UlíbeTllíaluns' ost September18, 1998 The American Embassy School, ...a .W Eight new players in girls' AES volleyball team Hi* Duyn A/(I’¢'I_'r{'v' -was ( . This year we`ll be able to see the girls volleyball team in action at the SAISA tourna- ment! They will be playing at AES on September 25-26. -l.—. The ten in the team are: "I Sanda Plavec, Katy Cross. .I Katie Roy, Tanya Goldman, ._ LJ. v* ‘Q Nath-.ilieOuelettLLiz Grusseiidorf. Ålarvlii Kourloya., i Rachel Roemer, hleghan SheelvandAndrea Weatherbee. 1 “ I’m cxcitcd about this years team. lVIost players are inexpe- 1;; f, rienced. There are only two re- turning players. Generally, we're having a lot of fun on the court," says l\1s hlanchester. They haven't won any ganaes against lndian teams yet. ~.. but both .\ls Álanchester and .\'lr Brubaker feel that, "the Sixteen hopefuls for the SAISA volleyball team with coaches Ms Beth Miller-Manchester. third from left in girls' team has increased their the back row and Mr Chris Brubaker. top right. point total by 100 percent and agreed that, “the team this year have improved their skills and is very different from last years. CATCH THE GAMES AT THE AES GYM! positioningF; by 1000percent." It's a new team with less expe- f What: Girls' SAISA volleyball tournament l also asked Sanda Plavec rience but we're practising very _ l Who: Teams from Colombo, Islamabad, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Tanya Goldman, the two lmdr “d “"3U do °k“."“S 10%’ f WhenAES plays: Sep 25, 9.oo,12.oo, 1.00, 3.00.6.00pm returning players, how they felt as we have th? SfhoollsSupport‘ Championship: Saturday September 26, 4.00pm about the team. Both of them cheers and spirit at our games." l Good Iucl< to a great team! By Daya A/derfer incoln School in ing the game for the first Kathmandu is hosting time, but we have some play- this years SAISA bovs` volley- ers from last year. This is a ball tournament. great team and lots of fun to The travelling team are: Gold coach." said Mr Caemmerer. Eda, Yeshwant l-lolkar, Zaid He also said that the team l Pardesi, Branko Zugic, "can do a lot of fancy things, Ålassimo Enea, Duncan Holt. but in order to win they'll S00-Young Kim. Ryan have to do basic things." Ålarsltall, Nishaiit .-\bbi and Unfortunately' AES won’! r" .v be able to see them play but up Song Thavisri. and the first game of ":\. lot ofthe players are learn- we wish them good luck... the season. bu Student leaders no slackers SLAC,Student Leaders and Activities Council, is the new name for the student government in high school. Brooke Gibbons talks to the president and sets out the new structure. Lindsey Parker enjoyed being tenth grade class president so much that she stood for SLAC President for this year. ~ 4 She took up the position in August and has already had a chance to exercise her leadership qualities at the leadership retreat recently, which involved 33 students and seven teachers. They went to Kesroli Fort and besides the unbearable heat that the Officers experienced, she hopes that they have come back w with more knowledge about the student government, and bet- ter communication skills. “The class Officers were able to compare notes, and do some serious brainstorming, goal setting, and planning for the year ahead.” said Lindsey. She`s modest when asked if she was the most qualified per- son to fill the shoes oflast years president Anisha Carter. ‘Tm not necessarily the best person for the job, butl have 1 agreed to do it! I've put aside time to help represent us, the student body." She admits that she is organized. Lmdsey “I like to make sure everything is done the best it can be, Park_er maybe Tm a little bit ofa perfectionist." Contemplaung Lindsey also feels that she can get the ideas across to the her next adults and the students in a way that they can appreciate. conquest as No one is perfect, and there is some embarrassment that SLAC AE comes along with being a leader. Her most embarrassing mo- President. ment was at the student orientation this August. “l thought that l wouldn't have to speak and so l was outside when my name was called,” said Lindsey. “Tara Dow had to come and Along with the normal leadership duties, like orgiinizing get me and I made a very pathetic attempt at a welcome bake sales, SLAC hopes to improve communication between speech." students by setting up a SLAC web site, and continuing the lt may seem like a ton of responsibility to be Student Lead- suggestion box. from last year. Enlarging and impn; ring the ers and Activities Council