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Baseball's Clemente Dies In Crash
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THE ROGUE NEWS
by Kevin Gandee
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Published bi-weekly, during the school months, by the Associated
Student Body of Ashland Senior High School. 2(11 Mountain Ave.,
Ashland, Oregon 97520. Subscription cost $2.50 per year.
Editor Kosario De l.aTorre
News Editor Jeanne lloadley
Editorial Editor Joseph Hawk
Feature Editor Steve Schmelzer
Sports Editor Sharon Hill
Advertisers Peter Dodge, Teresa Fouler, Anita Johnson
Business Manager Jeri Lewis
Photographers Harold Rerninghausen, Willie Thompson
Reporters Randy Dew. Jim Roberts, Ingrid Sandberg, Dale
Nelson, Ken Svensen
Sports Reporters Kevin iandee, Charlie Lewis
Advisor Clifford M. Brock
Printed by THE PRINT SHOP. Ashland. Oregon
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Student Parking Conditions
Parking conditions on this campus are very serious
There is probably adequate parking for all concerned parties, but
it is not utilized to its full extent.
A prime example is the Humanities Parking Lot. It has been
designated for faculty use exclusively. There is room for 27 cars, but
less than 20 spaces will be used. The rest will remain vacant.
A quick count indicates that there is room for about 118 cars on
campus parking lots. A survey has indicated that there are over 150
student cars on a normal day.
The overflow is forced to park on the streets that surround the
school grounds. This leads to quite a bit of congestion for students w ho
drive, as well as the public in general.
A partial solution is the new student parking lot, located off of
Iowa street. It will hold about 35 cars when it is completed. The
problem with this lot is the fact that only about ten spaces can be used.
During the recent rainy weather, the condition of the Iowa street
lot has become quite bad. The rainy weather has turned the area into a
massive quagmire, not to mention that it is quite a blot to the
neighborhood.
Anyone who dares to venture into the central area runs the risk of
becoming embedded in a sea of slime.
The administration has indicated that it plans to improve the lot
when funds are available. We urge them to improve the situation as
soon as possible as the lot is little more than a "quicksand pit" in its
present condition.
RPD
Contract System
About the only thing that can be
said about Roberto Clemente that
has not been said is that he died
doing something he wanted to do.
Clemente, a star outfielder
with the Pittsburgh Pirates for
the past 18 seasons, died w hen the
plane he was in crashed into 80
feet of water about a mile off the
Puerto Rican coast. The plane
was carrying tons of relief
supplies to the earthquake
victims of Nicaragua. Along with
Clemente were four other
persons.
The plane's pilot apparently
observed some trouble and was
trying to return to the San Juan
International Airport when it
went down. The plane was de
layed five hours with trouble'
before it took off. Clemente
headed the Puerto Rican com-
m it tee to collect relief supplies
for the earthquake victims.
In his 18 previous seasons
Clemente batted under .300 only
five times and had become a
member of the coveted 3000 hit
club on September 30, 1972. His
last regular hit of his career.
Clemente played only one year
of minor league ball before being
called up to the majors in 1955. In
the 18 years he played in 2433
games and had a lifetime batting
average of .3151 and a lifetime
fielding average of .972.
He was named the Most Valu
able Player and the Plaver of the
Year in 1966. Clemente was also
named as the Most Valuable
Player in the 1971 World Series
when his team defeated the
Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 3.
Students are not receiving the fullest education possible! They are
lacking one of the most important facets of their schooling, the ability
to make their own decisions and to think for themselves.
The reason for this is that most of the courses available at AHS
ultilize a structured format. Some classes, such as philosophy, are not
as rigid as others, but these are the exception.
From time to time, other classes will adopt a "contract system."
In this system, the requirements for a grade are specified in advance,
and the students go about the course of study individually and at their
own speed. The teacher acts mainly as a reference person.
This system usually fails because teachers are very impatient
people. They are interested in immediate results, the product of a
structured system. Teachers fail to realize that the student must
develop and utilize his own new study habits, compa table with the new
system.
The initial failure of the "contract system" is not entirely the
teachers fault. The present system and its reliance on structure is
greatly to blame. Students have become used to being spoon-fed. that
they are slow to adapt to the new system.
Consequently, teachers should be more patient when they decide
to use the contract system. The first thing they should do is allow a
four to five week "transition period" to give students a chance to get
used to the system. There will inevitably be "goofing off" but the first
grading period should improve the situation.
Also, the teacher should not abandon the class, but should remain
as a resource person. This is an advantage of the contract system. The
teacher will be more free to help the students who need help. This is
because the more advanced students w ill be on their own. The teacher
will be more available to the slower students for individualized help.
The advanced students also benefit because they can advance at
their own pace and are not held back by the slower students. A much
better system for teacher and student will result.
The merit of the contract system is not in its immediate results,
but the long term effects, not measured only in academic
achievement, but in making the student a more independent person.
This independence will be invaluable when the student enters
college or finds a job, where independence is stressed and there is no
one to do the "spoon feeding." RPD
Seconds Added
To Last Year
by Joseph Hawk
Most students, at the end of
school vacations, find themselves
falling into the rut of complaining
that their vacations were not long
enough.
But these complaints were not
valid at the end of Christmas
vacation.
On December 31, at 11:59
p.m.; an extra second was added
on to the year 1972.
Astronomers throughout the
world agreed that it took the
earth an extra two seconds to
revolve around the sun during
1972.
Clocks all over the world,
federal, international and atomic
were stopped for one second to
account for this deficit. The other
second was added during last
summer.
Comments
To The Editor:
Tomorrow Richard Nixon will
take his second oarth of office as
president. I am reminded of his
1968 campaign promise that his
administration should only be
given four years to settle the
Vietnam war as a reasonable
expectation by the American
people.
I hope the war ends before
Saturday and if it does the
president deserves credit for
fulfilling a pledge to the people.
An agreement with the North
Vietnamese and the Viet-Cong
which presidential advisor Kis
singer said was 99 per cent
completed by Oct. 26 should be
signed immediately.
If the president doesn't end the
war during his first term how can
he be held accountable? I see
only one reliable means: Con
gress can cut off funds for the
war. A bipartisan effort is being
directed to end the war within 30
days of enactment subject only to
a return of American prisoners of
war. Students can help. Write the
Oregon congressional delegation
in Washington D C. and urge
members to vote yes on a cut-off
date for ending the war.
John Tredway, So. Science Dept.
Think About It
Why can some people just stand up to speak and people
immediately like them and accept them for what they are?
How can some people have the mistaken idea that these
successful people were just born with the special trait that
would eventually make them successful and that they never had
to do anything at all to become a great person.
Did John I'nitas, the outstanding quarterback of the
Baltimore Colts, just one day decide he wanted to play football
and then the next day become the greatest quarterback in
professional football? No, John I'nitas, through total
dedication, improved himself from a third-string high school
quarterback to what he is today.
Henry Ford started with nothing more than just an idea, but
through a lifetime of dedication to working on that idea he
became a multi-millionaire and the founder of the Ford Motor
Company.
Paul Lynde, one of the funniest men in the show business
today, was not always as funny as he is now. Paul Lynde
learned to laugh at his failures and dedicated himself to making
other people laugh. Lynde had to overcome his weight problem,
he had to overcome the despair that he felt w hen the girl he had
loved for eight years utterly rejected him and married another
man, but these problems didn't stop him. He was determined
that he was going to be successful.
Only through total dedication can anyone be successful. As
the Bible says, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy might."