Afterwords
Despite Truth of Speech Berg Neglects Perspective Ted Berg, at last Wednesday's election assembly, told the administration what he, as Student Council president, thought of them. Ted, however true some of his arguVol. 7, No. 12 Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, I I I . 60068 M a r . 12, 1971 ments may have been, neglected certain aspects of the SC-administrative relationship. Open Letter The discipline system at Maine South does need revision—513 suspensions is an extremely large number for four and a half months. Students deserve the right to argue when they are accused and to appeal when they are punished. Unfavorable publicity may be necessary to How do you, the students of Editor: I think the student body of change a system which must be changed. ~ Hie student body of Maine Maine South, expect the admin- Maine South has to decide how Repeated administrative use of veto does seem to South is being confronted with a istration to treat us Uke mature, badly it wants change. Are we choice. We now have a chance responsible adults when we going to try a little bit harder indicate their lack of trust in student maturity, especially for beginning change and bet- acted like children at the as- and act like mature people? Or in their refusal to allow even a trial period for the proterment at South. We are asking sembly? Do mature people will we take the easy way out, posed frosh-soph lounge. However, it does not seem fair for acceptance as mature people throw paper airpanes? Are re- and act like the mindless idiots to imply that administrators do not care what students who are capable of sharing in sponsible adults so rude that the administration has been think of South. responsibility. We say that we they refuse to give a speaker treating us like? If we are going to see this situation in proper perare grown up enough and intel- the courtesy of listening to his We all have to start sincerely spective, we must realize that SC should have done more speech? ligent enough to handle Open working towards the goals we I got the impression Wednes- say we want so much. If we toward passing their proposals. After certain vetoes, Campus and other changes. To achieve these goals, we must day that the student body did each start working for change someone should have gone to the administrators and asked, first act like the intelligent peo- not want to see the changes Ted individually, we'll get that "Why did you veto this? What changes can we make to Berg was so bravely asking for. change as 3,500 mature people. get this approved? Would you accept any other form of ple we claim to be. Did the student body give the There is no other way for us this proposal?" This is not conservatism; this is logic. We took a big step in the speakers the respect they deTed's speech, despite the truth in it, was the type wrong direction last Wednesday serve? Respect for others is the to accomplish these goals of at the campaign assembly. We first step in showing that we are Open Campus and a sensible of force that causes polarization. If the students become ask the administration why thev mature and responsible people. form of punishment. If the stu- militant, the administrators will go as far right as they dents really want these changes, don't accept us as mature and Many students are angry be- they'll have to act as if they feel it necessary. Then, the only recourse will be to have responsible people, and Wednes- cause they feel the administrastudent strikes or other equally drastic measures. We day we answered that question tion never listens to us. We went want them. must not let South reach that stage. Patrick McNamara '72 ourselves. If I had been a to the assembly and did the The administrators have vetoed proposals after being stranger first visiting Maine very same thing we are accusapproached in a reasonable fashion — reasonable as far South, I would have thought I ing them of. It seems stupid that as it went. If SC and the administrators offer alternatives, was attending a grade school we would work so effectively against ourselves. assembly. a suitable compromise might be reached. If the administrators refused to negotiate, the source of the resulting student unrest would not be hard to find. Have you been walking past If the administration proved unreasonable after every the showcase next to V-107 channel of negotiation had been exhausted, the student By Betsy Rossen '72 You know it's third quarter lately? If you have, you may body would have a reason to act, and the people of Maine You know it's third quarter when you look forward to an be wondering what the interest- Township could not say we hadn't tried to use the system. when you find yourself question- evening of fun and frolic and ing artwork is. It is an art display Right now, there would be no justification for di-astic ing the statement "Monday end up deciding whether to department-sponsored comes but once a week." watch Green Acres or the featuring brass rubbings by Mr. measures. Through persistent negotiation between SC and Michael Banks, an English the administration, distrust and misunderstanding can You know it's third quarter French Chef. teacher here at Maine South. when your feeling of apathy gradually be broken down. This is no time for emotional You know it's third quarter reaches a fever pitch. Mr. Banks has been interested reactions. This is a time for reason, on both sides. when you realize that you forYou know it's third quarter got about the big chapter test in this art form for the past when you finally find a work- and suddenly find yourself