President. but Lindsey also has time Spirit Committee is also a focus of this year. SLAC 5 greatest to hang out and have fun with her friends. and play the flute. goal is to improve student life. New SLAC structure SLAC Officers: Focused on making sure students’ rights are upheld, - Gandhi Week Sep 23-30 and on improving school-wide student life. Also a link between student body and administration. - Boys’ Volleyball Tournament- 18 - 20 September President: Lindsey Parker Vice President: George Anjaparidze. Secretary: Malika Anand Treasurer: Ryu Speath - Early Release Day—Sep 22 ~ College and Career Night- September 22 Class Officers: To fimdraise and organize events solely for the dass. - Girls' Volleyball Tour^ameri 25 - 26 September SLAC Representatives: Represent different class views and ideas, and - HS Fall Flecital- 29 Seotemcrer confer with SLAC Officers, but are mostly involved with all school - Holiday -October 1-2 activities and issues. Produced t/7e Hig/J Sc/3551P:.:.::.::::*:: c/ars («J Doing dru gs became lifestyle By xwirajzzin hen Kelly Riley first smoked ajoint at 17 she felt as if she was doing something glamorous and cool. Having grown up with parents who occasionally smoked pot at home, she didn't consider it dangerous or something to avoid. .fa “l associated it with growing up." Once she had tried marijuana, she quickly became motivated to make it her a lifestyle. She had already been moving apart from old friends who didrft do drugs. She embraced marijuana as a means ofconnecting with other people, perhaps because she was at a lonely and vulnerable time in her life. “It was more of my own internal pressure to make new friends rather than peer pressure, " she explains. Once she made doing drugs her lifestyle, she started hanging out with a J crowd where “the sole purpose was to Mr Leonard Foote and Ms Kelly Riley were at AES recently running Freedom from Chemical get high together and bond by sharing Dependency workshops. that experience." Since she didn't know them very well and felt nervous and nogenic drug. If she`d known more about now, if she thinks about ajoint her mouth anxious, she depended on alcohol and the damage marijuana would do to her “starts to water." drugs to help to relax her. emotions she wouldn't have kept doing Her advice to teens who are casually Kelly hadn't heard much about the it. But there was very little publicity at experimenting with drugs is to watch out dangers ofmariiuana and thought it was the time, and people didn't know that for any strong emotional reaction to the harmless. She did have some doubts marijuana was addicting . experience. “If you find yourself preoccu- about taking LSD. because it was a pow- Kelly became addicted to marijuana pied with doing it again and again, and erful hallucintigenic drug but her intense by the time she was in college. She had you feel really excited about it, that is a curiousity and the encouragement of started by having it just about once a warning sign that you are in the danger friends led her to take LSD. She had bad month in high school. When she went zone for getting addicted experiences on LSD. She found " it ex- away to college, it was available all the aggerated and dramatized any insecuri- time in the dorm and she and her friends ties l had and made me paranoid with got high every night. It was only when people." She would become suspicious the emotional damage piled up, that she began to have an awareness of what pot “I associated it with was doing to her, but this took years. When Kelly had reached such a low growing up.” point that she considered Suicide, she knew it was time to quit drugs. She that her friends weren't really her friends notices now that she is recovering from while she was on it. and when she met her addicton, “I have so much peace” l DRUG FACTS new people while on LSD she says, “l Shes grateful that she can get through a - Marijuana usage has doubled had the horrible feeling that they were all day without thinking ofescaping into among 12-17 year olds since 1992. secretly laughing at me." After each drugs. However she knows that she will - Marijuana reduces testosterone in LSD Trip‘ she felt “emotionally spent, always be at risk. She feels she can never males and increases it in females. and really bad." use alcohol or drugs again for the rest of - Drinking increases the risk of cancer She would often get similar negative, her life. of the mouth, throat, esophagus and on pot too. paranoid emotional reactions The remains ofa physical and emo- stomach.