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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-02-15, Page 15Times-Advocate, February 15, 1973 Page 1$ Apathy? ,„ Who .Carest Skiers I chill factor Planners fool weatherman, * winter carnival 'best yet' By DEB HILLMAN This year's winter carnival was predicted to be the best yet. And it sure came close! The student council made plans to suit everyone. They also fooled the weather by planning enough activities to keep everyone going even if there was a lack of snow, Friday's broomball game Girls learn By B. KING On January 31 South Huron sidling started with a snap—a cold snap of minus 35 degrees with the wind chill factor. About 46 enthusiastic fun-seekers roused themselves before the milkman, in order to meet a 6:45 a.m. bus, and travelled for three hours only to strap themselves onto boards and endure superhuman weather conditions, Forty minutes on the slope and ten minutes at the calorie counter was the general rule for novices and snowbunnies alike, Al Knight evidenced an affinity for the chair-lift, which necessitated a minor rescue and "Frost-bite Flear"was a warning to all novices, Credit must be paid to a tolerant bus driver, Norm Wolper who had to control individual temperature tolerances and a rousing mid-bus card game, Here's to more white stuff and maintained enthusiasm for future trips. MARY'S SEWING CENTRE 17 Albert St. CLINTON Authorized WHITE — ELNA Dealer Special Sewing Courses in lingerie Knits and Men's Wear FABRICS tricot, lycra, knits and all makings and trims Precision scissor sharpening Repairs to all makes of sewing machines Phone 482-7036 or 262-5372 after 6 p.m. THEY GO TOO FAST — One of the spectators at Saturday's tricycle race at South Huron's Winter Carnival was Kim Murray. She brought along her own transportation but seems to think the racers are going a little too fast. T-A photo. the pie throwing contest got out of hand and everybody was throwing pies at anybody who got in the way, The concert-dance with "Edward Bear" was a real success. The place was packed and the band lived up to our expectations - they were fan- tastic! During the whole carnival a coffee house operated and it was prosperous. Many kids went there to rap or just sit and rest their" feet. I myself feel there were some flaws in the carnival. One was that all day Saturday the small fry of Exeter and area descended on the school. The student council held a matinee for them in the afternoon. This was *fine except that the kids thought the halls were a playground and if anyone had gotten hurt we (the students of the school) would have been blamed. Some parents in areas like Zurich were told that their kids could not come to the carnival. Why, then, could the Exeter kids come? Aside from these problems, the student council did a great job in arranging this year's 'winter weekend!' between the teachers and the grade 13's turned out pretty well the same as last year -- the students won. The dance with "Southcote" (formerly "Homestead") Friday night had a good turn-out, and the band was good, After the dance the movie "Play Misty for Me" was shown, and it was satisfactory. Saturday's best activity was the tricycle race in which many teams competed. It was the funniest race in history! Many of the `trikes' lost parts or drivers as they hit those bad corners in the technical wing. One of the teams of girls had an accident in the finals and a bloody nose developed. At 1 p.m. there was a small disaster in the cafeteria; gymnastics Six SHDHS gymnasts attended a special clinic at Saunder's Secondary School in London, Saturday, which was organized by the students of Althouse College, In order to guide the girls, some excellent instructors were procured. They included special coaches of the gym- nastics team of U.W.O. and York University. Also instructing, were various members and coaches of the Olympic team, and winners of the Canadian Nationals, Excellent pieces of equipment were borrowed from various secondary schools, on which the aproximately 400 girls in at- tendance were allowed to im- prove their skills. Between the hours of 9 a,m. and 4 p.m., six areas of instruction were offered, They included floor exercises, balance beam, unevens, tumbling, trampoline, and vaulting. Much was learned by all from this experience, Weatherman avenges, icicle harvest stricken Fictional story English 456 is a senior English course dealing with the study of short stories and essays. In the next four or five editions of The Guardian we will present some of the best essays and short stories submitted by students as their final project of the course. Am y sister isn 't like me' By MICHAEL FOREMAN There seems to be a disease which is striking out at the western cultures in full force. This, dreadfid disease has no dis- criminations towards age, color, religion or creed. It will reach out and grab even the strongest of men and crush him like an insect. Man has probably never felt a force so powerful as this disease in all of recorded history. You won't see signs hanging on doors saying "This house is un- der quarantine". Instead you'll see your neighbour grow fat and docile and he or she will appear to be constantly in 4 state of fatigue. Their eyes will be shallow and withdrawn; the walk will be slow and tedious; the head will be bent as if the person has only two friends in the world and they are just about to leave him; these only friends are his feet. Caution my friend, this disease does not always affect your ex- ternal physical body for this disease is a disease of mind. Its name is "apathy" and 99% of the time only you can tell for sure that you've got it. For unless the circumstances are permitting no one but you will ever know if you have this dreadful and frightening dis- ease. Already