Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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U55 I C 105 I I Wi 175 f3l 195 ABC Major Congress lssue Student Congress, during the first semester, was headed by Tom Wienner, with Dan Boyce as his second in command. Sue Workman was secretary, and Tavi Fulkerson rounded out the list of officers by keeping track of the treasury. The major issue facing the Congress this year was the contro- versy over allowing the A Better Chance CABCJ program to exist in Birmingham. It is a program sponsored by Dartmouth College in which underprivileged students would be given a better chance to receive an education by being allowed to live and attend school in a more well to do community fsuch as Birminghaml. Controversy is indeed the correct adjective to use to describe Congress' reaction to this program. The pros and cons of the ABC program were debated to such an extent that four meetings were occupied by only this issue. Congress invited Birmingham City Com- missioner Dr. John Dorsey to speak to the congress concerning the good aspects of the ABC program. After all the arguments were presented, Congress voted the proposal down. This rejection of ABC became a widely discussed issue around the Detroit area, and it resulted in vaulting both the school and the city into the news. Student Congress proposed an alternative to the ABC program that they felt would better solve the problems of inner city education. The proposed the establishment of a new committee to help these schools by either mobolizing students from Seaholm to travel to the inner city to help the students there, or to help in the financing of needed improvements. Congress also sponsored three used glass return projects aimed at fighting the pollution problem. Students and community groups contributed several tons of glass to each of the three drives. Also in the line of fighting for needed improvements in the community, Congress passed many resolutions regarding the operation of Sea- holm. They supported open campus and the extension of study hall excuse privileges to all students next year.

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A . 3- . h ? g . ,, 1 5 'AM :Z - 5 gr if'!fulEi23. -.3 . I . L........ . -.,......m,,-,..,. .,A ,..,-,.u we sruusm coum pu: rowsn rr uma... D e ,Manx ' f .,.,...,, . ,. . , . r A 4 T i,l'i'1l' ' ' i .- V , UI The defeated Democratic candidate for governor, Sander Levin, addresses the installation banquet for Student Congress. f21:George Peck, Bob Slater, Jim Jensen and Mike Mislinay for a Senate meeting to begin. L32 Dan Boyce enjoys a Senate meeting. M2 Sue Workman reads back some of her Senate notes. f51 Cindy Boughner was chairman of the Teach- 'liifficommittee involving many teachers and students. 162 Mau- Jfeen Conners leads the student body in reciting the pledge of llllegllznce at the second semester Congress elections assembly. Ujposters in blaring yellow and black covered the school when Tom Zimmer and Sue Peck ran for 0fflCe second semester. f 81 Dudley Austin started his campaign with a poster announc- both his name and the slogan behind which he planned to WW r f, f . Q55 Senate ls lmportant Seaholm's student government is divided in- to two main branches, the house and the senate. The house is far more widely known as it is larger. The senate is composed of two representatives from each class and the vice- president of Congress. This group meets peri- odically to work on issues either given it by the house or of its own creation. Seaholm also boasts a student court, a very controversial group which has had many re- visions in organization. It is now called the Student Board of Grievances. Four judges sit on the court, two elected by the student body and two appointed by Congress. Any student can bring a case before the court, and the court must try all cases brought before it. Mr. Wagner, Seaholm's principal, instituted the Principal's Cabinet several years ago to aid communications between the administra- tion and the student body. This group of 12 to 15 students, appointed by Mr. Wagner, meets every two weeks. At each meeting, Mr. Wagner bounces ideas that he has had off the students and allows them to ask him any questions or give him any suggestions that they feel are important. 31