be- few years, after being introable definition of the word lieving in the power of prayer. duced to it by his sister. Along "blah." with Tom Mclia, a senior here, You know it's third quarter he Racial prejudice exists on a "Blacks," he said, "have no You know it's third quarter visited many small, rural when the giant coimtdown is when you call the attendance churches, making over 200 such large scale in the Union of legal or political rights and office in the morning and won- rubbings. South Africa, several History of must use facilities separate well under way. "What is the proper way to Civilization students found when from those reserved for whites." You know it's third quarter der, The rubbings are created by they attended the Chicago Counwhen you feel that doing three phrase 'I just feel rotten'?" Both speakers agreed that vimaking imprints of monuments. You know it's third quarter cil on Foreign Relations Con- olence would only be harmful jumping-jacks is more than sufThese monuments are of enficient for your daily exercise. when clock-watching becomes graved brass and are mounted ference. Students from Maine to the cause and that an ecoYou know it's third quarter the driving force in your life. in floors or walls in English South and other high schools in nomic embargo would hurt prithe Chicago area were mvited marily the blacks, for they You know it's third quarter churches. when even the thought of an to attend. H.R. Puf ii' Stuf sticker in the when you rush straight home would be the first to go withFirst the brass, often in tlie new box of Apple Jacks doesn't and then wonder what in the The group heard Dr. Menard out goods. Direct intervention, image of knights, saints or get you up in the morning. world you rushed for. Swanson, professor of political they said, would only lead to ladies, is carefully cleaned. science the University of a super-power struggle. Then a 100 per-cent rag paper Florida at and Mr. E. Beverly The solution suggested was a is put over it. By rubbing a Carter, Assistant for constant pressure on the govpigmented heel-ball wax on African Affairs in Secretary U.S. De- ernment through letters which the paper, the imorint comes partment of State.theBoth men show opposition to the conditions through. spoke on the general topic of that exist. Mr. Banks sells his brass the oppression of blacks in Representing Maine South at After taking first in the sec- provide a creative interpreta- rubbings privately and in art South Africa. the Conference were Rocco Rotional speech contest, Jan tion. "What you can convey shows. He claims that they They explained the policy of tunno, Karen Lindstrom, Jan Knapp is considered one of the through your voice is impor- have an appeal because they apartheid (complete separation Smithe, Tern Rupp, Chris best six poetry readers in the tant," said Jan. are "unusual and authentic." of the races) and discussed Omarzu, Chris Pendzich, Diane Jan is excited about going state. She wUl compete downmeasures that were being taken Pinelli, Bob Landers, Bob Hildestate with about 18 other downstate. She feels she is to alleviate the oppression. Open Letter brand and Barb Baumgartner. representing the people of the readers later this month. Mr. Carter described the sit- Mr. Patton Feichter, History When presenting poetry, the drama department "who really uation as being "worse than of Civilization teacher, accomreader must make up original care." Asked about the rewards panied them. Mississippi in the 1900's." introductions and transitions. of taking district, she said. This original material must be "Well, I got an all expense-paid memorized. The poetry, how- two day vacation tor two m ever, must be read. The idea is Normal. And I got to miss a day not to act out the poetry but to of school." Dear Editor: Ted Berg needs to be looked at in perspective. This school has had a Student Council PresOdyssey In Sound will be the will perform a boy-giii duet. ident that has insight and theme for this year's Marlin Other duets include Kim Collins strength to stand up for what he Show. Different types of music and Lynne Sawin, swimming to believes. He is a motivating to illustrate this theme include mechanical synthesized music force. I hope tliat what he said slow music, jazz hits, barber- and Vicky Sorenson and Marsha in the Election Assembly didn't shop tunes, French music, Schniedwind doing a matador upset too many people in a music box melodies, folk songs act to the sounds of the Tijuana negative way. He spoke from Brass. and opera. his heart and out of frustration, Old-fashioned swimmers with but what he said had ti-uth in it. There will be a humor act. inner tubes will be JoAnn Kaad I hope we all view his speech The Dance of the Sugar Plum and Donna Marcus; and Linda as something that had to be Fatties and a number consist- Oberg and Anne Hammond will said, something sensational and ing of three boys and three be Little Abner and Daisy Mae. meaty that got people to think girls. The show opens Thursday, and maybe to act. M y heart is w a r m w i t h the friends I make. Floating patterns will be April 22, at 8 p.m. and will And better friends I'll not be knowing. shown in a butterfly act, and be shown again Friday and Good luck to Ted. He has Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take. there will be a scarecrow num- Saturday nights and Sunday tried. ber consisting of twelve girls. afternoon at 2 p.m. Tickets will No matter where it's going. Mr. Bill Lange " T r a v e l " by Edna St. Vincent M i l l a y , 1892-1950 Mr. Dave Jones Scott and Lisa Gravenhorst cost $1.50.
