Savannah High School - Savannual Yearbook (Savannah, MO)

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As the three boys stand taiklhg in one of the boys houses, the phone rings, and one person goes to answer it, leaving the other We alone together. Why don't you show me these pictures? the tell one asks. The shorter one realizes he will have his victim all alone if he can get him upstairs, so he repiles, iiThey are in my room. and begins to climb the stairs. The tall boy, knowing ail along what is happening, pulls out his shiny P. 38 pistol and points it at the shorter oneis beck. Giving a confident grin, the shorter one thinks he is just a few seconds away from eeesssinating his VIC! tim. He looks over his shoutder only to see that his victim is how his assailant. His confidence shat- tered, he screams and tries to drew his gun. but he is too late as the tail boy shoots him in the book and kills him. Before anyone begins to panic, it must be explained that this is merely a gem celled TAG. The guns shoot plastic bullets, and no one is actually kilbd. The game challenges the brain, and it gives people somthihg to do socially besides partying, said David Widel, '85, the Gamemaster of TAG. Things were starting to get boring, so I thought i might try something new. Aooording to Widei, TAG stands for the Tactical Assassination Game. and that the Gememaster iG.M.t is like a referee who controls all. TAG is a popular game at many colleges. Widel is not the original creator of the gems; his rules vary from the original. ' 70 JMini mag The first game ibellng played was mainly done to see if the rules would work. examined Wittet. How is the game played? i'l tiret get all the names at the players and piece them in a hat and draw names to see who will assesihate who. i give each ptayer a oerd with the name of his target on it. A day is given the killing on this drayt to soout opponents. and then the game reele begins, he concluded. it's a challenging game in that you are trying to outsmart your opponent, said Rteherd Miller '85. You have to use some test to get them alone. its like the thrill ot the chase feeling in hunting. only it is even more exciting because your opponent is another humen. The wows double-crossed and trust are both very dsnger- outs in TAG because they can teed to one's early demise. Angie Harrison '65 was as- sassinated eerty in the geme by a 7 i x i one of her olose ttiende, Becky Leemon '65. ' i had heard she didn't have my name. end she pteyed this game of 'pretanding net to have me to the hilt. Then, she shot me. I tell for it so be Harrison added. Paranoia is anethet word that is understood by those who piay TAG. Po! a oouple of days, i teslt reel paranoid because i didnt want to get kitted: added Leasmlon. iii nottoeo who wee wetohing me. I developed a heightened .sware- noes as i looked for potentially dangerous places. It teeehes you to expect the i unexpected heceuee you oan't j trust everyone 10G percent, added Miller. The rules are simple, although the game is complex. Amording to Widel, one can only assassinate his target when there ere no witnesses. A witness is someone who has seen the crime take place. Hiesrlntg a kill does not constitute a wihtees, After one kills the person, he? tekee his or her card, and then must sssassinete the new person. Finally, when one person is left, he or she will be the winner. There are some dissenting points of view about TAG. Some feel that the game is too violent. i'There are two conflicting points of view, said Mrs. Key Cameron, psychology teacher. i'Some psychetogists say that people exposed to violence are more likely to the violent. The opposing point of view is that everyone has a certain amount of anxiety, and when it is released they will be less likely to be violent. t'l tend to support the first argument because i believe people learn by imitating, Cameron added. 'tl think that it is a sick game because you are pretending realis- tically to kill someone, explained Miss Bebe Bernhart, sociology tescher. 'The weapons ere so close to being real that the next step is a device that inflict pain. i think soetety is regressing in that technologically we are improving, but our mental and social abilities have not kept pace. This igamel encourages violence, she added. Of course, the paranoid in our society can always see detrimental aspects in a creative gems which is ptayed only for fun. said Mike Kiekhsefevr '85. The tsttldentsl are all bored to death and need something to come to school for, stated Mrs. Patricia Loeblein, science teacher. ult is a way to work off anxiety, and i think it is all in fun. The neat thing about the game is that it is an escape from reality. added Leameh. Its just a game. ! Kevin Brooe + De; Am Physic: ance and chan e s sion as otherwise life. I thin factors depressit of theme esteem. i by peer p accepted ed Mri guidance sion that on unh breaks; help or tr drastic Ii There one can mented, of things such as sudden c w wt 0 WM all h what the perfe who it will be Some of us to a far away us may prefe home. Ted Worley like to travel. go to a be California wi1 blue-eyed girl 5I9V.9, Sheid have

