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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-02-13, Page 1204 IT R Advance -T hies, `I`hersday, FebrUaryia1 p Sandra Currie Cecil de Boer TREASURER -MANAGER Union, George Michie, presents meeting Friday In Belgrave. of the North Huron his. report at the BOYS' BASKETBALL The Midget Mas Mustangs were defeated by the North- western Huskies by a score of 44- 20 on February 6. Top scorer for the Midget's was avid Gamble with six points. In Junior action, the North- western Huskies defeated the Madill Mustangs by a score of 87- '35. Top scorer for the Juniors was Robin Brent with 14 points. The Madill Mustangs' Senior team played a strong game against the Northwestern Huskies. Unfortunately, the Huskies defeated the Mustangs 85-50. Top scorers for the Seniors ' were Rene Caskanette and Ray Nicholson, each with eight points. Did you know ? . our March exams are only three weeks away? It seems like we just finished writing -our last set of exams. ... our next school dance is a Valentine Sweetheart Dance? Ean Thomas is the band who will be playing on St. Valentine's Day, February 14. So guys, come and buy your advance tickets for yourself and your sweetheart. .. , our cheerleaders did some flashy numbers at Monday morning assembly to liven us up after the weekend. Diane Thomas, captain of the squad, announced that they would be Credit cheering at the basketball game annual of the season on Tuesday, against Stratford Northwestern: ... some irresponsible person broke a window in the 'Student Lounge? ... the last year's Reach for the Top team played an exciting game against this year's team in the Student Lounge and won 225- 150? It seems that they Etre not getting older they're getting smarter ! . Mr. Webster is selling geraniums and hyancinths in the greenhouse for Valentine's Day? There is still time for you to come and buy that special flower for your special mother or sweet- heart for gValentine's, Day., BATS IN THE BELFRY! Or one bat, anyway, that invaded the annual meeting of the North Huron Credit Union Friday evening in Belgrave. The uninvited visitor was finally evicted from the feast by Sydney Thompson. Geography Club The club which has probably undergone the most significant face lift this year is the Geog- raphy Club. Headed by _ Mr. Cardy, this club has the backing and support of the whole Geog- raphy Dept. Many projects were planned for the year. In October the stu- dents went caving at Barrel Bay • and hiking along the portion of the Bruce Trail which runs through Beaver Valley. The dar- ing ,-moments of this trip were captured on a movie camera and later shown to the club (forward and backward) . A cross-country ski excursion is slated for Febru- ary 22 when the members will go to the Alps and view the various glacial land formations there. The club members are undd�r- taking a project which has never been done before by a group of Huron County students. With the approval of the planning board in Goderich, these students will make an intensive landuse survey of the town of Wingham. When 'asked about the project, one student said, "It lets us do a community project for our com- munity." The major field trip is under planning. Hopefully, it will be to Toronto in the springtime. This club has proven that with proper organization, dedicated leadership and enthusiastic members the ring of apath y can —Activities Council be broken. P Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: Congratulations are in order felt your editorial of February 9, I totally agree with your eorn- ments that some of our classes are boring, monotonous, and for the most part, totally ineffectual. Our present "educational" system at Madill leaves very Little to be desired which you em- phasized clearly in your editorial. However, I wish to take the case a step further. Since my arrival at this school in September, which accom- modates many teachers who are experts in mass murder of courses, which has a seemingly uncontrollable passion for overly - Girls' Volleyball There was a girls' volleybal tournament in Clinton on Wed nesday, February 5. The juniors played their firs game against Goderich winning 16-14. They were defeated in their second and third game 15-17 and 12-15. Their second match was played against Seaforth. Un fortunately they lost this match also with scores of 12-15 in the first game and 11-15 in the last game. Better ick next time! The seniors had a better day. `'!'heir first match was against Seaforth. Although F. E. Madill played a good game of volleyball they lost both games -13-15 and 9- 15. The sun shone brighter, though, when they played against the fearful Vikings (Goderich). The Mustangs rode away, win- ning both games with scores of 15-4 and 