Behind The· Scenes

• Friday Enter rtse November 1, 1985 Volume XVI Captain Shreve HighSchool, Shreveport, La. Number 2 It's harder than it looks ... lThe Merry-Go-Round I _ by Leslie Goldman Exit procedure Page One Editor "Okay. Kill the house R.U.R.--behind the ·scenes lights," Maleda McKellar, Two consecutive weekends works well Drama Club sponsor, shouts before the play is to be pre to some anonymous person sented , there are "camp-out Leslie Goldman behind the scenes . Soon only weekends" where the cast Page One Editor the flourescent light of an and crew are needed at the Although many students exit sign illuminates the audi school from six in the morning complained torium . The curtain rises and ·until ten at night on Satur when a new it all begins .. the first play day, with only a lunch and procedure for leaving the of the year R.U.R. , Rossum's supper break in-between. parking lot was announced, Universal Robots , will be pre They report back on Sunday assistant principal Donald sented in the Shreve audi at one in the afternoon until Horton feels the new sys torium on November 12, 13, ten that evening . tem is "working very well. " and 14. "Well, uh, what I mean to But what about all of the say is . .. well, ... we messed Why was a new system time, energy, and work put that up, " actor Jim Holland enforced? "To make into the play before it is ac says ruefully to his partner, it tually presented to the public? Deidre Garner, in this scene safer for the students, • The rehearsal hours are in from R.U .R. There are many Horton commented, adding the evening, putting a heavy mistakes and many "well, that the barricades that are strain on everyone. The crew let's do that one over again," up each afternoon will con that builds the set meets in but in the end it all pays off, Members of the Drama Club work hard to get the fall show tinue to be put up for the the afternoons to try to and the result is a play that - R.U.R. - ready for production. The play will be pre rest of the year until the accomplish as much as possi everyone is satisfied with. sented on November 12, 13, and 14. (Photo by Jeff Williams) parking lot is clear after ble for the rehearsal that After that last dress re school . night. The cast is also en hersal, McKellar says she are over. Following the last the play. Then all actors and couraged to bring any work "leaves it all in the hands of night of production, there is crew rest up for the next play they might have each n1{)ht to the kids. " And then it's only one thing left. The tra in the spring, when they go Instead of cars being fill the excess time when they opening night and the long, ditional cast party that is through all of this one more able to leave from the two aren't needed on stage. drawn-out rehearsals finally thrown at the completion of time. side aisles of the lot, there are now barricades up to prevent this. Cars must now go around to the cen ter lane and form two lines Five students receive scholarship awards to exit on to East Kings H ighway. Studen ts are Mary Bevins Grissom is the fifth student and asked to turn right from the Enterprise Reporter she is the on ly one out of the five right hand side when leav Seniors John Harper, Wendy that is in the running for the ing the lot, and left from Gordon , Deena Grissom, Negro Commendation Award . the left hand side, to pre Patricia Cook and Richard Wong Out of the thirteen thousand vent accidents. Also seen recently received National semi-finalists, about fifty-eight as students leave the cam Merit scholarships for their hundred will actually receive the pus are teachers and coach outstanding scores on the PSAT scholarships. Just because a es watching and waiting last spring . student is eligible for a scholar for some innocent driver to The National Merit Scholar ship does not necessarily mean break the rules. Their tick ship can only be awarded to he will get one. He must be the those students who had high one to go asking around for et pads ready, they stand scores on the Preliminary Scho businesses that support the earnestly awaiting the first lastic Achievement Test, Nation National Merit Scholarship pro law-breaker of the day. al Merit Scholarship Qualifying gram. Test (PSAT/NMSQT). This test Students who do receive the Rules such as parking measures a student's knowledge National Merit Scholarship between the lines and in on a college level and ranks him award are usually awarded two your own parking space among all other test-taking stu thousand dollars a year. This dents across the country. Harper money is renewable for all four are being more strictly and Gordon scored