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5. \ i Volume 71 No. 4 Grimsley High School 801 Westover Terrace Greensboro, NC 27408 February 14, 1995 The following Grimsley students are National Merit Semiflnalists: Ryan Robinson, Tommy Ross, Lindsey Schechter, and Carrie Traister. Grimsley students who finished as National Merit Commended are; Laura Arrington, Kim Bardy, Josh Bledsoe, Mike Dalton, April Jeffers, Will Medford, Jason Mofif Brian Moore, halie Sage, Graham Sharp, Diana Shull, Jason Stipanov, Erin Wells, and Tina Wilkinson. Merit recognition is based on students' PSAT scores. All atheletes who plan to participate in Spring sports are required to have sports physicals no later than tomorrow, Febru ary 15. Jamie Link has been recognized as a memberofthe 1993-1994 U.S. Swimming Scholastic All-America Team. The team is comprised of high school student-ath letes v^o have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and vriio have competed in the senior or junior nationals. Wan Paik, a Grimsley junior, was named assistant principal cellist for the 1994 North Carolina All-State Honors Or chestra, November 11-13 in Wmston-Sa- lem. The 116 piece Honcffs Orchestra rep resents the top players from both the Western and Eastern Regional High School Honors Orchestras, selected last spring. Art Gold Key Awards were given to five Grimsley students: Michael Duehring, Danielle Johnson, James Nickerson, Nicholas Fragola, Mac Newell. GHS finished first among Guilford County Schools and second out of 38 North Caro lina schools competing in the International Knowledge Master Tournament Grimsley was second only to the School of Science and Math. Members of this year's team in clude: Lindsey Schechter, Diana ShuU, Ja son Moflf .f^ml Jeffers, Mike Dalton, Joe Murphy, Patrick Kinlaw, Anna DeCasper, Hester DeCasper, Irina Bochkis, Keith Tay lor, MaiaK^lan, John MarkPool, and James Khanlariaa m Where there's smoke, there's controMersy By Sarah Pendergraft Reporter “The prohibition of smoking on'school grounds generally applies to only one population, the students. Others, faculty and staff are allowed to smoke publicly in designated areas. Thus, the school as an institution is placed... in conflict with notions of equality,” says the Surgeon General in his 1976report, Smoking andHealth. Not anymore. On December 27,1994, it became illegal for anyone to smoke in any elementary, middle, or high school, or library that serves children. This is the “Pro-Children Act of 1994," part of President Clinton’s “Goals 2000.” This federal law applies at all times, not just during school hours, and includes all federally funded day care programs. Viola tors may be fined up to $ 1000. In a recent interview with the High Life, Congressman Howard Coble erqrressed his distaste for tiie new regulation “I am opposed to any law that restricts willing adults fixmi consuming tobacco... Once a person attains his or her majority (becomes an adult) it is 15) to the individual wfteflier he or she consumes tobacco products.” He does not, howevCT, su}qx)rt student snxMig. “Ihe new policy is a good one. I have no synqrathy with addicts who cannot cqre wMi nicotiiK wiflidrawal for d^t hours!” said OTie Grimsley teadier, speaking in the safety of arronymity. Others disagree. “It destroys the morale of teachers and causes excess stress,” said another teacher. “The motivation behind this is adminis trators with nothing better to do, and over concern with being politically correct I question the validity of studies on the effects of second-hand smoke. 1 am afraid this is another government intrusion in people’s lives,” said one teacher. “All of a sudden lung cancer has become an epidemic. Why? Anyone who doesn’t believe that smoke, first or second hand, is dangerous is a big, fet fool,” said another member of Grimsley’s staff. “The law will have both positive and negative effects - the nonsmokers can breathe a sigh of relief and stop complaining - the smokers now have more stress to deal with. The administrators who erfforce the policy vrill have to decide which is more important, catching teach ers who smoke or working to improve education, discipline, and attendance,” commented a teacher. Students also have mixed viewpoints. Teacker Response to Regulations Kidd Photo Members of the 1995 TWIRP court: ^an Robinson, Mac Newell, Kenneth Miller, Tommy Ross, Zaldm Williams, Adam Bar isich, Ezra Jones, BiUy Linnane, Seth Cross, David Bass, and Chad Kraska. Please see the accompanying TWIRP article on page 8. Keepin' the Faith pages 6-7 Grapple with this! page 11 “I think that this is a great idea. We can’t smoke so they shouldn’t (either),” said Elizabeth Baynard, a sophomore. “People make their own deci sions,” said sophomore Jessie GrandoiL “It’s not fair to regulate adults so much that they have the s;une rules as students.” All of the students that spoke wiili the High Life expressed doubts about the effectiveness of this new law, “If the students don’t obey the regulations (about smoking on cam pus), the teachers will see no reason for them to,” said Alec Ferrel, a juitior. To date, there has been only one report of adult smoking on campus in 1995. Although the bathroom smoker ,was never identified, our sources suggest that the culprit was a parent volunteer, unaware of tiie new law. ! However, some faculty at Grims- iley feel that more is going on tiian most are aware of. “A negative effect i(from the law) is seen in the fact that school personnel addicted to nicotine are now sneaking smokes in restrooms on campus, thus polluting the air of non-smokers.”
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