volume 18 number 1

8/6/2019 Volume 18 Number 1

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/volume-18-number-1 1/12

BRYANmGH SCHOOL OCTOBER 24, 1988

Top Ten Songs of BHS

Spooks ofHalloween

Hot and Fast Cars

•



2OCTOBER 24, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL Editorials NORSEMAN

Parking lot becomes demolition derby

B Y JO E LL EN T AL AS EK

Everyone knows by now there

is a parking problem at BHS; a

lack of space for the amount of

cars parked in the parking lots.

There isactually no solution to

the hassle ofparkingthat wou Id

not cause other problems. In

the past many suggestions have

been made but no progress hascome from these ideas.

One suggestion mentioned

was raising the price of the

stickers, which hasalready beendone. This would only cause

the students to complain and

still end up paying an even

higher price of the sticker.

Another suggestion was not

to allow students under 17 to

park inthe parking lots. Putting

an age limit on parking would

only cause conflicts between

students and parents at the

beginning and end of school

due to the parents dropping offand pick ing their chi ldren up.

The suggestion oftwo dismis-

sal times would not help even

would be five to ten minutesthough the dismissal times

apart because students would

only wait for their f riends after

school.

Until the parking areas can

bewidened or extra space pro-

vided one suggestion is to car

pool, therefore, less cars would

be parked in the lots. Anyone

who has the same activities

before and/or after school could

carpool as well redUCing theamount of t raff ic during lunch

and before and after school.

The congestion Ind confusion typif ied by Ihe par ll ing 1015at BHS.

P HO TO B Y G RE G M OG LE

Zero hour: a rude awakeningB Y E M IL Y B OU IS

When was the last time you

took atest at 7 am? For approx-

imately 60 Bryan High students

this is a fact of life.

That Isone of the drawbacks

of zero hour. For those of you

not familiar with this form of

punishment, it is self-inflicted.

At arena scheduling, for one

reason or another, sometimes

there just aren't enough hours

in the day to accomodate theschedule that some students

require.t \-\OUD." LDOIC. .

Bus StopYellow dog riders whimper in the rainB Y S HA NN ON P ON ZIO

I t's three-thir ty and the race

is on. Immediately studentsrun to get to their cars or rides

home before the rain begins to

fall. But those who ride a bus

may not be so lucky. They are

apt to be soaked by the time

they arr ive at home.

Why Will they be so wet?

Because there arefew places

for them to go to escape the

rain. Some may stay inside

while others huddle against the

walls of the building to keepdry. Special Education bus rid-

ers are forced to goback inside

or stand between the gym and

the building. This makes it dit-

f icult for them to watch for their

buses.

And the students aren't the

onIythings that get wet. School

textbooks become warped andyellowed when rained on. Even

book covers can't prevent this.

Sometimes students must redo

assignments that have been

smeared by the water.

Custodians also have more

work on rainy days cleaning up

the muddy floors left by the

students.

Perhaps there is a simple

solution to this problem.

The school has recently com-pleted or are still working on

completing many projects to

improve itself. Maybe one that

was overlooked was a covered

walkway to the bus stops.

Such a walkway would keep

students dry on thier way into

the school aswel l asgive them

a dry place to wait for their bus.Another smal ler coverway

could be set up for Special

Education students for the same

purposes. Or, if only one cov-

erway is to be built. a ramp

would need to be added to the

larger coverway.

To make up for this lack of

time, school officials have al-lowed certain classes to be

scheduled from 7-8 a.m.

Zero hour is scheduled by

demand of students. Ifenough

students sign up for a zero hour

class, it is formed. If too few,

students sign up for a course,

those students are out of luck.

This year, the classes offered

in zero hour are economics,

government (both seniorclases)

and U.S. History.It is the responsibi li ty of the

zero hour student toget toclass

on time. The policy is this-

students must be in their seatwith all materials ready by 7:10

a.m. judged by the teacher's

watch.

It really doesn't matter that

your watch says 7:05. Miss

McDowell, Coach Petty, and

next semester, MissWiliiamson

would probably bewil ling to let

you synchronizeyourwatchwith

theirs.

Those who suffer from chron-

ic tardy- it is beware: zero hourtends to bring out the tardy

animal in everyone!

The Norseman is published by the Journalism II class ofBryan High School, 3401 E. 29th, Bryan. Texas. The viewsexpressed ar e those of th e writer a n o dO flO t necessarily reflect

the vIews of the faculty, staff or admi nistration. Letters to the

editor are encouraged. The Norseman reserves the right to edit I

,~ , I "etters for lengt~ a.l1d c'a.ri~)I. LibelOI,lSnml ~t,rilfll cont~ihed i~,i '1II$tIteirs wilj n o t ~ e ~i.Iblishad~ i ! 1 I i I, til'

Co-editors ...••. __ T . _ . .. .. Kym Marcontell, Dan Wingfield

Assistant Editors •_. __ David Barrychuck, Lycia Champagne

Jan McKenzie

RE!Po!1 e r s . , , .. . . L i n . a I ~ · . .Alvarez! ~ r : n l ' ~ . BOU. iS~ ls~~r' lnOr l POr liZ-1 1 1 1 1 1 ! . , I i i

I

I m :~ , I I ' l l l l l i l l l l ' I I n I I I , 1 1 J I I I I '[es ey R o d g e r s , H I S ! 'l1 i t li , 6EI i1 TsI.,.s

Photographer Greg Mogle

Advisor. _ _.. _ ~_•. _ Sandy Farris



NORSEMAN NewsOCTOBER 14, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL 3

Anyone interested in partici-

pat ing inUllacademic events

is encouraged to contact Anne

Linne or any of the UIL aca-

demic coaches.

