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HighLife
November 21, 1966 i
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HIGH LIFE CALLS
Editor’s note: Since we have
an honor code, then we are ad
mitting that it is a vital force,
with some effect on student life.
Therefore, in order to prove that
this isn’t the case at Grimsley
any longer, the question for this
issue was: Do you think there
would be any significant change
in student behavior if the Grims
ley honor code were abolished?
Tom Statham, ’67, replied, “If
the honor code was done away
with I can say positively that there
would not be any change in stu
dent behavior.”
Norman Gentry, ’67, answered,
“There would not be any change
in student behavior in my esti
mation. I think that an honor code
is nice to have because it sheds
a good light on our school. I think
that we should always have an
honor code.”
Is A Code Really Needed?
Paula Holliday, ’68,^ commented,
“Although some people go by the
code, many others don’t. Therefore,
the abolishment of our honor code
wouldn’t change the behavior of
many students, if any.”
An honor code, when reduced to
its lowest terms, must be basical
ly a set of rules for social con
duct. Therefore, the question
arises: is there a need for such a
social code at Grimsley?
At Grimsley, the good students
will continue to act right, while the
bad students don’t even know what
the honor code is.
Cheryl Jones, ’68, decided, “It
would depend on the person. Those
that follow it now would follow
it anyway. Those that don’t follow
it now wouldn’t if it weren’t
there.”
Since there exists an honor code
at this school, it is admitted that
there must be a need for it. Yet
more important, the designers of
Grimsley’s honor code must have
felt that their code would greatly
affect school life and behavior, and
improve student conduct. Maybe
it did when they framed it, but is
the code helping to improve stu
dent life now?
Knowledge Comes First
Most students live by an inner
moral code, trying to do what
they as an individual think is
right. If a person reads a bad
law, he may not attempt to follow
it. If that same person feels an
inner unwritten law, chances are
he will try to follow it. Of course,
laws are necessary to provide a
guideline for people, but in the
modern world, are social codes
really needed? There is an axiom
in every law department that says
that the good will act right, while
the bad get worse.
Many times in the past, and
probably again in the future,
HIGH LIFE has criticized certain
school activities that the staff
felt need to institute some change.
Some of his criticism is naturally
directed towards the student
council. However, there is one ma
jor prerequisite before a person
or organization should castigate
anyone, that being thorough
knowledge of the functions and
activities of the object under criti
attend. In the past, the major rea
son that students have given for
not going to the meetings has been
that they don’t have a last period
study hall, or that they have too
much to do during that period.
The student council’s superb idea
of a meeting after school should
change this.
cism.
Grimsley’s student council bas
provided all the members of the
studenit body with an excellent
chance to remedy this situation.
Tomorrow immediately after
school, a special secession of the
regular coundl meetings will be
conducted to allow everyone who
hasn’t yet been to a meeting to
At times, you all feel that the
student council does things that
you as an individual, or a group,
do not approve .Sure, it’s your
council that you elected ,but how
can a person intelligently criticize
an organization of which he knows
nothing? This type of criticism
accomplishes nothing, and is sure
to cause bad feeling. The student
council needs and wants construc
tive criticism from the student
body. So they are having this
special meeting after school en
tirely for your, the student body’s
benefit.
Keep Up Grimsley’s Image
SOUTHERN LIVING, a nation
ally-known magazine dealing with
life in the south, had a story in
its October issue, titled “A City
Enriched by Its Teenagers”, which
explained the school beautiful
program in Greensboro, its effect
on the town and on the students
involved in the project.
In beginnings the article pointed
out that the entire project came
about because many parents and
students felt that the energy of
Greensboro’s teenagers wasn’t be
ing aimed in the proper directions.
As a result of much debate con
cerning a solution, the now well-
known service club idea began.
Greensboro was the first city
in the United States to set up a
special program for the guidance
of developing programs for teen
agers. A Youth Council on Civic
DATES TO REMEMBER
Monday-Tuesday, November
21-23
Thanksgiving Collection
Tuesday, November 22
Open Council Meeting
Affairs, with members from all
the high schools in the city, was
started so that the students them
selves could decide what they
wanted to do.
