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ROGUE NEWS
Tues., May 2. 1972
Enviromental Values
A black valley is disgusting! But, Bear Creek Valley is also a
nice place to live, and without the multi million dollar pear industry
operating here, there wouldn't be much more to Ashland and
Med ford then a couple thousand people.
The climate here is just right for growing pears especially
Cornice in which France is the only other place suitable for them.
The pear industry is here to stay at least for as long as the orchard
method is practical. But the smudging aspect of this method no
longer seems practical.
Ecologically, firing produces an element of imbalance in the
environment. Citizens, as well as smudgers, when rising up in the
morning and observing a monolithic dark cloud choking the city
have to admit that it is rather repulsive. No matter how much one
has invested in the orchards, it does look ugly!
Naturally something has to be done. The solution that has
been suggested in the past, and should be further investigated is
overhead sprinkling.
There are several arguments against warm water heating. The
expensive cost to purchase it is the cry from the orchardists,
and the loss of jobs by those who tend the smudge pots is another
objection .
But all the arguments come down to one question: How much
do we value our environment? It's a battle between the clear fresh
air and the crisp green dollar bill. R.S.
Maturity Is
The administration of Ashland
High has seen fit to give students
a chance at another privilege.
But only the students' maturity
or lack of maturity will deter
mine if this can be bestowed.
It has been announced that
within a short time, if the new
study hall sign-out system is
maturely handled, students may
be allowed to sign out to leave
campus. Such a privilege could
be both useful and enjoyable to
students, especially those with
first, fourth, fifth, and seventh
period study halls. This is a
privilege that has not been
extended to students at many
high schools, but if students show
that they are "ready" for the
What Is It
The school policy of mandatory
final exams every nine weeks is
an old practice which doesn't
seem to relate to current school
trends. Furthermore, the prac
tice is often disregarded or
looked on very lightly by teach
ers. Some teachers do give a test
that they call a final, but it is
really just another routine quiz
and is done to satisfy what they
might consider a useless,
unapplicahle rule. Sometimes a
final exam may be useful, but
sometimes not. such as in a
crafts, drama or music class.
THE ROGUE
Published bi-monthy, during the school months, by the
Associated Student Body of Ashland Senior High School, 201
Mountain Ave., Ashland, Oregon, 97S20. Subscription cost $2.50
per year.
Kditor Lois Hill
News Kditor Julie Harrison
Feature Kditor Kick Stanek
Sports Kditor Kevin Gandee
Advertisers Shirley Ilelsnian, Sharon Hill, Jerilyn Lewis
Business Manager Mary Hoxie
Photographers Harold Berninghausen, Walt Vait
Illustrator and Cartoonist Dale Nelson
lii-portcrs Kosario lie La Torre. Willie Thompson
disor C lifford Brock
The Magic
increased responsibility, this
privilege will become a reality.
In all likelihood, however, a
small group of students who have
not yet attained the degree of
maturity their fellow students
have will ruin it for everyone
else.
Perhaps this test of faith on the
part of the administration will
bring forth a show of maturity
from all students. The next few
weeks will show if the privilege
can be put into effect. After that
(if even that occurs), the
maturity of Ashland High stud
ents will be really put to the test.
One wonders what will be
discovered. Is everyone ready to
be treated like an adult? D.N.
Worth?
Teachers, also, may not parti
cularly want to give a final exam,
as it does not coincide with their
specific teaching methods.
Teachers should be able to teach
the way they feel is the most
beneficial for students. Rules,
such as the final exams, should
not be placed above their heads
and forced into their classes.
Final exams seem only to be
most successful in those classes
that teachers feel it useful. Other
classes don't use the rule
seriously. So why not leave the
issue to the individual teacher?
) CIIOLATtC J
( PUKU I
NEWS
Sizzling smudgepot sits silently sputtering sickly smoke, smudgers
say it's a gas. Some stuffy orchardists say it saves some trees from
severe shivers.
Leeschie NutS Explored
Friedrich Nietzsche, a German-Prussian
born of religious
parents, believed that the ulti
mate goal of humanity was not
the happiness and exceltation of
the mass, but the rooting out of
the more perfect, stronger indi
viduals. Nietzsche thought of mankind
as never improving; like an
anthill of individuals, very ab
stract and not important. He
thought society was like a huge
factory or instrument in which
most humans failed, while a few
succeeded and were improved.
"Not mankind, but superman is
the goal."
This superman would rise out
of the mass through deliberate
breeding and careful nurture.
