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Volume 72 No. 5
Grimsley High S3
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
March 18, 1996
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The Gold Madrigals received their 20th con
secutive superior rating for their performance
at the State Vocal Contest held at Salem Col
lege in Winston Salem, N.C. on February 28.
Additional honors were awarded to Stephanie
Sparrow, a senior, Anna Keith, a junior, and
Lola Akingbade, a junior, who received supe
riors for singing solos in Italian for a state rated
judge. The newly formed Silver Madrigals
group received their second consecutive supe
riorrating.
^^Come Away, Death,” the winter
Playmaster’s production, will run on March 25
and 26 at 7P.M. “Wait Until Dark” will be
performed at Weaver from March 25 to 28 at
7:30 P.M.
Junie Link has been nominated to the United
States Swimming 1994-1995 Scholastic All-
American Team for the second consecutive
year. The team is comprised of high school
student-athletes who have a GPA of at least
3.5 and who have been awarded points for in
dividual events at the 1994-995 Nationals. For
the last two years. Link has ranked among the
top 125 female high school swinuners in the
nation.
£'leven Grimsley students have been se
lected for All-County Orchestra, which will be
held at Grimsley onMarch 29 and 30. Hannah
Fulton and Amanda Ball will play 1 st violin^
Natasha Cobb and Denise Singley will play
viola, Daniela Garrido will play cello, Kwame
Opata will play double bass, Giraiy Burroughs
will play 1 St flute, Greg Davis and Kevin Burke
will play French horn, Matthew Yardley will
play trump et, and BiUy Seawell will play per
cussion.
Congratulations to Grimsley’s High IQ
team. Seniors Maia Kaplan, Robert Smith,
Patrick Kinlaw, Jimmy Nehlsen, and James
Khanlarian, won the state championship, de
feating Chapel Hill High in the final round.
The three rounds that Grimsley competed in
will be aired on Fox Channel 8 on March 24,
April 7, and April 14 at 11:30 A.M.
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By Sarah Atkinson
StaffWriter
Taking Japanese I is a difficult feat
in itself. Taking it on the Informa
tion Highway would seem impossible.
However, the nine students in the
class are receiving a solid background
in the lan-
allowed to get up and walk around.
There’s less restriction because it’s a
smaller class,” he said.
However, along with all the excite
ment from this new-age classroom
comes some disadvantages. For in
stance, there is a very distant student-
teacher relationship. Mr. Richard
guage that
may one day
be useful if
not essen
tial.
Danielle
Rossi, a jun
ior, went to
Japan last
summer for
a month and
studied the
native lan
guage for
five hours a
day. She
was greatly
surprised
when she
found that
she could
enroll in a
Japanese
Daiiielle Rossi, Suii Jim Park, and other students in Japanese I often face technological difficulties
class at Grimsley. “Now I get to take
a class that I otherwise wouldn’t get
to take,” said Rossi.
Alec Ferrell, a senior, also found
enough interest in the information
highway program to sign up for the
class. “It offers a brand new approach
on ways to learn a fairly old lan
guage,” said Ferrell.
Louis Bekoe, a sophomore, likes
seeing and hearing students from
other schools along with the language
itself. “It’s different, so it’s interest
ing,” said Bekoe, “At school, most
students take Latin, French, or Span
ish. I like taking Japanese because
it’s rare.” Bekoe also found that he
liked the classroom setting. “You’re
Drumwright, the teacher of the Japa
nese I course, is broadcasting from
Eastern Guilford, and Grimsley is just
one of the schools programmed to be
in his class. “You can’t talk to the
teacher one on one without everyone
hearing,” said Bekoe.
Ferrell agrees that the information
highway classes are prone to a wider
range of problems than a regular class
room. “I can only interact with one-
third of the entire class,” said Ferrell,
“The people at the other school have
the same problem with us. It’s hard to
take it as a real class.”
Rossi sees the scheduling of classes
on the information highway as a bar
rier to the amount of material covered.
“It’s a shorter class because the other
schools are on different schedules. We
would be moving a lot faster if it
weren’t for this and the technical dif
ficulties we sometimes experience,”
said Rossi.
These technical difficulties that she
speaks of were also mentioned by
Bekoe and
Ferrell. /Ap
parently,
some East
ern students
don’t realize
that when
they tap on
sensitive mi
crophones,
it actually
makes noise.
“It makes it
really hard
to hear,”
said Rossi.
Another
dis advan
tage, in
Ferrell’s
opinion, is
the constant
video re
cording of
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the class. “It’s hard to act like your
self when you’re on camera the whole
time,” he said.
If you think that these specifics of
the information highway classes would
hinder your desire to learn, perhaps it
is not for you. However, as Rossi put
it, it is an excellent way to take advan
tage of rare opportxmities.
Ferrell also touched on some posi
tive points of the class. “Technology
sometimes gets in the way, but it makes
different aspects of learning much
more enjoyable. I’ll continue with the
course if I get the opportunity. Hope
fully it will be held in a regular class
room.”
Student turns
detective
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