Areas ofcompetition andtheir

sponsors are: Accounting, Myr.

Sims; Number Sense, Nancy

Beard; Science, Tim Luza, San-

dy Gaston, Jennie Heard; One

Act Play, Doug Street; Literary

Criticism, Beth Pennebaker;Journalism, Sandy Farris; Ready

Writing, Gail Thomas; Spelling,

Helen Kuntz; Debate, Diane

Hartman; Speech, Elizabeth

Crusius; Typing, Blanche Hall.

"Anyone whomissed themeet-

ing in September is not out of

the running," said Linne. "We

wi ll f ind a place for them,"

UIL director AnM Unne looks forwar~ '.'

P HO TO 8V G RE G M OG LE

Schedule of tough standards for UIL

B Y D A N W IN GfiE LD

The Bryan Independent

School District has held, in years

past, a continuing tradition of

successful U I L aeademic com-

pet ition in the 15-5Aschootdis-

t rict. This year, however, with

the change to the 16-5A dis-

trict. i t is unknown just howwellBryan High will stand in com-

parison.

In anticlcetion of this tough

competition, UIL academic

coaches have already begun

holding rneetings for their

events in order to prepare stu-

dents for the upcoming compet-

itions,

"I don 't know how well we' ll

Sizing up for new districtB Y EM IL Y H O UI S

In the past year there have

been many changes at Bryan

High. These changes inc lude

new princ ipals, a new parking

lot attendant and the new corn-

peti tion offered by Distr ict 16-

5A.

Now, instead of continuing

our old r ivalries with A&M Con-

solidated and Temple exclusive-

ly, the Vikings now must con-

tend with such high schools as

Klein, Klein Oak, Galveston Ball

and the old favori te, Langham

Creek (remember them Vikes?).

, The competition is not only

l imited to footbal l. Many other

organizat ions are counting on

this year's competition to be

stout.

One of these organizations is

the Shy-Annes. Krista Allen,

Shy-Anne sponsor said, "Iwould

say that this is probably tlie

hardest drill team district in

Texas, but I feel that our girls

have their routines down."

"We had an instructor that

used to teach in this district

come down for our summer

practice. She seemed to ex-

press the same confidence that

Ido in the girls," added Allen.

The change ofdistrict seemed

to please senior Gene Johnson.

Johnson, a golf team member,

sa id, "The new distr ict will be

easier for us because there

won't be as much competition

asthere was last year. The old

district wasthe toughest in state

forgolfand this year's team has

improved a lot."

Although not a part of this

district change, the band will

have to travel the longer dis-

tances with the footba ll team

and Shy-Annes to perform dur-

ing the games. Their distr ict

competition will remain as it

was last year.

This is also going to mean

changes for the Viking specta-

tors. Moret ime wiIIbespent on

going to and returning from the

games.

Journalism class hits the air waves

BV l e lA C H AM P AG NE

The score at halftime is 24

-14, Viking lead. Now for your

halftime pleasure KTAM proud-

ly presents Bryan High Journal-

ism f class with their Halft ime

Highlights. This is KTAM.

For the first time at Bryan

High, Journalism I class, under

the instruction of Sandy Farris,

isdoing a Viking "Halftime High-

light" on KTAM. The broadcast

is ten minutes and is played

during halftime at all Viking

football games. During the ten

minutes, events that are going

on at Bryan High that week wil l

be discussed.

The program is taped each

week during class and then

played that following Friday

night . The program consists of

interviews, production assist-

ance, and scr ipt writing from

which the students wil l begrad-

ed by.

"I think itwill begood because

it will give you, the people lis-

tening to the radio, or who can-

not be at the game a generalidea of what is going on at

Bryan High," said senior Lynn

Currie, who presently isa Jour-

nalism I student.

do," said UIL academic direc-

tor Anne Linne, "but we won't

be atthe bottom."

On September 21, a UIL

assembly was held after school.

A calendar of events was made

available and plans were set for

this year's series of meets. The

fi rs t practice meet Bryan High

will be held at SFA on October

10. Further local competitions

will be held at Bryan High onDecember 6 and once again on

February 3 and 4. At least two

other dist rict inv itationals wi ll

be attended as well.

District competition will be

held in March, regionals are in

April, and state competition wiII

be in May, Exact dates for these

competi tions are not yet avail -

able.

S.nlor Jonn Vlndlol.letllnvolved wlUt IIlml", on ChanMI 31w i th Jack Fol ey

lupervisinr.

School activities shown on 31

B Y K YM M A RC ON T EL L

For years people have beensitting in front of the television

flipp ing the channels around

tryingtofind somethingtowatch

duringthe commercial breaks.

