Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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After mony yeors of educotion. lawyers hove gained Drawing o large proportion of graduates, medico! the respect of society careers ore o favored profession LINCOLN C Money is still o dominating factor in the American Dream Rising economic problems moke it difficult for senior citizens to ochieve the American Dream 16-Rmerican Dream

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Rooms provide identity clues Is q dean room really that necessary? CLEAN UP THIS ROOM! UUHEN I IDAS VOUR AGE. MV ROOM IDAS NEVER MESSV.. ' Sound familiar? Some parents seem to have a fetish about rooms being meticulously clean, for some unknown reason, wading through filthy, molding socks, countless Slim UUhitman albums, and lost years' crumpled Biology assignments just doesn't strike parents as a rewarding experience! Other parents, however, don’t find such adventures on their teenagers' bedroom floor... but on the walls! Junior Amy Delisi's room, for example, has walls that ore littered with endless rainbows and posters. Her room has been declared the first one-room art museum. And then, of course, there's the collectors' room They collect either just one specific thing —or—anything and everything. It vanes from stuffed onimols. statues, pet rocks, or just plain JD-N-K! Junior Erin Egon's room has the old- foshioned look. The furniture in the room has the curlicue style of old-fashioned furniture However, her room is not entirely old-fashioned, for she has a very new- fashioned stereo system. And lost, but not least, there's the contemporary look. Stylish, space age type of furniture, and earth tones can be found in senior Todd Duncan's room. One tends to be reminded of the futuristic cartoon The Jetsons after looking at his bedroom. The color ond style of a bedroom can describe a person's personality ond attitude. For example, o yellow modern room could characterize a cheerful, fashionable person. There are many different styles of rooms. Some ore cluttered, others are neat and clean. Some have an old-fashioned look, and others are modern. The interesting fact is. rooms are like people. No two are exactly alike. Rooms-1S

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Time alters 'American Dream' Traditional values come under question The American Dream. Not long ogo. everyone knew what it was. and everyone tried to live it Vet times ore changing, and with this change comes o charge in hopes—o change in dreams ok) more particularly, a change in the American Dream Achieving the American Dream used to mean 2.5 children, a dog. a white picket fence around the lovely house ond manicured lawn, with two cars poked in the garage, of course. And. those who could not achieve this dream were deeply frustrated Now. as this American Dream is becoming more distant, another American Dream is emerging. It is fairly vogue, but it's much easier to ottom because the sameness and unrealistic beauty and perfection are not part of it. During the first quarter of the 1985-84 yea. o large cross-section of IHS students and staff surveyed. And. the results were somewhat surprising. LUhen given o choice. 76 percent said that public education was better than private. Mrs. le€tto Sprocklmg. a LHS science teacher, thinks there ae a vaiety of reasons fa this. Public education hos become os good os private education. Mrs. Sprockling observed.' so there is no reason fa private education. Next—where to live. Cighty four percent picked having o house. But the answer as to where to put this house was quite divided. Fourty-two percent preferred the privacy of the suburbs while 29 percent thought the convenience of the inner-city won out over pnvocy. Find whot would the Ftmencon Dream be without talk of mornoge and children? Fighty-four percent of the people plan to get married, and 75 percent plan to have children. Find, when it comes to kids, the common number seemed to be two. Rhonda Frank, an LHS junta, offered one opinion on why the response. People ae choosing two children instead of more because they 're afraid the wald can't feed more. Frank said. And. finally, a caeer to wrap it all up. Medicine, arts, law and business were the top choices with science, math, teaching ond athletics being populor second choices. Following the tradition of the American Dreom. large houses are still favored by students flmericon Dreom-17