Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, June 11, 1983
'Risque' yearbook
sparks parent protest
EAST LANSING (UPI) - Many
parents are infuriated with the 1983
edition of the East Lansing High School
yearbook, which contains references to
such extracurricular student activities
as "sucking face" and "horizontal
parking."
The theme of this year's Ceniad is,
prophetically, "The Year You Won't
Forget." The bound volume depicts
students in passionate embraces and
contains numerous references to drugs,
drinking and cheating.
"IT'S IN general poor taste," said.
parent Tom Noall, whose daughter is a
sophomore at the school. "A third or
more is devoted to sex, alcohol and
drugs. You get the idea the school con-
dones such things."
"Ceniad has a long history of awards
- the quality is first rate," said
superintendent Richard Docking.
But, he said, "The book doesn't
represent East Lansing High School in
the way it should be represented and
has been represented in the past."
Yearbook advisor Robert Soule, who
said he -has seen other yearbooks con-
taining similar things, defends the
publication. He has advised the year-
book for 10 years without previous in-
cident.
"I think the book is great," he said.
"Those are things that high school
students deal with every day. I don't
think it's a pretty picture, but it's
there."
Included in the annual is a photo of a
teenaged boy and girl locked in a tight
embrace with a caption that reads
"sucking face." Parent Noall said the
couple looked like the boy "has his
tongue halfway down the girl's throat."
Other photos show students necking
in parked cars - termed "horizontal
parking" - and sections of the book are
entitled "Everybody Must Get
Stoned!," "To be Honest, or Pass?,"
and "Blow it Off or Cram It" in
reference to test taking.
The yearbook also contains more
traditional sections on sports, church
groups, volunteers and other high
school activities.
Yearbook co-editor Arden Miller said
sne felt it was "stupid" to hide the fact
that drinking and other activities occur
in high school.
"We were hoping people would react
positively," she said. "But we've gotten
a lot more negative reaction than it
deserves."
The yearbook ran into trouble before
it was finished when publisher Josten's
Yearbook Co. of Clarksville, Tenn.,
refused to print several items and
asked for Docking's approval of others.
The superintendent nixed several
references to common profanities.
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Thatcher party wins election
LONDON - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, victorious in her battle
against the socialist party, has won a powerful majority to pursue her
restructuring of the economy and to solidify her support of U.S. defense
policies.
Rejecting warnings from the defeated opposition that she will use that
majority to follow radical right-wing policies, Thatcher pledged yesterday
that she would not turn to "extremism."
"It's a great responsibility when you get big results," she said after
British voters handed her a second five-year term with a 144-seat majority,
despite near-record unemployment which has developed since Thatcher
came to power in 1979.
"I am not an extreme person...I am adamant for freedom and justice and
for defending it," the 57-year-old prime minister said before taking a victory
walk through the surging crowd at security barriers outside her 10 Downing
St. residence.
Carter criticizes Reagan stand
on international human rights
ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter blasted the Reagan ad-
ministration's record on human rights this week, saying its silence has en-
couraged dictators to torture and murder scores of political prisoners.
Carter, speaking at an Amnesty International conference on human rights
at Emory University, hugged a survivor of a Cambodian prison camp before
firing criticism at his successor's record on the issue he made a cornerstone
of U.S. foreign policy during his administration.
"There's no way for us in this fat, rich, prosperous, safe country to realize
the need throughout the world for a consistent human rights effort," Carter
said.
"I have to tell you in complete frankness that what these oppressors want,
and what they are getting, is silence," he said. "The silence coming out of
Washington these days, concerning these gross human-rights violations, is
very disturbing."
Lebanese violence kills four
In new jolts of Lebanese violence, a squad of gunmen killed three Israeli
soldiers yesterday and a supporter of the revolt in the Palestine Liberation
Organization died ina bomb blast that demolished his home.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either incident. They
came as Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Khadafy, held separate meetings
with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Residents of a nearby village said one Israeli soldier from the two-vehicle
patrol chased the attackers off the narrow road into a lemon grove and the
guerrillas kidnapped him. Israeli troops on the scene also said one soldier
was captured, but an Israeli army spokesman in Beirut denied this.
Black students boycott classes
in protest of African apartheid
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Students at a black university boycot-
ted classes yesterday and a top opponent of apartheid warned of increased
racial violence after South Africa hanged three black guerrillas.
Police arrested three students during a demonstration at Fort Hare
University in the tribal homeland of Ciskei as some classes were boycotted
for a second day.
Police sources said about 100 students were involved in the boycott at Fort
Hare, which is currently holding examinations. About 900 other students
were not taking part.
Police arrested 24 students at another black school in Zululand on Thur-
sday when several hundred militants attacked police cars and other vehicles
to protest the hangings.
Bishop Desmond Tutu, the best-known South African anti-apartheid ac-
tivist, said at a prayer service after the executions Thursday that the
hangings invite worse guerrilla strikes.
State police drag off protestors
LANSING, Mich. - Police dragged from the Michigan Capitol yesterday
two dozen angry Battle Creek-area residents who had waited in vain all day
to ask Gov. James Blanchard for help in dealing with contaminated well
water.
State Police troopers, after informing the residents of Emmet and Pen-
nfield townships north of Battle Creek that the state Capitol closed at 5:30
p.m., proceeded to carry them into elevators and down stairs and then to the
outside of the building.
There were no arrests or injuries among the two dozen protestors which
included several small children and two pregnant women. One man - Ruf-
fin Harris of the Washington-based Hazardous Waste Organizing Alliance
which aided the Battle Creek group was handcuffed to a basement pillar for
several minutes before being hauled from the building.
One woman was dragged down two flights of stairs, her ankles bouncing on
each step, by a pair of troopers after she refused to leave voluntarily.
9r
CutOuts are New, Out-of
COrrplus Records and
cassetesold Cheap
Bit Not RtubleTo00Stft
trol Thousands of T;tle
Availabe-.New Titles
Received Weeky
323 E- i