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$\Jwat W~ Are ,I$ The ENTERPRISE Volume XVII - Number 5 Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, Louisiana April 3, 1987 \JWAT W~ ARE ,I I vs. rea 1 Story by Gina Gobble, Russell Adams , and Wilbert Pryor. is as good a negative social image still re " Preps" sets, look I ike they stepped out ot you look back , Shreve has held dents feel Shreve anywhere. mains. Some , like Principal "Snobby" Vogue or G.Q. , or get every the same reputation to a lot of school as can be found McCalla wish to ignore it. "Too good for others" thing "handed to them on a silver people," she remembers. Sandra Havard Lyons, " I think it 's wrong to get caught "Smart" platter." Shreve does bring in Says senior is no other school in up in the social image," she says . " Rich " middle and upper class students Shreve students themselves "There have re Junior Peyton LaBorde says , "Conceited" from seemingly more exclusive are divided on their personal con Louisiana where I would that I " From what I hear, people from These were frequent answers areas of Shreveport, including ceptions of the school . Says ceived the opportunities here. The students other schools think all Shreve in a recent survey in which stu Spring Lake, Pepperridge, senior Susan Braswell , "You have received the administration is people are snobs but it trips them dents from other schools were Ellerbe Road and University can 't trust anyone here" because are great, the faculty is out when they get to know us . " asked , "What is the first thing Terrace, but also from areas that everyone is "so fake. " Senior cooperative, and senior Derek The idea of Shreve snobbi that you th ink of when Shreve is have become synonymous with Louis DiStefano has his com su per." Fellow with Lyons . ness isn 't held by all students. mentioned "?" low socio-economic areas of plaints as well . " I think the Du ncan agrees diversity of of my friends look up to Is this image or reality? town . school is good academically, but " Sh reve has a w ide " Most ity offers students," admits one To many of the people some of t he peopl e here need to st udents and the divers Shreve conditions "Not all of us t hink associated with Sh reve, many of This image of a schoo l full of have their heads examined," he a competitiveness that Byrd senior. to try to b e is bad. I have to admit these ideas are misco nceptions . preps who stay in li ttle cliques says . "Some of the students i'>ere us to succeed and Shreve adds junior I got to Byrd, because In fact , most Shreve students are has been around for a long time. are so narrow-minded that t~. er the best we can," that before " It's a very I assumed that all far from these descriptions. "Even when I was at St. Vin can only think on one level," Jennifer Moore. of rumors, and it in people were snobs. It Not everyone at Shreve drives cent's in the early 70 's, Shreve adds DiStefano, "and cannot high-ach ieving school Shreve your best and when 1 got to expensive sports cars, has loads had a reputation of being a 'snob accept other people's opinions spires you to give it freaked me out ." know them they of bucks to throw around, enough school'," says teacher Gaye who are different. " work hard to succeed actually Shreve's like everybody says." clothes to fill three or four cia- Gannon. "No matter how long On the other hand, many stu- Academics aside, weren't 2 The ENTERPRISE April 3, 1987 Editorials---~--- Ryan Send your money Herbel 'Just say No' to fanatics to Ryan Herbel When these right-wing, con servative, Bible waving religious fanatics are just talking- well, usually rambling does a we can put up with them . Down w ith sex education, down The only thing that comes to ing until he fee ls that his soul is after taking the test. How in high with birth control and condoms (Just say NO! , they say), mind right now is television all right with God . Of course this person become a senior not be able to get at up with nuclear. bombs and President Reagan is their usual evangelists. I've always wanted announcement comes f om the school and rhetoric. to go into that profession, and Prayer Tower of Oral Roberts least one question right on his the other day I saw a vision that University. Now I think a guy SAT? He must have made pic But now , as these people have proclaimed themselves some omnipotent force , whom with a university, a church and tures with the dots on the answer as watchdogs of public education, we must take a stand we won 't name, told me that I his own television show is really sheet or else he was stoned and and say no to the fanatics and yes to free thinking . had one year to complete college; desperate for raising money. just hallucinated the test. start my own college and amuse Another thing I saw in the It's just been brought to my ment park and raise eight million recently was a column by attention that the concession In Alabama, these groups have won a big court battle paper dollars or he is going to take Lewis Grizzard about top college stand in the gym should be con as a judge banned the use of many textbooks for advo that sound didn't make it demned . Yes , dead rats are cating "secular humanism " as a religion. Secular humnanism my life . Does recruits who If it doesn 't, neither because of academics. One of the under the popcorn machine. It is anything but a religion. It is just stating the fact that believable? the life story of the average players was a top wide receiver, makes me hungry to think about man himself can be and do whatever he wants to do if he does evangelist. caught over 400 high school that, especially since I ate a bag works hard for his goals . millionare who Jim and Tammy Bakker, what passes and at least two types of of popcorn 1. bought at a game. These conservative religious groups are so close-mind a couple! While the wife is at V . D. Another one of the acade I've been told that some girls refuse to even go in there since ed, it's almost sad that such narrow heads could have home getting high on her valium, mically inefficients goes by the rats have been seen jumping such big mouths and such power. Don 't speak against them Jimbo is off in some sleezy roach nickname of "Stumpy," shelf to shelf. Now don 't you or they ' ll try to ruin you . They' ll brand you a communist. motel with another woman. PTL, answered zero questions correct want to go eat a bag of popcorn? a homosexual, or just plain atheist if you take a stand other which is supposed to stand for on his SAT, and ate his pencil than their own . " Praise the Lord," took on a new meaning , mainly "pay the lady." These people truly believe that these textbooks are Bakker said it was only once, but A\...RIG~~ going to ruin their children and the minds of American he sure paid a lot for one night. children everywhere. Well maybe, if you come to think Now let's go to another famous WI-\A1's so FUNNY? about it, it's the "book-burners" who'll ruin our country man of the cloth, Oral Roberts. before any secular human ist idea ever can . How does anyone get a name like Oral anyway? I guess it's be cause he has so much coming out of his mouth. Oh well, it's al most kind of sad that he raised all of his money. I wanted to find Change brings abuse out if he really would have died. If he had died , a lot of people would be wondering about Since the arrival in early fall of 1986 Police Chief Charles changing their religion. I saw in Gruber has been plagued with an onset of verbal abuse the paper the other day that Oral which has , most recently, culminated in a violent encounter said he was going to begin fast- which endangered · both Gruber and his 14-year-old son. Consequently, the aggressor in this latest incident, officer T . L.. Hardin, was charged with assaulting an officer, driving while intoxicated, and resisting arrest. Hardin was just Havard one of several members of the Shreveport Pol ice Department who were disappointed with Mayor John Hussey's recent Lyons Power more sedudive appointment of Gruber to the position of police chief. Appar ently, there were those individuals within the department who were anticipating their appointment to the much sought than sex after position . Evidently, much of the dissent among members of the It's more seductive than sex ; long in Louisiana, money has a message is sent - no longer is police force is due to the many changes that have been more precious than gold; more been buying influence. " Now is this state's government for sale. envoked by Chief Gruber: changes that were made for the addictive than any drug. Power, the time for a solution: manda Candidates can 't buy an office; betterment of the entire department. It is only normal that there is nothing like it. And in tory campaign disclosure and contributors can 't purchase poli diasgreement exists in the midst of change.

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