Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Student Life 33

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Voting S32 To vote or' not to vote ,,,.4nv 'M I Signing up. Voter registration takes over the donut table during the first weeks of school. In the world of grown-ups and in the world of Patriots, voting has been a responsibility and a privilege, but that doesn't mean everyone voted. To vote, registration was a prere- quisite. Fifty-four percent of almost 1,600 Patriots registered to vote in September. Forty-eight percent of the seniors, who would vote in state elections, were registered. Of the junior class 49 percent registered to vote. I registered because I think my vote counts, said junior Cami Steidle. Sixty-three per- cent of the sophomore class register- ed, but an anonymous sophomore said that registering was an inconven- ience and voting could be left up to others. Only 57 percent of the registered voters actually voted in the first election of the year. Of the registered voters in the senior class, 62 percent cast votes. Eighty-one percent of the registered juniors voted. In the Persuasive sign language. Sophomore Laurie Sutton helps with the campaign of Susan Bates by putting up posters. sophomore class, 36 percent of those registered voted in September. To not vote, avoiding the registra- tion tables was necessary. All com- plaints had to be surpressed. Sheila Holder said, I vote so that I can complain if I want to. Campaigning for friends and plastering the body with Vote for buttons was rather two-faced. Long before election day, prepara- tions began. The first step was to register to vote. The next thing was to decide to run for office. Then came the decision of which office to run for. A letter of intent had to be completed. Suddenly, it was election day. The results were in, and the signs were down. Life, with or without an office, was resumed. Eany-meany-mlny-mo. The wait in long lines at the polls was, for some, a time for last minute decisions. -jf? f- lf! 'if M 1 W I s H' ,, 4-1, +L.. if me J. .Q V' .3-args' r , .- in fifglswiifin ' I I K' ,j 2 1. -' I

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1 Speak up. Judy Holmes presents a bill to the House of Representatives at Student Con- gress. Check it out. Kim Harris and Allison Robinson peek hesitantly under rocks at Pinnacle Mountain, hoping not to find another water moccasin. mn, .1 .... fi.. .in .mfs : il: 2 2 X FieldTrips i341- Q get m..l Takln' a breather. Mike Donovan and Scot Overbey watch in amazement as the respira- tory machlne breathes.