East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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A marked seriousness of purpose The college strikes of last May that followed the shootings at Kent and lackson State gave students and faculty alike a nightmarish perception of chaos, according to Gregory Wierzynski of Time. They saw their feel-not-think world coming to an end. Dean Albert Hastorf of Stanford reported that this fall the point of many lectures was that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism, that non-thinking and anti-intellectualism might be. The seriousness of much of our work this year reflected a filtering down to the high schools of this concern and the concommitant dread of violence and repression.

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A search for relevancy At times last year, the search for relevancy on the part of both student and staff seemed as much a contemporary fad as it did a serious intellectual reexamination of the school's offerings. The problem in either case was that relevancy is a subjective term. What is relevant to one person may not be to the next. What is relevant today may not be tomorrow. What a sixteen-year-old may see as relevant now may not be when he is twenty-six. In much of the reexamination which went on — much in conjunction with the State evaluation of the high school — student opinion was sought by the administration. Parents were also consulted. Their views were then weighed against the recommendations of the professional staff. It appeared that any changes which might result would come because of their educational merit, not simply because they were fashionably avant-garde.