When Cooke Cablevision

came tothe Bryan/College Sta-

tion area they introduced a

channel guide that listed the

programs that were on every

channel at specific t imes. This

was shown on channel 3l.

Recently, the Bryan Indepen-dent School District (8150) intro-

duced a Community Education

Access Channel that is now

shown on Channel 31.

This educational channel

shows the Bryan Viking varsity

football games, A&M Consoli-

dated Tiger varsity football

games, interviews with the stu-

dents involved in school activi-t ies such as Student Counci l,

yearbook, Norseman, volleyball,

Shy-Annes and band.

The educational channel also

runs a list o f school activities

coming up within the week and

the school menus for the next

couple of days.

Economics teacher Jack Foley

has been filming and running

the programs shown.

"We are hoping for the stu-dents to get involved with the

channel," said Foley.If there are any students who

are interested in getting invo! -

'vedwith the channel , they can

talk to Foley in Room 237.



4OCTOBER 24, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL

Cruise on the rocks in CocktailB Y K YM M A RCON T EL l

Someone issitt ing in a movie

theater with their Dr. Pepper in

in one hand and gummy bears

in the other.The girls hearts begin to beat

faster while the guys sit there

saying "give me a break!" while

the movie starts and YES...there

he is...Tom Cruise!

Heartthrob Cruise has a new

movie out cal led Cocktai l, co-

starring Brian Brown and Eli-

zabeth Shue.

Cocktail is Cruise's follow-up

movie after the hit "The Color of

Money," starring with Paul New-

man.

Cruise has taken on many

roles during his movie career

as an actor. Cruise dances

around in the living room wear-

ing a pink button-down oxford

and underwear. singing into a

hair brush in "Risky Business."

Next, Cruise flew circles a-

o round the other pilots while try-

ing to break the sound barrier

in "Top Gun."

The world seemed to fall in

love with Cruise after "Top

Gun," starring Kelly McGill is.

Cruise excellently portrayed his

character, Maverick.

In Cocktail. Cruise tries some-

thing different. He is a bar-

tender at awell known local bar

with Brown training him.

Together they dazzle the town

by throwing the bottles in the

air and catching them while

mixing the dr inks. They never

op Ten Movies of '88B Y J IL L S M I TH

missed!

Brown and Cruise become

famous for this hobby and are

offered many jobs at different

bars. They ended upworking at

a real exotic bar and there

decide to open their own bar in

the Bahamas someday.

Cruise l ives up to his legend

and, of course, gets the girl,

Shue. Shue plays a rich lady

pretending tocome from a poorfamily. The plot is decent and

average but the mixing of the

drinks are great!

Cocktail is a comedy/drama

movie that was loving and ad-

venturous but it did drag on at

parts. But with all the razzle,

dazzling with the drink mixing,

no one noticed that it dragged.

NORSEMAN

Tom Cruise .hOWl off Inhl.latHt movie •'Cocktail"

Top Ten Movies

of '80

1. Voung Guns

2. Cocktail

3. Die Hard

4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

5 _ Big

6. Coming to America

7. Willow

8. Bull Durham

9. A Fish Called Wanda

10. A Nightmare on Elm Street IV

1_Being There

2. Kramer VI. Kramer

3. The Empire Strikes Back

4. Electric Hor eman

5. Coal Miner's Daughter

6.Vanks

7 _W I& 8B l oo d

8. Airplane!

9. Fame

10. "10·'



OCTOBER 24, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOLORSEMAN Entertainment

Book of Love sing sweet "Lullabies"The first decent song is"With

a little Love." This is the first

slow song on the album. The

song itself and the emotion it

gives off isextremely warm and

sensitive. It tells of the love

shared between two people.

The second side has a faster

and more upbeat tempo. It is

better in the sense that it has

more of a consistant rhythm. I t

is more dance tunes than slow

or message songs.

"Witchcraft," the first songon

the first side, is a corny and

serious song at the same t ime.

It just says always believe in

magic.

Another good sO[lg is "You

Look Through Me." This song

deals with a guy who is vain in

every sense of the word All he

does is think of himself. Hisgirlfriend is the one who tells

the story and how she deals

with i t.

"Champagne Wishes" is a

song about how to cope with

reality. One verse in the song

goes like this, "but you're too

blind to notice, the writing on

the wall, the higher you fly, the

harder you tall ." The song says

that at sometime in your life,

you have to face reality so you

can go on and enjoy life.

The last song isthe tit le track

"Lul laby." "Lul laby," the song,

lets you imagine what a man

might be thinking while his

beautiful wife is sleeping.

Overall, this tape was good.

This tape brought out emotions

of both sadness and joy. Susan

and Ted Ottowiano do a superb

job of lead vocals. The way they

project their voices makes the

songs come out of the tape and

into your mind. Jade Lee and

Lauren Roselli sing back-upvocals for BookofLove. Lullaby

is a good album for Book of

Love.

B Y D A VE B A RR Y CH U CK

Book of Love has come out

with another album, Lullaby.

Lullaby has the makings of a

superb album. The sound qual-

i ty of the songs andthe produc-

tion of the tape show through

the stereo.

