Westlake High School - Ram Ler Yearbook (Westlake, LA)

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“Grody To £ the valley-girl handbook The Max!” y- going our ■ V '. VALLEY ii f«— • . ► •! - »• “Gross me out the door!” “Go bag your face!” “Barf out!” Where does this talk come from? It comes from valley girls, of course. Valley talk began in California and spread across the nation. Phrases like “to the max” rolled off everyone’s tongues, and Westlake High students were no exception. Words such as tubular, skanky, and narly were all part of this new language. Translated into English, tubular is defined as spectacular, skanky is sickening, and narly means fantastic. SEVENTEEN MEETS MOON UNIT ZAPPA The article in the Seventeen” magazine teaches how to be a valley girl. A sure sign of a valley person is the pins that they wear with valley sayings. 22 Student Life

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Student States, “It’s All How You Look At It.” “Nobody move! My contact just popped out!” These comments, made always in a loud voice, are just one of the disadvantages of contacts. But more and more students are changing to these “unseen glasses” unless eye problems will not allow them to wear contacts. Some change purely for the sake of improved appearance; others change because of sports or convenience. Most students wear hard contacts, but the new soft lens have become popular, especially for people who could not tolerate the hard type. Glasses fog up, impair vision, or get knocked off. Contacts pop out, hurt if some foreign object gets in the eye, and have to have special care. Each student sees the problem in a different way. Tammy Jackson: I love wearing my new contacts.” Gary Gentry, a basketball player, prefers contacts. Jaquetta Williams and James Goodwin still prefer to wear glasses. Student Life 21

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Vandalism: Who Needs It? ( CW Graffiti on desk tops can be distracting. Writing on walls and desks is not the only type of school vandalism, but it certainly heads the list. School vandalism is nothing new, and vandals aren’t always the lower class characters that lurk in the shadows. A vandal can very well be an honor student. Just because he makes A’s and B’s doesn’t mean he won’t leave his name behind on a desk or bathroom wall. Vandals who practice graffitti seem to want the public to know everything about them. They publicize whom they like, whom they hate, what year they graduate, or simply that they were here. The graffitti seems to be harmless enough when it only read, “John was here, but vandalism, and vandalism is destructive no matter what type it is. Small words on a desk may not be as destructive as breaking locker doors or spraypainting on walls, but it is still destroying someone’s else’s property. These harmful acts are almost impossible to control. Hopefully one day, students will take such pride in their school that vandalism will not be tolerated by them. Some of the most destructive graffiti is to carve names, etc. The most common way to gossip is to write on the bath-on everything. room walls. Student Life 23