Vol 13 issue 3

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southwords Vol. 13, No. 3

Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, III. 60068

Oct. 29, 1976

Install Detection System Haunted House Offers A Scare This Weekend By Tammy Barry

Once again. Campus Life is sponsoring a Haunted House this year, full of chills and thrills It will be open from October 20 to October 31. so if you want a good scare you've only got three nights left to make it to the Haunted House. Starting time each night is 7 p m It is located at Golfview Plaza, on the Northwest corner of (iolf and Waukegan Roads in Morton Grove. .Admission price is two dollars and only teenagers and adults are permitted through. The tour of the House takes approximately twenty minutes There are over seventeen rooms to cover and it is advised that old clothes be worn This year's Haunted House has cost thousands of dollars to .set - up. Work on building it began October 1 and it took three weeks to set up with about sixty people working on it A bus ser\ice was provided last year, however this year it will not run because now the Haunted House is right next to a parking lot .\lmost 25 000 people walked through the House last year, and as good as or a better turnout is expec-ted this vear Campus Lite is a nonprofit organization for high school students There are Campus Life clubs in over 30 high schools in the Northern suburbs This

organization also sponsors Youth Guidance, summer camps, a Leadership Breakfast, ski trips, stress camping, a girls' flagfootball tournament, and various other activities. The next planned activity is a Christmas trip to Oshkosh. Wis. from December 27-31 The participants will stay at the University of Wisconsin. Skiing and other winter sports can be enjoyed during the trip

Bandorama By Catherine Deyer This year Band-0-Rama will take place in the spectator gym. on Saturday. Nov. 13. at 8 p m. Students with Maine South IDs and members of Music Boosters will be admitted free. Single admission tifkets may be purchased at the door. This program will consist of present music performed during 1976 football season, beginning with flag presentation and the Star Spangled Banner This Could be the Start of Something Big. and the theme from Swat' will be two songs featured this year The Hawkettes will be performing with two routines, and a demonstration of marching and playing will be given by the fifteen members of the Medinah Highlander Bagpipe Band

Seniors Spend Day in Springfield Maine South seniors currently enrolled in Government or Advanced Placement European History will have an opportunity to visit Springfield. Illinois, on the Social Science Department s first semester Springfield Tour on Tuesday, Nov 30 The all-day tour will leave Maine South at 7 a m , travel via chartered bus to Springfield, tour the capitol and other places of interest in the Springfield area, have dinner, and return to Maine South at approximately 9 lap m

By Marianne Schmidt This week the new library system went into use. The Book rietection System, which is manufactured bv the Three M Company, cost $18,000. How does this sytem work".' .According to Mrs, Judy Lange. head librarian. • Kach book has a metallic strip. When a book is checked out properly, it is desensitized U it is not checked out properly, when it passes through the detection corridor an alarm will sound and the gate will close." Ml books have been treated, and a teacher or supervisor will be stationed at each exit to make sure students go through. It seems there was a real need for this sytem. Mrs. Lange said

The Illinois General .Assembly will be meeting for its first postelection session, and students will have an opportunity to attend committee meetings, meet their state senator and representatives, and discuss proposed legislation Mrs Barbara Heerman and Mrs. Milton Nelson of the Social Science Department will conduct the tour Further information on the tour will be available from government instructors in senior classes.

Pep Council are the girls who. after interviews evaluations, and screening, are chosen from the Pep Club Membership drives for Pep Club are held annually at book sales and for those who missed out then, a membership drive will be held during the week of Nov 15-19 Pep Council makes locker tags for all sports and also bakes goodies for the dedicated Maine South athletes involved in the major sports Sports calendars that add a decorative touch to homerooms and halls are also

part of Pep Council's work. The little football buttons seen around the school lately are sponsored by Pep Club and sold for fitly cents by everv Council members. Some of these pins are still available — ask any Council member. Pep Club also sponsors a bus to every away football and basketball game; the cost is one dollar for non-Pep Club members, and seventy-five cents for members. Tickets are available on the bus

books are taken. This deprives the students of the use of these materials. Some books will never be replaced. After 'Jaws' came out. all the shark books were stolen. Certain topics, such as horses, are popular. The horse books have to be kept in the cage or behind the reserve desk." Mrs Lange made it very clear that the doors are locked for a good reason. "The doors are not locked to cause unnecessary grief to the students. We can only afford to have two exits to make the system work effectively." Student cooperation is very important. .\s Mrs, Lange put it. We need the cooperation of the students. We hope we get it. because it's for them. "

