Rogue news., June 03, 1970, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

PACE TWO
ROGUE
NEWS
WED.. JUNE 3. 1970
Wew Classes Highlight Galati Takes No. 7
Seven Periods Next Yearn Speech Contest
Ashland High School is
busting out of the regular
hum-drum school day with new
subjects to be offered next year.
Beginning in the Art
Department, the new subject
offered is Art in the Home. This
is an introduction to interior
design and decoration.
In Business Education there
will be six new courses offered.
The first one will be Clerical
Office Practice. This is an up to
date treatment of all
non-shorthand office duties and
procedured and is designed to
prepare the student for general
office occupations.
Another offered course is
General Business. The aim of
this course is to develop
attitudes and understandings in
the student that will inable him
to deal intelligently with his
problems as a consumer, worker,
future employer, and citizen.
Personal Typing is being
offered to provide the student
with instruction for mastery of
the keyboard and basic machine
operation.
Recordkeeping is another
newly designed course that
should help students to relate
principles of recordkeeping
directly to their daily activities
and give them a foundation for
further study.
For some students,
Secretarial Office Practice is
being offered. This course is the
high school teacher's last
opportunity to polish off the
"rough edges" and to get the
student ready for employment
by providing a realistic setting
and office conditions.
Another course offered is the
Work Experience program. This
program is designed to provide a
part time job experience in
office occupation for which the
student has been trained.
This coming year in English
and Humanities the English
courses will be nongraded, that
is, arranged according to ability
level rather than grade level. The
English Curriculum will be
presented at five levels of
interest and difficulty.
The new courses offered in
Literature are Introduction to
Classical Literature, which
surveys the early foundation of
Western Literature with
emphasis on the classics, and
Critical Analysis of
Contemporary American
Literature which begins with the
study of the analytical process as
applied to the study of ;
literature.
Others offered are:
Introduction to Philosophy,
Studies in Humanities, and
Introduction to Drama and
Theatre.
In the Industrial Arts, two
new subjects are being offered:
Basic Carpentry and Cabinet
Making and for those who like
working with metals Metal
Working Machines.
Mathematics are being
offering Analysis II, for those
who have successfully completed
Analysis I. Computer
Programming and Computer
Concepts and Introduction to
Programming which provides for
a general background in
Computer Concepts.
In the Music Department
they came up with Jazz
Laboratory for experienced
performers. It is training and
performances in concepts of
modern jazz and dance music.
At last we come to everyone's
favorite, Social Studies. Here
there will be three new courses:
History and Cult ure of Spain,
World Religions, and
Contemporary Issues in which
selected important current
events are studied in depth for
historic, economic, political, and
social view points.
Welcome To AHS
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Cathy Galati placed first in
the state competition for her
speech in opportunities in real
estate at the state contest held
last Saturday.
Miss Galati was eligible for
state after placing first at the
local level.
First place prize was $500 in
addition to the $50 won for first
at the district level.
The first place winner was
picked by judging in ratings on a
basis of imagination, creativity,
poise, speaking ability or voice
and gestures, and content and
quality.
The topic was opportunities
in real estate, and Miss Galati's
speech consisted of how to gain
many of the economic
opportunities through person to
person success.
She noted that she was the
only person in competition who
used visual aids, which could
have attributed to her placing
first.
Competition consisted of
district winners from all over the
state. A total number of twenty
students competed for first
place.
Judges at the local level
included members of Ashland's
Board of Realtors, and state
judges included the President of
the Oregon Board of Realtors,
the head of the Real Estate
Commission, the chairman of
the speech contest, the South
Eugene debate coach, as well as
statewide members on the Board
of Realtors.
Other winners on the local
level included Jacque Leigh who
placed second, and Kirk Davies,
third. Their cash prizes were $30
and $20 respectively.
The contest was sponsored by
the Oregon Board of Realtors.
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CATHY GALATI atop to
give bright smile over
winning $500 at the State
opportunities in Real Estate
Contest.
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Ashland High School.
An Unfortunate Mistake
Elections Need Revision
by Connie Bulkley
After a great deal of
controversy new officers were
chosen to represent the junior
and senior classes for next year.
The controversy of junior
class elections concerned the
accusation that the class
president and a group of his
friends deliberately rigged the
nominations.
The major complaint is that
they planned ahead of time who
they wanted into office, and
then rigged the elections so that
only the people they wanted
were nominated and then the
nominations were closed.
The president was accused of
not being responsible in telling
people who he wanted for
offices, and of running the
nominations badly in not letting
the silent majority speak up.
Looking over the accusations
I find that 1) they did not
deliberately "rig" the elections,
and 2) the system of
nominations itself is more at
fault than the people involved.
It is true that the president
and his group did discuss who
they wanted for the positions,
but I don't think they planned
to rig the nominations by getting
only those people nominated. If
that had been true I personally
would not have been the first
person called upon for
nominations, and I certainly was
not a part of the plot.
What of the accusation that
the president was irresponsible
in saying who he wanted for
office. Don't politicians often
name people whom they want to
replace them when leaving
office, or to hold other
positions. Our president is as
much a member of the junior
class as any one - and he has as
much a right to express his
opinion. So what if he did
nominate someone. Why should
he be punished by not being able
to nominate someone because he
is president. Maybe it is
incorrect parliamentary
procedure. How many people
know what is correct procedure,
and does anyone REALLY care.
Perhaps much of the
complaints should be leveled at
the way the school handles the
nominations instead. Because
the nominations are done in a
gigantic meeting with everyone
wanting to get out of school
these problems occurred. It
seems more likely that the
reason few people raised their
hand to nominate people and
that the nominations were
moved to be closed so soon was
because as it is claimed people
were immature and wanted to
get out of school. Is it the
president's fault that the silent
majority did not speak up
because a few individuals wanted
to get out of school?
I definitely do agree that the
whole elections were handled
badly. But I think that it was
very unfortunate that individuals
were punished for the matter. It
would seen to me that the whole
problem would never have
occurred if class elections were
held similar to student body
ones with people putting in
petitions for offices instead of
being nominated. In this way
people who really want to hold
offices can run, and thusly the
silent majority could be heard.
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