Nicolet High School - Shield Yearbook (Glendale, WI)

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if Q, 'Q-' Sic 'Q sew M 4431 gg LIES.-5 K f 1 Nqqs What is the most important thing that you have learned at Nicolet? How to organize my thoughts into a meaningful idea, hence, improving communication of ideasf, The dehumanizaton of a computer-orientated system can have harmful effects on all involved. Most adults do not trust kids. Therefore, I have learned to be sneaky. The lesson: we need each other and have something to offer each other, no matter who or what we are. I learned to never categorize people into groups such as 'grea- sers, or 'hippies'. That there is no such thing as freedom without responsibility. To gyrate on the pinball machines. How to live by bells. I have learned that life is a rough place. You have to be one step ahead of the next guyf, The main thing you need is friends.

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What do you think of school spirit at Nicolet? More emphasis should be on the spirit of friendship and together- ness than spirit of competitiveness fathletic activitiesjf' So many kids are afraid and ashamed to show any school spirit. They think it's queer and they'll be looked down upon. It is hard to have spirit when the school is so big. Spirit at Nicolet was at its lowest point during the football season. It is building again because of our fantastic basketball team. Kids are beginning to find out that it's 'cool' to have spirit. What school spirit? We can talk about the select groups of girls and boys that wear blue and white and come to every event that Nicolet offers, but we aren't talking about the majority. Letis face it, young adults don't like to attend high school dances with their math teach- ers as the 'bouncerf They do, however, care to watch their friends play on the winning basketball team. Please, I have been involved at Nicolet for many years. For many years people have been concerned with and worried about school spirit, and for many years it has not existed. Why don't you 'con- cerned' people stop trying to drum up something phoney and unnecessary? It has to come naturally, and it hasn'tf' 10 ff mf .... ..,, . at V if e...

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Does Nicolet allow you to be creative, to be an individual? Anyone can be creative in almost any sit- uation they're in. Nicolet provides enough good classes in all fields so that the ones you choose should be ones you're willing to dedicate your time and best efforts to. Yes, I can take photography, drama, psychology, art metal, all of my favorite hobbies and in school, it's fantastic, just great, I'm so lucky! It will allow you only if you resist 'assimilation'. I definitely feel that Nicolet, through misused evaluation, bureaucracy, overly emphasized departmentalization and occa- sional 'Big Brother is watching you' tactics is squeezing the creativity, or should I say, the urge to be creative out of its faculty. You can be an individual, but is seems that the administration would rather you didn'tQ There are limits within which one must work for the institution to be able to con- tinue to function.