Army Prefers H.S. Graduates

As one c a r e e r choice considered by many young men and women who don't immediately plan to enter college, the modern, all-volunteer .Army has a strong appeal for students who want to leave school early — without a diploma. .According to local US, Army Recruiters, however, the .Army much prefers to enlist a highschool graduate over a school dropout Mr. Norbert Zavadin. Army Recruiter at 800 Lee St.. Des Plaines. declared that years of experience enlisting both the graduate and the dropout has shown .Army officials that satisfaction for the enlistee and the .Army is much likelier for the young man or woman who has completed high school and received a diploma. "Very often, we know that young people who want to leave school early and join the Army are trying to solve a temporary problem — with a teacher, or their family, or disappointing grades, or what they think is a money problem. " Mrs. Zavadin observed. Whatever it is. its almost always a mistake to sacrifice your learning years for that kind of solution," "Certainly, there are a lot of soldiers who have done well

without graduating before their enlistment. But in almost every case, their progress only began after thev received their GED DIPLOM.A WITH THE Army's help." The best source for advice, according to Mr, Zavadin, would

La Tuna," sponsored by Knox College, wil be performing in the Maine South auditorium on

Saturday morning after the grand parade. Pep Club held its annual .Alumni-Iireakfast. prepared especiallv for former students of Maine South. .Also sponsored by Pep Council is the basketball tea for basketball players and their parents during the season. The Spirit and Sports Week is also sponsored by Pep Club at this time. Open meetings for all of Pep Club to come to are held periodically to let the members know about upcoming events in the Homecoming activities also Maine South spirit world. Food involve Pep Club each year and beverages are comSponsoring thedime-a-dart booth plimentary for all those who and the crack pot helped the girls attend. to make the first Homecoming Each Spring Pep Council carnival successful Following presents its awards banquet for the carnival. Pep Club held its all Pep Club members and cheerFirelight Pep Rally, which was leaders to attend. Awards of highlighted by the two letters M recognition and value are disand S in flame on the field. tributed at this time.

be parents, teachers and school counselors. He thinks they'd all agree with him that every young man or woman still in school should look for a diploma FIRST in their future, regardless of what other career plans they may have.

Blazing Campaign Trail campaigner has the task of being as informative as possible when he first gets to the house, so that the resident does not tnistake him, with his sack full of literature, as an early trick-ortreater, Bui. the challenge of pamphlet pushing is not the only duty of the devoted campaigner He must also withstand hours of the drudgery of stuffing envelopes and pasting pennies on literature. In time, the exhausted student wonders if it is all worth it. The answer to this comes on election night, when the campaign headquarters is buzzing with excitement. For, this is the time when the student might, if he is lucky, be recognized and get a chance to shake the hand of his candidate. In addition, the high school student now has knowledge and experience in the political system. Later on, when memories of term papers and Government teachers have vanished, the aged November 12 during periods 2. 3. campaigner can tell his grandchildren how he helped someone 7. and 8. La Tuna" is a tradition of famous win a great bicentennial Spain, Years ago. university stu- election dents would gather on campuses and start informal singalongs "" Of course these "sing-alongs" have changed much throughout the years, but the modern day "tunas" still have the fun-loving spirit that waspart of the" tuna" of five hundred years ago. The group that will be at Maine South comes from the School of Industrial Engineering at the University of Barcelona This group is the first "tuna " to visit the United States. .As well as singing, the performers feature music in the Spanish tradition played on the guitar, taniborine and mandolin. Dressed in doublets and capes of the Renais.sance era, the eight musicians encourage the audience to clap along with their A member of Government colorful music. c l a s s e s demonstrates Unfortunately, due to the size computerized voting maof the Maine South student body, chines to be used in uponly students studying Spanish coming elections. may attend the performances.

By Sue Ann Savage This being an election year, many high school students have been spending their free time campaigning for a candidate. Whether they do this by their own choice or their history teacher's, campaigning can prove to bo an educational and rewarding experience. Often, students decide to campaign as an alternative to the rigors of writing a term paper. But. campaigning is not as easy as it may seem. These people are faced with the dangers of distributing pamphlets in unfamiliar neighborhoods. Through rain and sleet and snow, they must promote their candiate. Hostile, dogs, apathetic housewives, and above all. slammed doors, are only a few of the hazards to be found when going from door to door. The

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Pep Club Council Strives For Spirit Pep Club Council plavs an important, yet often unseen role of trying to raise both school spirit and pep among the athletes and spectators alike This is achieved through the several jobs they perform throughout the year

•The entire library book budget for the last few years has been S9.000 We were losing between $12,000 to $15,000 worth of books. The actual number of books on the shelves now is 23.000. This is far below the collections held by Maine East and Maine West, which have the same amount of students." But will the system prove effective? Mrs. Lange seemed optimistic. " It has proved effective at every school it has been used at. It is at least 80 per cent effective. The system will pay for itself within ttiree years, through retaining books that would have otherwise been lost" Mrs. Lange commented. "This was the only way. The newest, most expensive, most often used


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