THE GRYPHON — Page Five
Sii
Delinquency Rises
STUDENTS PREPARE FOR EXAM — Advanced Placement Students; Sara Jane Collier,
Susan Mooring, and Terri Caine study frantically for their Advanced Placement English
Exam, which may provide them with the possibility of exempting Freshman English at
college next year.
Exam Raises Comment
“They come out grumbling,
but smart.” This is the im
pression given by most Ad
vanced Placement English
students to their peers.
Advanced Placement is for
students wishing to puruse
college-level courses while still
in high school. The purpose is to
stimulate the need for high
achievement in academic
subjects. The course really is a
year of good literature, in
tensified English grammar, and
Rule’s A Rule
Mr.,£lton Newbern and Mr.
Robert Miller trooped into the
study hall complex a combined
total of six times on Tuesday,
May 6 to announce the new rule
of the RMSH library: Bad
conduct or misbehavior in the
library will now be considered a
discipline problem. Students
will be given a detention notice
rather than suspension from the
library. Previously, a student
was restricted from the library
only during the period in which
he had been asked to leave the
library.
Nevertheless, an estimated
number of eight to ten detention
notices per day has been issued
since May 6; Mrs. Bailey
commented that approximately
the same number of students
from study halls enter the
library each period; yet there
has been a noticeable im
provement in students’ ceasing
to talk. Mrs. Davis, head
librarian, and Mrs. Bailey both
feel that most of the students
have cooperated very nicely.
Also, on May 12, two rules
were re-emphasized that had
been announced and supposedly
read at the beginning of the
school year. No textbooks will
be tolerated in the library, and
students coming from a subject
class to the library should see
Mrs. Davis beforehand.
★ Self-Service
if Located
well-instructed techniques of
writing. The course is taught by
Miss Kate Parks Kitchen.
The students participating in
the program are Susan Kitts,
Bob Rosser, Cathy Allen, Susan
Mooring, Quinn Alford, Terri
Caine, Phyllis Goffney, Bryant
Aldrige and Sara Jane Collier.
Recently, these students took
a three hour examination to
determine their English
mastery. The purpose of this
test is to do well enough to gain
credit for or to place out of
freshman English. By placing
out of English, students will
avoid repetition of basic
English lessons and actually
save money in college tuition.
Sara Jane Collier was readily
able to express herself on the
examination. She termed it “an
infernal Hades” but used less
delicate expressions. She also
reiterated that she was not
prepared for the test. She
thought it would be a more
objective test, not so much
essay.
[•
mfL
*?r r
"'•i ilKK
‘'SMWRI
mmmmarn
P0-'x
RMSH celebrities POSE — Is it Car! Douglas or Her-
man Bulluck; The Mack or Jeffrey Jordan; Count Blacula or
Luke Watson; Willie Dynamite or Argentina Scott? Only the
“Chicks” know for surp'
I®
Carolina office equipment company
At the corner of Grace
and Thomas Streets
By Janice F. Bottoms
More and more of America’s
delinquent juveniles are coming
from upper middle class
suburbia. Vandalism is on the
increase in these areas and an
astonishing number of
runaways are coming from
suburbia.
One of the major reasons for
this is family disunity. Many of
the income producers commute
to jobs and are only at home in
the evenings and weekends. On
weekends these hard-workers
like to get out and get away
from it all. Some of the mothers
become so occupied with
community affairs that the
children feel neglected. The
result, according to David Both
in “Crime in the Suburbs,” is
that getting in trouble becomes
a device for gaining necessary
attention.
Parents’ reactions to first
delinquency is often a con
tribution to continued
delinquency. Instead of concern
and love the parents are em
barrassed and humiliated by
their child’s actions and take
the actions as an intentional act
to make them loolc bad to their
friends.
In some instances middle-
class parents compensate for
neglect and lack of family
closeness through excessive
indulgence and permissiveness.
The result may be unearned
material luxuries and un
disciplined pursuit of pleasure.
The question that this boils
down to is can material
possessions and undisciplined
freedom make up for lost love
and understanding?
The most important thing to
keep in mind is to be able to
recognize delinquency symp
toms before violations occur.
Trouble acts as a clamp on
communications. Some symp
toms may be suspicion,
violence, defiance of parental
authority, hostility, emotional
instability, and antisocial
behavior.
You Shouldn’t Forget!
By Kim Nelson
— I’ve read that the worst
case of compulsive swallowing
was reported by The Journal of
the American Medical
Association in 1960. The patient
complained only of swollen
ankles, but doctors found 258
items in this stomach. Among
these were a 3-pound piece of
metal, 26 keys, 3 sets of rosary
beads, 16 religious medals, a
bracelet, a necklace, 3 pairs of
tweezers, 4 nail clippers, 39 nail
files, 3 metal chains, and 88
assorted coins. I find this story
a little hard to swallow.
— Most dams have rather dull
names. Take, for example, the
Hoover Dam or the Grand
Coulee Dam. But I recently
came across a cartoon in a
magazine that struck my fancy.
It was a picture of a dam titled
The Frankly Scarlet I Don’t
Give a Dam.
Barney's
News Stand
Nash Street
10%
Discount
For Required
Books
Morton insurance and Realty
915 Raleigh Road 446-9181
More styles, more selection. Come see
what we have for YOU
supermarket of auco parts
Two Locations To Serve You
218 S. MAIN ST. TARRYTOWN MALL
In ROCKY MOUNT
Also in Raleigh and Durham
★ Prices clearly marked
'k Open daily
Except Sunday
10 A. M. to 8 P. M.