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By Pope Ward Members of the middle school,
all seventh and eighth grade students, were recently asked whether they thought that they should be more involved with, and be more a part of the upper
school. Reactions were mixed among those who had an opinion, but a surprising number of middle schoolers either had no opinion or had .no reasons to
support their feelings.
About half the students took a
neutral position, having no feel- ings on the subject. Nearly everyone else had an opinion, but said nothing in support of their conclusions. Most answers con- sisted of, "Yea, fer sure," "I think we should definitely be more a part of them." When asked why,
they replied, "I dunno," or some- thing to that effect.
V ery few had reasons for their answers, but many of those who
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did, brought up valid points. Rich Lane said that middle school students have friends in the upper school, and with the two groups separate, it is hard to get help. He also pointed out the lack of opportunity which exists for middle school students in the sports program. For example, although a seventh and eighth grade basketball player may wish to play at the J.V.level if he is good enough, he cannot. Eighth grader Geoff Oschner called attention to the fact that middle schooler's often do not get the electives which they have chosen. For example, a middle schooler may ask for Health on his course request form. In a week or two, he might receive a computer prii)tout informing him that he is taking Art Apprecia· tion or Old English Writing Tech- m• ques.
Although several responses
were backed with sound argu- ~ents, t h e v a s t m a j o r i t y o f seventh and eighth graders seem
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By Josh Shepherd
The beginning of VES's dorm-
ant Drama Association has met
with surprising success for being
was charact-erized by occasional thuds and crashes emanating from the Study Hall on 2nd Jett. There the Drama people worked on characterization, displaying
road toward possible success. yet the strangest thing about hai the bands that pioneer in the field each year is that a large percentage of them possess the musical talent equivalent to that of my car on a good day. And still yet, some of' these bands even-
tually ascend into the heights of great success.
How can a band with more athletic talent than musical abili- ty make it to the top of the pop charts? The answer is just now coming to focus. It is not actually the music that ascends to great popularity, but rather it is some other element that arises and attracts the unbalanced mind of the general public.
Names of bands don't play a leading role in the success of a group. Two bands of equal incom petence will be totally neglected, that is, unless they happen to bore auch a name u "Kuagoo goo," "Oingo Bolngo," or "Billy Bonebreak." Some band• ju1t
ran't 1eem to Invent a reaper tably ridleulou• title, 10 a mem ber of the band will very wllllnr-
ly do 10. I find It hard to believe that any humane Amerlean couple would rrant their new-
born with the IW M attr Bu~Mr
or 8uL I &leo doubt the leplltr al tllat beiar plleed on a ltlrth ewtdlu&e. Y a , . . . , .
extremely dispicable showing last year when all of a sudden, Ozzy Ozbourne centers hiself on stage and procedes to bite the
head of a bat off. The crowd went insane. I realized I was not in a group of music talent apprecia- tors; that was impossible. Rath- er, I was surrounded by an army of bloodthirsty maniac . I took
my leave at once. To me, this idea of blowing up cars on stage and spitting blood is not only a disgrace to the human race, but also a direct reflection of their romper room musical abiliti .
The final step in truly promot- ing lame music i th
When Wendy O'William trut
the stag in a steel bra for a shirt, I fail to under land how that can be comfortabl . The members of 1 group titleod
in its' experimental stage. Tried
as an alternative to sports, the emotion, pantomime and various
membership of VESDA for it's other tools of the trade to
opening was large.
For a few weeks, the activity
prepare for the presentation of its first project, a Reader's Theatre production of "Oedipus
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not to care. The middle school has made grade strides in the last four or five years. In fact, last year, the school hired a company to analyze the middle school and see what changes could be made to improve it. Perhaps these recently taken strides have made the middle school content, and therefore ' have caused them to have no ··
feeling about whether further • steps are taken. Perhaps there was a lack of response because the question was asked during
. lunch?ll Maybe the upper school · would act in a similarly apathetic manner if asked a related ques-
tion. At least we need not worry that any radical reforms will be plotted by the middle school in the near future. There won't be enough interest among the stu-
dents to get very far.
Rex". But, it was Parent's Week- end that brought the group from the underground with two vig- nettes from Neil Simon's play "The Good Doctor." The first, "The Drowned Man" with Matt Black, Chris Jones, Tres Weed, and Edmund Potter, and the second "A Quiet War" with John Harris and Josh Shepherd and Will Aiken met with resounding success.
The final project, which a majority of the student body saw, was "VES - Roots, Hoots and Suits" which helped continue
the tradition already established. Mr. Lea Boney is still looking for the Tony Award Nomination for Best Script and Most Tolerant.
What of the future? The next project Is an excerpt from "Good Evening" written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. An excerpt
entitled "Goepel Truth" •tarring Joeh Shepherd and Doug Hu1ztl will kick off the Chapel Chrllt· m u program. Nuff l&ld. In February, VES will particlpatt In the Stuart Hall Drama Compe tltlon with a play of our own, and one with Seven
Thll 8prtar'• Drama Club promJM. to ... u l.....tui u the Fall u they will work on a
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