19 May 1972
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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1972
Page
1
An editorial addresses students teachers administration and community urging less elitism and more dedication to education. It criticizes local voting apathy and calls for improved school spirit, civic involvement, and professional standards while urging readers to work toward harmony through education.
A reader argues the senior class voting is dominated by popular students and calls for a four officer slate with open homeroom ballots. They propose meetings with viewpoints aired on TV, more time for presenting candidates, and schoolwide voting to foster a truly democratic process.
Fitz's column notes rising passions over how to structure schools and fund them. Readers clash between favored methods, highlighting concerns about efficiency, equity, and long term stability in education.
A student letter criticizes the student council election recounting Lauris Grabektis disqualification and calls for transparency. It imagines forming a self supplying school commune with soy crops and car washes, auctioning term papers, and group therapy while debating tax implications and income from 1900 dependents and student referendums on private profit. The writer urges action and broader social reflection.
The document lists staff positions including Editor-in-chief Michael Smith and editors Terri Batley Bill Colson Connie Deltman and notes the views expressed may not reflect the paper’s or institution’s stance. It mentions various names and roles within the Script Staff.
A historic poem narrates a soldier captured behind enemy lines enduring forced confinement and torture. The speaker recalls demands to stay or go, pray or know, sleep or give, and finally faces removal and execution. The piece ends with the assertion that they murdered him.
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