South Huron is so terribly infected with apathy that there's absolutely no chance of a complete recovery. The students are so badly inflicted that already it's reached epidemic propor- tions and is spreading with frightening speed through out this fair town of Exeter, The "Oxford Dictionary" defines apathy as "insensibility, in- difference; mental indolence." What causes this disease? Is it caused from boredom ' routine or are you drinking a hum drum coffee. Apathy will effect you on your job, at home, or at the movies, It's sad that western man should be destroyed for the lack of will he now possesses, Picture this if you are still capable. A man who is not yet inflicted by this disease gets this fantastic new idea that will prevent all man from starving to death (now isn't that marvelous). All he asks is that every man and woman on earth do something silly like sneeze everyday. Now that's simple isn't it? I mean everybody can sneeze once a day and not mess up his whole day or make him late for work or whatever you do. However nobody sneezes and everybody on earth dies because of starvation, Wasn't that sad? I think it was most depressing, Just think of it-all of humanity died because everybody was so badly inflicted with this disease that nobody gave a damn and now there's nobody alive to give a damn, You may laugh if you want to. That's your privilege, but it's not a laughing matter; apathy is no joke. Every day hundreds of people die because some person was too apathetic to even care or to do something about the problem. In South Huron the students, as well as the teachers, are so strung out on this disease that minds are becoming slow, thick and shallow. Nobody cares, absolutely nobody cares about anything. It's a sorry tale but it's the truth. Everybody complains about nothing to do yet the people who complain are the ill ones of the school. Yet they do not realize that to cure the illness all you have to do is get involved and once involved with whatever the project is to stick with it instead of trying it a week or two and then slowly dwindle out. If you want to start something don't sit around crying on somebody else's shoulder to get them to do it for you; do it yourself. So what if you fail at your first try, don't get up and storm away huffing and puffing. Try and try again until you get it done. Don't expect people to push you on to your feet, for that way you have this state of mind deepened instead of dealt with successfully. Get off your fat behinds and do it yourself. Nobody else can or will help you for they are suffering from the same thing as you and they can not be helped either, unless you make the first step in the path of tomorrow. Remember it's all up to you baby nobody else but you. Think about it? coloured or plain water. Some contestants fastened wires or strings to buildings or insides of freezers, and regularly applied water, After enduring endless dif- ficulties such as icicles that refused to grow, brothers, sisters, and neighbours who continually thwarted efforts by casting stones at the growing icicle, and water which refused to remain on the wire, the icicle "farmers" were faced with bitter resentment. Mother Nature, who punishes all who imitate her, raised her temperatures and dissolved the crop of the icicle growers of South Huron. By KATHY DEJONG 2D The growers of icicles for last weekend's icicle growing contest at South Huron's winter carnival, found their "crops" slowly disappearing. Days of arduous attempts at squirting, throwing, and splashing buckets, bottles and pails of water on string, rope, wire and ice cubes were all in vain, as the temperatures took a sudden upswing. Various people were displaying their attempts at copying the wonderful drippings of Mother Nature, commonly called icicles. Methods of creation include freezing ice cubes in the freezer, and spraying regularly with Opinion Write on noise, ALL 1973 Models Now Available By BRENDA FAHNER "One. . . two. . ,three. ..We can talk now, Ann!" Those words will always bring back memories of my childhood. I can remember my father telling my twin sister and me to go to sleep. His final threat was a spanking if we didn't quiet down. My sister would close her eyes, fold her arms count to three, and then, sitting up in bed would exclaim: "We can talk now, Ann!" It seemed to her that counting to three was all that was needed to make things right. And so throughout the years, counting to three has made things right. My sister doesn't understand numbers, very She's men- tally retarded. Forum drugs, alcohol From British Leyland Including The 1973 Austin Mini and the 1973 Marinas SEE THEM NOW -Coming events at SHDHS The student council announced its up-coming dance schedule; Feb. 23 - Aaron Space; March 16 - Whitehorse; March 30 - Rhode Apple Red; April 13 - Buck Rogers; May 4 - Spring Dance (formal). As the dances,.' are the responsibility of the student council, this body had set out the following simple rules which will apply to all dances at SHDHS: 1. All students must have student cards to be admitted. 2. Non-students must be signed in prior to the dance by a student of South Huron, and the person signed in must be of the op- posite sex, 3. Admission is allowed until 12 o'clock, but full price will be charged at all times. 4, Admittance or readmittance at any time is left up to the discretion of the people at the desk or the prefects, 5. Smoking is allowed only in the cafeteria. 