Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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€L £ast Tod 9 |NCE more the Olla Podrida appears in a winter issue, but this time by the narrowest margin of subscriptions in its history. I wonder whether we have reached the time when it is necessary to decide that two issues are too many for the school to carry. We should face this situation frankly. The High Senior class always wants the Olla Podrida because it is the members of their class who are most prominently featured in the current number. The rest of the school is more or less indifferent. The enrollment and subscriptions, by classes, this year were as follows: Low 10 5 54 13 1 High 10 379 109 Low 11 517 153 High 11 428 149 Low 12 467 197 High 12 354 286 Totals 2700 1025 These figures indicate that there is little interest among the students below the High Seniors, and that even their subscrip- tions are far from 100% of their membership. I believe that the school administration should stand strongly behind any worthy enterprise which the school is interested in. I believe, furthermore, that the school administration should suggest and support worthy enterprises even though they do not always originate with the students. However, I also believe that when it is clearly demonstrated that activities which are not part of the regular school curriculum have ceased to hold the interest of the mass of students, and especially when such enterprises are a financial strain upon the resources of the students, then it be- comes our duty to drop them. Have we reached that point with the Olla Podrida? St- -