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'111=1111•11r Students will have a half-day on November 5 is the Seaholm-Groves OP & CONINO November 11 for Records day, and game at the Pontiac Silverdome again on November 18 for starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets Parent-Teacher conferences. are $5.00, and are obtainable at Conferences will also be held in the Main office or the Athletic The Honorable United States Sen- the evening on November 17. office. ator Carl Levin(D-Mich.) will be this year's speaker for the Loren' For $12.50 you can buy a Seaholm Preserve your memorable monents B. Fischer Memoral Speakers sweatshirt. All money will go of high school in your yearbook. Fund. Sen. Levin will address toward graduation expenses. See Ask about a Booster ad in F114. the student body on Dec. 5. Mr. Scott for details. Vol. 41, No. INSIDE- Opinions - pages 2-3 Sports - pages 4-5 Features - pages 6-7 More news- page 8 / Blifl[Lngham Seaholm High School Birmingham, MI. 48009 October 28, 1983 miliMMME MINIMMEMMER ma TOMA EXPERIENC COMES Tr 1 'This country is in trou- ' Toma speaks tp over ble. There's an epidemic one million school kids raging across the land, and their parents a year, 1 and we can't pretend it and he gets results. isn't happening. we Warning kids of the ef- can't dig a hole and hide fects of alcohol, from it either." These marijuana, cocaine, angel are the words of David dust and other drugs, he Toma, referring to the urges them to turn drug craze that is af- straight. fecting teenagers across Toma is not just an- the country. other adult warning kids Toma, a former newark, about the effects of New Jersey cop on whose drugs. He is, ins ead, a life the television se- person who is -14.1p o con- ries "Toma" and "Baretta" vince kids that he cares were based, will speak to about them as individuals Seaholm, Covington and and understands their Derby students November- problems with drugs. first in the morning, and Toma has received hun- to the general public at dreds of thousands of Groves that same evening. letters from students across america. One The youngest of twelve', children, Toma saw it all writes, "As I sat there growing up in one of the hearing you talk, I real- toughest neighborhoods in ized all of the stupid the country. He joined things I have done to mess the Newark police force up my life. Hearing you me the when he was 21, later be- speak gave strength to stand up for coming an undercover narcotics detective: He my. true feelings. As I listened to you I started was a witness to hundred crying. No one noticed of young lives being ru- ined by drug abuse, and hE. because most of tke kids felt something had to be "Tama is not just another adult Warning kids around me were crying, too. You are the first done about the growin about the effects of drugs. He is...a person epidemic. whomcares about than as individuals..." person I've heard who honestly understands the He had to reach kids before they started tak- Toma began lecturing to elementary, juniorproblems of drugs and ing drugs. If they were in schools around Newark. teens. high and high school stu- loma knows what he's already doing drugs, His reputation as a vi- dents and their parents. talking about. He's seen smoking pot or drinking, brant and convincing He urges them to join it all and been through it he knew that he must help speaker spread, and he him "...today, in the all. them stop before they de- began speaking across the fight to bring an end to On November first, stroyed their lives like country. He is now a full the insane drug epidemic. Toma will reach out to so many of the kids he had time lecturer, speaking Decide right now that you Seaholm students. seen in his lifetime. for up to 16 hours a day will quit drugs." 2 OPINIONS Ours, Yours . Friday, October 28, I 983 FIELD L.AY 3AISES QUE _ T Editorial 16i:110.1S t A eLi Dinosaur? Jim Mazzarella Is Field Day obsolete? Is Field Day generated from us, or is it thrust upon us by nostalgic adults? Generally Field Day is rather harmless, but I found some as- pects of it rather grating. What I most strongly objected to was the way we were all sup- F)()II Sh -Y,;70 00% WkIhilt FIF,L1r) Day posed to school--they think that, in A recent poll of Seaholm stu- march in unison and sit still fact, it only further separates dents and teachers on the subject and sone-faced and directly be- the classes. Second, they think of Field Day showed some surpris- hind one another. I didn't like that Field Day