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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The solution to today's water pollution problem lies in every per- son 's kitchen sink, so says Mr. Brady to his biology class. In her algebra and trigonometry class, graphing functions puzzles Junior Vicki Hansen, so she receives pointers from Mr. Baldwin. LAB ASSISTANTS. FRONT ROW: Jean Eckman, Viv Jaruch, Sue Martinsen, Marcia Zurek. TOP ROW: Sue Sours, Mark Hughes, Dewey Kulzer, Mike Mihalow. Q M Classes Draw One Every Twelve Boys Physics Girl To Besides moving into a whole new area devoted strictly to mathe- matics, the math department added a new course, modern intro- ductory analysis. Over titty seniors studied induction, vectors, com- plex number fields and limits. Plane and solid geometry combined to torm one course. The iunior math course consisted of algebra and trigonometry. Newness was apparent in the science department also. A new biology section was added with two new rooms, Special plant and animal rooms kept livestock separate from the classrooms. Biology ll was formed and studied everything from drug addiction to water pollution. Students gave oral reports and debated such issues as the legalization ot drugs. An otticer trom the Minneapolis Police De- partment talked about alcoholism and demonstrated a breathilizer, used to determine the amount ot alcohol in the blood. Biology l stu- dents made leaf and insect collections, trained rats and worked with developing chick embryos in unborn eggs. 'W