Assembly Conduct Condemned
It's Third Quarter
Art Exhibit On Display
Speakers Heard By South
Jan Knapp, Verse Reader, To Compete Downstate
Call Speech Motivation
Marlins To Do Odyssey In Sound
Students
March 12, 1971
SOUTHWORDS
Hawks Dump West for CSL Track Crown The Maine South Varsity Hawk trackmen claimed their first of the two conference championships that they seek this year as they sped past rival Maine West last Saturday to take first in the Central Suburban League Indoor Championship meet at Maine East. The Hawks have two more dual meets, lonight against Palatine and Tuesday against Fremd. Both are at home. The final indoor meet will be the Blue Demon Relays at Maine East. The Hawks will be pitted against most of the area rivals in several relay derivations of the usual track events. Particinating at the Blue Demons will be Maine West who offered the only challenge to South at the conference meet Maine West finished w-ith 47 points, well off the mark of 56^^ scored by Maine South. Maine West started the meet
off wiUi a one-two sweep in the 2-mUe that surprised no one. The Hawks, however, were soon to match thjs sweep with one of their own in the shot put. .Bill Green and Jim Staunton grabbed the first two places with throws of 52 "5%" and 52'5W" respectively. M a i n e West's fifth in the shot was off the mark of South's third and fifth in the 2-mile scored by Jim Walley and Kevin Huffman. The third and last one-two sweep of the meet was recorded hy New Trier West in the 50. Dan Mojica and Pat McNamara placed fourth and fifth for the Hawks. Maine West picked up points in the hurdles as both the highs and lows turned out to be the only events that the Hawks failed to place in. Kelly Murphy soared to first place in his specialty the halfmile with Jay LaJone taking
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Title-Bound Hawk Foilers Eye Future for Fencing Maine South High School has the distinction of fostering one of the most successful teams in what has to be the slowest rising prep sport in the state. The Maine South fencing team enters tomorrow's state meet as favorites after a string of ten dual meet wins that was witnessed by few. The Maine South foilers hope for future years to correct this aspect of fencing. Only twenty-three high schools field fencing teams in the state this year, and an even lower number of fifteen tisually participate in the state meet. The niunber, however is increasing every year. Maine East for the first time has gathered a fencing "team but they will not patronize the state meet. Maine South fencing coach David Jones sees the Maine South Hawks as taking the lead in the early years of what he hopes to see become a much more popular sport. The lack of participation of a great number of teams, does not make the state fencing meet less competitive than it could be. With the lack of participating fencers, most of the Maine South teams along with a good number of the Illinois prep fencers compete in extra meets as the Amateur Fencing League of America. This is legal only because fencing is not a sport participating in the Illiiiois High School Association. In the AFLA the participating fencers meet some of the top fencers in the nation. Dave Littel recently scored a victory over the Big Ten fencing champ in an AFLA bout. Participation in the AFLA is one factor that keeps the state fencing meet competitive despite a lack of participation.
