The ObserverVolume 52

Mr. Eldon Lossing

1915 - 1970

states. Those in Michigan are:~lichigan State University, NorthernMichigan University, Oakland Univ­ersity, Wayne Slale University, andWestern Michigan Unlverstiy.

Selections of the students will bebased on scholastic abititv, sciencemotivation ,and the completion ofapplication, although a small numberof sophomores and seniors will beaccepted.

Anyone interested in applying fcrthe program should contact Mr.

Richard Welch, Science Dept Chair­man.

The Student Council is dedicatinga shOwcase to Mr. Valentine~for-al1the tropies that were won w h II e hewas teaching at DHS.

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C I I n i c s started for cheerleadingtryouts Munday aud a1t~ bclu::J\.i.:ed to

run through March 25.

I ga n University and two M. S. de­grees from Wayne State Universityand the University of Detroit.

Math Club Is collecting funds forMr. Lossing's 9-year old daughter,Lisa, who Is afflicted with muscular

dystrophy. Any donations can be giv­en to Math Club me m b e r s duringschool.

Also surviving him are Mrs. Loss­Ing, two sons, WIlliam and David,

another daughter Nancy, and a grand·son. David is a OilS senior.

Issue 19

In Memoriam

March 6, 1970

what Miss Marla Skinner Is trainingto do under the supervision of MissJudy Kramer. Inslructorfor the vis­ually handicapped.

Mrs. HelenAuxter's typing class­"'. are being taught by CMU senior,Miss Kaye Langert.

Contributing to the science depart­mentare Miss Sally Lanl/;from CMU,Miss Nancy Headen from EMU andMr. Gary Gold from Uof M. They areaiding Mr. Mattew Godfrey, Mrs.Olive Gest and Miss E rdf ne Bau­mann, respectively.

Alonl( with the others Mr. Robert

Shier, from U of M, teaches Mr.LlonelGuregian's economics classes.

Opportu nities Offered for Students

With ~igh Scientific Capa'cityHigh school students interested in

obtaining intensive experience in sci­ence and mathematics during thesummer of 1970, may be interestedin the Student Science Training Pro­gram.

This program gives science-orien-

ted high school students experiencewith college-levellnsruction and re­search.

The majority of the courses offertn depth Instruction in one or moresubjects. Biology, economics, math­ematics, and physics are some of thesubjects that may be taken.

Colleges being used for this pro­gra III are located in 38 of the 50

Memorial services we,.·" ileJd yes­terday at Howe-Peters"n FuneralHome for Mr. Eldon Lossing wlrodied of lung cancer Monday.

Mr. Lossing, who cametotheDearborn School System In 1946, has'been head of the Math Departmentat OilS, night school teal'her at HFCCand sponsor of Math Club.

Before coming to Dearborn, Mr.Los sin g taught at IIIghiand ParkCommunity College and In the Bloom­field Hills School System. He helda B.S. degree from Eastern Mlch-

Andy Kokas, senior. Gary Mervak ,senior, will execute the role of Ber­tram Cates (Scopes). Jan GaiefskyIs the senior who will portray RachdBrown, the woman In Bertram Cates'life.

Mr. Donald O'Hagan will direct theplay.

Dearborn, Michigan

Religion, Science Clash in Dramatization;

Dearborn to Stage 'Inherit the 'Viind'God and Creation or Darwin and

Evolution? Which beginning Is manto believe?

This Is the question brought forthin "Inherit the wind, " a play writtenby Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.Lee, to be presented at Dearborn

High on April 16, 17, 18.This play Is based on the events of

t he famous "monkeytrlal"whlchtook place In Dayton, Tennessee In

July, 1925. Il was at that place andtime that Clarence Darrow, actingas derense attorney for John Scopes,

oppos ed William Jennings Bryan,the prosecuting attorney.

John Scopes was brought to trialfor teaching evolution In a Daytonschool,which at that time was againstthe law in Tennessee.

Mr. Thomas Carlbardl, of WSU,works along side Mr. Donal1 Bough­nerlntheart department. Mr. DavidJefferson, of EMU, Instructs MissAudrey Criner's students on how 10ml.ke ceramics.

Student tea chi n g In two depart­ments is Mr. Larry Morse, who Ismajoring in psychology and mathe­matics. Mr. Stuart Waddell's psy­c ho logy classes an d Mr. GordonBremenkampf's math students arerecei\'ing instruction from this CMUsenior.

Sociology is Mr. David Peterson'sfield. Guiding him is Mr. Wayne Roe.Mr. Peterson Is from EMU.

