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News/Commentary
January 22,1985
Invitational to be held at South The largest speech contest in the state, the Maine Invitational, will be held at Maine South on Jan. 26. At least 60 schools will be participating, including approximately 900 competitors from all over the state of Illinois. Contest Speakers, a competitive speech team, is currently well into its season with three competitions behind them. The speech team is comprised of 20-30 students aided by head coach Mr. Vincent PinelU. The team competes on Saturday mornings; they usually meet at Maine South at 7 a.m. and are finished with the meet about 3 p.m. Each member of the team competes in three out of 12 events during the day. The events vary from verse to prose and from oration to acting performances. "Contest Speakers is good basically because it teaches people how to deal with talking to groups of people. It forces to think on their feet," said Mr. Pinelli. The team members select their own material, within reason, and are helped by one of several coaches. Besides Mr. Pinelli, Mr. Thomas
Southwards Southwards is the student-produced newspaper of Maine South High School, Parl( Ridge, IL. Letters to the editor should be delivered to Room V-130 or given to a member of the editorial staff listed below. Southwards reserves the right to edit letters containing obscene or libelous material. Editor-in-Chief Kris Falzone News Bureau Chief Maura McKenna News Editor Andy Duerkop Commentary Editor . , Nancy Humm Features Editor . . . Maureen Smith Sports Editor Todd Jackson Photographer Tom Fox Adviser Mr. Ken Beatty Staff: Bonnie An, Lori Bonahoom, Tami Bower, Rick Burgis, Michelle Canar, John Caporale, Elizabeth Cicinelli, John Ciprian, Chrissy Coscioni, Kathy Coudal, Kristyn Denzel, Rob Elmgren, Ram Eskra, Cathy Flynn, Heather Francis, Karen Frank, Mark Fritz, Kim Grichnik, Sherrill HIavaty, Kathy Huedepohl, Jean Jacobs, Eric Johanson, Amy J o h n s o n , Steve J u i r i s , B e t h Landerghini, Sarah Langdon, Shelly Main, Laura McCabe, Katy McGarry, Alisa Regas, Barry Schoefernacker, Kathy Sebastian, Sue Szalczynski, Mike Viola and Tim Zahr.
Kerth, Mr. Stephen Granzyk, Mr. David Lavelle and Mrs. Charlene Lobitz are available to coach team members. The team does not have regular practices but each individual is responsible for his or her own practice time. The events are six to eight
minutes long and are judged on presentational quality. Mr. Pinelli said of the Maine Invitational, "I try to have people r)eak at this competition. We have a really good chance of doing good in about half of the events."
Southwords to accept V-day messages Southwards will be accepting Valentine's Day messages for publication in the February 14 issue. Submissions will be accepted in the Cafeteria during all lunch periods Jan. 29, 30 and 31 or in room V-130 after school on these days.
There will be a fee of one cent per word, with the total being rounded to the nearest five cents. Southwords reserves the right to edit or delete all messages containing material not suitable for printing.
Beating the third quarter blues Andrea Franzone '88—"Don't go to school." Charlie Tiberi '85—"Actually go to class and pay attention." Matt Styczen '85—"I just don't think about it; why should I?" Kurt Arntzen '85—"Think of all the fun we'll have when we get out of this shack during spring break." Bob Giannini '85—"You don't." Tony Reda and Don Rigali '85—"You're already accepted to college by now and you don't fight it." Mike Juneman '86—"Take it a week at a time and look forward to the weekends." Debbie Dumit and Lisa Masini '87—"We're Start planning for the dances that are comgoing to continue to grow our ant farm into a ing up. Take advantage of the snow and go downhill or cross country* skiing. Get some larger community." friends together and go sledding or organize a Jim Sellergren and Matt Burke '87—"Get a hockey game at one of the out-door rinks. girlfriend to do your work for you." Doug Johnson '85—"Work on your If you are more the indoor type go see one of the many hockey or basketball games. Do posture." some of your spring cleaning early so when the Paul Dannenhauer '85—"Pretend it's the nice weather comes you've got it done. Change first quarter." your appearance and get a new and unusual Jason House '88—"Mmmmmmm?" hair-cut. Ashley Runnels '87—"You fail all your You could start that diet that you've been classes first quarter and then you don't have to planning. Or try to make some money for all worry about it." the new spring clothes you want to buy. If Franco Dooley '87—"Same way I prevent you're musically inclined start a band with the first, second and fourth quarter slump." some of your friends. Join the YMCA and go Dina Anderson '87—"Cheat." swimming, play racket-ball or hand-ball, or get Colene Flynn '88—"Move to Africa." into one of their many excercise programs. Repaint your room in a bright spring color. And Amy Smithe '88—"I'm planning to get hit if all else fails go see a good movie. by a bus." Tracy Trimarco and Mary Garrity Enough of my suggestions, here are other student's ways of dealing with this problem. '87—"We might start to do our homework, The teachers, too, have ideas for avoiding the maybe." Jason Dimopoulos '86—"Enter many bowlthird quarter slump. ing tournaments and barbeque outdoors very Darren Bochat '87—"Start thinking about often." next year's V-Show." continued on pg. 3 . . .
by Chrissy Coscioni Now that the anticipation and preparations for the holidays are over, the excitement of the first snow has brought us to the realization that winter is really here. Everyone is affected by the after Christmas blues or the third quarter slump. The third quarter, for some people, is the time to start fresh and bring their grades up. But for others it's a time when the attitude of "I don't care" arises and grades drop. Whichever group you may fall into I'm sure most of you have noticed the reoccurence of the very familiar question "What can we do this weekend?". Well, here are some ideas to provide a diversion from the long winter.