Columbia Heights High School - Cohian Yearbook (Columbia Heights, MN)

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Exchanging views and observations in an economic class, students point out various promotional gimmicks such as trading stamps, two for the price of one items, and so-called give-awaysf' By Reading the American Observer, Juniors Keep Llp With World Issues Trying to balance her mobile, senior Linda Waite works on an extra requirement project in connection with a minorities unit. Constructing a time line in Mr. Cameron's world history classes added variety to the routine of learning for the students. Movies, proiects, a special unit on communism, and book reports also supplemented the basic study in this class. Rise ofthe American Nation was incorporated as the new text for the American history classes. Selected juniors attended Gone With the Wind in connection with study of the Civil War. Selected seniors from the social problems classes traveled to Still- water prison and became familiar with the workings ofa state pris- on. Another aspect of the crime unit was covered when students served as the jury in a mock trial at the Mitchell School of Law. Human Rights Day provided the seniors with a situation that ex- posed the problems of minority discrimination. Panels onthe non-western world, film series an world affairs and world revolutions from National Educational Television, and the New York Times Student Weekly were all intregal parts of study in Mr. Karki's world geography classes. Mr. Gauses economics classes visited the Federal Reserve Bank and the Grain Exchange as field trips. The Grain Exchange gave students the opportunity to see business in operation. Current issues were informally discussed in the new course, world affairs. Topics raised included everything from Vietnam and civil rights to hippies and censorship in connection with morality. Time magazine provided the students with a basis of information concerning these subiects.

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1 lndian Employment Center representative, Bonnie Wallace tells of reservation needs as William Budd and Lillian Anthony wait to speak. Human Rights Day Panels Stress World Awareness Guest speaker Wade Russell, a member ofthe Way staff, ponders Q A student lawyer swears in the owner ofthe Purple Grotto to testify point brought up in one ofthe sessions held on Human Rights Day. in C1 Case involving Farmer Jones' wrecked haywagon, Guilty or not guilty? Senior Cary Mihalow appears undecided as his jury discusses the outcome of a case during a winter visit to the Mitchell School of Law. 33

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