Being eyes for another person Is

Matthew Harrison Brady, the char­acter based on Bryan, will be por­trayedbyJonTaub, senior. The de­fense attorney lIenry Drummond whois based on Darro ••••will be played by

Dearborn High School

Hours of Practice

Photo by ~Inrk Lien

Collecting for the March of Dimes contest between Dearborn hil/;h schoolsat Westborn Shopping Center last SAturday was Sophomore Linda Adanwk.Contrlbutlng to the cause are (I-r) Janet Weaver and Pat Newgord, sopho­mores.

Fourteen Join Stoff

Insight Gained From Young Educators

Pay Off for Band

Western,Eastern,U of M and Cen­tral are represented by 14 studentteachers this sempster.

Applying English teachtng methodsare Mr. Lee O'Bryan and Mr. Jtm

Steen. Mr. 0' Bryan works with Mrs.Marie Mitchell's journalism class­es. Mrs. Marianna Fisk Is Mr.Steen's advisor. Both are trom CMU.

Hours of early morning practicehave paid for the DHS Jazz Band andespecially for two DHS students.

Lei and Boone and Doug Brown,seniors, were honored as the two toptrombonists at the Jazz Band Fes­tival which was held on Feb. 21 atMichigan State University.

The band received a rating of twoIi's and one I. (The bands we r egraded on a scale of 1- V, I being thehighest and Vthelowest). Eventhough a rating of II is a good ratingthe band was expecting a I rating.

The judges indicated through thei rcriticism that the band was unbal­anced because of It's size. A stand­ard size jazz band Is us u a II y 17pieces. DHS's band Is 26 pieces.

1.1r. Tony Russo, band di rector,explained, ''I couldn't cut Ihe bandbecause all 26 of them have put Incountless hours of early m 0 r n In gpractice. I thought It was much moreimportant to have the experience orgoing than to cut the size. "

"Two O'Clock Jump" and "SouthRampart Street Parade" were two ofthe seven selections played.

Mr. Russo does plan to attend thefestival next year, but hopes he cangain a more balanced distribution ofinst ruments, wit h 0 u t sacraficingstudents.

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Open City is just a small office inDetroit, yet it works wonders. It'snot a drug rehabilitation center asmany may think, but a place wherepeople may receive help.

Op e n City prOVIdes a counselingservice which helps runaways, highschool dropouts, unwed mothers and;uvenile delin9uents.

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Open City welcomes any contribu­tions. Volunteer help is also needed,Those willing to offer either may callOpen City at 831-2770. Money contri·butions can be made in the generaloffice.

apparent to the viewer after only avery few moments. ,It is simply aseries of unrelated and useless seg­ments shown only as preludes to thef a m 0 usa n d mol' e ex p 11c it sexscenes. To be brief, there is no plotat all. Admittedly, the l' e i s at thestart a very weak and disunlfied at­tempt at criticism 0 f modern soci­ety. However, t his section is hur­riedly abandoned and completely iso­latedfrom the rest of the movie. Theremainder is devoted 'to a gross and<:heapening display of sex on film.

The public is told that this moviemer e 1y illustrates the realities oflife that our puritanical society is notwilling to accept. However, it seemsapparent that there a l' e really veryfew young girls who are found to beengaged in sex every night of the weekwith some total stranger.

I Am Gurious is nothing but an in­sult to the mtelligence of the viewer.This movie, and others like it, relyentirely 0 n the support of the intel­lectually inferior. Seldom i Ii therefound a more adequate and efficientdlstortion 0 f reality. The vie w e rleaves completely disgusted with thisutter waste of time..As stated before, I Am Curious is

a more than adequate representativeof what can be expected at any of thesemovies.

BYTIM O'BRIEN

JOHN

PEGGY

Photo by Mark Lien

WHATEVER EXPERIENCES LIEbeyondthat door, it is near certain that'the "stark reality" ofthem wouldbe frowned upon by this lad's folks. Thisanonymous m"v~e goer is a DHSsenior.

s w i m m i n g vehicle included PaulFoster and Tom Szuba, sophomores.Foster captured a first in the 200yd.freestyle event with a c 10 ckin g of1:54.3 and another first in the 100yd. backstroke race with a time of57,3 seconds., Szuba wrapped up the night with afirst in the 200 1M race with a timeof 2;06.5 and a first in the 100 yd.butterfly with a clocking of 55.5 sec­onds.

DHSis considered as one of the topfive teams at the state competition(March 13 and 14)and it's not unr'!a­listic to think the tankers may s~roke.their way to the state crown.

Recently the movie viewers of thisco u n try have been subjected to abarrage of controversial sex moviesof which I Am Curious is more thanan adequate representative.

The bas i c plot becomes quite

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Jack Lorente c 10 sed out his threeyears in the starting line-up by play­ing one of his strongest games of theseason. Jack scored 21 points andled the Pioneers in the second halfwhere they turned a close game intoa Dearborn runaway.

