Saguaro High School - Sentinel Yearbook (Scottsdale, AZ)

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The Amendments wk 44 Ik lk Ik ak lk Ik ik lk Pls lk Ik I Senioritis! by Lissa Staples Help! A disease has infected Saguaro High School, and it has spread to epidemic pro- portions. This illness is incurable and quite contagious. lt is mainly contaminating sen- ior students, yet it does infect a few unsu- specting underclassmen. This terrible af- fliction is recognized by extreme classroom boredom, and has been termed senioritis. After much research Cconducted by sen- iors of course!D a simple test has been devel- oped to determine if you suffer from this acute disease - and whether it is to late to be cured. Test Yourself For Symptoms: sleep in class read the walls think about ultimate goal of: GRADU- ATION count squares on the floor stare at clock doodle, pass notes whisper to friends eat lollipops space out think about the weekend daydream sudden longing for the outdoors Cespecially during sixth periodj late-morning cravings for donuts, and consequent donut-runs X Reprinted with permission of Midway Manufacturing Co. Copyright No. Q 1982 Midway Pac-Maniac 1 17

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The Amendments I i l al als nvade Schools by Lissa Staples All across the country everyone with a teen- age daughter is wondering. ls she one? If she is between the ages of 13 and 17, chances are she is. If her passions are shop- ping, popularity, pigging out on junk food, and piling on cosmetics, the answer is prob- ably Fer Shurr. If her conversation is almost unintelligible, the verdict can only be Totally. Particularly if she pro- nounces the word Toe-dully, then you've got a Valley Girl. A Val Gal does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella Americana Vallensis CPAVJ was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some other place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Scottsdale, Az. She got to be a Valley Girl because of the hot, five- minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lam- pooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls exist from coast to coast. As Zappa puts it: Last idea to cross her mind had something to do with where tojnd a pair ofjeans toft her butt, and where to get her toe-nails cut. A lot of space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobby-soxers. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of bil- lies a true Val pours into clothes, sun- glasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Bubblicious chewing gum, burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records fanything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC f DCU. Oth- er total necessities: a blow dryer, a Walk- man, and atleast one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion Cminis, and ruffles, short pants and denim jackets with the col- lar turned up and cuffs rolled back are inj. Top status possessions are a horse, health club membership and a monthly clothing allowance. A rilly killer bedroom has a wa- terbed, little baskets full of cosmetics, a mega sound system, wind chimes, posters of favorite bands and of course a private phone. All PAVs dream of having awesome cruisemobiles like Mercedes or Rabbit con- vertibles. What really differentiates a Val from a bobby-soxer or a preppie is, say, her special language and the enunciation that goes with it. Suddenly she communicates in a strange new language. It is taken from 1960s surfer slang, and hippie lingo, and black street jargon. For example a vivious dude is a real buf babe or someone desir- able, groovy means out of fashion. Some words are just plain spacey Czod, spaz, goo- ber, or geek, all mean weirdj. The wacki- ness ofthe words is accentuated by the bla- se enunciation, a special way of talking that combines a pinched nasal drawl with a high pitched song rythm. Omigod can be stretched over two octaves, while totally is expelled through clenched teeth with an emphasis on the first syllable. I'm Shurrr the ultimate rejection, is mumbled in a sar- castic tone. Val-speak renews itself almost daily. One time Val staples that are now Joanie Cpassej include bitchen and tu- bular , which are adjectives of criticism borrowed from surfer terms. The Mall is the Fave hangout: Shop- ping is the funest thing to do, 'cause, OK, clothes? They're important, like, for your image and stujf Like, l'm sure. Everything has to match, like everything. And you don't have to wear stujf that people don't wear. People'd look at you and just go, 'Ew, She's a z0d,' like get away. And you have to brush your hair a lot in case any guys walk by. And remember as one PAV observes: Being popular is important, otherwise people might not like you. 'S 116 Valley Girls In Remembrance of Pat Patrick M. Bertram, 17, a student at Sa- guaro High School for three years, died Sunday, September 19, 1982, in Scottsdale. A native of Rochester, New York, Pat- rick moved to Scottsdale twelve years ago. He lettered in Football and wrestling, and played baseball in the Scottsdale Little League for nine years. He was a catcher when his team won the 13-year-old division title. Patrick also liked to backpack, hunt and fish, and spend his spare time working on automobiles.

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The Amendments Communist President Dies by Lissa Staples Communist Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev died on November 10, 1982 of a heart at- tack. He was 75. Brezhnev had led the Soviet Union for 18 years after he followed Nikita Khrushchev to office in October, 1964. As Communist Party chief and Presi- dent, Brezhnev led the Soviet Union to achieve its aim of becoming a true global power. At the time of his death the Soviet econo- my was at a stand still. Also under his rule the Soviet Union lost ground in terms of human freedoms. Brezhnev worked to im- prove relations with Western countries. But at the same time he supervised his country,s military buildup, and made the USSR the military equal of the United States. The death of Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev in 1982 caused power in Russia to shift to Yuri Andro- pov. 1 18 Brezhnev During his years in power, the United States and the Soviet Union worked on two major treaties, SALT I and SALT II. SALT stands for Strategic Arms Limita- tions Treaty. The treaties called for limit- ing the growth of nuclear missle systems. SALT I was signed in 1972, and SALT Il in 1979. However SALT II was never for- mally ratified by the US Senate. A decline in the US-Soviet relations had begun when the Soviet Union sent troops into Afghani- stan in December, 1979. At the time of Brezhnev's death, rela- tions between the US and the USSR were at one of their lowest points. Each side ac- cused the other of striving for military supe- riority and attempting to dominate the world. Brezhnev's funeral was held on Monday November 15th in Red Square. According to tradition his body lay in state in the down town House of Soviets for 3 days. The former KGB chief Yuri Andropov was chosen to replace Brezhnev as the Par- ty leader, the most important post in the Soviet Union.