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

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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

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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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Westlake’s Version Of “Fame” MOSSVILLE UNLIMITED Patrick Benjamin, Jennifer Charles, Lucie Du-hon, Marvin Hester and Mary Williams all have something in common besides being seniors. They make up the Mossville Unlimited Dance Group, along with their sponsor Mrs. Barbara Lee. The dance group performs modern dance routines. These students have been dancing since 1979 when they began performing in the 9th grade at Mossville Jr. High for holiday assembles. In those four years the group lost a member, gained one and lost him, but after going through all that, those that stayed are “closer now than before” according to Lucie Duhon. The dance group develop all the steps in their dances themselves. When the members work out a dance, they find new steps to put with the ones they already know. To find new steps they watch television and remember the steps, and put them together with others to form new ones, or just make up their own. The dance group tries to do everything at least once because they feel nothing is too hard. The members of the Mossville Unlimited Dance Group are different in many ways. Each one tries to do his share to make the dance group successful. According to Patrick Benjamin, the dance group is “a challenge” to him and the other members. Marvin and the girls are practicing for their next dance. Mary Williams, Lucie Duhon, Marvin Hester, Jennifer Charles, and Patrick Benjamin, not shown. The Mossville Unlimited dancing in a program held at Mossville school. The group is dancing to Just Once. 24 Student Life