The tape starts out with thesong "Tubular Bells." This song

is an old remake to the "Tubu-

lar Bells" in the movie "The

Exorcist." Although, in "The

Exorcist," the song holds the

drama and suspense in the

movie, the song on the tape is

boring. "Tubular Bells" was

or igina lly wr itten by Mike Old·

field.

"Sea of Tranquili ty" happens

to be the third song on thealbum. In the dict ionary, tran-

quility means calmness. The

title fits for th is song. It can put

a guy to s leep. The celestial cover of the latest Book 01 Love album complements the music

treasured inside. PHOTOBYGREGMOGLE

State of mind influenced by musicop 10 Rock

1. Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns -noRoses)2. Love Bites (Del Leppard)3. Pour Some Sugar On Me (De' Leppard)4. Red, Red Wine (UB40)5. Pure Energy (Information Society)6.Welcome To the Jungle (Guns on·Roses)7. When It's Love (Van Halen)

8. She Sells Sanctuary (The Cult)9. Chains of Love (Erasure)10. Spirit of '76 (Alarm)

the same, act the same, and do

practically everything the same.

Metal music brings about the

rebel in a person and one can

usually tell when someone likes

to l isten tothis type of music by

their att itude and dress.

New Wavers seem to always

dress in black and consider

white a solemn color, just the

reverse of most people 's per-

ception of color. They make

their l ife an individual effort.

Therappers wear Adidas with-

out shoelaces and heavychains.

They seem to always havetheir

music on the ir mind and ajam-

box everywhere they go.

Then there are, of course,

those who can't make up the ir

minds and listen to every type

of music there is except for

classical. They dress to please

every taste of music and every-

one who l is tens to the music .

Music inf luences several dif-

ferent thi ngs soif someone who

dresses country, probably l is-

tens to country music. But

some people dress differently

than what type of music they

I isten to, so i t just goes to show

that you can't always judge a

book by its cover.

try music.

Music influences dress, emo-

tions, accent, room decoration

and thoughts. There are so

many things that have been

brought about by music. If

there were not 1if ferent types of

music most of us would dress

B Y JO E LL EN T ALA S EK

In the distance you see a

cowboy hat above the crowd.

The fi rst thought that comes to

your mind probably contains

something pertaining to coun-

Top 10 Rap

1. M y Posse On Broadway (Sir Mix'alot)2. If It Isn't Love (New Edition)3. How Deep Is Your Love (Keith Sweat)4. Don't Worry Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin)5. Don't Be Cruel (Bobby Brown)6. Boogie Woogie Man (Capt. Cool)7. Darlin' Nikki (Prince)8. Shake Your Thing (Salt -n - Pepa)9. Colors (Ice T)10. Wishing Well (Terrance Trent D'Arby)

Top 10 Country

1. Forever and Ever (Randy Travis)2. All My Exes Live In Texas (George Strait)3. Streets of Bakersfield (Dwight Yokem)

4. Baby Blue (George Strait)5. The Chair (George Strait)6. Love Me like You Used To (Tanya Tucker)7.1 Should Be With You (Steve Warner)8. Crazy (Patsy Klein)9. Heart Don't Fall Now (Sawyer Brown)10. Elvira (Oakridge Boys)

Jlmm, 'qeof the hlp I,popular 70's band Led Zeppelinha. Influencedman,

muslc'a ... andhal rocked the world. PHOTOBYHANSEILERS



6 Indepth-ORSEMAN

Creativity spawns the H

B Y D A VE B A RR Y CH U C K ducers are even

u0 kits kids can dAlthough co

into Halloween,

only t ime to dres

The Chinese

New Yearwith ficostumes. In th

China, the Ch

and down the

and chanting in

dragon outfits.

In kabuki

Al l Hal low Eve. The day that

witches love and horror movie

goers enjoy. It is the day that

l itt le kids can dress up as their

favorite character or hero.Costumes are one of the fav-

orite parts of Halloween for most

children because it gives them

a chance to be that character

for a day.Dressing up started back

when people would throw cos-

tume bal ls to celebrate Hal lo-

ween. They would dress up in

their gowns and suits and wear

masks. Through the years it

has transformed into a monop-oly. The producers of the cos-

tumes seewhat ishot onthe toy

market and produce costumes

Mardi Gras,day before Ash

celebration in

Citizens dress uplau ... W l ld ln & . B H S math teacher, po•• as a clown at her JOronI)' rush carnival. 1983.

Off the wallWhat

•IS your

horror

favorite

movie and why? Trick or TreatB Y L ES LE Y R OD G ER S

Is it really good to eat?The Exorcist- "Everything looked

so real. Satan was the most

frightening part of the whole

movie!" Jay Wilder, senior

comes in a few days later and

bags of candy are made. Then

on Halloween night the mer-

chants at the mall dress up not

for sales, but to hand out the

candy."I think it is good they do it

because it keeps the children

from going to strange houses,"said environmental teacher San-

dra Gaston, "Ithink it is a shame

because I found Halloween so

exciting when Iwas young, but I

would not let my daughter go to

strange neighborhoods."

The merchants at the mall

hand out an average of 5,000

pieces of candy each year to

babies from around the age of

six months to adults of thirty-

five.

This year trick-or-treat will be

done between 6-8 p.m. on the

night of Halloween.

