Glenbrook South High School - Etruscan Yearbook (Glenview, IL)

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Todd Borst helps a friend check out a book. The library provides adequate resources to research necessary school facts. Juniors Nicole Suerth and Jody Stetson, arms loaded with homework and books, patiently await the 4:15 bus. Mr. Kenneth Kartz instructs his science class in air pressure and the reading of barometers from a hall- way display case. 8fOpenmg Progs Do ot Make Doctors , emember that funny part of the ' frog that the teacher dissected in biology class? Or the date that President McKinley took the oath of of- fice? Most students don't remember these and other facts that once were memorized in order to pass a test. And when it comes down to the absolute truth, knowing the author of A Farewell to Arms doesn't make a student better qualified to be a doctor. Why do students put up with learning the excess information? To be honest, they put up with it part- ly because they have to but also because it too, is a way of growing. The realiza- tion comes to most students at the end of four years of high school that all those notes taken in history and all those math tests contributed to a discipline that was important to develop. When a senior's name is called at graduation and he walks up to Dr. Schreiner and is handed his ticket to fi- nally live life the way he wants to, the student realizes that maybe he won't need to know the author of A Farewell to Arms to be a doctor, but his four years of high school with the necessary and excessive facts he learned will make him his own person.

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Is It Fzrna? Or Rather I ecz? , emember science and experi- ments? The two go hand-in-hand ' just like soup and sandwich. Per- haps the Earl that invented those little meat-between-bread meals in the eigh- teenth century had just as much difficul- ty experimenting with food that most CBS students have experimenting with chemicals and toy carts. Experiments at GBS vary from throw- ing darts to find out a probability ratio involving elections to wiggling slinkies to discover how light waves act. Of course there is a more serious side to experimenting too. In order to study molecular structure, chemistry students do an experiment using tinker toy type sticks and balls. And then there is the Physics Phavor- itep students use bricks and little roller skate-type cars to study the relationship between force, mass and acceleration. The experiment has even been immortal- ized, in an anonymously written poem. fSee right-hand page.J The clincher is doing experiments is that they rarely produce the data that the is supposed to be derived. Instead of finding Fzma, a students is more likely to find M:ec which of course isn't right either. All in all, though, experimenting is useful. Where would we be today if Gali- leo hadn't dropped the slinky and the dart from the tower of Pizza? Claire Sente, Suzanne Kaiser, and Beth Calder- wood prepare to time the first fun of their experi- ment as Lisa Hussey gets ready to take the reading. Liz Stump and her lab partner discuss the different structures of molecules. They will later use small balls and sticks to physically construct their find- ings. 1O!Openmg