Vol 27 issue 12

Voliinie 27, issue 12 March 22. 1991

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Tom Lin wins award from l\/lars On March 6,1991, senior Tom Lin was named an Amateur Athletic Union / Mars Milky Way High School Ail-American.

Tom was honored during a 9 a.m. ceremony in lecture hall C-100. Those in attendance included tennis and soccer team members, National Honor Society members, those involved in Student Council, and underclassmen with superior academic records.

Tom, the regional recipient of the award, "has made life a little sweeter for Maine South, " according to Pat Panato, a Mars spokesperson.

Tom, as one of the eight regional winners, was selected from a pool of 8500 seniors. To be eligible, a student must be a senior, be active in the community, be a top scholar, and have earned accolades as an athlete.

A leghty fifteen page application was another added barrier, as this had to describe the individual in detail.

A college scholarship worth S 10,000 was awarded to each regional winner, as well as the opportunity of winning 540,000 if he or she is named the national recipient.

The eight regional recipients will be featured this fall on TV. The name of the program will be "Tomorrow's Promise."

Mayor Ron Wietecha was present at the ceremony, and he commented on Tom's life.

"I have known the Lin family for a long time ... Tom's parents' commionent to him has paid off. I coached Tom in soccer, and noticed his remarkable heart, intensity, and intelligence ... Park Ridge and Maine South are well represented," said Wietecha.

Senior Tom Lin was recently honored with a special assembly to present the prestigious Amateur Athletic Union/ Mars Milky Way High School All American scholarship. One of only eight students in the nation to receive the award, he is also eligible for the national award of $40,000.

After Mayor Wietecha spoke. Miss Virginia Feurer, CRC counselor, read congratulatory letters from U.S. Representative Henry Hyde and Governor Jim Edgar.

After Tom was presented the award, he thanked a number of people, including his

teachers. Dr. Cachur, Miss Feurer, Mrs. Simons (his counselor), his family, and God. Tom will be in New York City in April for the announcement of the national scholarship winner.

In honor of Tom, Maine South students were recently treated to free Milky Way bars.

Welty Collects NEA Settlement Scott Welty, Maine Township physics teacher, recently received a sum of S25,000 liabilty insurance settlement from the National Education Association. Welty, acquitted last fall on eight felony counts resulting from charges that he assaulted a Maine South student, was presented the settlement at a cermony held at Maine East.

Lee Bitterman, the president of the Illinois

Education Association, presented Welty the check.

The S25,000 check is the maximum setlement provided by NEA given to teachers who must defend themselves in legal actions related to their teaching post after they are acquitted.

Welty, charged with raping the MS student in April of 1987, was not a suspect in the case

until the student noticed him as her AP Physics teacher. This was in September of 1989.

According to Stephen Granzyk, a Maine East teacher in charge of organizing fundraising efforts, Welty's legal and other fees came to $43,000. Area fund-raisng efforts collected more than $18,000.

Karen Larson, Editor of Maine Events, a staff newsletter, contributed to this article.

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Life under Saddam's brutal fist

by Imran Siddiqui Just as everyone is breathing a collective sigh of relief at the advent of Iraq's downfall, word is coming out of Kuwait as to how the conditions were there during Iraq's seven months of occupation.

Even though most phone lines are down within Kuwait, denying all but the most important diplomatic callsfromgoing through, the lines of communication which had been in use during the occupation, such as ham radios and telegraphs are still in use. Thus, many former acquaintances are able to get messages to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and adding this to the information my father gave me of his two months in occupied Kuwait, I was able to pull together a comprehensive picture of life under occupation.

In the beginning, after a period of ignorance induced calm, the populace realized that they were now in an occupied country, and panic gripped the people. Within the first week, understanding the inherent dangers of living in Kuwait, a great number of Kuwaitis and Westerners made a dash to the KuwaitiSaudi border, trying to get through before the Iraqis sealed it off with their tanks, barbed wire, and mines.

According to one acquaintance, after getting his family through, he tried to get back into Kuwait the next day to help out some friends, but by that time, the Iraqis were already in position and the border seemed impregnable. Thus, in a matter of days, the Kuwaiti-Saudi border was effectively closed, letting out only those few brave enough, or crazy enough, to attempt to cross the mined desert.

However, on the other side of the country, the Iraqi-Jordanian border was open, and a majority of the Arab workers trekked across Iraq and waited at the border for weeks, hoping that they could get home somehow. Now, many people may be wondering why the Arab workers had a mass exodus; after all, they didn't seem to be in any inherent danger from the Iraqis. However, there was a very simple explanation. In Kuwait, the paychecks are given out around the end of the month, and since the invasion occurred on August2, many workers didn't have any money; thus, they couldn't hope to survive in Kuwait. Hence, within a week or two, about half of the population of Kuwait was gone.

What happened within the next few months was basically a struggle for survival on the civilians' parts, and a struggle for enrichment by the Iraqi army.

What many people from Kuwait have

The author's father, Mr. Mohsin Siddiqui, is a civil engineer for a Kuwaiti firm, and was scheduled to leave Kuwait to return to the United States on August 3, the day following Iraq's invasion. He was trapped in Kuwait for more than two months while he searched for a way to escape the brutal atrocities being committed all around him.

In this article, his son, Imran, relates the facts we never were allowed to hear about life under the iron fist of the Iraqi military. repeatedly told me was that most of the Iraqis didn't want to be there. In fact, they were told by their commanders that they would be participating in joint exercises with the Kuwaiti soldiers. Thus, when they ended up killing Kuwaiti soldiers, and taking over the country, many of fhem were already disgruntled with their officers and placed in an uncomfortable situation. Unfortunately, this uncomfortable situation often translated into abuses of the civilians by the Iraqi soldiers.

