H O (1 f E X K W S
Fri.. Sept. 21. 1973
Rogue News
Published bi-eeklv. during the school months, by (he Associated
Student Body of Ashland Senior High School. 201 Mountain Ave..
Ashland. Oregon ItTKM
Subscription costs S2.5W per year.
Editor . Sharon Hill
News Editor Peggy Haines
Editorial Editor George Wooding
Feature Editor Randy Dew
Sports Editor Joe Hawk
Advertisers Lucy Bodilly
Business Manager Leslie Baker
Photographer Mark Vogel
Reporter Dave Sullivan
Cartoonist Kerry Sinclair
Advisor Clifford M. Brock
Member of Quill & Scroll and
Oregon Scholastic Press
Printed by The Print Shop, Ashland, Ore.
Cafeteria Inflation
If you want to eat a good wholesome lunch for 20 cents, eat dog
food. If you have more expensive tastes eat at Ashland High's
cafeteria.
The people who control Ashland's lunch prices know they have
students over a barrel. Cafeteria food is expensive, but it is also
convenient. Some students would rather pay 25 cents for a hamburger
here than go somewhere else and pay a higher price for the same
hamburger.
The prices in the lunchroom are fair in accordance to the nation's
high food prices. If bologna costs $1.19 a pound in a supermarket the
cooks here will have tobuy it for the same price. Ashland High does not
put out grade A lunches so they cannot buy food at a discount.
If your problem is with the cake and candy vending machines
prices forget it. The school just rents those machines from a vending
machine company. If a company decides that the "Hoe Hoes," "Ding
Dongs," and "Twinkies" aren't making enough profit, the cost is
raised. Nothing can be done about this. If you want a cheaper twinkie
you'll just have to look in the want ads.
Statistics prove that one out of every four people in the United
States is mentally ill. An informal survey shows that every student in
school has eaten cafeteria food at least once. Do you think you could
separate the smart lunch buyers from the dumb ones? G.S.W.
Cheerleaders Need Aid
It's hard to imagine a football or basketball game without
cheerleaders, but it could happen. Cheerleaders are taken for granted
at Ashland High. Few students realize how much it costs a girl to be a
cheerleader.
During a regular school year a cheerleader will spend somewhere
between $40 and $50 on shoes, blouses, sweaters, and pom poms. Is it
fair for a girl to have to spend so much to lead cheers at a pep rally?
Being a cheerleader is supposed to be an honor not a penalty. Girls
shouldn't have to pay so much to support the school.
The logical answer to the cheerleading problem is to have the
administration finance the expenses, but it won't because the
administration claims that Ashland High's student government is
solely responsible for the cheerleaders.
Last year the student government gave $125 to the Varsity and
none to the sophomore and junior varsity squads. This year the
Varsity was supposed to receive $200 while the less fortunate
sophomore and junior classes would only receive $25 for their squads.
Due to the student government's overspending of their budget, it is
probable that sophomore and junior cheerleaders will once again
receive no funds.
Since no one else is able to fund Ashland's cheerleaders properly,
it is up to the students to give them a hand. The next time a
cheerleading squad has a bake sale or a car wash, buy more cookies
than you need, give a tip, take a cheerleader out to lunch. Whatever
you do, support Ashland's cheerleaders. G.S.W.
Orchestra Revival
Believe it or not it's back. Ashland High has once again started an
orchestra.
Orchestra has been unsuccessful at Ashland High for a variety of
reasons. Lack of interest is a major problem. Few students and
teachers care about the high school's symphony.
Students have always had a bad attitude toward Ashland's
orchestra program; they consider the orchestra a sideshow or a
comedy. It is a shame the orchestra cannot be taken more seriously. A
good orchestra would complete Ashland's musical performances.
Besides this where would teenage base, cello, and violin players be
without a high school orchestra to play in?
The main function of any musical group is to entertain. Many
people think Ashland's orchestra failed to do this. Raoul Maddox the
symphony's new conductor will try to improve the orchestra's
performances by playing better music and raising playing standards.
If the administration can give Maddox's orchestra as much moral
support as it gives the band, the orchestra will prosper.
Ashland High needs a good symphony program for its string
players. Let's not make the same mistakes as before and allow the
orchestra program to die in obscurity.
Initiation: Hazing Terminated
If hazing is a twentieth century tradition of school initiations, welcome to the twenty-first century.
Sophomore initiation (i.e. the abusive connotation) has been eliminated at Ashland Senior High
but not without complaints upon parental requests, the Ashland School Board reviewed the
traditional practices of upperclassmen toward their younger classmates, and consequently ruled
hazing be disallowed in Ashland schools.