third. West broke up the Hawk 880-men with a second place. The Hawk 880-relay team of Dan Mojica, Al Jahn,. Wayne Tuminello .and Ray Novotney placed second. Bad luck hit the Hawks in the 440 when Tom Starck tripped coming out of the final turn and Jost his third place position. Pat McNamara took second with a school record of 51.1." The Hawks •picked up some needed depth by scoring in each
G-Men Place Fourth in CSL After a 12 win and 3 loss dual meet record, the Maine South varsity gymnasts placed fourth in conference and qualified four gymnasts for state competition in last week's sectionals at Elk Grove. Coach John Riccitelli c o mmented, "I think the main reason for our losses to Glenbrook South, Niles West and Niles North is that one-third of the varsity team is underclassmen. Even so we were rated 18th in state before the sectionals." Dirk Martin '72, Mike Martin '71, Steve Olson '71 and Bud Tagge '71, the four gymnasts who qualified for state, will compete in the state preliminaries tonight. Those who qualify for each event for the preliminavies are the top five scoring gymnasts in the four state sectionals plus the next 12 from all four sectionals. The ten highest scorers in each event on Friday night will again perform their routines Saturday night for the finals. Each school will be placed from the top 21 gymnasts of the 32 in the preliminaries and the final places on Saturday. Steve Olson took third place on the trampoline last week at the sectionals with an 8.1 score. Coach John Riccitelli believes "he should make it through the preliminaries since he has been through it last year when he took ninth." Dirk Martin placed second on the parallel bars. "However," Coach Riccitelli commented, "I felt he was underscored because when he should have gotten 8.4 or 8.5, he got 8.15."
Girls P. E. Sponsors Activities Intramural and interscholastic volleyball and gynastics are three of the activities going on now in the Girl's Physical Education Department. The Girl's Gymnastics team has been practicing every Wednesday afternoon after school. This practice will culminate in a Distiict 207 Gymnastics meet. This meet will be held on March 29 at Maine West, the meet will start at 4:00. Girls were selected for the team on the basis of a try-out. Six girls were chosen for each event but only four will compete in the District meet. Competition will be held in five events: balance beam, floor exercise, trampoline, unevens and vaulting. Everyone is invited to attend this meet. This is the Gymnastics team's first year.
A giri's Volleyball Sports Day will be held on March 20 at Maine South. Two teams of girls will be entered from Maine. They will compete against teams from Glenbrook North, Willowbrook and Evanston. The Sport's Day will be from about 9:00-12:00. Three matches will be played; these will be refereed by rated officials. Girls were chosen for these teams by a try-out held last November. About a hundred girls tried out. From these hundred forty were chosen for class teams (approximately 10 from each class). These girls were coached and then another try-out was held to determine the interscholastic team. The class teams will play until one team wins. This team will play the faculty.
In addition to the District meet there will also be a meet for all girls not on the gymnastics team. This meet wUl be held after school on Thursday, March 25 in the gymnastics gym. Competition will be in floor exercise, balance beam, unevenj, trampoline and vaulting. A girl may enter as many events as she wishcj. Ribbons will be awarded for first through third places.
For girls not interested in class teams there is Intramural Volleyball, lliere are two mtramural leagues, the juniorsenior league and the freshmen-sophomore league. Juniors and seniors play on Monday, freshmen and sophomores play on Tuesday. From the intramural teams an All-Star team is chosen. This team will also play the faculty in a traditional game.