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ital d not have at because it wholesome nerica. 35 feels that mittee for the geant asked ip her crown trobably felt a role model 1d posing in a very good :he officiaie. i85 agreed i for Williams Ind not say ree or not, it ision to give to fight it in tile Blackwell w lection Student Body tOtticer eieetzione, hello Feb. 15, prediueed puzzluemeht aha discues-Ieh because a second eieetioh was omitted fer with 0th twe at the tour mate prestdentiai candidates on the haiiot. A note in the deity announcements the day hetero this election reminded the student body to vote, but gave no expianetton as to the. reasons it was taking piece. The morning before this eioction, it was learned that the Student Ceuncii Constitution, which specifies how these etections are to be done, was overiooked by the peopte who sponsored the evieea tion. We ove'riioolked the Constitu- tiuoh, stated Miss Linda W'hittolrd, weaponsor. Before tin past elec- tionst there were no primaries, and it was overlooked. We made a mistake. In previous elections, only two people or iess appeared in each category for office. This year, the pattern was the same except for the category of male student body president. In this category, there were four candidates running. According to the Constitution of the Savannah High School Student Colunczii, Articie VII Section One, A primary eiection fer student body officers wiIi he heid no later then the second Friday in February to Iimit candidates to two per office. In Section Two it further states, The student body officers of the Savannah High SehooI will be elected by secret beiiot at the General Election, which wiII he hetd: within one week toitowing the Primary eiection. This year's first etection was heid tn the third week of February, and this election decided the winner of the em president, secretary EIDdi treasurer and, oeh-x sequentiy. made peoipte unsure If it was a primary of a gene-rai election. I thought the first election decided the winner for everyone. Wee there a tte between the boy candidates? asked :Eiiien Bates '36. i thought they had a tie, or it was too close to get a winner? remarked Miss Dene Barnhart, American Government teacher. Apparently, the second election was held to get a majority of votes for one mate candidate. There was' no tie. Win Section Four It does state that if there Is no majority, then there is he winner, expiained Whittord, reading from the Consti- tutiun. Now that It has been narrowed to two, there can be a majority, even it It is by one vote. According to the dictionary, 8 maino-rity ie the greater number or the excess of the larger number of votes cast for one candidate. A majority could possibly be further defined as more than heif of the total. Section Four of the Student Counroii Constitution does NOT refer to a majority as more than halt. It specifiuceiiy says, HThe male or female receiving the mvajiolrity of votes In the general eviectieh wiii serve as president of the first semester. The student of the opposite sex with the matority wiii serve as vice president during the auses , iscord same period. The first day of the second semester, the vice pre- sident assumes the position of president and the former president becomes vice president. If someone had gotten a majority. then the previous election wouid have hetd, added Whitfo-rd. However, by definition, the winner of the first election had aireedy received a majority because the Constitution does not speciticeiiy state that a majority is one more than fifty percent. it there wasn't a meiotity or tie, then why weren't all four of them ptaced on the second ballot? asked Mike Welsh '85. We had to have a president by Feta. 25 because the names had be turned into the Missouri Associa- tion of Student Counciie at Coiuma bta, stated Mr. R. C. Ramsey, principal. The immediate solution tto complete the eiection by Tuesday, Feb. 19t was the only way this couid have been done. Ramsey further explained, There was no primary, and this was not announced. That is the mistake. You must have a primary, and you must have a maiovrity. However, the probtem is that a mixture of both a primary and general election format took piece. Not oniy was a week of campaign- ing Which was supposed to be the second week of Februaryt omitted, but the student body was not informed of the mixture before or after the elections. , Many rumors and much confUa etch was the re-suit of this over- sight. - Kevin Bruce Firtifitzii HE. Do you ever sit and wonder about the medical break- throughs that; are still to come? Things that our grandparents and greatagrandperents probes bly never would have ever dreamed possible are suddenly becoming a reality. Take, for instance, the are tificiel heart. Bemey Cletit, a retired dentist, received a meme made heart in