Slatington High School - Reflections Yearbook (Slatington, PA)

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LATE AGAIN? As with the smoking policy, the school's discipline poli- cy concerning tardiness became stricter this year. During the 1979-80 school year, any student coming in tardy twice during the same semester re- ceives an automatic thirty- minute detention upon the sec- ond offense, with or without an excuse. Of the 250 stud- ents participating in a recent survey taken by the REFLECTIONS staff, 97 percent state they ere against the late policy. The other three percent admit the late policy is strict; how- ever, they say it cuts down on the number of people coming in late. For most people the pol- icy is a nuisance, but for most people the policy also works. The following people from Home- room A1 are appearing in the Office to sign in and pick up their detention slips for late- ness: (left to right) Sandy Strohl, Sharon Strohl, Roger Spadt, Tim Weaber, Paul Swartz, Lori Weiss, Keith Williams, Linda Walbert, Liz Williams, Tina Wechsler, Anne Zeiser, Sandy Williams, Vicki Sweetz, and Tracy Wehr.

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Any day of the school year, you can see students dashing to the cafeteria for food, the same food that they complain about. The students com- plain almost constantly about the food which they continue to stuff vigorously down their throats. Some of the least favorite school meals mentioned in a recent poll con- ducted by the REFLECTIONS staff in- clude lasagna, turkey salad sand- wiches, smoky links , tacos, veg- gie soup, and chocolate pudding. Although many complain, quite a few people eat it and admit it's edible. Although the price increased from 45 to 50 cents this year on February 1st, students still nurry to lunch, just as they always have! Above is a picture of a freshmen homeroom fighting for a piece of bread during a recent food short- age faked especially for this pic- ture by the REFLECTIONS staff. ' They include (topi Darrin Heckman, Charles Hardy, Kevin Gallagher, Carl Droller, Chris Grammes, Jim George, Landis Green, Susan Hausman, Christine ;rube, Debbie Hinkle, Karen Hamm, Clausia Horoschak, Lisa Dorn, Tammy Guss, and (bottom) Sue Green, Rich- ard Hess, Keith Hess, David Hensing- er, Rodger Hess, Steve Horn, Carl Hoffman, and Stephanie Haller. 10

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THE IRAN CRISIS Late in 1979, an unknown number of Iranian students stormed the United States Embassy in Teheran. Be- cause these students were, at the tine, unarmed, the Marines guarding the Em- bassy did not repel the students. This seemingly peaceful protest turned into one of the major news events of 1979 and 1980. The students, receiving arms from their comrades, took every person in the building hostage. Although they released several hos- tages in the first two weeks of their captivity, the Iranians held some 50 other American Embassy and Marines hostage a good deal longer, so long, in fact, that we have to won- der whether to call this a crisis or a stalemate. At this writing, the hostages are still captive, and no apparent progress has been made. The students are followers of Iran's fanatical reli- gious leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini, maybe the most hated man in America since Adolf Hitler, has ordered that the de- posed Shah be returned to Iran for trial before the hostages are released. Although the Iranian Crisis has been a very terrible event, it has served to unite the people of America, including the students of SHS, with a new feeling of patriotism. Demonstrating their feelings about Iran are the following freshmen from the Bandroom homeroom: first row (left to right) 12 Mike Weber, Mike Strohl Jonathan Weaber, Mike Williams, Sharon Strohl, Angela Shiffert, Kevin Yenser, Laura Solderitz, Phyllis Sweetz, Jeryl Williams, Lori Wanamaker, second row, Jerry Snyder, Rich Smith, Kevin Yesik, David Tirpak, Simos Vavla- dellis, Larry Wetzel, Mark Yeanish, Robert Zancofsky, Tim Shelly, Duane Wetzel, Mike Skeath, Jody Ziegler, Robin Shafer, Marcy Stephen, and Shelby Snyder.