High Life
Volume LVI, Number 8
Grimsley Senior High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, N.C. 27408
Monday, March 22, 1982
Orchestra,
Chorus Rank
Superior In
Competition
News Analysis
Draft Registration:
A Moral Dilemma?
By John Lasley
Is draft registration a
prelude to peacetime draft?
Are most Americans in
favor of the draft?
When his administration
adopted registration in
1979, President Jimmy
Carter stressed that it was
only a precaution in the
event of a national emergen
cy and was in no way leading
to a draft.
During the Presidential
campaign of 1980, Ronald
Reagan stated that he was
against draft registration.
Now, however, since Con
gress has approved
Reagan’s budget hikes in
military spending, the Presi
dent has changed his stand
and supports draft registra
tion. Since membership in
the nation’s standing army is
sagging, it is only logical
that there will have to be a
draft to provide more men to
operate the new military
equipment.
Only seventy percent of
the 18-year-old men who
were to register for the draft
complied with that order in
1981, compared with ninety-
five percent in 1980. There
were more than 400,000
registers last year alone. The
deepening fear of a war with
El Salvador and the Polish
crisis could be a major factor
in this decline of registering
young men.
On February 17, a group
of demonstrators par
ticipated in a march on the
U.N.C.G. campus that was
sponsored by “Students
Concerned About Central
America.” The demonstra
tion was called to protest
the involvement of the U.S.
in El Salvador. It “was in
tended to express the
group’s dislike towards the
draft and to inform the
students about the
seriousness of the El
Salvador problem,” accor
ding to one of the protestors.
While protests such as
this one have not reached
the levels of those of the
1960’s, it is apparent that a
growing number of
Americans are not in favor
of a draft. In a national poll
taken in September of 1981
by NBC celevision, forty-one
percent of these surveyed did
not favor the draft.
Despite this clear opposi
tion on the part of many
Americans;, it seems the
draft is inevitable. An
unstable world economy.
Communist influence in Cen
tral America, and especially
in military spending make it
clear that it is.
Hodge Leads High IQ;
Team Wins First Match
Under the leadership of
team captain Charles
Hodge, Grimsley’s top seed
ed High IQ team, composed
entirely of seniors, won its
first match of the year
against eighth-seeded
Smith.
During one of the group’s
practice sessions, Mr. Bert
Whisenant, the team’s ad
visor, revealed the selection
process by which Hodge was
selected captain. After the
elimination of several
students competing for posi
tions, Hodge’s “all-round
ability” to field questions
and to work as a team
member provided him an
“inside track.” Other posi--
tions were designated on the
basis of concentrated areas
cur-
and
such as mathematics,
rent events, history,
literature.
Team member
Michelangelo Grigni ranks
among the top five high
school mathematics
students in the country.
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Rob Gay scores two points
in the fourth quarter to put
the Whirlies up by four.
The Whirlies, however, lost
by one to defending 4-A
state champions. Chapel Hill.
(Sykes Photo}
Whirlies-40 Tija(ers-41
Grimsley Falls By One
up
As Mike Hinson’s shot
rolled in and out, Grimsley’s
basketball season came to an
abrupt end. The Whirlies
were within an eyelash of
upsetting Chapel Hill before
falling 41-40 in the first
round of the state 4-A play
offs.
From the outset, the game
was a flip and tuck battle.
Grimsley managed to main
tain a slim lead in the second
half until John Davis hit a
free throw with five seconds
left to put Chapel Hill on top.
The Whirlies threw the in
bounds pass to half court and
called timeout to set
Hinson’s last shot.
Once again Hinson and
Polk pulled the load with 17
and 11 points respectively.
Grimsley finished the season
with a 19-7 record.
# # #
Second year girls varsity
basketball coach Ron Hart-
sooktook a deep breath after
a 74-51 defeat to Chapel
Hill, the defending 4-A state
champions. The March 2
defeat was the worst of the
season for the Whirlies.
The score, however, does
not reflect the game; the
girls had the ball with six
minutes left in the game and
a chance to cut the lead to
four. But fate was not on
their side as All-American
Pam Leake grabbed one of
her 20 rebounds and drove
for two of her 28 points.
Conference Player of the
Year, Ann TYeadway, scored
a game high 32 points, and
Lynn Floyd contributed 12
more.
The girls loss to High
Point Andrews, 46-43 in the
conference championship,
set up the game with Chapel
Hill.
The Whirlies finished their
season 19-3 overall and 9-1
in the conference.
Computer Program Helpful, ‘Fun’
Grimsley students now
have another avenue open to
them in helping to decide on
a school and/or career. This
is a computer program call
ed CHOICES.
According to Mr. Bernard
Henkle, GHS career
counselor, this computer can
give students educational in
formation as well as occupa
tional information. It is link
ed to a central computer
bank in North Carolina’s
Research Triangle.
A student receives a hand
book to use in conjunction
with the computer. One
fliay ask questions ranging
from general ones to ones
concerning their own per
sonal interests in com
parison to established pro
fessionals in a selected field.
The student gets to keep the
computer printout.
Henkle is enthusiastic
about the program, em
phasizing that it is a per
sonal yet fun way to learn
more about prospective
schools and careers.
GHS Clubs: Service Or Social?
Recently Dr. Bonny Baur,
GHS principal, requested
from club presidents a list of
each service club’s enroll
ment and activities. Accor
ding to Baur, there had been
some public criticism about
the service clubs turning in
to “social clubs.”
In light of this criticism,
Baur felt that her request
was a fair way to find out
which clubs were in fact
“service clubs” and which
were not.
After Baur’s request
which she stated was “not to
harass, but to protect,”
rumor quickly spread that
service clubs were to be
disbanded. Baur emphasized
that this is not true. If the
clubs are going to take the
name of “Grimsley service
club” and have advisors
from Grimsley’s faculty,
Baur feels that they should
indeed perform some type of
service for Grimsley. If the
clubs are not going to serve
Grimsley specifically and
are going to concentrate on
community service, Baur
would rather drop them as a
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Vocational-edu cation
students have the first
chance to use the computer
which is on temporary loan
to the school. However, Hen
kle seems to think that if
enough students show an in
terest, the school could have
the loan period extended. In
terested students should
contact Henkle in the
Guidance Office.
In addition to the com
puter, the Guidance Office
has other occupational infor
mation of interest to
students in such publica
tions as “Where
Tomorrow’s Jobs Will Be,’
and “Job Outlook: 1985”,
with figures of predicted job
openings available and
salaries. One can receive
other information like this
by writing to:
The Bureau of
Labor Statistics
1371 Peachtree St. N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30367
and asking for information
about future jobs.