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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-11-05, Page 13editorial To control dances 13y BOB MACKIE During the past week several proposals were dealt with concerning restrictions on school dances. A committee consisting of several department heads and the student council executive discussed several precautions listed in a memo from Mr. Wooden to the aforementioned persons, This measure is said to be introduced to curb violence and such, at the ,dances, Proposals passed include: 1) The doors will be locked at 10:30 o'clock and after this time, no one else will be admitted into the dance. Also anyone leaving the dance, for any reason will not be allowed to come back in, past the previously designated time. 2) No alcoholic beverages or drugs will be allowed at school dances and anyone drunk or stoned will be ushered from the premises. 3) Students must show Student cards when at the dance or be charged an extra 25 cents. 4) Those wishing to bring a guest from outside the school, must acquire a guest pass from the student council from the student council room upstairs, in the activity period. If the Record Library is any indication of student enthusiasm, I think the council should move the location of the student council room to a more convenient place. When the Record Library was first set-up it was upstairs, and people visiting it were a novelty. Now that it has been moved to the main entrance where everybody at sometime has to go by, it is going great and is swamped with customers. Also last week we had our chocolate bar assembly which was led by some "clown" from the chocolate bar company named Leo. He wouldn't tell us his last name, it must have been for shame. He treated the students in such a manner it was even an insult to a grade nine. Leo acted like something out of a kiddy hour the assinine way he ranted, raved and rattled on. He continually mocked and insulted the student council executive and generally made an idiot of himself. Well, I hope the chocolate bars are better because they can't be worse than Leo. 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AN IMPROMPTU KICKLINE — Members of the cheerleaders group at South Huron District High School spent Saturday morning on a Glean-up campaign at Taylor Motors in Exeter to gain some extra monies to buy necessary equipment, They are shown here in an By PAM SANGSTER As Remembrance Day draws near many of us will buy our annual puppy, sit through a short memorial service and consider our duty to be done once again. Despite viewing war films it is difficult for us as young Canadians to truly realize the horror of war. Nor are we thankful to the servicemen, for the sacrifices they made on our behalf. The image of the present-day teenagers is not very flattering and perhaps this is our own fault. Should we think less of ourselves and give more of ourselves to our country's future? A quarter of century ago people as young and as innocent as we are had to face the grim reality of going to war. There are many other ways we could try to help our country and make it a better place for all. Let us start by getting out to the Armistice every student. That's why the student council has so far financially aided the aquarium, rocket, technical and development clubs. Has initiated the forming of the band and United Nations Club. Hopes to be of service to the Drama, Art or any other club within the school. If any students have suggestions of activities they would like to see established: there's a suggestion box in the cafeteria, a mail box in the office and members of the executive around the halls. Founding and maintaining these clubs cause the problem of financing. In order to raise money the executive organized a walkathon which raised the sum of $250 (not including the money some dishonest students who failed to turn in all their sponsoring and placed these funds elsewhere). The executive would like to mention that it didn't see that many members of athletic teams walking (budget - $1,500), the outers club (who have asked for two canoes - price $200), aquarium club ($25), rocket club ($35) etc. The executive was hoping to impromptu kickline routine with they are, Mary Murley, Sandra Sk Jo-Anne Burke, Ann Morrissey, Gaiser and Cheryl Clausius. Day Services and in this small way show our gratitude to the dead, disabled, silver cross mothers and to all those who fought for our freedoms. "Were dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung Life to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and • we were young." A. E. Wousman have 'Lighthouse' for the Christmas Dance- ($1,500). The executive has to charge to lend out the albums because it cannot afford an outlay ot$300 without returns. Yet there is one thing to save the formal from becoming just the Fig leaf of Adam and having no more inter-school athletics and that's depending on the Chocolate Bar Campaign. The executive is calling upon the students to be responsible and to sell. If you see a bully student stealing chocolate bars from someone — report him or her to the executive. The executive "will only be too happy to crush the head." So sell chocolate bars and candy so that all clubs can flourish, maybe have `Lighthouse' for Christmas, sports will continue, a super formal, rent-free records. Maybe even buy for the school a movie screen and projectors for the projection booth — so that the bi-monthly movies will have the atmosphere of real movies. * * The executive plans the social events: dances, winter carnival and formal (the amount spent is determined by the council). So it is the executive who is re- sponsible for initiation exercises, KangarooCourt, Sadie Hawkins— any quips or suggestions put them on to the executive. In answer to the attack upon justice given by the executive at the Kangaroo Court; the executive agrees that justice was not served but it did go as far as the grade nines were willing to co-operate, As for Burton Moon incriminating the office of president. I look upon his ranting and raving more as an invitation not to be afraid, to get out of themselves; so more imagination will be used. Another example of this attempt was the Sadie Hawkins — anyone there will have noticed the people who dressed Hillbilly had more fun than being in ordinary dress. The executive invites creativity. * * * The dances may be altogether cancelled for the school year if people persist to come drunk or anything else. The executive says slow down; it's just the board is responsible for students going to, at, coming from a student council dance and if you a student gets killed driving under some foreign influence -- the board won't be happy — thus no more dances. So if you drink don't drive. * * The executive hasn't been satisfied with anything they've tried yet, but they say that they will try harder. Hello, patriots A Message to the Student Body from