VOL. XV, NO. 5
DECEMBER 21, 1973
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Ski Club recently sent representatives around to each homeroom informing them of our plans for the present year. We would like to thank those homeroom teachers and students who cooperated with us, and we hope we encouraged you to participate with us in the future.
However, we would like to point out that some students did not have the common courtesy to listen for the five minutes our presentation took. Some of this inattentiveness was encouraged by lack of control and snide remarks by homeroom teachers.
Students complain about not having school spirit and lack of participation in clubs; but when people try to bring around some enthusiasm in clubs, students turn them off. Something's wrong.
Maureen Sagan, Diana Bell, Roger Osborne, Wayne Ambrose, A. J. Soucek
To the Editor:
I feel that the November 30 issue of Westerner had one column, "Bench Beat," which did not belong on our sports page. In my opinion, it degraded many of the sports that girls and boys alike work very hard to achieve success in. If this column was to be published, I feel that a better place for it would be on the editorial page.
In the future, why doesn't the paper consider using that space to highlight one athlete and his or her role at Maine West as they have done in previous years.
Rich Siefert
Ski Club recently sent representatives around to each homeroom informing them of our plans for the present year. We would like to thank those homeroom teachers and students who cooperated with us, and we hope we encouraged you to participate with us in the future.
However, we would like to point out that some students did not have the common courtesy to listen for the five minutes our presentation took. Some of this inattentiveness was encouraged by lack of control and snide remarks by homeroom teachers.
Students complain about not having school spirit and lack of participation in clubs; but when people try to bring around some enthusiasm in clubs, students turn them off. Something's wrong.
Maureen Sagan, Diana Bell, Roger Osborne, Wayne Ambrose, A. J. Soucek
To the Editor:
I feel that the November 30 issue of Westerner had one column, "Bench Beat," which did not belong on our sports page. In my opinion, it degraded many of the sports that girls and boys alike work very hard to achieve success in. If this column was to be published, I feel that a better place for it would be on the editorial page.
In the future, why doesn't the paper consider using that space to highlight one athlete and his or her role at Maine West as they have done in previous years.
Rich Siefert
Dear Editor:
The old saying, "You learn from your mistakes," may be true, but school officials should anticipate mistakes and then take precautions or actions to avoid them. A particular mistake I am talking about is one that happened December 14 at Niles North High School when the Maine West sophomore and varsity basketball teams played the Niles North basketball team. The sophomores won a close game, and the varsity won in triple overtime in a highly spirited and motivated game. As the sophomores were walking toward the bus on the other side of the parking lot, a Niles North student, who said he was mad because his team had lost, attacked and punched one of the players. Add to that circumstance he had been removed from the gym not once but twice and add to that circumstance the possibility that the angry student may have had a drink of something with alcohol content, and you have the "perfect" student looking for a fight with the first person walking by wearing a Maine West jacket, who happened to be a sophomore basketball player.
The Niles North High School should have taken action when other incidents similar to this one arose, whether he is a visiting athlete or a visiting student.
As I understand it now, Niles North has set up new rules, but that does not help the Maine West students who were slightly hurt from the fights that have broken out. As the saying goes, "It is like closing the barn door after all the horses are gone!"
David Hand
The old saying, "You learn from your mistakes," may be true, but school officials should anticipate mistakes and then take precautions or actions to avoid them. A particular mistake I am talking about is one that happened December 14 at Niles North High School when the Maine West sophomore and varsity basketball teams played the Niles North basketball team. The sophomores won a close game, and the varsity won in triple overtime in a highly spirited and motivated game. As the sophomores were walking toward the bus on the other side of the parking lot, a Niles North student, who said he was mad because his team had lost, attacked and punched one of the players. Add to that circumstance he had been removed from the gym not once but twice and add to that circumstance the possibility that the angry student may have had a drink of something with alcohol content, and you have the "perfect" student looking for a fight with the first person walking by wearing a Maine West jacket, who happened to be a sophomore basketball player.
The Niles North High School should have taken action when other incidents similar to this one arose, whether he is a visiting athlete or a visiting student.
As I understand it now, Niles North has set up new rules, but that does not help the Maine West students who were slightly hurt from the fights that have broken out. As the saying goes, "It is like closing the barn door after all the horses are gone!"
David Hand