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4 THE GRANTONIAN September 26, 1969 Editorials Letters to t he Editor o nee A. Student Body Card . . . O-Wow! Who really wants one of them? Who wants to go to those dumb old dances? Why would anyone want to watch our championship winning athletic teams for half price? What’s so important about getting special student rates at public per formances by showing your Student Body Card for identification? Even if you don’t use your Student Body Card for these purposes, think of what you could do with it later. You could use it as a book mark, as a funnel for filling salt shakers, or as part of a mobile representing high school life, or you could use if to wipe the excess oil off the dipstick after you check the oil in your car. You could also use it as an ice scraper, a patch for your Peechee, a lever for getting the lids off dog food, a teepee for your plastic Indians or as confetti at next year’s football games. There really are thousands of things you could use your Student. Body Card for—a lipstick blotter, a substitute for the tissue paper in your kazoo, a guide to trim your mustache by, part of a kite tail or a slide for your pet turtles. BUT if you’re going to the games next year to use up this year’s card as confetti you’re really going to need a Student Body Card to get into the game cheap. SO buy a Student Body Card and flash it at your Franklin friends and watch them cry after we win—we will win—won’t we—? On The Shelf ¡yZ* I M by Ma rth a O j a rd Dear Editor: We would like to express our opinions, pro and con, on the 1969 Memoirs. First of all, the time of distribution was com pletely unsatisfactory. We understand one of the reasons for holding up distri bution until fall was the aspect of more senior coverage. This was a fine idea but it’s too bad it didn’t materialize to the extent that we envisioned. Only two pages were devoted to graduation and likewise to the Senior Prom. If there was any extra coverage other than these four pages, it was camouflaged by the array of mistakes found throughout the book. We hope that next year the publishing company, (who, we understand, is re sponsible for the mislabeled pictures) will be a different one, if this is possible. Do they not send some kind of proofs back for correction purposes, though? Another problem was that many sen iors were not notified when the books would be passed out and knew nothing about it. We could not help drawing a qualita tive comparison between the yearbook of 1966-67 (excluding the athletic section candid shots which were excellent this year). We wondered what happened to the N.H.S. pictures, coverage of the Hi-Q team, any information whatsoever, be sides the names, about the seniors such as their activities and colleges that they will attend. We would like to see these included in next year’s book. We hope that all this will be consid ered, (along with not having the book all summer and not being able to obtain hardly any signatures of friends), when the decision for publication date of next year’s book arrives. Also, wasn’t the amount of money saved by fall publica tion slashed considerably by mailing costs to get the books to the out-of-town seniors? And with all the money saved, why was the cost of the book not low ered? Thank you for publishing this. Joe Stilwell, Mark Powell, John Othus, John White, Bruce Hoevet, Jeff Pittman, Larry Wheeler, Alan Mayberry, Bart Wilson, David Clark. 'Room 222' challenges 'Hillbillies' Along with the new school year come fall premiers on television. ABC, CBS, NBC—all have “Weeks.” ABC seems to be probing various problems, as is typi fied in one of its new series for this sea son—“Room 222.” An advance premier of “222” was shown on September 17: the regular show began on Septem ber 22 at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 2. LLOYD HAYNES stars as Pete Dick son, a black U.S. History teacher. Mi chael Constantine', who portrays the prin- ^Jhe Cjrantonian Published weekly by the advanced journalism class of Ulysses S. Grant high school, room 203, 2245 N.E. 36th Avenue, Portland, Ore. 97212. Phone 288-5975 or 288-3839. Printed by Mod ern Typesetting company with a cir culation of 2500. Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription cost $2.00 per year. Vol. 75, No. 3 — September 26, 1969 Editor .................... .........Martha Ojard Page 1 Editor.......... Margaret Hadden Page 2 Editor............. Kathi Robinson Page 3 Editor .................. Gary Cogill Page 4 Editor.................... Jenni Raies Reporters...... .$ue Gottsch, Mary Ann Hutton, Chris Hawes, Steve John son, Jean Taylor Advertising Mgr..... Mary Ann Hutton Business Mgr. ................... Sue Gottsch Advisor.......................... Willard Mohn cipal, Seymour Kaufman, shows great wit throughout the show. Karen Valen REPLY: tine, who plays Miss Johnson—Mr. Dick To have or not to have fall delivery of son’s student teacher, succeeds in getting yearbooks. That is the question which on peoples’ nerves quite easily. However, will be left to the student body to decide she is a bubbly, happy person who, with and which has concerned a number of the principal, provides comedic relief students who have written their concern from the seriousness of the plot. Denise in a letter to the editor. “On September 30 every student in the Nichols portrays a school official—Miss four classes will be able to vote on spring MacIntyre. versus fall delivery,” declared Mr. Wil THE FIRST of the series probes the lard Mohn, publications advisor. “The school-oriented problems of a Negro boy majority of the staff, being familiar with —Richie. Although Richie lives in one the problems of