According to the Standards For Student Conduct and Discipline "all students entering school
shall be welcomed in a spirit of dignity and friendship ... to acquaint them with the school facilities,
students and faculty. Activities may be arranged as entertainment for all students but in no case will
a student be humiliated or ridiculed. Participation in any welcoming activity must be voluntary ..."
Evidently, some students cannot fully comprehend the spirit of friendship, thus upsetting
themselves over the prohibition of their sadistic initiation practices. The majority of these
complaintants are boys: Some of whom feel it is a symbol of recognition to be initiated: while others
are seeking to avenge their own humiliation in a previous year. Those seeking recognition are most
often athletes who could just as easily be initiated on to a specific team rather than involve the entire
school. The avenging upperclassmen are more difficult to cope with, since they believe "two wrongs
make a right."
If the world is to live in peace, this generation must be the one to right the wrongs of the past and
leave the outmoded traditions behind as they create a new spirit among men one of harmony and
compassion for one another.
Why must the sophomores be humiliated further? It it not more fulfilling to strike up friendships
with these underclassmen rather than promote contemptuous feeling which may prove detrimental
to many persons' characters later on?
The hazing rule has become the turning point. Although, the effects of initiation still linger (e.g.
certain sophomore students were dragged out of the stands to sing the fight song during the first pep
assembly this forceable action was in direct violation of the hazing rule allowing entertainmenl for
all but only on a voluntary basis.) A new feeling of unity may engulf this school in years to come.
From ridicule and humiliation to respected friendship is a definite step in the right direction.
Welcome to Ashland Senior High School!
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Program Grows:
TA's Number 89
Terry Rowlett, Sally Dunn and
George Hyde are typical of the
eighty-nine students who signed
up for the teacher's or office aide
program this year. Terry works
in the English department doing
secretarial work, while Sally
teaches mulitple - handicapped
students, and George does spe
cial tutoring for the computer
class, depending upon their par
ticular class, teacher's aides can
be found assisting in math,
science, art or foreign language
classes, doing speech therapy,
teaching elementary school or
multiple-handicapped students.
The program is generally the
same as it was last year with only
a few slight additions and one
major change in the qualifica
tions. Meredith Thompson spends
her teacher's aide period doing
speech therapy at the elementary
schools with Mrs. Armbrust, the
speech therapist. This is a new
addition to the program being
tried this year.
The policy of allowing sopho
mores to enroll in the teacher's or
office aide program has been
changed this school year. Be
cause administrators feel that
sophomores do not yet have
definite goals and they are more
apt to take the class just to have
something better to do, sopho
more participation has been
limited to only those who taught
at Walker school under the junior
high's teacher's aide program,
and have a recommendation
from the teacher.
by Randy Dew
Fall has come, and a new television season is establishing
coast to coast.
T.V. addicts everywhere are awaiting their new fall dose.
Since July, networks have been supplying viewers with
previews and mini-previews of up-coming programs.
According to Focus Magazine, Henner Ertel, a German
psychologist, made a close study of habitual T.V. viewers and
affects they suffer when deprived of the set. His subjects were
asked to refrain from T.V. for one year. They went to movies,
read books, visited relatives and friends and started hobbies and
recreational activities.
By the end of ten weeks, withdrawal signs began to show on
all and at the end of four months, all resumed watching T.V.
What drove the test people back, was their own mounting
tension.
During their testing, subjects experienced quarreling and
physical aggression. There was an increase in child-slapping
and wife-beating.
Many of the subjects had violent arguments at work, with
their co-workers noting a marked change in moodiness and
irritability.
Dr. Ertel felt that television "masked" tension and gave
people a cover for things troubling them. The problem is one of
addiction.
Perhaps you don't need a daily T.V. fix to get you through
you life, but odds are that you spend several hours a day
watching T.V.
According yet to another study by John Culkin, an average
graduating high school student spend approximately two solid
years of television viewing. He has seen 350.000 commercials
and witnessed the assault or destruction of 25.0C0 human beings
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Students are welcome to express their views in letters to the
ROGl'E XEWS. Any letter to the editor must be no more than 250
words in length and signed, though the name may be withheld on
request. However, the letter will remain on file available to anyone
who wishes to see it. It is the policy of the ROGl'E XEWS not to publish
anything libelous in nature. Only spelling and punctuation will be
changed. Letters will be printed on a space-available basis. The
opinions in the letters are not necessarily those of the ROGl'E XF.WS
or its staff. Letters should be delivered to H-U or Mr. Clifford Brock's
box in the office.