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Page 12 text:
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White, practically windowless, and chains on the doors. Valparaiso High School can be a pretty cold-looking place when no one is around to pump a little life into it. Fortunately though, this rather inhuman condition is quite a rarity for the multi-million dollar building on North Campbell Street. Except for an occasional Sunday afternoon and special holidays, there is almost always something happening at VHS — and quite Often those happenings are non-academic, inexpensive, and even fun. Ingenuity goes a long way toward making VHS a source of entertainment for students. For instance, if it looks like it might go over well, why not turn the stage into a battleship? Or the north balcony into a jam-packed, non-stop discotheque? Or the cafeteria into a cabaret — complete with “cocktails and dinner music? Why not? It just might work. and. in fact. all three were smashing successes at VHS this year. When snow made long-distance travel difficult, the school became quite a night spot for students. Struggling to cast-off images of tests, grades, and homework, they crowded into VHS after regular school hours for formal dances, sockhops. concerts. and drama productions almost as if they were just out for a night on the town. Even after the spring thaw, students continued to patronize the chic new establishment for its traditional warm-weather events.
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Page 11 text:
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Yes. it's a bit of an oddity, perhaps a bit out of place in an area of heavy industry and high crime rates, but Valparaiso is indisputably nice in a lot of ways. It has nice schools, nice homes, and nice streets that are safe to walk at night. A lot of people say that it isn't a very realistic place to live in view of the harshness of the real world. but most people who come here have already experienced reality and are trying to avoid an overdose of it. But like every paradise since Eden. Valparaiso is not without its problems. Camelot had its Lancelot and Pandora had her overwhelming curiosity to point out that life is far from perfect — and in a sense that’s what happened in Valparaiso this year. One problem led to another, and before long almost everyone was asking. What went wrong in 77? That’s a good question. What did go wrong in 77? Well, at first it seemed like almost everything. It began in September with the news of a drug problem and subsequent crackdown in the school system. Then there was VHS' surprising loss to Merrillville in the Vikings' bid for a second state football crown. Then there was Gerald Ford’s loss to dark-horse democrat Jimmy Carter — a true shock to such a staunchly republican community. An as if the fall hadn't been hard enough, winter came down harder this year than just about anyone could remember. bringing with it fuel shortages, damaged crops, and spirits badly in need of lifting by spring Finally the spring did come. Once people realized that the grass and flowers had indeed survived beneath all that snow, the year fell into perspective and things got back to normal. Even smiles and spirit came out of hibernation — after the long winter that no one would soon forget.
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