APRIL 14, 1972
Letters to the Editor
The adoption of the noise pollution ordinance by the Des Plaines City Council is a measure we should applaud.
In case anyone has not heard of it, the ordinance makes illegal, among other things, radios, phonographs, crying, and calling or shouting which "destroys the peace of the neighborhood."
Even though I have resided in Des Plaines nearly all of my life, I have never been able to accept the roar of my next door neighbor's power lawnmower in the morning as a suitable substitute for an alarm clock.
The ordinance may sound ridiculous since there is really nothing that can be done about the airplanes that zoom overhead day and night.
But I hope it can make our community a little more like what a suburb is supposed to be - a peaceful retreat away from the din of chaotic city life.
Name Withheld
Dear Editor:
One problem that has been encountered by students here at Maine West is that there isn't any teacher or counselor that you can discuss a problem about another teacher with.
If you say something about a faculty member to another one, immediately they go on the defensive for the faculty.
It's obvious that a faculty must work together to make a school successful. Working together is one thing but sticking together is quite a different story. Many problems and complaints arise where you'd like to talk to somebody who is unbiased and will listen and reason it out with you rather than defend the other person. A person who will do this is hard to find here at Maine West.
The cry that many Maine West students are calling is one that asks if there is any faculty member, or anyone for that matter, who will just listen. This school needs someone to be an intercessor between the faculty and student.
This school's faculty does a great job of working together. They also do a good job of sticking together, and that's where the gap begins and the problems lie. Knocking the faculty isn't the main point of this letter. They're a great faculty; and if they could listen more, they'd be even greater.
Name Withheld
In regard to the musical, Mame, I would like to offer a fraction of my feelings. First, may I say that I had no student participating in either the cast or the behind-the-scene crew but went merely as a patron, attending on Saturday evening.
I wondered at the time the cast was all on stage for their well deserved applause as to why none of the behind-the-scene crew made an appear-ance. I have since heard several comments of disappointment from this same crew that one of the faculty members would not let them make an appearance, which would have been well deserved, because the audience would not know who they were. Does this faculty member think the audience was such a bunch of oafs that they would not have the sense to have realized that it took a great deal of hard work on a group of young people to put on a production such as this?
If this same group would have caused any form of trouble, they would have been well publicized, but here they were not even given a chance to make a momentary appearance on stage for an applause for a job well done. Even the young people that made up the cast gave the audience more credit than did this faculty member which they displayed when they applauded, which is a signification of their thanks to a great audience. This faculty member should take a lesson from these young people.
I, as a parent, would like to thank not only the cast, but all the behind-the-scenes crew for doing a great job and sincerely appreciate the tremendously hard work that certainly must have gone into their production.
A Parent