Center High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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N W - I l I A I I I -1 - --Q -312 g: I11'7?::iij'i uual. I-Idll III Hluullu y H Hangout decisions varied hoices, choices. As if the typical school week didn't force enough decisions on the average student, week- ends bring one of the most difficult decisions of all: where to go to hang out with friends. In Kansas City, the selection of a hangout place is even more difficult. On any given weekend, Centerites must decide between the Plaza, Watts Mill, one of the numerous shopping malls, or whether or not to even leave the confines of their ovm homes. F With the places to hang out almost as diverse as the peo- ple who go there, only one thing is clear: No place in tovm comes close to attracting a majority of Centerites. Even Watts Mill, which seems to be packed on Friday and Saturday nights, is the favorite of only 290!o of the student body. The formerly 'popular Country Club Plaza now draws only a quarter of the student body on a regular basis, and the other places in tovsm are left to compete for smaller percentages of teenage congre- gation. The act of Uhanging out is particularly popular during the football season. After games, it's usually too late for par- ties or going to movies, said Jackie Honeycutt 1105, uso we generally go to Watts Mill and hang around. With more time available on Saturdays, more students seem to follow definite plans rather than simply hanging out, but many of these plans occur at the very same place as where they hung out the night before. What do teens look for in selecting their favorite hangout spot? The general consensus is that there needs to be many members of the opposite sex, a place to eat, and little or no adult supervision. The degree of supervision may be a big fac- tor in determining the popularity of hangout spots. While the Plaza Patrol or the Watts Mill security officers don't seem to bother some students, others prefer the more unsupervised atmosphere found at local parks on weekend nights. ' Another factor in the variance of hangout places involved - Football hangout. Hanging out at a football game, Steve Bames 493 and Bob Kelley Q93 find reason to smile. 6!HANGOUTS DESIGN ... MATT HAUN Ui C LU transportation. Younger members of the student body tend to stay closer to home, while a driver's license allows more freedom to explore other places in the Kansas City area. Some students enjoy the comforts of home over the more dangerous parts of tovm. Staying home, particularly when parents are away, offers privacy, security, and a relatively in- expensive night with your friends. At home, you don't have to worry about bad weather or the prospect of getting in to a fight. I like to stay home sometimes because it is really cheap, and the food is free, said Mike Terry 4107. lf parents are around, another altemative is to go to someone's house whose parents are not. Either way, people's houses offer many attractive features to those looking for places to hang out. With the choices relying on so many variables, it is fortu- nate that choosing a hangout place is like choosing what to wear. If you don't get it right the first time, you can always try again. . - Jeff Field Peace sphere hang 1 parks.

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I i 2 U X: r. Ui aa? Ei 1 if Q Z . if Y i ii H --1 if L i i 'I i THE News stand PIClUHt'87! The SGIGCUOI1 by Jason Kocherov fof Good Stuff to Ready. Now that's a big picture. Compare the impact this picture has with the smaller ones you saw on the last couple of pages, if you haven't al- ready when you read the end of The Really Big Story. Sure, those other pictures are nice, and they may say something to you, but they're just not very big. Th ey don't grab you like Julie does here and say, Hey, look at me. lt's like the paintings of the little kids with the big eyes that you see in doctors' offices as you flip through the dated waiting-room maga- zines. in fact, the magazines themselves often feature big pictures to get the point across. Lots of students aren't big on reading, but you'd have to mount a pretty big search to find a student who has never leafed through a magazine with at least some degree of interest. School librarian Monica Chapman describes student interest in and check-outs of magazines in the library as, respectively, unreal and phenomonal. Of the 76 titles the library stocks, from Hot Rod to The 1YewKepubIic, from Seventeen to Newsweek, often as many as 60 individ- uai issues get checked out in one day. Originally, Chapman used a sys- tem of two-week checkouts, but, she says, so many were gone at ,once that we had to switch to overnight check-outs. Piainly, students iike magazines. Why? Some students will read almost anything. Mark Blaser 612i describes his reading preferences as, Uanything that's in front of my face at the time and seems somewhat interesting. Usually, for Blaser, that means Time and People. Tricia Scagliat9J, a regular reader of Seventeen and Time, also reads 'just whatever interests me. Some students, however, read for specific reasons. Clarence Ste- phensont12i faithfully reads Sports Illustrated to gain knowledge in the career field I plan to go into. Like many students, Keith Bodenhamerf12i reads magazines to keep up with an actively-pursued specific interest: ul read Dirt Bike and Hot Rod because motorcycles and cars are my hobby.'T And, as Chapman points out, We don't have very many current books. The magazines fill a real gap there as a valuable reference tool. The section of this current book and valuable reference tool you're about to launch into is all about being current: what we did for fun this year, where we went for fun this year, and sometimes maybe even why we did it this year. The following pages contain not a bunch of general, vague stories about student life, but a collection of hot, trendy maga- zines adapted for a fictitious magazine rack made just for Center. Leaf through this rack, then, and you'll find our own miniature maga- zines entirely devoted to travel, students' cars, the social scene, money matters, relationships, and, like the commericals say, much, much more! fwhether you subscribe now or noti Like in the school examined by these imaginary magazines, you'll find far more than one story here. As one popular magazine would tell you, We'll take you there. We'll let you care. Or, as we'd tell you, We'll take you there and then we'll show you . . . THE BIG PICTURE. I , . DIVISION PAGE! 5 STUDENT LIFE

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