publishing the book, are in favor of fall delivery although if we school district—Tyler’s—he has given a had spring delivery, their work for the false address so he can go to Whitman year would be completed April 1 instead High. He was “sick of cops in the hall of June 15.” He added that spring deliv and a riot every time I raised my head.” ery would cause a cut in pages from this Much of “Mr. Dickson’s” and “Mr. Kauf year’s book. man’s” time is spent in debates about so Jan Cumpston, Memoirs editor, con lutions to Richie’s situation. The only firmed the cut-by saying that spring de plausible reason for Richie to remain at livery would mean a cut of 39 pages Whitman is by taking a course not of from this year’s book, with 22 of those fered at Tyler. The only classes available sports and 17 activities. All spring sports under this category are calculus and He coverage would be cut in half with only brew. As a result, Richie enrolls in the group pictures, if any at all. There would Hebrew course. be nothing on the Rose Festival, com Principal Kaufman seems to be the mencement, senior prom, spring musical, only “real” person, and even he seems to spring show or any other activities be too unreal to be a principal—his hu which would occur after April 1. Drama mor is good, but does not fit in with the would also be cut. conception of a principal. When he is Christy Scott, staff member, also add confronted with the problem of Richie, ed, “We can’t set the deadlines—compa he declares that he is a louse. “In the nies set deadlines. So many schools go civil service test they asked, ‘Can you be fall delivery now that the spring deliv a louse?’ I said yes, and they made me a eries deadline was pushed up. Nothing principal,” Kaufman said. that happens from April on would be “Room 222” seems to be an enjoyable covered in the book.” program, and should evolve into an en Mr. Mohn further verified the dead joyable half hour. It should prove to be line: “Because all printers require 8-10 a challenge to “The Beverly Hillbillies.” weeks from the time the last page goes to the printers, anything that occurs after April 1 is generally left out unless an 8-page supplement is distributed in the fall of the year (with the bulk of students in school not bothering to pick them up).” The decision for fall or spring delivery must be decided by October 1 as the first copy pictures and coverage must be at the printers by December 15. In response to the Letter to the Editor, Mr. Mohn stated, “Perhaps students mis understand that fall delivery would mean coverage of only senior events. For their information we (Mr. Mohn and the Memoirs staff) found that exetended coverage of spring sports: baseball cov ered in its entirety, track, gymnastics, girls’ sports and intramurals were cov ered in greater detail this year than in previous years. “Because of reversal of numbers on pictures, mistakes occurred on pages 27, 28, 30, 160-61, and 290. Transposition of names were errors made by the publish ing company, which was notified imme diately upon receiving the books. Book corrections would have been made pro vided I had a staff large enough1 to paste down the corrections in 2500 books,” Mr. Mohn continued. “Other errors, i.e. Miss instead of Mrs. and vice versa, were 'made, name spellings are in error, how ever these are taken from cards filled out by individual students and faculty members and were not cross checked ocmpletely by the staff.” Answering the authors’ of Letter to the Editor wonderance about certain activi ties, Mr. Mohn replied, “National Honor Society was covered, and High Q was not because we were not notified that Grant would be participating. It is diffi cult to add something late—for each ad dition something must be cut or elim inated. “For point number 3 seniors were no tified by radio and books were distrib uted within 48 hours of receipt at Grant. Twenty-two yearbooks have been mailed to students, seniors and underclassmen, who have moved, and this number is 10 fewer than were mailed last year with spring delivery.” Some books re main to be picked up by students, the bulk of whom are enrolled at Adams High School. These books are available in the main office from 8 a.m -5 p.m. each day. “The individuals who wrote the Let ter to the Editor also asked why the cost of the book was not lowered,” com mented Mr. Mohn. “For the information of these people, the delivery in the fall financed the color that was included in the book, and 16 extra pages over the content of the previous year. The sav ings of fall delivery over delivery in spring is approximately 5% which went into increased coverage. (The cost for the 1970 printing of a spring yearbook will be $12,548 while the same coverage and same number of pages for fall de livery would cost $11,869.99.) “At press time 2,000 copies of the book at $4.50 have been sold for a total of $9,000. The additional cost of publica tion comes from the sale of advertising by staff members,” continued Mr. Mohn. “Not included—but in addition to the printing cost is photography, supplies, etc. none of which are supplied by the school. One local printer submitted a bid for publication—that bid was $16,- 044.20. All bids are on file in Dr. Malo’s office.” All publications are self-sustain ing, no deficits are made up by the school board. In conclusion Mr. Mohn said, “The staff and advisor are concerned about the cost, the best book available; we are unable to satisfy the personal interests of each of the 2500 students and produce a book within the budget approved by Dr. Roy Malo.” Every student who wants a voice about spring versus fall delivery must express their feelings with a vote for one or the other on September 30.