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Senior Jim
zens, Jared Dawson, Stuart Mercer,
MAY 23, 1986
THE METEOR
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Photography: Wlnn Maddrey, Stuart Freeman
Business Manager: David Vyas
Loo g Back, ead With the 1986 school year almost over, and the switch to
coeducation on the immediate horizon, we looked back over the year and reflected on some of YES' positive and negative qualities.
On the plus side, the school provides an atmosphere in which students can grow, mature and learn about responsibility. Much of this is due to YES centering its academic and extracurricular endeavors around individual faculty attention. YES is a small school
and the well-being of students is not neglected like in many larger
public and private high schools.
Aside from the individual attention from faculty, many students
make lifelong friends while at YES. We all live close (sometimes too close) together and know everyone's strengths, weaknesses and per- sonal business. Out of this, however, grow strong and lasting bonds. We certainly hope this aspect of YES won't change with coeducation.
There are problems at YES - negative student attitude chief among them. Unfortunately, name-calling, personal insults and physical abuse of the shcool facilities occur far too often here. We ask the faculty to remember, however, that the students' attitude is largely tied to their own. Teachers with negative outlooks produce the same results in the student body.
We also think the daily schedule is too limited and the rult:s too picky. The school needs to bring more varied, outside activities into the community during the week - not just special weekend events.
For their part, the students have to take better advantage of what is already offered, rather than just complaining of nothing to do.
Finally, we would like to see the school do away with some of its ~ickier rules. If the faculty trusts the students enough to give them a httle more freedom and initiative in their daily lives, they will realize they have gained something positive (trust and respect) and the rebellious attitudes will diminish.
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By Jared Dawson Nicotine fiends arou'nd cam-
pus take heart! Only those who smoke can tell you just how essential it is to take periodic trips to the 'smoking tree.' After all, one well deserved cigarette after breakfast really seems to start the day on the right foot. Some students, however, don't smoke - having been denied
permission by Mom and Dad or choosing not to polute their lungs - yet still need that nicotine pick-me-up. These are
the many of us out there who in- dulge in that ungeritlemarily
habit of 'dipping.'
Found in assorted small can-
nisters in dorm rooms all over campus, 'dip,' or smokeless tobacco, appears to be a 'mixture of dirt and ground up brownies from last week's lunch.
Smokeless tobacco usage among teenage Americans has more than doubled since 1976, and YES is no exception to this rule.
What constitutes a 'dipper' at YES? Is it his flannel shirt, truckers cap or his desire to be
needs to know who is on duty, ask someone who dips, for it is these people who stay on top of such matters. These people are sneaky and conniving and always ... well, almost always know the right time and place to dip. The
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needs only a spiioon, a nice easy chair and the nasal tolerance of a goat to withstand the putrid smell. Most dippers are actually very safety conscious; after all, dipping doesn't cause fires.
Dipping is a demirtable of- fense at VES, probably because students sent off to prep school are not supposed to chew tobacco according to any decent social standard. Y et students continue to dip. What has been establish- ed in fact, is a campus-wide 'cat and mouse' game between
teachers and dippers. If one ever
even know exactly how to act when a teacher walks in the room. A common means of avoiding detection is to cover up the mouth and pretend to have serious respiratory problems. Another tactic is to have Kleenex handy to cover the mouth while pretending to blow the nose.
In any event, each person has acquired his own set of methods, or ammunition, to successfully wage war agains the faculty 'un- dipper.' Certainly there is no end to this conflict in sight.
Seventh Grade Waves Goo
By Stuart Mercer
This is the last seventh grade class at Y.E.S It seems as though the nine students that make up
the seventh grade don't get much recognition but they enjoy the atmosphere here with all the
older guys. They all get alone fine with the upperclassmen and they don't feel left out.
Their teachers are Mrs. Hackett, Mrs. Eade, Mr. Wood and Mr. Ross and the students and teachers get along well.
Frank Turner feels, "The work here is harder than public school but isn't too hard.'' He also said the most beneficial thing is, "Be-
ing in the seventh grade at Y.E.S. I will be able to use to the type of work here when I get into high school."
The athletic program is op- tional but almost every seventh grader has participated this year in either Deacon football, Deacon
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