15-6. Thinking back to last Thurs- day, January 30, we should remember that the girls partici- pated in a volleyball tournament at Goderich. The first match that the juniors played was against Seaforth. They won the first game 15-3, lost the second 4-15 and won the third game 15-10. Their second match against Clinton didn't turn out as well. They were defeated in both games with 'scores of 15-18 and 18=' 16 for Clinton frequent tests, and which adheres to obsolete examinations, I have. found a certain disciplinary action used by some teachers that literally makes me Welt, I am referring to the use of deten- tions which I feel is the most juvenile act for a high school that I have ever heard of. In a public school, they may serve some pur- pose but in a high school, deten- tions are absolutely worthless. A high school teacher is just like a university professor, he shouldn't give a damn if your work is done or not, that task is up to the student. The teacher is there to -teach a subject and mark assignments which he or she decides needs attention. Discipline is up to the student and is beyond the scope of the l teachers field. The student who _learns that an instant failure is given to those who refuse to hand t in assignments quickly gains enough self-discipline to get him through. Detentions at the high school level prove nothing, and I doubt if _ they ever will. Another loving but dying student, Graham Kay 12M H -P Curling On February 5; the curling teams went to Stratford to par- ticipate in Huron -Perth competi- t tion. Each team played two eight- c end games. The girls' team won the first but lost the second game, s to drop from first to fourth place. This team consisted of skip, s Sandy (Men;• vice, Karen Wilson; second, Lynne Hill; lead, Donna Gregg. The rink was • s coached by Mr. Roberts. t The boys' team won both its J games and managed to come a home with/ the Huron -Perth trophy for the second year in at row. The players were skip, Ean c MacDonald; vice, Gary Ballagh; b second, Jim McBurney; lead, Dave Verbeek. The coach was Mr. Hawkins. Editorial Something that has always ap- peared. rather old-fashioned to me, is the formal atmosphere of secondary schools. I never know whether it's all right to wear sneakers and t -shirts, whether or not to stand up when answering a question and if you are supposed to address your teacher "Sir" or "Mister What's his Name" or something else that most stu- dents use to describe their teachers. Despite my confusion over the regulations of the school I still feel that everyone is quite limited in his actions and style of dress. "You must wear this and you must do this because it says so in the regulations." These regulations not only make the school old-fashioned, but also make it seem like a penitentiary. Some of these regulations really bother me. For instance, regulations state that you must be in class within a certain specified time limit between Class changes. If you don't do so, within the limit, you must get a late slip. And if you get too many late slips, you get a detention. In my opinion, the regulation is very childish. I suppose if the student was late too often the teacher would take the student over him knee and spank him. Can't they see that most of us are respon- sible adults and can take care of ourselves? We don't need a eacher.standing over us with his ast iron ruler telling us everything we must do. The tudent will not produce good work if it is forced upon him so everely. . Speaking of forcefulness — Regulations on the number of chool days a. student is allowed o miss before he must write his une examinations, seems to me s one of -the most tyrannical methods of forcing education. If he school board feels that they an make a student learn better The seniors lost their match , Just a Clown against Clinton.but won their second match against Seaforth, On Saturday, Feb. 8, the seniors went to London to par- ticipate in some exhibition games against London and area schools. —Mary Anne Alton Creative Writing The creative Writing Club is now in the midst of its major pro- ject of the school year — the assembling and publishing of the Creative Writing Booklet '75. This year, for the first time, the' club is sponsoring a creative writing contest, which is open to all students attending \F. E. Madill. Entries will be judged by a panel of teachers and first, second and third prizes of $28, $10 and $5 respectively, will be awarded. Winning. entries will be published in the booklet, the sale of which is tentatively planned for the first week of May. Students participating in this club, which is under the super- vision of Miss Spicer, are in- volved in evaluating and sorting the material submitted by the students, and planning the layout of the booklet. Students