Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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ABOVE LEFT : Despite its illegality, drinking remained a popular pastime. However, inexpensive wines such as Boone’s Farm began to catch up with beer in consumption. ABOVE MIDDLE: Although government reports linked smoking with cancer and other diseases, and TV banned tobacco commercials, statistics showed an increase in cigarette smoking by teenagers. Students catching a quick one in front of school were a familiar sight. ABOVE RICHT : Moral implications of race involved HHSers as the national black power movement struggled for rights and equality. To teenagers, the car served as status symbol and passport from home humdrum. It also compounded the chances for trouble and added to the air pollution problem. Morality 9

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Morality- rules and princi- ples of conduct set by society. Youth disre- garded many mo- rals established by their parents because of a need to find their own way of life- We ' re all try- ing to get it together for our- selves instead of someone ' s doing it for us, said a junior boy. One way some students got it together was through explora- tion of such spiritual inter- ests as the Jesus movement and Far Eastern prac- tices. Despite these new religious leanings, child- hood-instilled racial, social and ethnic prejudices still swayed some. Drug usage in- creased in an atmosphere of greater accept- ance and tolerance. In the wake of controversy over its legalization, some students smoked grass (marijuana) • Others dropped acid ( LSD) and other hallucino- gens. A few tried the needle. Indulgence in pre-marital sex also seemed more common, or at least more open. Consequently, pregnancy and its decisions— whether to get married, have an abortion, keep the baby or put it up for adop- tion-confronted teenage girls. Another danger for both boys and girls was vene- real disease, which reached epidemic propor- tions nationally. Use of alcohol was another area for moral deci- sions, as it has been in pastyears. Responsibilities of voting faced 1 8 -year-olds. These problems, as well as every- day relations with adults, fam- ily and friends, stood in the path of youth ' s search for himself and the guidelines for his life- 8 Morality

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Taking time out from homework, sophomore Roseanne Frechette watches the TV version of West Side Story.” 10 Home life