San PAGE 2° Teenagers Use If There's a Will, There's a Way Driving as SUBJECT: Tension Outlet A tendency to release the tensions related to the onset of adulthood “behind the wheel” might cause the dangerous driving behavior of young licensed drivers who pile up repeated accidents and/or violations, according to a survey of 425 subjects—aged 16 to 24—made by investigators of the Highway Research Institute of the University of Michigan. The survey, which studies a random crosssection sample of licensed drivers in one Michigan county, revealed that perilous young drivers, when compared with safe drivers (,those who reached the age of 19 or older with two years free from traffic violations), were more aware of social pressures and tensions and more likely to use driving as an outlet for such tensions. According to _ investigators Donald C. Pelz, Ph. D., and Stanley H. Schuman, M.D., the dangerous young drivers also were more interested in cars, drove more miles during the year, were more likely to come from a working-class home, and were apt te@ be less successful in school than their safe-driving counterparts. “While the youngest drivers had the most accidents,” the investigators said, “it was not until the ‘dangerous years’ from 19 to 22 that their accidents became severe, involving personal injury, and traffic tickets increased. Social pressures and involvement with cars were high_ est at 19-20 years.” The investigators concluded that, “the fact has emerged in several studies that the more dangerous young driver is not oriented toward an office or professional career, but rather _tov a manual }j “Peril- tress, ” in Medical une, August 22, 1968.) tween 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning just to go to school? Nobody! That’s one of the biggest hang-ups the students have, and this pertains to three-fourths of the students. Of course, everybody has a good excuse for sluffing their classes. Either too cold of weather to sit in class with your teeth chattering, or its too good of weather to sit in the class room while the sun is shining and‘ you’re wishing you were out in it. Or maybe you forgot your home work, maybe you drank a little too much last night, so you decide to stay home in bed. Perhaps you blew a tenny running to school to make it on time, so you have to forget about attending at all. Oh yeah, I forgot, even I had car troubles this morning. Not really, just thought I’d see what you’d say. Yesterday, a friend of mine didn’t make it to school until fourth hour. Her alarm clock didn’t go off. I’ve found out that sluffing just isn’t where it’s at any more. The best place to be really is in school. It may not seem so at the time, but when Mr. Kapp catches up with you, you’ll wish you had stayed in school. Sluffing just isn’t worth it. Sophomores and juniors, you can make a go at it by making those A and B grades. Then in your senior year, you can just take it nice and easy. A lot of seniors are working to graduate because they don’t have enough credits, but I know you can’t say, “Okay, I’m never gonna sluff again!” It’s easy to say, but hard to stick with. I know a girl who needs 15 credits to graduate. That’s not bad, considering everybody has to start off with 15 credits, but her problem is she’s a senior and she’s goof- ed off too much to realize this until now. She might be here when you sophomores are sen- ‘The Making of a School Paper “What’s the matter with you people on the newspaper staff? We hardly ever have school ‘jieWspapers.” Although the foregoing statement may seem to be true, upon ¢loser examination of the newspaper staff and its activities, we of the newspaper staff hope that you will be able to see why we run the newspaper the way that it is being manager. The first statement which should be brought to the attention of the student body is that we do not print our own newspapers. Instead of having them printed here at Ben Lomond, we have them printed at Gale Printing here in Ogden. After all the articles for the next edition have been written, typed up, and handed in, they have to be proof-read (read over to check for mistakes). The next step is to take the copy down to Gale Printing so that it can be set into type. After the copy has been set into type, it must be picked up to be checked for errors and cut out STAFF and dummied (which involves cutting out each article and then pasting it down on a facsimile of the newspaper page). The next step after the dummying stage is completed is to take the sheets of corrected type and the dummies back to the printer, who will be responsible for setting up the actual pages for that edition of the newspaper. All that is left after the other stages are completed is the actual printing of the newspaper. The minimum time between the printing of newspapers is two weeks. However, we of the newspaper staff must also consider our budget (it costs a little over $150 for a four-page newspaper) and the events which are happening here at school. If you have any ques- tions as to the make-up or printing of the school newspaper, please feel free to ask any member of the staff or Mr. Hull in Room 17. BOX “4, Editor Ken Assistant Clan Editors ie Lesley er Alford mae Susan Hamilton, April Brough News Reporters Advisers THURSDAY, HIGHLANDER Alford Gayle Francom, Karla Funk, Laurie Craig, Kevin Kinney, Mike Stubbs, Ann Kraft, Jan Richards. Mr. Hull, Mr. Wight A Growing Problem By LAURIE CRAIG The world’s population in- creases by 2 per cent every year, Ist Governor's or 70 million people. In 35 years the world’s population will double to 7.2 billion people if we keep multiplying at our current Debate of Tourney Saturday, Nov. 20, was the date and the Utah State Capitol Building was the place for the First Annual vitational Debate Governor’s InTournament. Representing Ben Lomond were Cheryl Hunter, Craig Lundell, Ken Alford, and Grant Price. Mr. Monson, the Forensics teacher, also went down to Salt Lake. Attending the tournament were debate teams from all over the state. After a short address by Governor Rampton, the debate meet was begun. Each team debated four rounds, affirmative twice, and negative twice. At the end of the day Cheryl Hunter and Craig Lundell finished with three wins and one loss. They also finished eighth in the over-all competition. Grant Price and Ken Alford ended the day with an even twowin and two-loss record. Our School, What lt is and What It Could Be Look at our school, its standards, and what it is becoming and then compare it to the possibilities of what it could be. Have you done anything lately to benefit the school or any part of it? The statistics are: 528 Seniors. 531 Juniors. 