who are involved with the club received a bar and t e points for the first year of par 'cipation and three points for eac consecutive year. This club, through the publica- tion of the Creative Writing Book- let, provides a means by which students may express them- selves. In this way it is a valuable asset to our school activities WINGHAM POST OFFICE employees proudly display award cups presented to each one by District Director W. H. Wheeler for 100,000 hours without lost time accident from April 1970 to March 1974. They are: front, Mrs. Z. Coul- ter and Mrs. I. Johnston; back, H. France, L. McDonald, D. Conley, H. McKague, L. Elliott and G. Sutcliffe. I'm just 'a clown that!s a l i'Hlever, be J ,,., . just a clown that no one wants to see Each day goes by. and nights, they go too slow for a person that no one wants to know A laugh a smile that's what I wish to bring, to write a song for everyone to sing Each day we live we grow a little older but we spend too much time looking back over our shoulder We look back to see what we did in the past and we forget that the future is coming on us fast. —Fran Exel y forcing him to attend a speci- fied number of days of classes, well, I feel they're taking the wrong.. approach to the problem of • "playing hookie". It should be up to the students to attend classes as often as possible to ensure them of gaining a maximum of knowledge. Forcing .students to write at least one set of examinations is another senseless method of education. Examinations should be available to the students as an opportunity to improve one's marks. Putting pressure and strain on the students' minds tends to trigger emotional reac- tions, especially the emotion of nervousness. That is why, at examination time, you frequently see a person •with fingernails bitten off to the roots or a person with nerves so keyed up that in the morning, his shaking hands are unable to do up his clothes properly. This explains those people that walk around with shirts on backwards and inside - out, shoes on the wrong feet and a zipper left half open. (I always check mine two or three times in the morning to make sure it will hold for the day,) But there's just no doubt in my mind as to the harmful effects of examinations on students. Something else that bothers me is the regulations on dress. (Although I must admit that conditions have started to im- prove since girls were allowed to wear slacks — I don't mean to criticize the shapes of girls' legs.) I am sure that many girls feel much more relaxed now, especially in the winter, because they no longer have to walk around in frozen panty hose. But something that should be changed is the way teachers dress and I know many teachers find it very tedious and uncom- fortable to go in shirt and tie day - in and day -out. This formal style of dress isolates teachers from students and tends to widen the communications gap between teacher and student. Classes should also be made less formal. I can remember when I was in Grade 9 that I always had an immense fear of some of the taller, more muscular male teachers and I wouldn't dare to speak to them or -interrupt their very formal -type class. If the classes would have been more casual, I probably would have had a better under- standing of my , subjects and better marks too. I think a more causal -type of class would be a major step towards an improved teacher -student relationship and hopefully make education a much more meaningful and relaxing process. —Cecil deBoer,13A Co-editor SORRY The editors wish to apologize to Marj McKay whose signature ap- peared as Mark McKay on last week's literary article. The heart volunteer who calls on you at home, will leave behind valuable educational infor- mation. Study it carefully. The heart it saves may b OUl' :Owa Lyndo Lyon , Jane Shiell Brenda Joliso Question:. What is your opinion o� of the art displays in the library'! 040 Brian Reid, IOK: They are different. 0-0-0 Susan Kreutzweiser, 10Ei I think they are a nice idea to have. 0-0.0 Henry Olechowski, 12F: They need more body! 0-0-0 Dale Lougheed, 12D: My five year old sister could do better. 0-0.0 Lauranne Sanderson: I think it is a good example .of Canadian art. 0-0-0 Barbara Cameron, 9B: I think they brighten up this place. 0+0 Martha Versteeg, 9M: I think they are pretty good. �b •0-0-0 Brian Arnold, 9A: Great! Really good. 0-0-0 Gordon Kemp, 9E: It's diiir ferent. 0-0-0 Steven Johann, 9E: It's all right. It brightens up the room. THINK COLOUR .1 AND SAVE Shoes and handbags cost money. Now, recolour them at home — easily and inex- pensively. Last year's black shoes can be red or green. Ayblue handbag? Make it yellow. Instant Colouring works on, leather and many plastics. 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