North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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NORTH HIGH SCHOOL Minneapolis, Minnesota Volume 58 CONTENTS Identity Through Thinking......6 Identity Through Doing........26 Identity Through Being.......110 i

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— Certainly no North student can say that at some time during his high school years he has not felt very alone, confused, and perhaps even bitter toward this large and diversified school with its crowded hall ways, multiple lunch periods, barrage of forms, permits, slips and bewildering and contradictory cascade of daily events—blurring movement and rigid routine. Dramatically symbolizing this seemingly chaotic, but in truth highly ordered, impersonality is die computer, which has assumed an increasingly dominant role in the life of the student. Computerized program and report cards, for example, provide compelling and disheartening evidence that students are being juggled and manipulated rather than being fulfilled as human beings. Thrust unasked into this predicament, the student quite understandably confronts the baffling monolith with more than a little feeling of dismay and alienation. Yet once he surmounts his initial apprehension, possible indifference, or even antagonism, he instinctively desires to digest the complexity of North by reducing it to terms which he can understand and thereby develop comforting personal order from seeming disorder. Each student explores imposing and perplexing North with various degrees of success; and, in time, some find in it no personal order, reject it as totally irrelevant, and drop out. 3