On October 29, Humana will

also hold a Halloween party,

which will include trick-or-treat-

ing and a haunted house.

B Y L YC lA C HA M PA GN E

Along with the fun of Hallo-

ween, there isalso the sidethat

has parents worried. This is

whether or not to let their kids

go trick-or-treating. With all of

the maniacs that are putting

razors, need les,and other harm-

ful objects in the candy, it is

hard to know who can betrust-

ed.When Post Oak Mall opened,

an event in which the commun-

ity hasdepended onwas started.

The mall started atrick-or-treat

night.

"My opinion is it is safer at

Post Oak Mall because it is a

controlled environment," said

computer teacher Linda Poole,

"Parents should always go with

kids."

Around the middle of October,

the mall manager has each

store fill out an order form for

the candy that the store wants

for Halloween Night. The order

Faces of Death III - "You get to

see what horror movies are

modeled after." Tray Mounce,

junior. ,!

Friday the 13th Part I - "It was

exciting and gruesome!" Tho-

mas Vetters, sophomore.

Friday the 13th Part I - "ln the

first one you didn't know what

was going on. The rest were

stupid." LeslieStephens, senior.

The Shining - "It was the first

time I ever saw a finger tatk!"

Jimmy Knighton, senior.

Nightmare on Elm Street - "I

don't like Freddy, but I love it

when he makes me scared."

Kim Riley, junior~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - ~



OCTOBER 14,1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL 7

oween sparklecostumes to get ready for the

lent year.

Costumes are used widely in

the circus. The clowns, acro-

bats, and even the animals are

dressed in vivid and decorative

costumes. The clowns set the

mood by dressing in oversized

costumes and funny make-up.Also, the native Indianswould

use costumes to signify some-

thing. Before a tribal war , theIndians would also dress up in

order to get rain orto bring good

fortune and even to havea good

hunt.

Costumes can be used for a

variety of different things. Whe-

ther it be to set the mood of a

the dramatic play or just to have

fun atthe circus, costumes are

away to get away and be some-

one else for a l it tle whi le .

Which witch i.tll.? Cheryl Weanr of c·ou~e.


IMan,. bags of candy are taken tDbe iCreened each year for unwanted foreign objects. P HO TO B Y G RE G M O GL E

Brook.5Nellon, Itudent body prelldent , Ipreadl hil Chtilfmu joya. SintaClaus.

Tradition lives' on in B-CS

B Y J AN M CK EN ZIE

The innocence of yesteryear

has long been fading away with

growing technological advan-

ces. In today's wor ld, precau-

t ions have to be made for atra-

dition that hasparents paranoid.

Instead of completely abol-

ishing trick-or-treating, precau-

t ions have been taken to reas-

sure parents of the treats that

their children receive.

One project established at St.

Joseph Hospital in 1982 wasformed by Carol McDermund.

She lived in Chicago before

accepting her position as head

of the Radiology Department at

St . Joseph Hospital. The pro-

gram was needed in Chicago

due to the increasing numbers

of tampered candy.Forfive years,the radiologists

have x-rayed candy free of

charge forc hiIdren of concerned

parents. "We do this as a ser-vice project asa reassuranceto

parents," McDermund said.

The procedure is very sim-

ple. The community should

enter at the front door of the

hospital and sign a form giving

permission to the technicians

to x-ray the candy.

The radiologists then spread

the candy out on a table and

discard the unwrapped candy.

They then screen the candy for

foreign metal lic objects which

would include needles or razors.

The instrument used in this

procedure iscalled a radiograph

and the procedure is called

fluroscopy.

Unfortu nately, the pharrnco-

logical tampering, which is

L.S.D. or angel dust lacing,cannot be determined.

This year the hospital is ex-

panding. I f they cannot f in ish

building their new unit in t ime,

the hospital will be unable to

reserve a room for the x-raying.

St. Joseph is not the only

place to x-ray candy. Lastyear

Care-PIuscontributed their equip-

ment and helped at their own

facilities. They will cont inue

this year.Halloween is not becoming a

slowly deteriorating tradition.

With the help ofconcerned tech-

nicians and parents, it may

never come to an end.



,I',':

8OCTOBER 24, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL Features NORSEMAN

south PacifiC

"We put in lots of hours and

got no sleep," said Michael

Prince, junior, Bil lis in the play.

"I had fun but I'm glad it's

over," said Chris Stratta, senior,Hhoplayed the part of Emile de

Becque.

"It's all worth it when

you hear the applause~""'y,)tll~~:~

Jackie Higgins, seni

and Nellie in the

play, said.

A true love in the midst of war

"South Pacif ic" was a lit tle

dif ferent. Choir director. JohnHornbeck, decided to make

this play triple casted.TripIecast in8gives more stu-

dents the opportunity to playa

major role. Hornbeck said it is

probably something he wi ll not

do again.

"Having a tr iple cast helped

because you have three differ-

entviews ofthe character," said

Cathy Herrington, senior, who

played the role of Bloody Mary.