Merck, 1983. Clark died 112 days after the implant. Later, e tremepleht wee per: formed on 52 year old William Schraeder, a retired munitions inspector from Jasper, IN. , However, Ricky Keck '86 doeehit think We the right thin to do because people ghoul accept their condition. He also rejected the idea of using a bebeenis heart in Baby Fae. Baby Fee, the first to receive a batman heart, lived for three weeks. She was born premature with a fetal congenital deformia ty known as hypopteettc left heart. The cause is unknown, rte leaving the entire left side of her heart underdeveloped t0 the point of ueeleeeneea. The issue is a controversial one, but Michelle Am BB commented, iiItis a good gesture to try to save Baby Fee? Whether youite for artificial heart transplants or against them, the medical fielcl will probably continue to work on more medical breakthroughs, ones that will hopefully be successful. Sheila Blackwell Off The Mark

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0 percent, pie, although According to I assassinate Iere are no ; is someone 1e take place. not constitute l person, hat rd, and then new person. son is left, he inner. dissenting : TAG. Some i too violent. flictlng points Lay Cameron, er. i'Some that people re more likely iposing point ryone has a anxiety, and 1y will be less -rt the first Iieve people Cameron sick game nding realise explained , sociology one are so at the next inflict pain. I sing in that v: improving, y ocial abilities This lgamel ' she added. anoid in our detrimental game which said Mike all bored to ing to come Mrs. Patricia her. It is a I, and I think ut the game rom reality, st 3 game. Physical changes, appear- ance and social habits seem to change suddenly when depres- sion has become a part of an otherwise normal teenagers life. I think that two or three factors are responsible for depression: a very low opinion of themselves or a bad sells esteem. A lot of this is caused by peer pressure and not being accepted by their peers, state ed Mr. Dennis Snyder, guidance counselor. ilDepres- sion that Is so severe can go on until something finally breaks; either a person gets help or they do something more drastic like commit suicide? There are symptoms that one can see, Snyder com- mented, ilsuch as dropping out of things they once were in such as clubs and sports, a sudden change in their pattern, constant absentism and also their physical appearance changes. They are not as conscious about their physical appearance as they once were. After a person admits to being severely depressed, the next step is what to do about it. Well, there is a counselor program where the student can actually take a look at what is causing the depression. He can certainly talk to his own doctor who would refer him on to someone else. There, is the Family Guidance Center, and a place called Life-Long-Learn- ing, added Snyder. Life-Long-Learnlng is a counseling agent that provides family and individual counsel- ing. They deal with problems like chemical use, depression, suicide, child abuse and just all around provides mental help, Mo w; K50 0W ow W 00' v Dream dates. We :11 have seme idea of what the perfect date would be and who it will be with. Some of us would like to travel to a far away place while others of us may prefer to stay closer to home. Ted Worley i813 is one who would like to travel. Worley would like to go to a beach somewhere in California with a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl who would be 5'8 or 579V.!, 'lSheid have to have a nice body, 0 $0 of course, so she could wear a two-piece swimming suitfi exclaimed Worley. Both Darren Sherman i85 and Cindy Schottel 136 would also like to travel to California for their dream dates. Like Worley, Sher- man, too, prefers ubig, bed blondels. Christine Schweder '87 would like to travel even farther than California. iiI'cl like to spend time with a really nice guy in the Bahamas, stated Schweder. Nova Boswell $6 is one who wouldnt mind staying closer to home. Boswell's dream date would take place unear a river with a nice scenery. Itld have to be toward the evening on a warm Spring clay. Wherever your dream date may be, whether meat or far, don't stop dreaming. Without dreams we have nothing to work toward. - Kelly Limle Depression Common Among High School Students Snyder explained. 'iSavanneh is a typical community, and It has some depression, but it is no greater than any other community, stated Snyder. Along with severe depres- sions there is always the depression of everyday life. I get depressed when a girl I like doesnt like me, com- mented Rodney Schank '87. l'When I get depressed, I scream and yell; usually a friend gets me out of depres- sion, stated Sheila Reines l86. Patti Nichols '86 commented, When I get depressed, I try and keep myself busy so I forget about being depressed. Depression may or may not touch a part of your life. However, the key to remember is that there are places to seek help. - LaDo-nne Burks