The Weatherford Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1991 Page: 2 of 11
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Manna food drive
loses war against
military soldiers
When the soldiers were first sent to Saudi
Arabia, Americans began sending “care
packages” to the Middle East, but somehow
almost everyone forgot to care for the hun-
gry who live in our town.
The student body should be commended
for showing great patriotism when it col-
lected 16,170 items for our troops in the
Middle East, but by the time the annual
Manna food drive arrived in November,
only 936 items were donated.
What happened to the giving spirit? Last
year, WHS collected about 3,000 cans to
donate to the homeless and needy.
This year, student spirit was down and
therefore not many cans were brought for
the hungry, Student Council sponsor Don
Quy said. Most of the cans received came
from the admission price of two cans and $ 1
for the annual talent show and Christmas
Dance.
To promote this year’s food drive, Cle-
burne High School challenged WHS to
collect more cans, and the losing school’s
Student Council president would get a pie in
his/her face. But this type of encouragement
did not spur any increase in the contribu-
tions.
It is hard to understand how people found
a way to buy something for the troops and to
mail it, but they were unable to purchase two
cans of food.
If every student had brought two cans of
food for the food drive, we could have sur-
passed last year’s total, but unfortunately
this did not happen.
Hopefully next year spirits will be higher
and more cans will be donated. We probably
will not be fighting a violent war or worried
about sending supplies to anyone overseas,
and we will in turn be able to focus our atten-
tion on the people who live in this town and
those who attend Weatherford schools.
All we are saying is...
We gave peace a chance!
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When the United States first became involved in the
Middle East crisis, before war broke out, protesters had a
reason to object to American involvment. But now the only
thing anti-war demonstrations are doing is lowering
American soldiers’ spirits and raising a lot of Americans’
blood-pressure.
Maybe we should not be involved in this ordeal, but it is
a little too late to say so. If we backed out of Iraq now, do
you actually think they would forgive us for everything we
have already done to them? No way! There would still be
major problems with terrorists, Hussein would take over a
couple more countries, and we would still be paying
outlandish prices for gas. We do not agree with killing for
oil, but the crisis is a more complicated issue than that.
American soldiers are overseas right now dying for us
and for a free world. The least we can do is back them up
...the least. And if we cannot think of anything nice to say
to them, to assure them that we are still the “United” States
instead of the divided nation that has been portrayed by the
media, then we should not say anything at all!
ID cards are necessity for students
Today is a very special day. You have just
gotten your checking account! First your
driving license, now this!
So to celebrate, you go to a very fashion-
able store in the mall. And you have just
found the most wonderful shirt in the entire
metroplex.
You take your hunting prize up to the
cashier and proudly pull out your check-
book. Then the dreaded words come. “I need
two forms of identification, please,” the
cashier says with a pleasant voice.
You feel like dying. No second ID, no
most wonderful shirt in the world.
As you leave the store, you remember
your school ID! But you have no school
identification card.
The practice of handing out school IDs
ended about three years ago. However, the
school has our IDs stored in a nice little box
somewhere on the premises.
The IDs were intentionally ordered for
use on the library’s computer system.
However, the IDs were not compatible with
the library’s identification system. So now
the cards are being used for identification
purposes in the Clean and Free drug pro-
gram.
Students also need these cards for identi-
fication purposes. For SAT purposes, one
can “check out” the ID from the main office
for the test and bring the card back after the
examination. But this won’t help you at the
cashier’s desk at Dillard’s.
Many places demand two proofs of iden-
tification when writing a check, and library
cards will definitely not work. One may
have a driver’s license, but what else?
A majority of students don’t have credit
cards or employment IDs.
The school may be justified in its reason
to keep the IDs, but we need them other than
when we take the SAT or other achievement
tests. The cards have our pictures on them,
and we should have them in our wallets and
purses.
Other schools in the area issue IDs to their
students. Once again, WHS is in the rear
when it comes to policies toward students.
And once again, you can’t buy that most
wonderful shirt.
Pledge forgotten until war
Asking that the student body stand for the
pledge of allegiance was once a common
request. But somewhere during the shuffle
from audio to video announcements, the
tradition was lost.
Ironically, it is now more than ever that
the nation needs to recognize what Ameri-
can troops have done to establish the free-
doms that we in the United States so often
take for granted.
After soldiers were placed in Saudi Ara-
bia, national morale increased, but only for
a short period of time. Yellow ribbons flew
in the late summer breezes, and we did our
part in September by saying the pledge a few
times. Although anxiety prevailed with the
recent deadline for Saddam Hussein to get
his troops out of Kuwait, American patriot-
ism has worn thin. The ribbons became
scarce until the Jan. 15 deadline, and even
worse, the student body had quit saying the
pledge until war broke out in the Middle
East.
Last year when the student council pur-
chased flags for every room, we recited the
pledge every Monday. But due to students
recording the announcements on Fridays,
the pledge was forgotten.
Now that war is on every American’s
mind every hour of the day, the students who
do the announcements are finally remem-
bering to include the pledge. But it is a
shame that it took a international tragedy for
the tradition to continue.
Grass Burr
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The Grass B ujt ispublished monthly by
theadvanced journalism class of Weather-
ford High School, 1007 South Main,
Weatherford, Texas, 76086,
The opinions expressed therein are those
of the staff and do not represent those of
the administration or the Weatherford
Independent School District,
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upon request Guest columns and articles
are welcome, All letters and contributions
are subject to editing for length, libel, ob-
scenity and poor taste.
Weatherford High School
January 31,1991
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