that is true. But whatever, I'm just an innocent web surfer who happened to come across some folk who were talking about his former high school, without mentioning the many accomplishments that is associated with the school. Do you guys know that the Glenbrook North Debate Team was National champs for a couple of years in a row? I guess people only care about negative press though, and not press about accomplishments and positive news. In December of 2002, Glenbrook North bought one of their employees a new car and presents for her kids with money that one of the clubs raised. The story was in a couple of magazines, but like I said, you guys wouldn't put something like that in your definition because it is the bad stuff that counts. -- Babb

[edit] Page Name

Per a user request I've moved the page back to Glenbrook North High School, which is the name used for the school in the introductory line of the article. If you want it renamed again please discuss it here and reach consensus before unilaterally moving it. --kingboyk 19:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Activities

Is "life saving" a real club? It seems like a joke that someone just posted. 128.12.71.14 05:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hazing Incident Deletion

I am curious as to why the deletion of all mention the famous "Powderpuff" hazing incident by an admitted school pupil has gone unnoticed. CatCrofts 00:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] Hazing incident section

The hazing incident section details something that happened over 5 years ago, and yet it's over 1/3 of the article. This seems to be undue weight, and should probably be trimmed down. Arthurrh (talk) 02:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


I disagree. I went to Glenbrook North the year the hazing occured, and I feel it should be left up. It should be a reminder of the type of behaviour they allow at the school. It was more than just the powder puff football game. They over-emphasize social ability, they treat students who are not social or "outcasts" poorly. I mean the faculty, not just the students. It's a school that finally got the result, from years of promoting social competition over education. I mean, we're talking about girls who were put into such a state of competition, they used animal guts and feces on the girls they were "hazing". That's more like something I'd expect out of a Takashi Miike film.

Also there should be something said for the fact that the parents, did help the girls involved with the hazing. I mean more than just merely providing alcohol, who do you think got the animal guts for them while they were in high school? It's clear that the school cared more about their precious top school image, than actually punishing those sadistic girls. Actually it seems the school cares about their image above almost anything, which is probably another reason they hate "outcasts".

I hope this has helped you understand the importance of why the hazing part of Glenbrook North High School's page should remain there. As an example of some of the worst form of humilation and physical abuse that has occured from girl on girl hazing. Also, apperantly the school didn't want this getting out. If the school wasn't "sanctioning" the powder-puff football game, why did they allow the girls to wear the uniforms they planned on wearing to the hazing in the school? They must have known and just not have cared. They had far better things to contend with like "outcast" kids scaring the poor preppy students after Columbine. When we all now know who the real terrors are. Violet yoshi (talk) 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)