Hard-slamming Betsy Rossen of the Maine South g i r l ' s volleyball team executes a bump shot at the Sportsday at Oak ParkRiver Forest High school.
of the field events. Ted Berg was edged put in the' long jump by his fh'ree-year rival John Duff of Maine West. Rob Lossman high jumped 5'8" for a tie for second, South scored two places in the pole vault as Paul Johnson took third and Butch Pietrini grabbed fourth.. Going into the mile run, the Uaise South Hawks were far into first place as only Maine West had the slightest h ^ e ' of defeating South. A win in the •mile run by South's Kelly Murphy would clinch the title. Jack St. John of West and Murphy were both doubling in this event after each had grabbed one conference championship. St. John led for most of the race. Murphy was not to be denied as he sprinted past St. John on the last lap and built up a five yard lead only to lose it in the final inches of the race. The finish was disputed among the judges but the nod for first place finally went to St. John. Maine West also scored a fourth place in the mile to keep the Hawks from clinching the title
before the final event. The meet went down to the mile relay where West's only hope of beating South was to take first in the relay coupled by South not even facing. Just about 4he opposite happened. The Maine South nile relay team of Pat McNamara, Wayne Tuminello, J.ay-I-aJone and Jim Edgeeotntie took first, in the relay and the conference in a time of 3:29.1. Maine West' could only score fifth and a second for the title race. On Tuesday the Hawks travelled to Evanston and for the first time came home an 84-29 loser. Coach Magsaman noted that the defending state champion Wildkits had not let any team score even that small amount of 29 points against them up to that point of the season. The Hawk mentor felt that as South was coming off the conference meet with not even a full practice, they were hardly ready to meet the kind of competition that Evanston offered.
Senior Dan Mojica (center) wins the 50-yard dash on the home track ahead of second place A ! Jahn (right) and third place Pat McNamara ( l e f t ) .
Fencers End Regular Play Compete Today in State The Maine South Varsity second in state. Phil Frystak, Fencers left downstate to Cham- number three man, is the last paign-Urbana today to compete on the A-strip. Frystak who was quickly moved to A-strip in the state finals. Going downstate will be sev- after the loss of a team memen men: Dave Littell, first; ber shows an even record. These Bob Young, second; Phil Fry- three compose the Hawk's Astak. third; John D u n c a n , strip that took first place in the fourth; Larry Robbins, fifth; NTW invitational in which 23 Mike Rusin, sixth and Don team entered. Clem, substitute. The Hawks Number four man John Dunboast a 10-1 record, champions can has used his height advanof the New Trier Invitational tage to outwit many of his Band have been chosen as the strip opponents and shows a favorites downstate. 20-10 record. Larry Robbins, Coach David Jones confident- clutch-man, has saved t w o ly believes his team will win. meets by himself through quick Coach Jones feels their only footwork. Robbins shows a 24-6 competition will come from record and has proven his abilNotre Dame who has handed ity by winning both the Notre the Hawks their only defeat and Dame and Marshall meets by from Marshall whose quick winning his last bout. Mike Rusmove almost defeated the in, number six man, holds the Hawks in a close match. Other end position of the Hawks Bcompetition downstate will come strip. Rusin began in the midfrom New Trier East, New dle of the season and has come Trier West, Niles East and through in difficult positions Niles West. The foilers have and unexpected wins. These six played these teams and have left for Champaign this morndefeated them solidly. The Var- ing. sity fencers have no gieat idea In the Foilers last dual meet how the downstate schools have of the year the Hawks defeated improved. Marshall's touchers. Dave LitLast year none of the schools tell, because of sickness, did not in Southern Illinois gave the fence in the meet which cost Hawks trouble but Pleasant the foilers a good deal of anxiPlains and Champaign Central ety at the beginning of the might surprise the H a w k s . meet. Coach Jones however believes An extremely tough Marshall they will pose no problems. Ap- A-strip stopped the Hawks cold proximately fifteen will try to as they lost 3-6. Bob Young beat the Hawks today and to- came on strong, winning two of morrow. his three bouts and losing only Number one man Dave Littell to Marshall's top fencer Nate who boasts a 23-1 record is re- Haywood. John Duncan won one covering from a cold and may 5-0 and Phil Fr>'stak, fighting not fence his best at the state hard, lost three close bouts. tournament. Littell, who took WTien the B-strippiers had finfirst in state sophomore year, ished, and the bouts and touches feels he ca do it again this were counted, the Hawks had year. Captain Bob Young also tied Marshall in the number of shows excellent form and feels bouts, 9-9, but the Hawks had he has the possibility to take outscored Marshall in touches.