should be elimi- ing--or perhaps not so surpris- the way we were all dressed the nated because it serves no ing--results. same, or the way we were expected educational purpose and actually Only 60 percent of teachers to stand up and sit together, hinders education with shortened and students interviewed said then shriek out a song and cheer class periods. that they really liked Field Day in one united voice. It was al- Seaholm students didn't seem and wanted it to continue, while most like four little adolescent to have quite as strong opinions the other 40 percent claimed that armies prepared for combat. as the teachers, yet still a they disliked it and even wanted fairly large number, 30 percent it to be eliminated. Sitting there in my little of those polled, to not like or Seaholm's teachers seemed the smurf suit I contemplated that are indifferent towards Field most intensely divided on this. this lack of individuality goes Day. This is not terribly sur- Half, including Field Day junior against the whole philosophy of prising, considering that only class advisor and Seaholm French modern American education. approximately 70 percent of the teacher Carol Wilson, said, "I Why, then, do we keep Field freshmen and less than half of love it(Field Day)!" The other Day? Tradition? Is dressing up the seniors showed up at Field half, however, said that they in garbage bags really essential Day. would like to see the tradition to our educational experience, These results indicate that elinimated. They offered two or is it (minimally) detrimental perhaps the goals of Field Day main reasons for their feelings: to our social development? versus the realities should be First of all, they think that Is the tact that class reviewed carefully by adminis- ,Field Day does not achieve its meetings have to be mandatory an trators. goal of unifying the indication of a more grievous problem? Maybe Field Day is an L tters to the FE d 1 t o r activity of an era that has passed. Dear Editor, will be disappointed. hor Cac-i you Imagine walking into Seaholm students a fall without school on the first Friday of Oc- Field Day would be similar to the tober only to attend your normal loss of the Homecoming dance at classes? Next, imagine the whole other -schools. Because of Field 'THE HIGHLANDER school in February--one thousand Day, many students look forward students are shivering in the to the start of the school year. Seaholm High School halls waiting to march into the Field Day helps the post-summer 2436 W. Lincoln blahs. Birmingham, Mi. 48009 gym. Wearing only T-shirts, shorts and plastic bag costumes, Second, a winter Field Day Managing Editor Stafr Writers they can hardly wait to leave the will eliminate many of the sports Jim Mazzarella Chris Brenner Rick Erwin scilool! events. Students cannot use the News Editor gym(because of basketball), and Karen Moscow Amy Faust Is this the traditional Field Feature Editors Jason Hamilton Day? I shiver when I think of they will not be able to practice Karen Hi le Ann Holland the possibility of a February the relay races outside in arctic Jenny Root Lori Mattutat temperatures. Sports Editors Mari Myers Field Day. Ted Arnstein Claudette Rowley Although a February Field Day All in all, I believe that in Tom Kemp Iris Shen would give the classes a chance order for Seaholm to hold an ex- Business Editor Ellen Shuster citing and successful Field Day Arnie Bischoff Photographers to unify, I believe the drawbacks I Exchange Editor Anne Carroll would outweigh the advantages. it must be an autumn event. Af- 1 Wendy Robertson Jason Hamilton First, because Field Day has ter all, why should we break a Creative Editor Mike Theis always been the focal point of thirty year tradition? Holly - Winters Faculty Adviser Jeanne Crenshaw the fall months, many student Iris Shen Friday, October 28, 1983 OPINIONS 3 EV1FWS Reader Opinion Albums and the whole album probably will. Big Country - The Crossing - This is Big Records don'ated by OFF Country's first major al- THE RECORD. rbum, and they have done an Chris Brenner excellent job. A great 00 a Flick , many groups today are ,riding the wave of new mu- BRAINSTORM is a sci- sic from the UK, but Big ence fiction drama which Country is an exception. boggles the mind. The To the Editor: Their music . is very movie, starring This year we have a new addi- Celtic-influenced, with Christopher Walken, tion to our school, and it's strong drumming and Natalie Wood, Louise proof of how important money can melodious guitar.