McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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i l :aTheTic sTudenTs sTilI failed To aT+end The pep rally for beT+er :ings To do. The spirif sTreaming Trom The Reagan pep rally was such sTrong doses. ThaT The sTudenT who was possibly consider- ig an apaTheTic aTTiTude, could noi resisT. S+iIl one riddle imains unsolved - why aren'T all pep rallies like The Reagan ep rally? People diseased wiTh apafhy consider spiriT as a bad TasTing edicine. Yef This is The only cure To The apa'I'hy plague. Symp- pms of apaThy range from a disinTeresT in advisory acTiviTies, To Hreme cases of cuTTing school. IT is a highly conTagious disease, rid is hard To complefely recover from. However, prevenfive easures are available. ' i In The school newspaper. The Shield, an in-depTh sTudy of apa- iy in Teafure Torm was presenTed To The sTudenT body. lT was To grve as proTecTion, Trying To sTop The plague before iT goT iarfed. However, The medicafion didn'T reach iTs mosT needed afienfs, because They were so infecTed wiTh The disease, Thaf le school newspaper seemed a nuisance and was casT off . . . i i l i 1 , l For loff: As shown. crowds can be used as a measur- ing device in defermining spirit LQTT: Brad Timber- lake shows inner-spirif by confemplaTing The game aT Reagan pep rally. Below: WiTh smiles and con- versaTion, Coaches Raup, Sellers, and Dailey dis- cuss The spiriT aT The Reagan pep rally. As a resulf, a ToTal dislike Tor any school. acTiviTy was developed. Numerous examples show The eTfecTs of apeThy. Annually, class TavoriTe elecTions are held for yearbook purposes and Tor The beneTiT of The sTudenT body. Numbers Tell The sTory. OuT of a ToTal sTudenT populaTion of nearly 2000, l432 ToTal voTes were received. WhaT happened To The oTher 600? An inTeresTing side- line of The elecTion concerned senior parTicipaTion. The senior class numbers 606 yeT only halT The class casT ballofs. CongraTu- laTionsiseniors, you have conTacTed The apeThy plague. A real TesT oT spirif in The siaem body was slaTed wiTh The adopTion of The mini-mesTer program. FirsT. a doubTTul adminis- TraTion had To be convinced. Then, The sTudenT body was To defermine iTs Tafe. To The surprise of many. a spirifed reacTion occurred, including numerous course suggesTions. The resulT - The proiecT was a success. ApaThy is The easy way ouT. Spirif requires an eTforT by you, The individual. Weigh The Two againsT each oTher. Are you an apafhefic hood or spiriTed sTaTus? -lT's up To you. Opening! 3

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1 l Opananqfzl 'ii M' ,fax 4. V IN. ' 'I v 1 1 Q J , 4 ia gm! ii fu' V I , HJ Football Games: Pep Rallies Spirit Conquers Apathy - or Does Il? .,.. 1.- When someone menlions fhe word spiril, loofball is imrr afely brought fo mind. Spirii' signs blankefing fhe halls. an air' c . . . c anficipafion on bofh fhe foofball player and fhe sfudenf b part and the Blue Brigade pushing spiril' ribbons all make u aimosphere of anfhusiasm. However, fhase spirif infesled pe fail +o notice +I-lose nof so lorfunafe apa'I'ho'l'ic sludenls. To f sfuclenfs, foofball means exlra 'rime +o race cars, calch a smoke a'r'Knighl-A-Burger. or hang around frying fo be fhe fer of affenfion. Liffle do fhey know fhaf no one is wafchingq 1 Pep rallies seem fo do slrange fhings fo fhe sfudenf bi l Spiril' organizafions are bubbling with enfhusiasm, foofball 5: i ers are conlemplaling lhe game, and fhe Teachers are fearing I fheir lesson plans for The day. In fhe shadows of all 'lhis spir however. a sinisfer elemenf is lurking. namely epefhy. M i Alfendance al fhe firsf pep rally was nominal. Yet, as the s' son progressed. apafhy seemed fo creep in like a weed ,in a lg den. More and more sfudenfs were seen showing fheir by sfanding around in lhe halls. or smoking on The front lawn.. 'A However, fhe Reagan pep rally served as fhe weed killer. True N W MA, , A, -J.. -'....g...

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Qbject Of the Game Is to Win Below: Mr. Sloan shows his spun? by wearing one of several spiril ribbons made available by lhe Blue Brigade. Rlqlli: Coach Acker exemplifies fhs real meaning of spirif af fhe Lanier game. Far righf: Donnie Wilfon shows his school spiril af a pep rally. Far bohom righh Blue Brigade and Brigadefies represenf mass spirit af Reagan pep rally.