In particular, the article covers
the Grimsley school beautiful pro
grams, from the first one. with
Keith Gulledge as chairman, down
to the present committee. The story
explains the many different proj
ects that the students at Grimsley
started, and carried to completion,
which the article points out, helped
the school to win the school beau
tiful trophy every year since the
program began.
The point is though, that now
the school beautiful program of
Grimsley has been deemed worthy
of national attention. In the fu
ture, the students of Grimsley
must uphold this image, and to
do this, you must work harder
than ever before. From now on,
the best you can do won’t be
enough. Every school in the na
tion will be out to beat Grimsley
in school beautification. But are
you going to let them beat you
without a fight?
This is entirely for your benefit,
so why pass up a free opportunity
to see if your council is doing its
job. While you’re there, you mav
even find a way to help them, or
see some problem that needs to be
solved. Then again, you could spot
some huge flaw in the school’s
legislative system, and this is just
the time to point it out. And if
perhaps you don’t go, in the future
you should have no right to say
anything about the Grimsley stu
dent council.
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Richard Cary, ’67, added, ‘T
think that there wouldn’t be any;
change in student behavior. Life
would go on just as it always has,
at Grimsley.”
Abby Lieb, ’68, thought, “I don’t
think there would be any signifi-i
cant change in student behavior;
but I do think that we should havei
an honor code. The code gives!
one respect for his school.”
James Tatro, ’68, advanced, “No,i
I don’t even think that the honor
code is ,doing what it. was set up|
to do’. If people are going to cheat,'!
they’re going to cheat If they’re go-i
ing to be honest, then they’ll bei
honest, even without the honor
code.”
Susan Comer, ’67, decided that
“No one stops to think if they arei
going against the honor code ev
ery time they make a move. It isi
not that much a part of us that
we go by it automatically after i
having been exposed to it fori
three years. We go by the morals i
we have been brought up with.i
The honor code isn’t going toi
change that.”
Elizabeth Farmer, ’68, replied,
“Oh, yes. The honoY code means
something to everybody. They need
a set of moral rules to follow or
everyone would go wild ,with noth
ing to guide them.”
Ryan Stanley, ’67, thought, “No,
those students who do not observe
the honor code are the same ones
wh would act that way under
any circumstances. Similarly,
those students who have a bad
set of morals are not going to be
influenced by the honor code,
either. Therefolre, it|s effect is
nothing, neither good nor bad.”
Beth Folk, ’68, answered, “It’s
good that we have it, but it doesn’t
affect people that much. It might
bother a few people, but they are
more concerned with the idea of
honor, expressed in the honor code,
rather that idea put into actual
practice.”
Karen Filipski, ’67, commented,
“No, it’s a good code, but it just
doesn’t have any effect on the
students. Their morals, if any,
are already formed by the time
they reached Grimsley.”
Finally, Pat Hunt, ’68, replied,
“No, there’d be no change. I think
it would help people to be depend
ent on themselves instead of rules
for the way they behave. They
shouldn’t need an honor code to
go by”
Where Are You, Gene!
In the last issue of HIGH LIFE
there appeared a poem dealing
with the problems of gum-chew
ing at Grimsley, written by ar
unknown person named “Gen
Action.” The staff of the paper
ras received many compliments
about the selection of the poem
and the staff hopes to convej
them to Mr. Action. However
after diligently searching througl
the regular channels. Gene is still
unlocated.
This is just one of many exam
pies that could be used to shov
that, you, the students should any
thing you turn into the paper. You
work may be very good, and unles
the paper has your name, HIGI
LIFE cannot tell you this. Then
is no possible harm that could he
baU you for signing, unless yoi
don’t like the criticism of you
peers. So in the future, HIGI
LIFE would greatly appreciate you
signing the work that you send t(
the paper. Don’t you agree. Gene