Overall the performers en-

joyed doing the play and are

glad to f inally get some rest

Out of my dreams, into my car

B Y SH AN NO N PO NZIO

The lights dimmed and the

audience grew si lent. A lively

iano melody began playing to

. set the mood for Bryan

High's performance of

"South Pacific:'

Everyyear the choir

presents a

musical. But

this year's

approach

to

B Y L IN DA A LV AR EZ

Out of the si lence comes the

blaring ofa horn and the crank-

109 of hot tunes.

A glimpse of l ight sparkles

from a new set of keys.

It's Saturday night, the sun

has gone· now only the street

lights shine from a newly pol-

ished paint job.

Mom and dad enjoy an even-

ing alone at home - it is a teen-

ager type of night.

The American teenager out

on a Saturday night without a

car? Get real! There isno such

thing, or at least there shouldn't

be, according to many Bryan

High School students.

A car is the ticket to inde-

_ _. .. . " , ,~ ~ . .\ d ; pendence and freedom to go) l id . , , - 811 ' \ ( f I 1 , , 'E .G "oG\.E . "anywhere, anytime," said sen-

" $ 81 '1 iO ( o · , "" o -r o 9 'l G ior l isa Greer.

\\ a\I\'\ ~::~ \wc~· Being able to cruise isn' t all

. ., \ 1 1 " : 0 \ \ , , \ . ~ , there is to it; you've also got to,,,o'll\ look sharp.

For example, a young man


pulls into his date's driveway

with not a hair out of place, the

smoothest threads out of his

closet, and enough cologne to

offset the Los Angeles smog

factor, he rings the doorbell.

A tall muscular man (that

looks l ike an ex-bodyguard for

Sylvester Stallone) opens the

door. Will he allow his precious

daughter to be taken out in a

car once used ina nexperiment

for metal corrosion? "I don't

think so."Speed, recognition, indepen-

dence - what more could one

ask from an automobile?

Transportation, maybe?

"A car will allow you to go

where you need to go without

having to bum rides off every-

one," junior Jared Court said.

For many students, relying

on others tor t ransportation islike trying to pole vault with wet

noodles. it doesn't work.

Mom and apple pie, a tee-

nager and an automobile. it's

the American way.



10OCTOBER 14, 1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL NORSEMAN

Itumpus I.closed,ttli. ~Jd be thel'8luiar_. P HO TO B Y G R EG M OG LE

Closed Campus

Committee to debate all possibilitiesB Y D AN W IN GF IE LD

Inthe past, the threat ofcios-

ing campus has always been

regarded as an idea that will

never be acted upon; not to be

considered. Forjuniors, sopho-

mores and freshmen, however,

this idea may become, quite

suddenly, a startling reality.

Recently. a drug and alcohol

prevention committee, headedby Congressman Joe Barton,

met to discuss solutions to pos-

sible drug and alcohol problems

for h igh school students. One

oftheir suggestions wasto close

campus.

"An advisory committee wilt

meet to discuss the pro's and

con's ofan open campus," said

principal Jerry Ellis.

The committee wil l consist of

2 students from each ofthe [un-ior, sophomore, and freshmen

classes aswell asparents, memo

bers of the business comrnun-

i ty and members of the admin-

Tam Rhodes reigns over parking lotB Y L ES L EY R OD GE RS

Out of Iowa and into the hus-

tie and bustle of Bryan Highcomes Tom Rhodes. Rhodes is

the new campus monitor at

Bryan High.

While hewas attending a[un-

ior college in Uvalde, Rhodes

decided to goto Iowa to attend

a senior college. Rhodes was

also interested in finding out

what it was like living in the

North.

During hisstay in Iowa,Rhodes

taught atthe Anita CommunitySchool inAnita, Iowa. Histeach-

ing skills range from first grade

to high school . Rhodes taught

both art and industrial arts to

children of all levels.

Rhodeswasveryexcited when

he was hired as Bryan High's

campus monitor. A typical day

for Rhodes isn't an eight to fivejob. Rhodes starts at 7 a.m.

checking the building and park·

ing lots. He routinely checksthe school for cars without park-

ing stickers and students who

are not in class. But, occasion-

all~, hed~ have abit of excite-

istrative staff.

Ellis believes that the variety

ofcommittee members will pro-

vide a wide range of ideas that

wi ll show the effects of the de-

cision on all levels of those

concerned. This wi IIenable the

committee to make a decis ion

that wi ll be beneficial to all .

"I want on the committee,"

said junior Ryan Holt . He feels

that it is the responsibi lity for

those involved to voice their

opinion on the matter. "My

concern is that the community

will losean estimated $630,000

a year."

If the decision is made toclose campus next year, many

changes wil l haveto bemade in

both scheduling and eating fac-

ilities in order to accommodate

the large student populat ion.

There will be at least 3 lunchperiods per day with approxi-

mate ly 600 to 650 students in

each. Standard procedures tol-

lowed in both the cafeteria and

the snack bar wil l bealtered for

greater efficiency.

Students wi ll not be the only

members of Bryan High to be

affected bythis decision. Most

teachers will be asked to give

up their time for lunch duty.

One teacher is very much

against the idea ofclosing earn-

pus. "They would give me lunch

duty and I have just too many

other things to do."Until a decision is made,

everything is up for discussion

and nothing is definite. The

advisory committee's decision

on this mat ter wi ll be thorough

and wBI consider all points of

interest. Closing campus is

expected to bea topic for con-

sideration during much of the

fall semester.

