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HIGH UFE
.May 12, 1970
HIGH UFE ffexf ITear
By Fred Thompson
During this year, High Lifte has
proven that students do have the
minds and the will to express these
thoughts which they feel are right.
High Life, volume XLV, attacked
complimented, and proposed to
almost every school organization
with results that have or will help
the student body. This newspaper
has worked for and tried to achieve
what every school newspaper
should, to meet the issues of the
student body and outside influen
ces head-on and to evaluate and
help in the solution for the better
ment of the students here at GHS.
Here, I wish to insert a congratu
lations to Steve Grossman, Editor-
in-Chief, and his staff for the work
they have put into making this
year’s High Life one of the best
ever.
As next year’s Editor-in-Chief, I
hav*e quite a job to fill. High Life
next year, has the potential to be,
the best ever at Grimsley. Jeff
Fenn, associate editor, Doug Gary,
feature editor, Scott Welborn,
sports editor, and Helen Ross and
Andy Kennedy news editors have
the abilities to handle their pages
with good taste and excellent vari
ety.
High Life next year, will neither
be “left” nor “right.” It will instead
be an advocate of student better
ment in' school community, and
nation. We hope to present more
specal issues next year and plan to
continue the music issue which was
so well received this year. We hope
to publish the first issue earlier
next year,, thus giving you more
issues for your money. Hopefully
High Life wiU be able to work close
ly with every school organization.
(We will weidome all letters
which are relevant, and any edito
rial or feature items. We will need
your support to make next year’s
newspaper a good one, though.
To coincide with your support,
next year’s staff will work specifi
cally for you—^the student body—
to increase the relevancy of what
you do at Grimsley Senior High
School.
7^ew VP Outlines Plans
It is a principle duty of Grims-
ley’s student body vice-president
to arrange assembly programs.
Gary Applewhite, vice-presdent-
eleot for the 1970-71 school year,
hopes that during his term of of
fice he can plan assemblies which
will appeal to the greatest possible
number of stud'epts. While he ac
knowledges that his aim is some
what “idealistic” in view of the
variety of tastes among Grimsley
students, he nevertheless intends
to try to satifsy everyone.
Gary suggest that assemblies
similar to the recent Earth Day-
ecology program could have more
speakers. He would like to have
possibly three guests to address the
students on different areas of the
same subject. Such a practice
would allow for the presentation
of Several viewpoints on one topic.
Also, next year’s vice-president
hopes to arrange assemblies pro
duced and presented by students
as an effort for greater student
participation in chapel programs.
Musical programs, both for their
entertainment and cultural bene
fits, will probably be continued.
Gary approves of the present
practice of scheduling assemblies
during the morning periods, and he
does not mention any plans to de
viate from that practice.
As vice-president of the student
body, Gary will be on the execu
tive board of student council next
year. He has served this year as a
regular student council member.
Gary believes that there is “not
enough communication between
students and student council.” The
blame for the situation he contends,
rests with both apathetic students
and student council members. The
apparent unconcern of some stu
dents when student council mem
bers attempt to make homeroom
council reports is discouraging to
Gary; apathy of students encour
ages apathy of council members.
The responsibility for student
council’s shortcomings is mutual to
both student and council members.
Finally, Ga^ Appiewhite urges
a realistic attitude among students
as to what they want accomplished
and what can be accomplished.
Gary will, no doubt, work equally
well with Grimsley’s administra
tion and Grimsley’s students in
planning assemblies, in executing
his role as a member of student
council’s executive board, and,
generally, in functioning as the
vice-president of this high school.
Commendation Due
To Student Body
In my capacity as a cartoonist
on the High Life staff I hope I
have presented an antagonist to
those injustices we know to be so
prevalent in our school. But, by
the time this article is published
there will have been more than
enough said to point out the dis
crepancies committed during the
first electon here at Grimsley. As
a result, I write this piece not to
congratulate my fellow students
(for congratulations are extended
for such accomplishments as win-
iting races and the like.) But,
when a student body maintains a
certain peace in light of rumors,
slated news articles, and presses
pressures—one must go beyond
commendations to express his pride
in his fellow students.