************The Dearborn High swimming

team, led by senlor co - c apt ai n ssteve Bachorik and Joe Bryk, put upa valiant fight Saturday but succumb­ed to Trenton's Trojans.

Bachorik picked up a fi l' S t in the100 yd. breaststroke race with a timeof 1:04.8 while Bryk took the 400 yd.freestyle event with atime of 4:09.0.

Other strong points in the Pioneer

II OPEN END~WHAT 00 YOU THINK OF DENNY -McLAIN AND HIS ALL E G E D IN- - r;;;:-­

VOLVEMENT WITH THE MAFIA? f~I .

"He's act i n g like a little kid." __ .--Tom Sheridan, sophomore .. ,,"'"

"I never did like him. I think he \ (. ,did it. "--Patty McCarthy, senior. , '.

"I don't think his private life should , 1'0 IJ.be held against him. "--Mike Sedlak, I I"

senior. ~ /" I"It's his own fault. He should pay,

the consequences. "--John Lundblad,sophomore.

"He's gonna have to payoff."--Scott Labute, senior.

"I feel sorry for his family, nothim. "--Robin Westby, sophomore.

"!think he got a bum rap. "--BarrySawicki, sophomore.

"He deserves everything he got. "--Ken Terry, senior.

"It wasn't very nice of him. "- -StanGuinn, junior.

"He shouldn't have been suspen­ded. "--Peggy Shaw,sophomore.

Senior Girls PlanFriday 13th Dance

Do you have a case of trisaideka­phobia, more commonly known as afear of Friday the 13th?

The best remedy is to come to theSenior Girls' Sponge Dance, "TheThirteenth Floor, "next Friday from8 to 11p. m. in the Redwood Room.

Broken mil' l' 0 1'10, ladders andblack cats will set the mood, and thesweet sound of the Sugar Cube willprovide entertai nment.

The d l' e 10 10 is semi -formal, withdresses or pantsuits for girls andsuit coats and ties for boys.

"I hope it isn't like the previousdances, " commented Senior CarolynCronk, chairman. "I hope there ismore participation."

The profits from the dance will beused for the Senior Prom.

Tickets will be sold before and af­ter s c h 0 oland during lunch nextweek. The price is $2.50 or $2 withan activity ticket.

The basketball tea m ended theirseason Monday with a 61-54 loss toMelvindale in the opening round oftheDistrict play-offs at Melvindale.

Dearborn led at the end of the firstquarter 15-14, but lack of scoring inthe second quarter left them behindat the half, 28-20.

In the second half, Coach Jim Van­derhull substitutedfreelyin trying tofind the right line-up that would bringvictory, but cold shooting and lack ofoffensive rebounds plagued the Pio­neers in their attempt at a comebackvictory.

Last Friday, Dearborn closed itshome basketball season on a winningnote. The cagers downed Wayne bya score of 67-58. Senior Captain

Foster, Szuba Win ...Again

Cagers Split With Win-Loss, Tankers Edged

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Edi~orial

Faulty System Screens FlicksBY MARK LIEN

Today's movies are all classified under the Valenti system. The G, GP,R and X ratings emanate from the responsive actions of Jack Valenti, pre5­ident of the Motion Picture Association,

The public, clamoring both pro and con about the new morality in moviespointed the finger to the MPA in regard to forewarning them about movietypes. Example: Little Johnny Smith returns from "I Am Curious (YellowY'witb strained eyesight, many delicate questions, and then proceeds to spout

obje<:ti0Iiable new words aboutthe house. Without a rating code to assist her,Nrrs. Snu'Thhadnoknowledgeofwhatpoor Johnny was to be exposed to. Thepregnant ideas of worlied parents plotting to avoid similar circumstancesindirectly gave birth to today's rating system.

Valenti's code, branded on all new flicks since last November, fails mis­erably. (It is hopeful, however, that it is a step toward a finer system. )Theclassifications are far too general and fail to take into account the sophisti­cation of the movies. One 'X' movie,for example, might exploit the rather per­verted passion of a necropheliac while another, like Midnight Cowboy, re­tains intellegence and sophistication. Yet is crammed into the same cate­~ory.

Another ineffll!iency ofthe code is its failure to specify why the movie re-ceived its l' at i n g. Was the dialogue too base? Was raw sex exploding allo vel' the screen? Was it just that the mentality needed to comprehend thestory required a more mature audience? Still more abortive facets of thecode are that a rating can unfortunately function as a critic (Example: BigJohnny refuses to see a 'G' movie because it is "too pure" but would preferto see an 'X' s how because it has so many 'good parts') and it is also ex­

tremely hard to enforce the age limits. An adult is often anyone who has themoney for the ticket.Just as the movies show at 'art' theatres are rarely culturally stimulat­

ing, the rating code rarely succeeds as such and rarely does justice to themovies it classifies.