6. Drinking of any alcoholic beverage is prohibited. Many schools no longer have dances! If we all act in a responsible manner this won't happen to us. Think about it! South End Service EXETER 235-2322 Read/ This Page FOR H I GHSCHOOL N EWS I don't remember the first time my parents told me about Susan. I guess I just always accepted it as if it were something that was supposed to be. I knew other families were like ours of course, but I also knew, Dad used to say, "ours is extra special." As the years went by, I noticed certain differences more and more, There were times when I would ask, why? Why did it have to be us? Why couldn't we be like all the other twins? Why did Susan always have to be dif- ferent? I still ask questions now, though I hope I understand my sister a little better. The only real answer I've found is that God needed a messenger to send to our family to tell us of his' love. He sent Susan, knowing that through her, we would learn to care more for the people around us, and for Him, For by understanding her and accepting her handicaps, we can now help others by learning to accept theirs too. We have already learned a great deal about people and God's love for man, and through Susan's those of us who- are guilty, are going to have to use a bit of common sense and moderation about where and when we "shoot the breeze". There are lots of appropriate possibilities where How are we going to stop this deplorable situation? The solution is simple. We, especially those of us who are guilty, are going to have to use a bit of common sense and moderation about where and when we "shoot the breeze". There are lots of appropriate possibilities where we will not be imposing ourselves upon other people. If we want to gat° thellibrary,we ought toi have enough consideration to keep any necessary "chit-chat" down to a "dull roar". We are in a library, not a train station. By following these basic guidelines, we will be showing respect for our fellow students' rights, saving our oral cavities from a lot of wear and tear, and fighting the many harmful and unpleasant consequences of a common source of noise pollution. Ssssssshhhhhhh! Open Evenings By Appointment NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING from the other side of a football field, We would do just as well to give the other party binoculars and rely upon his proficiency in lip-reading. Likewise, we do not yell at the top of our lungs in a hospital corridor. Instead, we respect the people who are trying to recover from illness, and we make every attempt to keep our voices down to a moderate level. Therefore, with this view in mind, I have been rather disturbed, lately, by the in- creasing degree of noise which is becoming commonplace in our library, Some of us seem to have forgotten that the library is not a social club, whose sole purpose is the preservation and cultivation of the art of colloquialism. On the contrary, a library should be a quiet refuge for undisturbed study, research and reading, not a local "gab" centre. Would we want some vociferous, vocal "athlete" piercing the peace and tranquility of our study period before that' important test, disrupting our precious, short time after school when we are trying to do research for that big project which simply must be handed in by the beginning of next month, or destroying our chance to relax during lunch hour, when we are trying to read the latest editon of our favourite magazine? Certainly not. How are we going to stop this deplorable situation? The solution is simple. We, especially Notice Is Hereby Given That the 98TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE work; you have to get at the root of the problem, Some of these parents aren't alcoholics, they're bullies, They are selfish, inconsiderate, ignorant people. They beat up their kids when something goes wrong at the office, or someone makes them angry for some reason or other, I know of at least five of these 'bullies' in our nice, kind, respectable town. There are also parents who rarely sit down and have a good rap session with their kids about problems or even about things the kids want to talk about. When they see their kids on the street, they act as though they don't even know them. They disclaim and desert their, kids, They don't show love or kindness toward their children in the least way. Try starting with these people! Try starting at the root of the problem! To those parents who don't fit into any of these categories but still think their kids are on drugs—DON'T WORRY. If your kid is 'doing dope', he or she IS just trying it out; he or she won't take it from a complete stranger and a friend will make sure it is pure or safe. Dope shouldn't hurt them if they only try it, and that's probably all they will do, You see, if they know you love and respect them,• they will not want to hurt you, so they will only try it. Just talk to them and keep talking to them, but don't 'hassel' them. Remember: life is good enough by itself, You don't need alcohol or drugs and they won't help you, If you can't enjoy life now, without them, you won't be able to enjoy life with them. In the past few years I have heard numerous comments concerning drugs. Well, what about drinking? I know of many alcoholics, and about half of them go to the extent of drinking rubbing alcohol just for the little bit of alcohol in it. Did it ever occur to those alcoholics that maybe their kids (if they have kids) 'do dope' because they can't face the rest of the world because of that alcoholic in their family or because they can't face their family? Or maybe they left home because they had a lousy home life,, or maybe their last name meant trouble to anyone who heard it and they couldn't get a job when they were too young to get welfare, which means no money to get a place to stay, or food to eat or clothes to wear, The only way they could survive was to either steal or sell drugs to get money, or to live off an in- stitution. This whole problem starts at the family level—the parents, Just like a thiSt/e, you cut it off at the top but it won't die; it just keeps on