Carson High School - Carneta Yearbook (Carson City, NV)

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S ADD Saving lives I would hate to see Car- son High School lose any students to a drinking and driving related accident as other schools have seen, said Mrs. Elges, adviser of the Carson City High School S.A.D.D. chapter. It took the death of local teenager, Cerita Uhart, for students and adults to realize that a serious drinking and driving proble m existed in this area. The problem needed special attention, a S.A.D.D. beginning. S.A.D.D. members, or Students Against Driving Drunk, understood that it would be difficult to teach their peers the consequences of drinking and driving, yet hoped a program promoting positive peer pressure would De successful. The Carson City High School chapter was intro- duced to the student body in March 1987, and within a month ' s time, the chapter had grown to nearly 35 active members. Hanging posters which displayed startling slogans and pictures throughout the main hallways was one of the group ' s first tasks. A contract for life was also encouraged upon students and their parents. In this contract, student and parent alike pledged to call the other for advice or transportation at any hour, from any place, if in a situa- tion where he had too much to drink or the person driving him had too much to drink. The latter in turn agreed to provide transportation home with no questions asked until a later time. Mrs. Elges said, S.A.D.D. is not a prohibition league. At the high school level, discouraging students from drinking is very difficult. S.A.D.D. just encourages students not to mix drinking with driving. One main concern of the chapter was to generate money that could be used to distribute a reminder not to drink and drive to students, especially around prom and graduation times. A related idea was to distribute suckers with notes that said, Don ' t be a sucker! Don ' t drink and drive! with all corsages and boutonnieres ordered through local florists for prom. S.A.D.D. Adviser Mrs. Elges shares her ideas about fund raising activities with members Sheila Locklear and Lynda Cullen. Senior Maria Wilson, vice-president for S.A.D.D,, hangs one of a series of posters stressing trie dangers of driv- ingdrunk. 28

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Brad Seely, Rhonda Diskin, Kevin Knecht. )oey D ' Anna, Bret Bellard. and Bret Borshell work together (o answer their team question in an Academic Olympics competition against Fallon. In a match against Whitlell High School, let ' f Weinert, Mike Vance, Jay Hanses, jason King, and Ken Ozawa work to compute a math problem. OLYMPICS or THE- MIND GAMES PLAYED what country has the tallest waterfall? What is the capital of Afghanistan? If you knew the answers to ques- tions like these, you might have been material for tne Academic Olympics. The Academic Olympics was an academic competi- tion program organized two weeks before the first match in February. Schools in the area got together and com- peted in tournaments. Carson ' s teams, coached by English teacher Mrs. Cooper and Senator adviser Ms. Staheli, included Ken Ozawa, Jeff Weinert, Jason King, Mike Vance, Jay Hanses, Jennifer Comstock, Bret Bellard, Kevin Knecht, Joey D ' Anna, Travis Tresnit, Brad Seely, Bret Borshell, jim- my Breeden, Melanie Fox, Diana Hall, and Rhonda Diskin. Asked why he was in the Olympics, Ken Ozawa said. For school spirit and for the thrill of mental competition. To join the Academic Olympics, the students signed up and auditioned by playing a sort of computerized trivia game. The contestants were then placed on teams accor- ding to the number of ques- tions they answered correctly. The actual matches were played similarly to the game leopardy. The two competing teams took turns selecting a category, and whichever team answered the presented question correctly received tne number of points that question was worth. The team with the highest score at the end of the match won. Carson was also able to compete on television in the High School Bowl, a game show operated much the same as the Academic Olym- pics. By Amy Lynn SADD Olympics P