"I can't say what's going to

happen," Ellis said. Thoughvery optimistic as to the out-

come of the committee, he is

just as in the dark as to the

results as anyone.

'~:;''TutlE""" ~ t-\ ~~w r . n.

~ErOe.b Et.l"'~\Z.\N(j. otLElWilJ6-II ....-~-

K.. pln,nlch owr the parilinalot, TomRhc.:ln enjop hi. work.

ment; either someone gets their

keys locked in their car or he

has to chase someone who

knows they are in the wrong

place.

"The kids at Bryan High are

great! They're very polite and

well·mannered. Everywhereyou

look someone is smiling!"

Rhodes said. He isvery anxious

to meet and toget to know moreabout the students at Bryan

High School.

Rhodes hasattended fourcol-

leges and iscurrently attending

A new year with a new look

arenow Special Education Class-

rooms. Four other new class-

room sare being buiItalongside

the new gym also.

The park benches inthe Com-

mons area of the school were

also completed this summer.

The Class of 1987 donated the

money for the benches as

their Senior Gift . The sign in

frontof the building was

constructed with the money

from the Class of 1988.

Students can take advantage

of some ofthese changes now.

The new gym will becompleted

by the end of this scnool year,

but will not be used until next

year.

Texas A&M. He is working on

his mid-management degree.

When he is not circulating

the school grounds, Rhodes is

at home with his wife or explor-

ing one of his many hobbies.

Rhodes loves to f ish and paint

with water colors. His favori te

place to spend time is the Big

Bend National Park.

Rhodes says the most excit-ing part of his job is" just being

around the kids atgood '01 Bryan

High. They make life fun and

make me feel young again'"

BY S HA NN ON P ON lJO

Bryan High School has under-

gone many changes this past

summer. Perhaps the most

noticeable one isthe new gym-

nasium now under construc-

tion. But there are many less

noticeable renovations also.

Along with the new gym, new

off ices and dressing rooms are

being built inside the future

gym. Dressing rooms in the

present gym have been rerno-

deled for both boys and gir ls .

Formerly used as Student

Council headquarters and stor-

age areas, Rooms 214 and 216



OCTOBER 24, 1988

BHY AN HIGH SCHOOL IIORSEMAN

h

Bryan Htgh Junior Hjstorians

isa new ctub at8ry~n High.lh

this club, t h E ! students learn

m o re a po ut tfJe history of our

counfY and state.

Th e J vniOl'H is to rl an swi ll c om -

pete 'in the T ex aS ! HIstory Day

an d NatloralHistory Day in the ,

near future. The topic of the .

competition will be "lndlvldu-als in History,'; i

The F , u b is planning a fieldtrip to S an Antonio to learn

mere about Texas history.The histor ians are going to

c o- s p on s a ra w i nter s e m [ , fO ( l1 1 a J

dance wIth TAFE. Officers ar e

Presicent-Marcl Rooney, VicePres ident -A l f red Leer Secretary-

L e a n Matthews, Reporter-Lynn

Currie, Histol" ian-P.aUIKing and

the sponsors are A n n Anderson

and RutfLWhfteley.

ClubY GAIL THOMAS

Newshen Jil l Smith approached

me and asked me to write for

this edition of "Chalk Talk," I

immediately agreed. She asked

me to relate a learning sxper-

ience I had during my high

school years. I t sounded easy

at the t ime, but once I sat down

to write I realized - "Man, thatwas 11years ago!" (Thanks for

forcing me to admit that to

myself, Jill. YUCK.) This was

going to be more dif ficul t that I

had imagined.

The first experience that came

to mind was moving from

Spring, Texas, where I had at-

tended Klein from grades 7-11,

to Pit tsbu rsn, Penn syl vania.That truly was a tremendous

learning experience; belive me!

I was a Klein Bearkat through

and through. The thought of

leaving my friends and my

school was a painful, frighten-

ing one.

Imy eyes I had rea f ly " m a de

it" at Klein. I was an act ive

member of the Student Coun-

cil, the drill team and the year-

book staff. I felt like a full-

fledged member of the "in"

crowd. Neverdid I missa sport-

ing event, a school dance or avisit to Shakey's the local hot -

spot pizza parlor where wefaith-

fully gathered after football

games.

Now I had to start all over

again, and I was terrified. My

real fear wasnot being accepted

Th e Science Club-Jets arep la nn in g a Halloween costume

Par ty for the end of October and

are planning togo to Sea Wor ld

in late November . Plans are

also in the making for a fieldtrip to Houston to see 9 P ' E l n

hea(t sursefy.

This year Te)(as Association

of Future Educators (T A FE)of f l -

bers are: President· Am y Nor-yvoqd; Yi¢e President - Marc;

Rooney;Secretary· Ja mes Ki'oc-

zyk ; T re a su re r- D ana Gn.'Iesser;

Histor ian • T ara A lle n; Parlia-

mentarian - Stephanie DUke:

Reporter. Cheryl Bright


in this elite (snobby, if you ask

me) school in the suburbs of

Pittsburgh where the people

were dif ferent and the cul ture

was alien. I became a loner. I

only spoke out in class when I

was called upon todo so. Usu-

ally my response resulted in a

comment from oneof my class-

mates like, "Where are you

from? Youtalk funny." Toavoid

further humiliation, I'd skip

lunch by going to the library

and head home immediate ly

after the 3:30 dismissal bel l

sounded. I cried and moped

and wrote novel -like letters to

friends back "home."