Human selection, through deu
genic knowledge, would being
about a superior type, as
Nietzsche felt that nature would
never yield such an individual to
rule above the masses. The
mediocre, the common, the
average man is what survives
and rules through natural selec
tion. Marriage would then have to be
controlled so that when an
exceptional being came along, he
would only marry, (and thus
reproduce and develop), another
of exceptional nature. "The best
Fishy Story
Tropica s
By Joe Hawk
Neon tetras, black mollies
prospects for a Jacques Cousteau
special? Hardly. These and other
tropical fish are to be a few of the
new inhabitants in the library
when librarians Mrs. Pauline
Rey and Mrs. Vivian Riney
acquire the aquarium to house
the creatures.
Money Collected
Collection of money for the
aquarium during the past few
weeks has been carried out on a
small scale, but now, as the word
spreads, more and more is
accumulating. A sign is attached
to the library door to inform all
concerned students about the
fund and many have already
should only marry the best; love
should be left to the rabble . . .
Marriage: thus I call the will of
two to create that one which is
more than they who created it."
Besides selected breeding after
a possible subject is born, a
severe education is the next step.
Perfection, responsibility, obedi
ence to learn to command, and to
suffer in silence, would all be
instilled in this schooling.
Nietzsche says that a man so
raised would be neither good nor
evil. Fearless and brave, power
ful and never weak would be his
good. "What is good? All that
increases the feeling of power,
the will to power, power itself, in
man. What is bad? All that comes
from weakness."
Happiness is not for the
superman, the love of danger and
the threat of strife, never seeking
safety are his life. All war would
be good.
Knergy, intellect and pride:
these passions must be harmon
ized into powers of a personality.
These would be unified through a
purpose to rise above the
common mass, to discipline ones
self, and to be hard upon others.
"Only by seeing such a man as
the goal and reward of our labors
can we love life and live
upward."
In Library
contributed. Along with this sign,
library aides have been seen
prodding their classmates at
various times during the day to
contribute.
Present Collection
At the present moment contri
butions have reached $9.00 and a
total of $20.00 will be needed to
put the aquarium in business.
According to Mrs. Rey, the
library has already received an
aquarium from science teacher
Jerome Higgins. As plans are
being made at this time, the
aquarium is to be used for strictly
goldfish and guppies. Students
have already pledged assorted
varieties of fish for the two
aquariums.
-COMMENTS
To The Kditor:
I'm writing this letter concern
ing the teaching of evolution in
our school I'm a sophomore this
year and in Biology. It seems to
me that the teaching of evolution
is in a way an atheistic religion.
The law states that teaching of
religion in public shoots is against
the non-religious constitutional
rights. Vet schools are allowed to
teach evolution. To me that is
infringement of the religious
person's rights. Don't get me
wrong, I like my biology teacher.
I just don't like what he is
teaching. I believe in the Lord
God and the Divine Creation. I
have always learned that there is
two sides to everything, even
evolution. So if the schools must
teach evolution, it would only be
fair to teach the Biblical account
as well. Thank you for taking
your time in reading my ideas.
Sincerely Yours.
Koxanne Garner
Did you hear about the new
William Calley Doll?
You wind it up and it stabs the
Tinv Tears Doll!
Former Senator
Raps With Reps
By Rosario I)e La Torre
"The United States is moving
toward a government by the
President . . ." This was one of
the points which former Senator
Wayne Morse touched on at the
Midwest Regional Caucus which
delegates to the Model Demo
cratic Convention attended
April 8.
"Congress cannot delegate
legislative powers to the presi
dent as it did during Nixon's
Kconomic Program." Another
way in which Nixon has domin
ated the government are his
choices for the Supreme Court.
Nixon has had men appointed to
the Supreme Court which share
his political beliefs. This is
jeopardizing the delicate system
of checks and balances built into
the government.
The former Senator, who is
again seeking a Senate Seat, also
discussed other issues. Among
them were. Education, Agricul
ture, and the space program.
Morse opened his talk with
comments about the I8-yr. old
vote. He said that the youth vote
had already shown its power in
such elections as the Cigarette
Tax. Morse made this conclusion,
"Your vote is the swing vote."
Morse's view on education was
that busing should not be for
purposes of racial integration or
segregation. The purpose of
busing should be to "bus students
to wuality education."
Morse observed that this na
tion's farmers are becoming
"hired men." Large corporations
are buying their small farms and
telling them what to buy, where
to sell, and what to plant.
Farm subsidies are a great
waste because they cause much
arable farmland to lie useles..
Morse feels that all of the
available farmland should be
cultivated and the surplus food
should be distributed to the
undernourished areas of the
world.
According to Morse, the Mid
west's attitude toward costly
Space Exploration is unfavor
able. He feels that the United
States should do more, cheaper,
unmanned exploration.