A High School Tradition for 84 Years Volume 84, Number 6 Salem Senior High School March 14,1997 In this issue Erica Godfrey, Connie Morris, and Stephanie Schmid look at the dangers ofsmoking. Smoke and choke Pay for your crime by Stephanie Schmid Smoking at Salem McShane, have asked juve­ hard-core smokers has also High School is a continu­ nile court judge Ashley decreased in contrast to the ing problem. The Pike to support them in al­ increasing number of stu­ restrooms have become a lowing them to cite smok­ dents sharing cigarettes. haven for smokers; the ers to court. This would The first time a most popular being in Se­ then become a legal matter student is caught smoking nior Hall. Even though vari­ in which smokers would be or possessing a tobacco ous staff members monitor punished with fines for un­ product, the punishment is the restrooms between derage possession of a to­ three days of in- school classes, it is still possible bacco product and smoking suspension. The second for students to ·smoke dur­ in a public building. time is five days and the ing classes. The rate of SHS third time is ten days of in­ Some public smokers fluctuates. The school suspension. If two buildings are fining smok­ overall number of smokers or more students are ers $50 if they are caught has decreased in the men's caught in the same stall, all smoking in places such as restrooms whereas in the are punished with four the restrooms. The princi­ women's restrooms it is on night detention. pals of Columbiana County, the rise.According to including SHS principal Mr. McShane, the number of It's still out there by Deanna Thomas Editor's Note: This is the time, or whether he or she pays interest while students completed the first year of second of a 2-part story on attends school for the full are in school. A subsidized fmancial aid. study. The student can bor­ academic year or less. The loan is good for the first row up to $5,500 a year if schools must pay the stu­ six months after the student he or she completed two Federal Pell Grants dents at least once per term. leaves school, but only years of study. A Federal Pell They can either get paid di­ when a student qualifies to If the student is an Grant is different than a rectly or by check. have their payments post­ independent undergraduate loan; it does not have to be Schools that do not have poned. If the student has no or a dependent student and paid back. Only under­ traditional terms must pay remaining financial needs, their parents can not get a graduate students that have students at least twice per then they can borrow a plus loan, he or she can bor­ not earned a bachelor's or academic year. Stafford Loan for the row up to $6,625 for a first a professional degree can Loans amount of their EFC. If the year student enrolled in a be awarded a Pell Grant. There is another student does not have fi­ program of study or The amount of money that loan that students can get if nancial need, they are re­ $7 ,500 if the student has the student receives will they still need financial aid quired to pay back all the completed a full year of depend on the student's help. The loan is called a interest on the loan. This study and at least a full aca­ EFC, their cost of atten­ Stafford Loan. This covers type of loan is called demic year, and $10,500 if dance or if the student the rest. of the money unsubsidized loan. they completed two years works full-time or part- needed. The government To apply for a of study and a full academic Stafford Loan the student year. After the student needs to feel out a separate graduates or drops out be­ Stafford Loan application low half-time enrollment, involved with the FEEL they will have six months to program, plus in addition to start paying back the the FAFSA application. An amount. This time is called undergraduate can borrow the grace period. During up to $2,625 if they are a this time the student will first-year student enrolled receive information about in a program of study (at the repayments and will be least a full academic year). notified at the beginning The student can borrow up date of payments. to $3,500 if they have Page 2 The Quaker Friday March 14, 1997 Watch out! by Deanna Thomas A drug testing said, "They need to keep Drug Task Force was asked from drugs and drug sell­ program has now started in records secure, results dis­ about the possibilities of ers. Plus, the schools want some schools in the creet, and treatment private having dogs search the to get the problem solved county. Not only is the test and confi- school. before it gets out of con­ for athletes, but it is for dential." T h e trol. When the students are others that are in extracur­ The testing search caught with drugs, the prob­ ricular activities. Sgt. J.T. is said to would in­ lem should be handled by Panezott, director of be at taken clude stu­ isolating them from the Columbiana County's Drug at random. dents' drug seller or pusher. More Task Force, believes that lockers than 63% of prisoners are the drug test will help pro­ S o m e and other in jail because of drug use. tect the students. In the Feb­ people areas of The drug users should be ruary 6th issue of the Sa­ may be­ t h e treated and the sellers lem News, Panezott said, lieve that school. If should be prosecuted. "The students have nothing the test narcotics If you would like to hide and should have no will invade are found, to find out more informa­ reason for not taking the one's civil the iden­ tion about this issue, look drug test." Attorney C. rights. In tity of the in the February 6th issue of Bruce Williams, of the Wil­ o t h e r person Salem News. liams and Apple law firm, cases, will be also commented on the is­ people be­ kept con- sue. He said he worries that lieve that it fidential. the testing equipment could will help the students that The reason for the be inaccurate. Williams are doing the drugs. The test is so students are safe 1996-97 Quaker Staff Principal Photo Editor Charles McShane MeganVazzo Advisor Entertainment Reporters Jeff Ladner Erik Weitz Editor-in-chief Angela Carlisle Tracy Drake Sports Reporter Entertainment Editor ShelbY- Perry Jennifer Weingart Opinion Reporter Sports Editor Liz Russell Meg_an Zagotti News Reporter Opinlon EC:litor Deanna Thomas Mandi Jackson Focus Reporters Focus Editor Connie Morris EricaGodfr~ Jennifer Bell School News Editor Feature Reporter Stephanie Schmid Tom Cosma Feature Editor Photographers MeQanVazzo Shel6y Perry Advertising/Business Deanna Thomas Manager Angela Carlisle Jennifer Bell Page 3 Upper-class woes by Megan Vazzo and Tracy Drake Even though there to have a few privileges staff not to pick on the un­ drives to school. There will are roughly three months that, like a "code red" from derclassmen. Where is the no longer be time wasted left of school, senioritis is the movie A Few Good justice in all this? When we looking for a parking space kicking in already. It is no Men, were not in the rule were freshmen, if we did out in the boonies or wonder why. Maybe it is book but known by every­ anything of this nature to squeezed next to a double the recent heat wave, but one. One of these unmen­ the seniors we could count space hog. more than likely it is be­ tioned rules were that se­ on wearing our lunch for Another privilege cause of the lack of free­ niors got in the front of the the rest of the day. Teach­ we are asking for is an ar­ doms we are experiencing. lunch line. No underclass­ ers will try to justify this rangement very much like Since the beginning of high man would have dared to action against the seniors as the one that the seniors at school, the idea of being butt in front of a hungry se­ rebuttal against previous WestBranchhave. We see rulers of the school has been nior. Now however, sev­ years' harassment of the no point in wasting valuable like a prize fish that we've eral teachers will stick up underclassmen by the se­ time rotting away in 8th almost caught. However, for the underclassmen and niors. They want the under­ period study hall. Most se­ we're still forced to look at no longer let seniors get classmen to have their day. riiors are 18 years old or will the dusty mantelpiece ahead unnoticed. It is this I would like to ask when our be very soon. Why should where the trophies from the kind of unspoken respect day will come. parents have a problem with former senior classes still that is lacking in the Salem Even now, at other this arrangement if they stand, next to a space where Senior High halls these schools like West Branch, know we get out early? The ours is supposed to go. days. seniors seem to have more parking lot will also be less However, there will prob­ Seniors not only privileges. They automati­ hectic at the end of the regu­ ably be no trophy for the get less rank in the lunch cally have their schedules lar school day with at least Class of 1997, for being a line, but also in just walk­ arranged so ·they have 8th 1/3 fewer vehicles trying to senior is now a not-so-great ing down the hall.