On the Friday of the second elec
tion, one did not sense an air of
impending violence; instead, there
was a healthy anticipation to see
who would win the election. Ru
mors, generated by media cover
age, of possible by violence by
students of other schools we went
for the most part, unbelieved.
This, in itself, would lead us to
believe that people have developed
rational thinking as their guide.
One may express his gratitude
to Mr. Glenn for his idea and aid
in acquiring voting machines for
the re-vote. As we trooped through
the Girl’s Gym, we recognized a
well organized voting center where
the only atmosphere of fear was
brought forth by the possibility
that people would pull the wrong
tab, unintentionally voting for the
wrong candidate.
Here, we might recognize the
individual faculty members who
Letter To Editor
Dear Editor:
On April 29, the Senior class re
jected a proposal to use the class
gift to set up a trust fund to be
gin a student union. Hopefully,
this would have started a project
towards which many service groups
would have wished to contribute.
A student union might provide a
place for students to relax during
bkeak, lunch, fend after school.
The ultimate goal would be to abol
ish study halls, allowing students
to spend their free period in the
studtent union instead. The student
union would be operated by the
students themselves with a mini
mum of faculty supervision. The
Class of ’70 has chosen not to be
gin such a fund, but I feel the idea
should not be allowed to die. It is
my hope that perhaps the classes
of ’71 and ’72 will see merit in a
student union.
Bill Proctor ’70
HIGH LIFE
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gave up their free periods to assist
those students who found the ma
chines ominous threats.
A great deal has been said about
the newspaper and television cov
erage of the issue. Although the
articles and reports given were
generally slanted toward the racial
aspect of the issue one must un
derstand that the media did hold
off somewhat. In talking to an edi
tor of a Greensboro daily news
paper we learned that had the
Greensboro. Youth Council not
gone to the School Board, his pap
ier would not have covered the
story until the final election. And
so we realize that while the media
might have sensationalized the en
tire issue to such an extent there
could have been violence, it did
not. In all fairness, the media must
be commended to their lack of
excessive coverage.
Still, it was the student body of
Grimsley, individuals, and students
throughout Greensboro who were
primarily responsible for main-
tainging peace throughout the time
of re-election.
DEFERMENT
POLICY QUESTIONED
On April 30, 1970, President Nix
on ordered ground troops and air
support across the Cambodian bor
der to attack enemy communica
tion centers and strongposts. About
one week before this announce
ment, Nixon had asked Congress
to greatly reduce or abolish college
deferments. Throughout the war
in Southeast Asia, the question of
the draft as a system and deferr-
ments has been secondary only to
the question of the war itself.
The typical 2-S college defer
ment is the one most likely to be
affected. Currently this includes
a deferment for most any subject
and requires only that the regis
trant be accepted by a college prior
to his induction notice.
Most colleges require a certain
average be maintained to stay in
school. If a student fails to maintain
this average and is dropped or
leaves of his own accord, he had bet
ter find another alma mater fast.
Otherwise, if his numbter is loiw
in the lottery, he may as well enlist.
If college deferments are abol
ished, ROTC would continue to be
an accepted deferment due to the
need of officers. This course in
college requires two years of active
duty after four years of school;
but allows many officers to con
tinue post-graduate work in what
ever field they choose after their
active duty term. This is furnished
by the particular branch of service
chosen.
The question, therefore, is not
a “good” way, but a method which,
would make discrepancies only for
the most reasonabilp reasons, a
way fairer to all, not to those with
money and status. There is no
“good” way to run something as
terrible as war. No person with the
slightest humanity in him wishes
or looks forward to the actual kill
ing of a man with much the same
feelings as all of us. No one cer
tainly wanted to die, either.
Yet, as long as few terrorists of
mankind seek to commit mass ex
tortions on the weaknesses of the
poor, the ignorant, and the dis
illusioned, the fairest way is for
all of us to irieet it, share its ago
nies its hard-won wisdom, and
end it.