Through all of the loneliness

and pain (much of it self-In-

flicted), looking back atit now, I

can honestly say that I learned

much more about mysel fthan I

ever had before. Rather tha n

basing my likes and dislikes,

my taste in clothes and make·up, and my choice of f riends,

on the group to which I be-

longed, I began toform my own

opinions and ideas. I learned to

be independent and to make

my own judgements. It was

pretty neat, really.

Th e Photogra-phy CI ub has

newly elected officers: Prest -

dent • Cljnt Easterling, Vice

President - Eric- Beal, Secretary

- A ndy Burrichter, arrd Treas-

urer r Mick Southerland.

Meetings a re h el d every tw o

'1.ee:ks on Wednesdays ~t3:30p.m ..i n r oom 126.A c an dy sale is scheduled fo r

December 5.9.

,

Th e Student Co unci! has been

very product ive over the sum-

mer and plans fo r a great year.

Several students attended t~ eS t u den t c o un c il summer work -s hO P in San Angelo. on Sep-

tember 3, Channel 3lfeatored

a vid~otape~it~Counc ] ] mem-

bers discussing 'heir s umme ractIvities, On Septembel' 30,

Student Council sponsored the

Victoty Dance after the football,game. A new propo~1 that the

students thought would make

life a little easier for teachers

and students, wasto establish a5[(11001 store for paper, pencils

and other flec;es:sities~1 &150 ,

thiey are urging students to vote

on the up com i ng p re s id e nt ia l

election. The suggestion b ox

will be contlnLled f r om last yearl

THis y~a r ' s 'M u Alph~ Thetaofficers are: . .President· Hahi

Gadalla; Ist Vice President •

Lisa Schafer; 2n d V[ce Presi-

dent" Paul Kas pe r ; S e 'G re ta r y·I

Leah Matthew; Treasurer? ChrisPargac;an d Publ ic i ty IHlsfbr'ian,

Ke ll y Russel l.Over the s umme r , four TAFE

r nemba r s attended the statew ork sh op in Ju ne in which they

learned about how toconduct a

club meetirlg and other prone-

dures, Thefo!Jrmemberswere;

Tara Allen. Stephanie Duke.James krotcz~. and ly cia C ham .pagne.

Durlng the summe r ' VCi l r iQUS

TAFE .m~mber5 helped jT ) the

m~jn Q f f i l r B and atArena SChed-uling.

Th e Orchestra is having its

fall concert on O c to be r 2 5 at'

7 :30 pm in room 141. The con-cert is open to the public and

everyone is. Invited to attend.Strol l ing Strings is continuing

its success this ye~r, They w i l l

p~ttDrm for : a W'omer1ls.Club

banquet on Nov emb e r 9.

I. l _ -

"



12OCTOBER 24,1988

BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL NORSEMANeader's Page

"black is dead,

' l p d : W nQ~ancF- t 's ,~hlte:'S " ( f I l i T l 1 t is di{l IfI T I:i l'~

a'tid'dark i s n igh t;

and hatred is red,1

andso's anger...J

look here.

'I

Then what exact JY l S l ov e?

I ,Ep~real a ( w , h

L o v e I s t h e Q l l p q

I o f e ve r y th i ng p.r'aetTooL

And fear...

fear is mearly the-'i1bsence of love,

Morbidi ty - A Relative 'Term

:':~"' r'~ally d o n't h a v e i n, uc h, rhy t ~m,

,I~~I~ ~ : ~ a l l ~ t n l · ~ ~ ~ t a i ' l l y ' n o f ' g u . o ! l~ t " r h Y f f i e ,

Iw r i t e t his mo r b id poetff

only to P ? S the time.Jtcan't be characterized as good,

. or b a d

- A nd m o s t Q 1 i tJs rEl~Uy~

~ ~ ~ i s a a , 1 1 ~ Im 'I ~ ,

.,. I I' b L I~rt'!inotli1 SCK or iN hin the middle. "=,,

but possible (if yourrnorbid)

itmay make you giggle.

Mo"rb1dilyis a relative term -

~ m~YICDhslde~r ,"'

,~I'~Q ! i ~~~!ti

don't te ll m e to s top

b ec au se I a ctu ally s on o f lIk e

writing morbid poetry.. ,

T he n w h at is 'a ve ?

!C ' ' > '~ 'h.ans ' 1 E ! ~r?

s o r r o w a ship' .I

. 'when someone ha s sank It ?

And IS envy mounds of moof?Y- 'IWith nn o ne to bank it?

-M i ch aEl I p rj' " " i

I

,J, : i i ' ,~.

, ';:

~

1[

,I,

,I

rI{

I,\ I

\I

.'

-

A r P r c w dra.n

Artist of the Issuenn r

"J

~ I

volume 18 number 1

Documents