within the years if a full scholarship is enforced, as are the rules top one percent nationally; given . Any of the other awards for reckless drjving. Ac Wong and Cook both ranked offered are good for only one cording to Horton, a few within the top. five percent and year and are not a full guaran Scholarship award students are, left to right, Richard Wong, parking violations have are eligible for two of the com-. tee for a paid for college educa John Harper, Patricia Cook, and Deena Grissom. Not pic already been issued. mendation awards. Deena tion. tured is Wendy Gordon. (Photo by Jeff Williams) First time offenders have their parking privileges taken away for a fifteen day period; second . time Bad timing for grading policy put in effect offenders have their park ing privilege revoked for by Holly West use of semester based grades. count no more than twenty was considered necessary, the remainder of the school Enterprise Reporter Instead of beginning a new percent in computation of the McCalla knew that many teach Apprehensive looks crossed nine weeks with a clear slate, semester grade. ers were not prepared. In the year. both students', and teachers' grades on the report card past, students have · been faces when they were issued a ultimately reflect scores earned According to Shreve principal graded on a n.ine weeks basis, · When the . system was new grading procedure ap from the first day of the semes Sandra McCalla, "New stu- . where they have earned a cer first introduced, many proved by the Caddo Parish ter through the last day of the dents and all teachers were tain amount of points for each complaints and moans and School Board just seven school semester. The nine weeks warned in the new handbook individual letter grade. Now, groans were heard from days before the nine weeks grade reflects the student's to expect a change in the because of the percentage students, but, after having grading period ended . percentage of scores at that syste before the nine weeks grades. McCalla gave some ad been introduced to it for a The significance of "nine point during the semester. was over." The School Board's vice to teachers : average few weeks, many agree it is weeks report cards " is greatly Now , the nine weeks grade is timing was a little off though grades in the old ·way, then working better and smooth reduced by this new procedure. similar ·to a progress report. she said although the decision assign a percentage to the The new system involves the The semester exam ination will to reform the grading method Carneg ie credit. er than ever. November 1, 1985 --2 Enterprise ~'ll ~PotES, wsTfl') vP ~ EN-4 ~ 1rJtr, (..)t!\jt, ~0 ON~ e,~~ wf.'LL ~" '-'P A Have .a·question? ~~ 'f, \'A~ ~ LA~S P.~. ~'f~IE~ fi,.A'tt~ ''fOP &cfS ~I~"'~~ I~ U ~IN&f ~'jU: ,, fl..~~ 6To~ , .• U;t4JJA f'M'(..E II A ~ ,, tt-IE ~EL- A5 Yov A~ D£1\lf r$ rr. .. \ •• take a number A~~o '~A 4-\~~ .. , If it does not seem so on paper, the halls of Shreve certainly feel like they have seen the busiest nine weeks for administrative changes in recent history. Grade point sys " tems, parking lot traffic, and our annually re-made tardy . policy.to name a few have been adjusted, reworked, revised, rearranged, and just plain turned upside-down. Take sixteen hundred students who all have 20 ques II tions on each change, multiply that by a school of innocently ill-informed teachers who have a different answer for each · question, and what is the sum? We're in sum kind of trouble, ~ that's what. · -\ Even if these changes have teachers grabbing the Alka Seltzer every time they read the education section of the local newspaper, the adjustments are as yet too new to devastate many students or have a direct effect on students' work. Indirectly, however, the buzz of rumor and specula~ lion has more than made itself known. As one will find out sitting in a class full of irate students, one does not have to If at first you don't succeed, . be informed to have an opinion. After several students got their ·fair share of "I don't knows" and shrugged shoulders from.our editorial and news departments, they told us that many of their classes had so much for skydiving spent a great deal of time discussing this change or that, failing to come to any conclusions. Not that the time was a I .don't mean to be a If you happen to be a total waste, however; they also said that it had been some downer or anything, but I reasonable, logical, stable time since so many students had sat up to take notice of just realized that one Curt individual like myself you what was going on.

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