growing. However, if you pull it out at the root, it dies. Well, why don't you start at the `root' of the drug problem? Start with the alcoholics! Start with the parents instead of trying to scare the kids out of 'doing drugs' because the scare tactics won't (A friend who was hooked, but got out only because of parents' understanding and help,) Hay Township Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held in the Township Hall, Zurich — ON — SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1973 example we are hoping to learn more each day. At 19 Susan is severely retarded. She functions at the level of a nine or ten-year-old child. When she was born, she was premature, and it was a hard delivery, As a result there was a lack of oxygen to Susan's brain cells. This resulted in damage to the brain cells, which, once destroyed, can never be replaced. There are several hundred kinds of known causes for mental retardation, and this was only one of them. As with all other illnesses, the problems entailed vary from one - individual to the next. Some mentally retarded persons have no physical disabilities at all, whereas others, like Susan, may have trouble walking, speaking or eating, because the part of the brain contolling these functions has been impaired. When Susan was very young, she was considered a spastic. With training and a lot of loving care and work on the part of my parents, she learned to walk when she was three. Susan was a slow learner and she will never be able to catch up completely. When I was younger, I couldn't accept her limitations. I didn't understand why she couldn't ride a bike or run as fast as I could. Consequently I began to look down on her and treated her as a child. Often I would tease her about her limitations. Before I started going to school, Susan attended a special kindergarten where we lived. It was designed especially for children with disabilities such as being deaf, blind, physically handicapped or mentally retarded. When Susan would bring her work home, special attention was given to it. When I started bringing mine home also, it seemed as though hers was more special, I used to feel jealous and cheated. When I would bring my girl friends over to play, we would often leave Susan behind. We did this mainly because she couldn't keep up to us, but inside I would have a very guilty feeling. After a few discussions with my parents, I began to understand that she needed, and needs, the extra attention. When I reached junior high school , I realized for the first time I had been looking at my sister only from a standpoint of her intelligence, Susan has many fine qualities, but for thirteen years of my life I had seen her only in terms of her limitations in learning. At last I became aware of her personality. When she's good, she's outgoing, tries to please everyone and has a way of making people like her from the start. But when she's bad - watch out. Most of the time she's happy and affectionate at home, but sometimes she Can become moody and cold in a flash. She is a constant worrier. After I discovered the real Susan, I would play with her a lot and try to teach her things. I Often tried to teach her to swim but she just couldn't coordinate her arms and legs properly. But no matter how inuOi we fight, a closeness is always there. When she comes to me for comfort and I'm holding her tight, I often wonder What I would do if l ever had a retarded child, I keep remembering all the people around me who are ready to help, AT 2:00 P.M. GET AWAY — It's not quite clear whether this SHOWS student is battling with the trees, or fighting his way uphill, But he looks to be having a "swinging" time. For the presentation of t he Annual Report; to elect three directors to replace those whose term of office has expired; and t o transact all business as may be done at a general meeting of the policyholders, The retiring directors are Cecil Desj- ardine, Grand Bend.; Arnold McCann, Dashwood a nd Theo Steinbach, Zurich, who are eligable for re-election, MELVIN L. WgBSTER President JOHN 12„ CONBITT Secretary Treasurer and all that, my parents have done for both of , us. Finally, I remember what Susan always Says "Count to three, and everything will be all right," Name withheld on request, * * * By JOHN BLACKWELL Noise can be a very useful commodity. Most of us use a refined system of organized, vocal vibrations, in a mode of communication, known as speech. Sometimes, we scream clamorously, almost splitting our neighbour's eardrums. At other times, we speak at an average, conversational level. Still, at other times, we speak in a hushed whisper so that our voice is barely audible. Generally, we accept the fact that there is a time and a place for each method of speaking. Most of us do not whisper if we AN giving a public speech of trying to get a friend's attention By GORDON MORLEY The meeting of the U,C.W. was held in the church basement last Wednesday evening. Mrs, Dyck opened the meeting with •a devotional reading, A hymn was sung followed by prayer by Mrs, Dyck and the scripture reading. A dialogue "Family Planning" in India was given by Mrs. Arnold Wasnidge and Mrs. Marjorie Steeper. A poem "Generation Gap" waS read by Mrs, Wasnidge, The new president, Mrs. George Lee, took oven' for the business. Eight members an- swered the roll call, It was decided to try travelling apron as a money making scheme, Personals Lyhda and Judy Hobinson spent the weekend with their parents. The Board of Stewards met at the home of Mr, & Mrs. Wilbert Lewis last Monday evening. Mrs, Eva AlliSon visited with Mrs, Earl Morley in St. Marys Hospital last Wednesday. NOW WHAT DO I DO-- This doesn't look to be a veryY big hill. Nevertheless, this unidentified SHDHS student seems to be having a dii- ficult time negotiating it.