Booneville High School - Reveille Yearbook (Booneville, AR)

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North Central Evaluation, CaUSe important Budget Cuts, | ' New School Standards, Changes I North Central evaluation, budget cuts, and new state standards combined to make 1986-87 an interest- ing school year for the staff, faculty, and students. Every seven years, our school is given “the once over by the North Central Association, with whom it's accredited. This evalua- tion was really a self-study by the school administra- tion and faculty to deter- mine what can be done to make BHS a better school. This self-study was then reviewed by a team of 20 experienced educators of every level, who then made their own recommenda- tions from it and a two-day sit-in on March 25 and 26. The re-evaluation never results in the loss of ac- creditation. However, the NCA (North Central Asso- ciation) is always pushing members to exceed stan- dards, Mr. Pete Prewett said. The recommenda- tions help the administra- tion and the school board focus on our resources and see what we can realistical- ly plan to do. As well as the short-term plans that were made, the NCA evaluators contribute to long-range strategies by suggesting things such as higher level math and sci- ence courses, a more di- verse foreign language op- tion, and expanded busi- ness and vocational offer- ings. These changes, however, are probably far in the fu- ture. Of more pressing im- portance are the state fund- ing cuts caused by a budget shortfall in the same year as the new state standards are due. The Arkansas Constitu- tion, unlike the U. S. Con- stitution, requires a bal- anced budget; therefore in 1986 87 shortfalls result in cuts. In the January 1987 round of cuts totalling 55 million dollars, 27.3 million was removed from the schools; Booneville's share of this hacked away at a budget al- ready laden with cuts and brought the loss for the year to $110,000. In an effort to counter these losses, the school board requested a 3.6 in- crease in the millage rate voted on in March to bring the millage rate up to 24.3. Mr. Prewett said, however, that the school system would have no trouble meeting new state stan- dards activated in 1987. The budget cuts will have no immediate effect, but somewhere down the road we may feel it, he said. The entire school has grown dramatically in re- cent years, but this, also, will not bring any results while the current standards are still in effect. Jm 65 Year in review

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King and Queen Crowned On February 10, 1987 the an- nual King and Queen of Hearts pageant was held. The contestants, nominated from every class, try to raise the most money. The winners are announced at the last home senior boys girls basketball game. King Ray Erlinger collected $225 and Queen Dana Thompson gathered $365 for the FBLA, pageant sponsors. These two, along with the rest of the court, brought in $2008 for the club. King and Queen of Hearts, clockwise from left: Eric Siddons, Beth Love, Grant Hester, Deidra Frost, Jill El- more, Ray Erlinger, Dana Thomp- son, Jeff Rodatz, Kim Witt, Wesley Crenshaw, Patricia Minden, Matt Wester. Suspensions, death bring On June 17,1986, a young man named Len Bias had just been a number one draft choice of the Boston Celtics. On June 19, at 8:50 p.m. he was pro- nounced dead. The rea- son? Cocaine overdose. Here was a young man with the world at his fin- gertips. He would most likely be an NBA all-star. So why in the world did he play with cocaine? In itself, this has nothing to do with Booneville. But eventually drugs could become a problem in Booneville. What do our fellow stu- dents think of Len Bias? Drugs in sports to light Vance Gadbury thinks that “He was stupid to use coke in the first place. He was a good athlete with a lot of potential. This may sound kind of cruel, but I think that he deserved what he got. I just can't feel sorry for him - he knew the risks. We shouldn't feel sorry for Len Bias as much as we should feel sorry for American people's loss of another life to drugs. On December 21,1986, in Miami, Brian Bosworth held a special press con- ference. He and 20 other athletes had just been suspended from their respective bowl games after testing positive for steroids. Ok- lahoma's fallen star spent 35 minutes trying to de- fend himself. He went as far to say that steroids, unlike cocaine, aren't de- stroying society. Coach Doug Scheel says, I think that steroids are be- ing misused in athletics. I'm not saying steroid use is wrong, but chemical competition is. The pur- pose of athletics is to bring out a person's full potential. If an opposing player uses steroids, he'll have an unfair advantage over the player who doesn't use steroids. So the person who hadn't been using steroids has to use them to keep up. This is a chemical warfare. How can we keep athletes from overdosing on drugs such as cocaine, or cheat- ing other athletes by us- ing steroids? I think drug tests in ev- ery sport should be man- datory, stated Vance Gadbury. Testing prob- ably would help - but would it stop the prob- lem? Probably not. If drug use is to stop, the players themselves will have to stop. We hope they make the right decision. 64 You've got that right

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66 You can t be serious