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Page 2 HIGH LIFE December 18,1980 John Wooden Chalk Talk By Tommy Grant Most college coaches build teams to win, but former UCLA head coach John Wooden built teams for character; winning was a side effect. John Wooden, and English major from Purdue and All-American basketball player, spoke at the December 16 GET SET Con vocation. His message to students was both exciting and inspiring. All championship teams were very sound academical ly as well as athletically. Wooden stated that, “If they don’t have the grades forget them.” In Wooden’s mind, the athlete would have to be a student first; there were no special cases under Wooden. Becoming a great coach did not come overnight for Wooden. After every season he would pick a topic under basketball and study that topic until next season - and this is a man who has been coaching for over forty years. He stated that he would try to build his team on quickness rather than size. Too many coaches look for size, and that will not win basketball geunes. Out of all his years coaching he never had the nation’s highest scorer, but he had the nation’s highest scoring team. John Wooden was a very influentied speaker and of fered serious thought for the future of young people to day. Coimnent Grimsley Senior High School P 801 Westover Terrace VjBs - Greensboro, N.C. 27408 Co-Editors Karen Brown, Tommy Grant Editorial Staff Barbi PriUaman (News), Leslie Berkelhammer (Feature), Brian Hoagland, Sherri Phillips (Sports), Mark Langston (Columnist), Van Alston (Student Services) Assistant Editorial Staff Susan Brady (News), KeUy Ferrell, Cindy LeBauer (Feature), Andrew Miller (Sports) Reporting Staff Cisa Berkelhammer, Laurie Bradley. Cathy Cass. ,Iohn Cox, Sandy Kates, Cameron Reece, Steve Streuli, Lisa Von A.spern, Robyn Walton Business Manager Cathy Cas-. Advertising Manager Danny Beaincr Assistant Advertising Managers • Beth Byrd. Laurie Bradley Advertising Staff Alyson Hoppough, Brian Kriegsman Classified Ad Supervisor ...... Susan Brady Photographers Beth Sykes (Head), Kevin Carpenter. Anthony Hipps, Susan Rabold, Alan Seay .ArUst Tim Ellis Tvpists •■•'sa Berkelhammer (Head), Sandy Kates (Irculation Manager LaCasse Office Manager Cameron Recce Advis.)r . i.ynn Wright'lanner Printed By .Stone l^niiting Conipjr.y. Inc, itigh r'.Vm, Nort;-. i The Gjmputer By Anne Henry Once upon a morning dreary, sat the counselors weak and weary. Pondering over the report cards, hundreds and more. While they sat, with expression pouted, suddenly, someone shouted, “The report cards are here,” he sighed with deplore, “Full of computer mistakes and nothing more.” Ah, distinctly we remember that second day of September When each of us sat fixed, anxiously awaiting the reply From the cold, mindless machine who would repeatedly deny All of our requests to learn so much more. Only to receive a messed up schedule, only this and nothing more. But how easily we can recall, the year and date late in the fail. When “Socrates” became our superior^ our head. Now every teacher, counselor, student, and parent comes to dread A report period, semester, and school year anew. It is easy to understand the anguish they bore, A school system run by a computer. Filled with mistakes and nothing more. Questionable Service By Van Alston Serteens? Jaycees? Jay- cettes? Exchange? Key? OHJ’s? Liason? Civitans? Civinettes? Y-teens???? Who and what are these, you may ask. Goodness, don’t you know? They’re service clubs. Service clubs? What do they serve? Good question! Unfortu nately, there is no good answer, and that is where the problems in the Grimsley service clubs lie. They don’t serve anybody or anything but themselves except on some bright, wondrous occa sion that is suggested by Assistant Principal James Fuller, or is arranged by the Greensboro Youth Council. The negative aspects of these organizations far out weigh their good points. During any given month at school you hear of how some club “messed up” and is being reviewed by Mr. Fuller. What purpose do these reviews serve? Last year a club from Grimsley all but tore down a house at Myrtle Beach, yet they still have their charter, and they proudly display this fact by wearing specially printed T-shirts. At the writing of this article, one club is under investigation by the Greens boro Police for vandalism to two students’ cars during (Continued on page 8) “Computers were designed,” we’re told, “with teachers in mind To make their work load much lighter.” But counselors and teachers know that their load is mightier. Mightier than it has ever been before. “If only scheduling was the same as before. But as for our pleas, the computer chooses them to ignore For we still have computer foul-ups and nothing more. ” Students, back to the Guidance Office turning. With every wire of anger burning, wretched in despair. Shouting their tearful cries, “This is unfair!” Parents calling the School Board office, only to hear a monotone recording. “I am sorry, no one is able to speak with you, please call again tomorrow.” But every day we call, the statement is the same. To the media, the parent, “Socrates” shuts the door, “Ihave said all I will,” and nothing more. Until the day comes when the computer no longer hums. We must remain stedfast in our ways. Leave no rock unturned, no breath unused. Until the metallic monster becomes defused. We shall fight until the machine we most abhor. Lies idle in a junk yard pile and nothing more. Draft - Threat To Liberty , Country By Mark Langston (Starting January 1,1981, all male citizens will he required to register for compulsory military service upon reaching the age of eighteen). World unrest and a rebirth of patriotism have promoted a call for a return to the draft. While the intent is good, the action is misguided. The government has no Constitu- tioned power to draft citizens, and if the Thir teenth Amendment is interpreted strictly, a draft is expressedly forbidden. Americans have traditionally accepted conscription only in emergencies. Even so, such times have stiU produced an overflow of volunteers. There exists no evidence to state that Americans have lost this characteristic. The draft was continued under heavy pro test after WWI through the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts. It was not until 1974 that the volunteer system was finally re- Ifthe administration has found that it cannot form an army without conscription, it will find, if it venture on these experiments, that it cannot enforce conscription without an ar my. -Daniel Webster (1814) established. In 1978, the year prior to the return of draft registration, the armed forces met their enlistment goals by 100.1%, hard ly a shortfall. Still there are those who insist the volunteer system is inadequate. Forty years of military mismanagement has caused America’s defense problems. Now, instead of raising already poverty-level military pay and improving the quality of equipment, a draft is being pushed toward law. Registration must be halted before it progresses further. A draft would not have prevented our fustline helecopters from fall- j ing apart on the way to Tehran. This is an age of strategy and technology. Future wars will be decided on those factors, i A draft will only serve to hide past govern-1 mental mistakes, and most dangerously, to keep on making them. Our problems can not' be solved by a human lottery.
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