the Liberation P'rcint of South Huron District High School, Student Patriots, Ever since the student Walk-outs of Spring, 1969, the various enslaved students of Huron County have been shattering their bonds to acquire the freedom which they clams is theirs by right, Most of these students have overcome their owner Don Taylor. From the left inner, Patti Glenn, Marlene Rader, Carol Anne Desjardine, Jo-Anne T-A photo Football By SHEILA SANGSTER Does a football have a face? Is a football real? Can a football ever know? Or care how people feel? A football's not a person A football cannot know, Why we kick him in the face, Why we hate him so. Of course if he were human, With reasoning from above, He'd see in sorrow what we felt Not hate, just brotherly love. Searching By GLORIA R. DAVIS Look. What can you see? A destitute face, or is it concealed by greed? Listen. What can you hear? A plea for peace, or are you deafened by a plea for power? Touch. What can you feel? A feeling of love, or is it numbed by hate? oppressors, although their dramatic, irrational methods of demonstration still did not prevent the lengthening of the school year. Like so many others before us, the students of SHDHS have reached the end of their patience with the arrogant domination of the Student Council Dictatorship. At South Huron, as in all dictatorship communities, the Student Council oppressor fiercely denies its aims for total dictatorship and has the support of the so-called "Teacher-Elite" which is more interested in protecting its own entrenched educational interests than in serving the vital interest of its social conscience. This servile group persistently denies obvious facts and raises up endless ridiculous excuses, such as lack of support, aimed at distracting the hard-pressed students' attention away from the only vital problem: lack of DEMOCRACY! Despite all this, the working student's eyes are daily becoming more attuned to reality: The Student's Council is a DICTATORSHIP! The dictators have, however, overlooked one factor, an important one. Its force is now becoming evident. Student's eyes have opened to the fact that they are being abused, exploited, dominated. They have also become aware that only immediate and total action can break their chains. Only think of the performance of the Student's Council and their few elite followers at athletic events, proclaiming the absurdity of victory and spirit, dominating the half-time scene with only a few fanatical cheerleaders; think of their profound nerve in holding a walkathon which obviously required much more gimicky publicity in order to obtain more than the minority of forty-three walkers! This is what our apathy has brought us: a DOMINATING DICTATORSHIP!! It is time for us, the silent, strong, majority of South Huron Students, to claim our given rights! Student Patriots, say NO to DICTATORSHIP, NO to DOMINATION! However, a situation cannot merely be rejected: it also needs to be corrected. Our situation amounts to an emergency. It is now that the search for alternatives must begin! There is only one way to bring this about: A social revolution in a framework of Democracy. There is only one way of overcoming, a Dictatorship: we must bring our school Spirit out of its underground existence, bring it into the open, show our Patriotism. We mutt prevent the oppressors from dominating us, by throwing away our shackles of shyness, casting aside our bonds of apathy, and destroying this domination from its inner ranks of PARTICIPATION! PARTICIPATION ENDS DENOMINATION! SOUTH HURON PATRIOTS, TO ARMS! THE HOUR, OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS STRUCK! DEMOCRACY or DEATH! By OLGA ZEMITIS What is our school newspaper? Many students in SHDHS seem to think it is something run by a group of radicals who use it to voice their opinions. I disagree with this. 1 feel our newspaper should be a paper for you the students and run by you. But how can it be if no one has the initiative to write in and give their comments. No wonder the only opinions expressed are those of the people on the Guardian staff. Are you afraid to write in? If you really believe in something — that shouldn't stop you from expressing it. Some people have said they would write letters to the editors if only they didn't have to sign their names. To this, all I can say is you didn't really believe in your idea in the first place. If you did you would have stood up for it. Also, I don't see how the whole school can be without opinion. Somewhere, somebody must like, dislike or not understand something . Even if, you don't feel you can express your feelings the Guardian will print original poetry, stories or cartoons. If anyone has anything to submit to the paper, it can be put in the Guardian mailbox in the office, the suggestion box in the cafeteria, or it can he given to one of the editors. Our school would be really great if only people would get interested in things, if they would only give a little—instead of expect a lot — the results would be worth a lot more to them, I have only insinuated in this article, that you the students of South Huron are opinionless, afraid and uninterested. If this article provokes no comment I will know that you are just that . READERS WRITE Letter to the Editor I didn't buy a year book last year so I can hardly pass judgement on it, however my sister borrowed one for a week-end and we got much enjoyment from it. For the past nine years the year-book has been read with great interest and amusement in my home My eldest sister still enjoys reminiscing with her friends about their school days and it fills in many happy hours as the ex-grads of South Huron relive their school days. While visiting cousins in London I have read their year books and I felt that any South Huron Year book compared favourably with theirs. I regret not buying a 1969-70 year book but I can assure you I plan on buying one this year. Sheila Sangster By an interested student The executive has asked me to sit in on all their meetings so that I can keep the student body Informed of the executive's opinions and plans. No matter what some students think, the executive has no power in so far as spending money without the consent of the council. Everything over the amount of ten dollars must be brought before the council (class representatives, club representatives, interested • students who have obtained fifty names) and discuss whether the expenditure will benefit students. This ensures against the executive becoming dictorial. But if the executive became over bearing what element of the student population would try to stop them? Would the student body feel that system as oppression or just be thankful not to do any of the thinking or work concerning student affairs. * The establishment of new and • varied clubs is one of the executive's chief objectives — to find something of interest to Report on Student Council activities