Poudre High School - Impala Yearbook (Fort Collins, CO)

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I !Efl3llNmllfiII2' S IL ill 'C ili One cold morning in late Septem- ber, first year swimmers and divers received a rude awakening. It was sophomore initiation and it en- tailed being awakened at 5 a.m. and taken to school in as is con- dition. It also meant being dressed in trash bags and singing up and down the halls of Poudre. Initiation is one of the ordeals that all sophomores in sports have to go through. Recently, it has been ex- panded to include first year ju- niors. Scenes of getting flushed or beaten up are often what passes through a sophomore's head when the word initiation is uttered. This may have been the case years ago, but now initiations are more embar- rassing than physically harmful. Although the swimming initiation is the most visible, other sports such as soccer, tennis, and athletic trainers initiate their sophomores, as do organizations such as HERO. The first year swimmers and divers were rushed out of bed by upper- classmen at 5 a.m. and were only allowed to put on sweats and brush their teeth. They were then taken to City Park and trashed with plastic bags sporting sayings such as, I'm a bad dude 'cause my grandma says so! The rookies were then taken to McDonalds for breakfast. They were forced to walk to Poudre from a store near- by, singing songs and chants. Once the rookies got to Poudre, they stood outside on the front lawn and serenaded approaching students. HERO had a similar initiation for the first year students. Members of HERO II pulled juniors out of bed and brought them to school at 6 a.m. for a pancake breakfast in the home ec. room. The members of HERO played games such as pass- ing lifesavers on toothpicks and blowing cotton balls along the floor with straws. They also had to skip down each of the halls singing songs like, My Bologne Has a First Name and Wouldn't You Like to Be a Pepper Too? Soccer had a court session on the bus coming back from one of their night games. Scott Lesser, as the Honorable Bones , was the judge, Karl Wolfe was the questioner, and S Sophomore tennis player,Matt Sobey, makes uite a fashion statement in his stun- q ning headwear. I the other upperclassmen made up the jury. Sophomores were called to the back of the bus and asked impossible questions such as, How many drops of water are there in the Bulgarian Sea? The sopho- mores were given ten seconds to answer, and when they couldn't, they got pelted with overripe toma- toes. The athletic trainers had an initi- ation of sorts, but theirs is still go- ing on. In the warmer weather, during the first three weeks of football practice, water fights were common. The idea was to get the rookies as wet as possible without getting wet yourself. The second and third year trainers give the rookies all the hard work. They have to clean the training room al- most constantly and wash out whirlpools after every practice. The rookies also have to keep the water bottles full at football prac- tice, which is a never-ending job, while the other trainers watch and gloat. Upperclassmen, Iudson Standard, Scott Ellis, David Alden, and Alan Strope, get ready to gently initiate sophomore, Matt Sobey.

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HW .4-H. wrt . 112' , .1-ne'-ft -if- g..,4. f Kaia Histand, in a rare bit of good luck, chanced upon these bronzed, handsome sun-worshippers on a beach in the French Riviera. One's muscles can be greatly built up by skiing, as demonstrated by Paul Meiman, here shown performing the tremendous feat of lifting Rob Conant, by the hair, from the ground. Although a trip to Elitch's can be fun, it can also affect one's perception, as shown by the sudden change in forms of Jessica Garcia, Shelly Harris, and Val Keller. Lauralyn Duff is doing a little sun-worshipping of her own in the mountains of Switzerland.

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Preconceptions About Contraceptives The use of the latest in contracep- tive devices is moving steadily up- ward by the teenagers of America. This is due to the fear of Aids and teen pregnancy. The two most ef- fective preventions for these epide- mics are abstinence and condoms. Now more than half the condoms sold in America are purchased by the above men- use of a condom women. Due to tioned fears, the has become the fine line between life and death. The Aids virus is transmitted through sexual or blood secretions of infected people, many of whom show no symptoms of having the virus. Even though it's unlikely that casual contact will play a role in transmission, the possibility still exists. It is said that within the next two years, the Aids virus will be- come the second largest killer in the United States, documents the December issue of the Miami Her- ald 1986. Experts advise limiting the number of sexual partners, both gay and straight, recommends the Saint Paul Pioneer press. Therefore, cou- ples are working through the rough times and staying together, commitment has become fashion- able. Teen Pregnancy-Pleasure The United States has the highest birth rate within the industrialized world. One in every ten females in America between the ages of fif- teen and nineteen, becomes preg- nant within a given year. Only thirty percent of them claim to have used an effective contracep- tive method, states the May issue of USA TODAY. Another twenty- five percent admit to using none of ' vain , 2 R -:sr one l ' un.. TQ? it ulll S S is S is 3 - R Q . s sd' Falun mn Q N Hey mom, can I have 58.50 for some balloons? fl 1 X 6. or Pain? the available contraceptive devices. Today, half of all unmarried teens are sexually active. For the preg- nant teenager, this can be trauma- tizing. The step from being a child to having one increases responsi- bility. Many teens fear rejection by their parents and this pushes them into the decision of possibly hav- ing an abortion. For some, a baby can be the best thing that has ever f ldmafa U .f-,i il ACU 1 happened to them. It gives them a sense of responsibility that many have never felt before. Being a teen in today's world has it's stressful moments, especially in the area of teenage sexuality. It's up to us to make our own conclusions to what we want or don't want in our lives. 33