THURSDAY, | - EDITORIALS STAFF OCTOBER BOX April Editor Assistant What Is Intelligence? Reporters There are supposedly, many ways. Have you forgotton that at the end of each and every term we receive a rectangular sheet of paper that symbolizes intelligence? But report cards aren’t everything. Don’t you remember those beloved aptitude tests? they are supposed to tell the establishment just what kind of employees we'll be in the distant future. Thanks to Alfred Binet (and others) we have another device used for measuring intelligence; the I.Q. test, How could we ever get along without it? April Brough, Editor It is just as easy for a mirror to tell us how smart we are as it is for a report card or I.Q. and aptitude test to do so. After all, just what is smartness? Is it being intelligent or having the capacity to use intelligence? often <4 Fes i=_ ee if tends De ae bie Fg = Tnev Wilic) ry yi : See - Another thing to to take the test. You ache or your mother the computor know? 0 hin ler Shee zn an Plan answer, but when? In order Ideal month for win- Iron Horse Games January: Too early Hull For BL Students and go- ing hiking on Mount Ben Lomond. Need warm food to keep your strength going. November: Better not diet until after Thanksgiving. December: It’s just a little too late in the year. You’d better wait until next month, in the year. Wait until next month. February: Too short a month. Hardly worth starting a diet. March: Very cold and damp. You can need all the calories you get. April: You can’t work without energy. It’s spring chore time. May: Your body ing spring changes. ous to alter is undergoIt’s danger- things. June: Tennis and Golf has just started. A person needs exercise and exercise needs nourishment. Maybe you had better wait, July: It seems that every- body is having outdoor barbeques. If you turn them down you get a bad reputation for being anti-social. August: Muggy days. Weather is bad enough without contending with starvation, September: Vacation is over. Concentration on school, not your own personal welfare. on ; ~y ‘ nis ae = consider is that maybe it just wasn’t the.day may have been the victim of a migrane headmay have died the day before — how does Things like that can lower your test results. the nack of taking test is knowing how you a test to see if know. If that’s the Mirror, Mirror, on the wall. who’s the smartest of us all. is no way , . . There We would like to congratulate the team on the spirit and zest they have had so far. We want to wish the team the best of luck tonight and let them know that we are behind them all the way. Best of Luck!!! Heatherettes of 72-73 Junior Class Shows Highlander Motto No nation, no station My envy e’er could raise; A Scot still, A Scot still; I knew nae higher praise —Robert Burns How Great They Are The Junior Class out this week for Class was pins a car were really went Iron Horse. on ma “Literature?” Is Work of Mentally Ill Dear Lately there has been a definite decline in respect for property plus work and time of others here at BLHS. You don’t think so? Take a look at the desks, chairs, walls, restrooms, and various posters placed in the halls. Walk in any rest room at Ben Lomond, and you can be guaranteed that you will receive a revelation, be it true or not. These sub-human obsenities create a feeling of nausea that no one (execpt the author) can escape. The sad thing about this disgusting aspect of perversion is that a good deal of the “literature’’, if you are sick enough to call it that, is slanderous and reflects a warped image upon a totally innocent person. It is beyond comprehension why a “supposedly” mature High School student would deliberately marr or destroy property that doesn’t belong to them. Offenders, ask yourself this: If you had to scrub 100 desks, wash off lockers, fill in the deepest holes, scrub the paint off walls, or take down the poster you worked on for five hours because someone wrote an obscenity on it, would you be so inclined to participate in such a low form of degeneracy? Those whe indulge in such moronic practices are either totally void of any intelligence what so ever or should seriously question their stability, emotional and mental. How sick must you be to derive pleasure from writing such filth? Please realize that your type of sickness not only degrades yourself but it also places the reputation of Ben Lomond High in jeopardy. OATH I swear to read the proof, the whole proof, and nothing but the proof, so help me with my spelling. before and after ating the halls. Class of ‘74”. school Thanks Suppord Your Local Care-Free Gum Contest Editor, It’s got to you—the great sixth period thirst. In parched anguish a person waits desperately for the bell to release him from the desert. Finally, he bolts with it’s first clang, racing for the nearest fountain oasis. Panting, he pulls up in front of the fountain. But, wait! Is it a mirage? No, it’s GARBAGE. Should a person risk the bubonic plague drinking from a garbage filled fountain? Or is slow death from dehydration preferable? Of course these examples may seem a little on the extreme side, but can anything to expose this situation be too extreme? Really, Scots, there are plenty of garbage cans around this school. They aren’t really that hard to find are they? Where’s your pride? Certainly not with the school! It’s time we cleaned up, not just for pride’s sake, but for the sake of health, Aren’t you tired of drinking from a garbage can? Steve Forrester sale, decorating there contest, and they spent their spare time of telling EDITORS’ / Diet According to the experts, the average adult American weighs 20 pounds more than he or she is supposed to. Therefore we must presume that dieting is ning Dear Editor. - METRE DORON .. Mr. ' tha are Or perhaps you are not endowed with tests, It’s just as they say “Half of passing a to take one.” If this is the case, why not give you can take tests and tests to see what you way they want to play. nec Advisor October: Math, still others have it in social relations, or art, The main draw back is that the various tests only cover the academic areas thus giving those who are less inept in academics a feeling of inferior- Patton Susan Polling diet. We all have aptitudes in some area, some have it in more areas than others. Some have it in subjects such as English or Hamblin Allred Brad the If someone has a character made of loyalty, ambition, honesty, and just enough self-confidence, why should it matter how high he scores on the tests? Duane Noal to serve the public we are printing a calendar for starting your An I.Q. test does show one’s ability to recall previously learned facts, but it does not show anything of the character of a man. They can’t tell your boss how late for work you’ll be each morning, or how many times you'll play sick. They can’t say how many rorners you'll cut or if you will sell out to the competitors for another nickle in your pocket. Langford Dana Crase Stephen Darry Vickie Fisher Kay Dawson Pam Miller Ginny Moss This is your paper and we need your participation. That’s why we have a letter to the Editor’s column. It’s your responsibility to write about what you feel. You have no right complaining about apathy when you yourself don’t care enough about a problem to write about it. If you feel like voicing your opinion write it up and submit it to Mr. Hull (in room 17) or myself and it will be printed if possible. Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the smartest of us all? In reality should it make any difference who is the smartest? If it does make a difference, then how do you propose we measure intelligence? Brough Julie Editor Photographer Editor's Note: 19, 1972 “Surprised!” decor- a lot