Willowbrook High School - Centurion Yearbook (Villa Park, IL)

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I si if-arse-artist. 5 5 Speedbamps, Anon. hy J eff Forsythe They say that if you want to stop someone from doing something you don't want him to do, you should simply make it unprofitable for him to do so. Thetrick is, how- ever, donfgtliiletwe any alternative options to do somethingriivgipijtg-gg4gpli,than what you're praveatiagaaim from doing. if At Willowbrook they've been trying to make some of the students refrain from speeding in the parking lot for years. They've tried having teachers stand out there, deans stand out there, and even policemen sit in their tip K. . . . r K in .k.. . K! H squad iiei iei s X X Q, X - . P i t t ptittp , sst- E iitiii,,i . i -i T a--ii - -W tt,t .i - least once a the least you could do ia as hour the Not before. Ther are still areas 9, it, you've just gotten out of your. car as you hear the sound of glass packs and quads roaring down your throat. That sounds like more fun than driving across the main drive in front of the school just to get to and sssss fromgtlie paking lot! But what's even more fun that after they've gone through the routine of teachers, deans, and squad cars and find they can't stop this new variety of kiamikaze, they'll find they can't take away the speed- buampsiwas easily as they put them in. i v 5 Sure, thleygcggiild ask the '-'menace maniacs to try and tear ithein tip like they did on the first ones put in, but they hadn't quite solidified like our newer? higher, second Ones have Anyway, theymar est eem buses? ,oreakiiings iis has e-rf -i . .kpi . W .I x.i-- i,.1-.: .L 'TWWTS :shed .fer tyss i to amd Fhemfifllen i ' T Q --.- - 2? --'.i lf f i.ii X f I they re simply ibouricingi used to Own-J i i diss Y ' . it E eaaii 'iiiit X They could pay a sconstructioiifserewsgg i i i , i iit iiii , i 3' but after paying for the overtimeiiiforiki l if ans standing out there, squadcars sittiingf'But'There, and re- raise the pips remember when fondly thatgolden word Austerity ' J. The final solution could be to put speedbumps every- where in the parking lot. This could producea checker- board effectpand then we could paint them all black and red. If wekeepjjon adding enough speedbulmpsQgthey'll all be touching and the parking lot will he leveliltagain only this time one foot higher above sea level than previously. moving buses smiled ypi, ,out ,therejthey may find 5. , . -- - f. .: ' ., .- . b 1115?-:Xp M . ' X '--t. 8