Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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Gossip Rumors: New News Always Did you hear Roams The Halls the latest? R emember me? My name is gos- sip. I have no respect for justice. I maim without killing, I break hearts and ruin lives. I ' m cunning and malicious and I gather strength with age. The more I am Quoted, the more I am believed. I flourish at every level of society. My victims are helpless. They can not protect themselves against me because I have no face. To track me down is impossible. The harder you try, the more elusive I become. I am nobody ' s friend. Once I tarnish a repu- tation, it ' s never quite the same. My name is gossip. Rumors— Gossip— Lies. It seems to be the thing everyone complains about in Griffith. So why do people do it? People gossip and spread rumors because in a strange way it makes themselves feel better about accept- ing their own failures by being able to point them out in someone else. said Mrs. Margie Keithley. I feel people gossip because when they do it they receive a lot of atten- tion from their friends and even people they don ' t know. said junior Liane Pat- rick. Sometimes people get blamed for gossipping— even if they ' re not. People always seem to think that I ' m a gossip just because I talk loud and a lot, however, I won ' t say anything that I ' ve heard about people that I like. People I don ' t like though, well, that ' s a different story. said junior Kris Bowron. Have you every tried to track down a rumor? It seems as if everyone heard it from someone else. If all of these peo- ple are really telling the truth— then who ' s spreading the gossip?? Gossip is usually spread by people who are jealous. They have nothing better to do than sit around and talk about other people. When people gossip about others it makes them feel better. said junior Irene Djukic. People gossip mainly because they have this uncontrollable mouth that goes 65mph in a 35mph zone. They also have one other fantastic charac- teristic, they have this nose that some- how stretches into places it doesn ' t be- long. Usually they talk about someone that they either don ' t like, or that they are jealous of. The gossippers usually pick up some little bits or pieces of someone else ' s business and they add what they think should go along, and the next thing you know there is some outlandish, wild story going around that seems to grow in color as it reaches someone new. Basically these people have nothing for brains and don ' t know their head from a hole in the ground! said senior Shawn Jacoby. Hey Tiff! How do you think you did on that test? Seniors Jennifer Benkovich and John Rockhill Juniors Mary Jane Grubach and Tiffany Griff ee along with Juniors Elsa Cazares. Kris Kleimola. and gossip quietly after taking their test In Mr Dalton s Jeff Mitchell waste some spare class time with a class. game of cards. 22 — Gossip Rumors