Shoplifters Steal Commodities And CHRISTMAS Sneaking carefully past the cold drink freezer, he turned his head glancing apprehensively around the store. A _ sly smile began to spread across his glowing face; he had beaten the establishment! Suddenly a heavy hand fell upon his’ shoulder seemingly coming out of nowhere. "Young Man what do you think you're doing?" And so the story goes Shoplifting has _ slowly crept up on us to become increasingly popular Christmas after Christmas. Shoplifting or the art of permanently borrowing, has plagued us ever since the beginnings of the game known as neighbor". "cheating your Believe it or not there are many who shoplift gifts for their friends and family. One has to wonder if they could possibly know meaning of the spirit of giving. Most people would prefer no gift at all if they knew you had to steal to get it. After all the best gift of all can not be purchased with money. The best gift of all is giving of ones self. Which do you think knows the true meaning of Christmas? With a tear in his eye a young man walk to the counter, placing a _ hard earned bundle of money before the cashier. He should buy hinself a coat for he hasn't one, but to him making someone happy is more important. Peltier Dear ion of student Editor: Why May I ask this question and get an answer. “What ever happened to the great Student Body Lounge? Last year the Sophomores Juniors, and Seniors put a great ing effort forth magazines to in sellraise the funds for the "so-called Student Body Lounge". Some students ated furniture covered and to the lounge. even donto be rebe used in I did a little looking around to see what ever became of the furniture, and I came to find out that the Janitors have inherited the furniture for their own use which are planned for us. I feel that the Student Body should be informed of the whereabouts oof the lounge and up-coming events P.S. Whatever the money? Signed Irked became and of don't officers ing on? exchanges one big not the tell What us .about the student whats the go- student we have had? The with Weber was a real mess. First the offi- cers didn't know if there was going to be one, later they said it would be for officers only, then they said you could sign up; but they didn't teachers to give unique leasons during this week. When Mr. Ogden, on of the few teachers who signed his contract, was asked why the teachers it. Why wasn't The cause support tivities or go bebody their to the ac- If tell the us officers what's would going Dear on, they would find more people participating in the activities that they plan, which would be extremely beneficial to school spirit. In answer to the letter by Karen Ellis that appears in this column, we'd like to look at the indictments that she has directed against the officers as a whole: THE FAILURE OF THE THANKSGIVING DANCE Although the dance was not publicized as other dances have been, it was publicized well in advance of the date. Since the event annual affair, only is an members of the Sophomore classcould have been ignorant of its existence. Editor: Why do all the student officers blame the student body for the things they do? I refer to the Thanksgiving dance. Because of "Lack of interest" it was canceled. I think the real term to be used is "lack of publicity". No one even knew about it until the week it was supposed to happen! The officers are to blame for the cancelat- LACK Dear Karen Ellis. SPIRIT Editor: I feel that it is truly sad, the lack of spirit the teachers showed during our Give a Damn Week. Very few of the teachers signed the contracts. These contracts were placed in their boxes. The contract asked the By the way, how can you blame a group of about 30 students (who had bought tickets), for the failure of an event to which over 800 students could have, but didn't buy tickets. 2. STUDENT EXCHANGES Karen mentions only the Weber High School exchange. If she wer to look back to our other Bonnstudthe have stud(How ever, due to the Ogden High ——<<Svhgoloffricérs, the exchange was cancelled at the last minute.) The Weber exchange was the first exchange to have been entirely made up of Student officers. 3. Editor: 1. would find that the eville exchange was & ents, 4s officers; and Ogden exhange would been made up of all ents and no officers. The fact that exchanges have often not been pulicized more than a week in advance is because that is usually the amount of not ice that we receive from the other schools involved. REBUTTAL as- semblies. Yet I know some officers that sluff assemblies every chance they get and go out to breakfast or go skiing. their most of Mickey Linda Evans the student officers gripe the student doesn't sign hestaid it was E I feel that if teachers would put more "value" in their lessons, the student would put more "value" in their attendame. tell you body told we could sign up? The officers s'~uld bea little fair abou the way they organize -udent exchanges. A _ lot of people from B.L. want to be on exchanges but never get the chance. didn't contracts, them felt “Mouse. where or who to talk to if you wanted to participate. Very few people knew about Disgusted OFFICERS TO BLAME Dear that dance, body. eee LOUNGE exchanges, she We'd like to compliment Karen on having her feelings -publisied because ic is very seldom that a student will go to the trouble of getting a letter published. We and up and Although such behavior cannot be excused, it would be interesting to know if Karen has attended every assembly since she's been here. (Also, we'd was like down making sure that go to breakfast.) to know at J.B.'s they did Sluffing of assemblies is very seldom rationalized effectively, and we hope that those officers who have been involved will cease immediately. would encourage any all students to stand and voice their beliefs opinions. Sincerely, B.L.H.S,..Student Government (Letter by Ken OFFICERS SLUFFING ASSEMBLIES. Although this sadly has been the case in the past, it has definitely been the exception rather than the rule. if she Sign-ups will be taken any student officer or Mr. Ogden's room, 36. by in written Alford) SENIOR CLASS “TRIP Dear oP Editor, Why don't the Seniors have a "special" class trip to look forward to at the end of the year? For example, a trip to Disneyland or Mexico. I'm sure the rest of the Seniors would be willing ney for a to help earn motrip like this. We surely deserve a trip after twelve years of service. Don't you think? Sel.J; All future exchanges will consist of one or two officers and the remaining traveling Scots will be students who have signed up for that particular exchange. Dear S.I,3., Don't you think that it would be more worth while if we worked towards better school spirit and pride for Ben Lomond first?