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

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Alcohol - easy to get Drinking 52 Senior celebration. Champagne has become a part of senior prom and graduation night activities for many. ID, please. Most high school students are enterprising enough to pass an ID which they have altered or borrowed on indifferent sales people. I ll ZF 'W

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Vlrgln snow. LaDayne Farrell and Julie Genz slide their way out to the parklng lot. Snow bunnies. With school dismissed early because of rapidly accumulating snow, Rhon- da Hawley and Diane Baswell prepare to join the line of traffic that braved Barrow Road. Student Life

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Choosing. Experimenting with different types of alcoholic beverages is easy when liquor stores sell to almost anyone. EdItor's Note: Pictures were posed for by Carl Denton with permission of his parents. They -do not necessarily depict any one person but reflect a general view of alcoholic usage by teenagers. V M. Six pack. Most kids favor beer and think that they can handle lt better than hard liquor. Where can I buy some beer? Down on Asher. Let's go! Drinking often involved students even though they were not legal drinking age. Liquor stores were popular gathering spots on Friday and Saturday. Sometimes people had to travel to several stores before finding one that would sell to them. In a Spirit of 78 poll, 300 students answered about drinking. The ma- jority of students polled said that they have drunk, even though most pa- rents did not. Most claimed that they drank because their friends did, and they wanted to be socially accepted. Most Patriots took up drinking around age 15, but some began earlier. One senior male said, I started drinking when I was nine because I saw my parents drinking and I thought it would make me older. I took sips off of their drinks when they weren't looking and often got into the liquor cabinet when they were gone. Arkansas' drinking age was 21, but many remedied this problem by fixing up their driver's license or redoing an old one. One Parkview senior said, I use my older brother's ID and usually I don't have any problems getting my liquor with it. Few student drinkers had problems with their drinking, but most students agreed that drinking was a way to act older and be accepted by their peers. Student Life