520 Sophomores. The dropout rate is very low this year compared to the 80 dropouts last year. A lot of the freshmen who register never show up for high school at all. By not coming to school $2.50 to $2.30 a day is lost per student. This mounts up to $5 to $6,000 per term. You’re not doing anyone a favor by coming to school. So if you’re not going to come, why bother to register? This isn’t meant to be a downbeat lecture, but our school needs some serious improvements. Our school is going down instead of up. It’s going to pot! The drug scene isn’t what is meant by this the Van local Growth, Metre, president Zero Population presented the ZPG’s ‘views on the population explosion in the Environmental Studies clases. Dr. Van Metre is a professor of economics at Weber State College. Dr. Van Metre explained that the earth is like a spaceship and has four basic life support systems. The first is land, which people seem to think we have an abundance of. However, much of it is unuseable. We will not be able to transport the excess of our population to an arid desert or an Arctic iceland. A very basic life support system to humans is having renewable resources, namely food and water. There is a great shortage of food for the human population. Although many of us in the United States have enough to fill our stomachs, we are still malnourished. The U.S. uses water twice as fast as it falls. It is estimated that by 1980 the U.S. will be using 700 billion gallons per year. Fertilizers aren’t doing as much good as it appears. The soil needs increases of fertilizer like a dope addict needs an increase of drugs. The developed countries use most of the fertilizer, too. If India were to use as much fertilizer per person as The Netherlands, they would need one-half of the fertilizers the entire world now uses. The use to keep warm on a cold winter’s night? How will we drive our cars, fly to New York or wire a new Many ogy third, major life system we require is the house? people will bail We won't. believe us out. technolBut they forget that technology will have twice rate. Dr. Dale as many people to deal with in 35 years. Can technology progress that quickly. Can it dc the job alone? The fourth, and probably most publicized life support system, is a clean environment. Obviously our environment is not clean. Many industries are trying to combat pollution. But are we doing enough as quickly as is necessary? The Population Explosion puts a great strain on the life support systems. More people require more land, more food, more devices and require more land. If the world’s multiplying at people kept our present rate, it would only take 250 years to fill all of the planets and moons in our solar system. It would cost 350 billion dollars a day to maintain life. Dr. Van Metre noted that although many countries have learned how to control death, through healing disease, elimination of some food shortages and so on, they are controlling the birth rate to equalize the two. The U.S. distributes birth control devices to overpopulated countries that cannot afford them. However, Dr. Van Metre stated that many religions believe it is morally wrong to practice birth control. Some cultures also consider the number of children a status symbol. So the birth control goes unused. Our country may nology to support tion. It probably create techour popula- will voluntar- support newable resources. The sources include natural gas, oil, coal and our numerous mineral resources. What will happen when these resources have completely depleted? What will we -over-crowded cou — Ti es - 3 starvation? : _ (The Highlander staff wel comes your comments on this topic). Dear Editor The following are some of the rules governing behavior at Ben Lomond High School: SLUFFING Any unexcused absence will be dealt \with mostly on individual circumstances. Prior penalties that have been and will be administered are: Grade drop, loss of credit, suspension, and notifying parents. LITTERING statement. The clans need support. Some, as of now, are almost non-active. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ve had one meeting. This isn’t school spirit, and it’s not strengthening our school, so why do we have them? Student bodies from other schools can look at our school and say anything they want, but what do we want them to Say? When they look at our school they see a big building with halls full of kids. Great, so what does that mean? So... . this means that anything we do has to be “‘not just that it happened, but that it happened, and WE MADE IT! Then they will know that Ben Lomond really is a Great School. The student body is the base of our school. We are proud of our school aren’t we? What about the school tradition? Are you proud to say “I go to Ben Lomond High?” Let’s put our best into the things we do with a strong belief that since Ben Lomond has a Million Dollar School, it will also have a Million Dollar Student Body.. 23, 1971 OVERPOPULATION: SLUFFING iors. Make school worth it. And if you do decide to quit sluffing, remember, “If there’s a will, there’s a way!” DECEMBER Dear Editor: It might seem a bit unorthodox, the writing of a letter to myself; however, I feel that this is the suitable means of letting the student body know of an injustice in the lately printed “Plaid Parade.” First of all, I would like to compliment those who were involved in making sure that we received this publication this year; however, I feel that when they listed the student officers, the faculty, and the heads of some extra curricular events, that they should also have included those persons who are in leadership of the school yearbook and school newspaper. I feel' that the yearbook and newspaper add as much or possibly even more to the school as do the organizations which were represented in the recent publication. I would hope in the future that errors of this nature might be eliminated. Thank you, Ken Alford Offenders of littering will be made to do janitorial work for a prescribed amount of time pending the severity of the offense. VANDALISM Offenders of vandalism will be required to either repair the damaged item or replace it. Continued offenses can result in suspension. SMOKING ON CAMPUS Smoking on the campus’ of Ben Lomond High School is prohibited. (The campus extends from Jackson on the west, to Harrison on the east, and from 7th on the north, to 9th street on the south.) Violators will be suspended. It is the responsibility of the Judicial Council to see that the above rules are enforced. If you know of any violations of the above rules, it is your duty to get a referral slip from any of your teachers and to turn them in. Thank you, Dennis Beatty and the Judicial Council