From the start, one of the major unofficial objectives of the Iraqi soldiers seemed to be looting the country. Within the fu-st few days, all four wheel drive cars (very useful in a desert environment) and expensive cars were taken away by the high-ranking Iraqi officers for "official use". Next, the supermarkets were sacked, and after all the food was taken out of them, a majority of them were burned down.

The underlying feeling of the Iraqi occupation was corruption.

To make matters worse, the Iraqi military promoted the immigration of Iraqis to Kuwait, unleashing another potentially disasterous force on the country. Most of the Iraqis came into Kuwait with their trucks, which

they filled with looted furniture, industrial goods, and jewelry to be sold back home in Basra or Baghdad. Thus, when the Iraqi governmentfinallydecreed that all looters would be shot, most of the important goods were gone, and the military wouldn't have carried out the orders anyway.

After the initial looting of Kuwait, the Iraqi government prepared to integrate Kuwait as their 19th province. To do so, they accepted volunteers for their occupational army, and sure enough, they had tens of thousands of Palestinians, Yemenis, and Iraqis join.

Next, most of the trained Iraqi soldiers were sent to the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, leaving the untrained, machine-gun toting, new recruits to administer Kuwait. And as happens with most people who are given power, diese recruits tended to abuse it.

At the 100 meter check-points, these new soldiers (many of whom were in their teens) stopped the cars, and if a Kuwaiti or a Westerner happened to be in it, hours of harassment would follow, which often ended with the Kuwaiti taken in for interrogation. However, most other nationalities were initially left alone, as the Iraqi government at home was still trying to avoid a war with the United Nations.

Another bit of help that the civiUans in Kuwait got came from many of the embassies in Kuwait City. These embassies issued hundreds of thousands of new identification papers which not only changed the nationalities of scores of Westerners, but also changed the occupation of thousands of technicians, government employees, and specialists. The reason behind this was that from the start, the Iraqis had tried to round up those specialists, technicians, and government employees to run the country. Needless to say, most of those people didn't want to work for the Iraqis, but the only way they could get out of the country would be if they were seen as useless to the Iraqi cause.

Unfortunately, once the coalition solidified, all citizens of nations in the coalition were seen as potential spies, and they were harassed on the streets as much as the Kuwaitis. One such incident my dad told me about stuck in my mind, and seems to be a true indication of how bad things were in Kuwait at the time.

When my dad was stopped at one of the many checkpoints, he was told to get out of the car, and was harassed by an Iraqi soldier.

During the next hour, he was continuously told that he was a spy (because of his Pakistani continued on page 3

(Commentary

The Importance of Relativity The relative nature of "Importance.'

REALLY THINK I GIVE A DAMN?" Who, in their skull-encased mind, is to say So, the next time you think you've got Instead of the same old article where I just what topic has more influence or more signifi- something pretty important to say, ask yourtalk about subjects whose interest level would cance? (In the case of dieters, more self this: "Does Dave really give a damn?" cause rotting skeletons to commit suicide, I "weight.")

I know I probably sound like I'm repeating In simpler terms, be it not the man who hath myself repeating myself, because people would like to take a different approach in this possess great matters on those to which the place such an emphasis on not being redunissue. man whom thou hath shall not speak good dant. Those are probably the same people who To start off clean. To start off refreshed. listen to country music.

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They brought in $62.(X) and this will go to Like The Homeless?

What any person deems as "momentous" Dr. Mayer, a veterinarian who offers us a Like The Need to Purge the School of or "great" or simply just "notable" can easily reduced rate for his services."

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Life in Kuwait during thie occupation by Iraq, continued

continued from page 2 identification papers and the fact that Pakistan had just joined the coalition), and that he should be shot. This was especially disconcerting because the soldier waving the machine gun at him was no older than 17, and the young soldiers often lacked the discipline necessary to refrain from shooting. However, when the soldier saw some bread in my dad's car, he just took it, and after my dad offered him more food, he took that and allowed my dad to drive away.

Sadly enough, that wasn't just an isolated incident, as the soldiers in Kuwait were poorly equipped and poorly fed. After all, after the initial looting of the supermarkets, the only food coming into Kuwait was from Iraqi civilians trucking it in, and even then, the prices were exorbitant Thus, since the soldiers didn't get significant quantities of food from their units, and since most of them couldn't afford to buy any, they roamedfromhouse to house, demanding that the civilians feed them.

On the other hand, the civilians of Kuwait and the Kuwaiti resistance had food stockpiled in warehouses that the Iraqis never knew about. But having the food and distributing it are two totally different stories, and much time and effort were spent in getting the food to those civilians who needed it.

However, the Kuwaiti resistance just didn't deal with distributing food; rather, they spent much time and money trying to evict the Iraqis from Kuwait. The methods that they

used may seem very surprising to most Westerners, but at that time and place, it was simply the best thing to do. Since most of the Iraqi soldiers, and even some of the volunteers didn't really pay heed to the Iraqi government, they were not above corruption. Thus, the Kuwaiti resistance capitalized on this and paid many Iraqi officers thousands of dinars to bum their own tanks and to sabotage much of their own equipment. And later on in the occupation, the resistance managed to bring in weapons and managed to irritate the Iraqi occupation force.

However, the Kuwaiti resistance was just an irritation to the Iraqis, and the Iraqis dealt accordingly with it. In most instances, if Iraqis were shot at in a certain part of the country, the soldiers would cordon off the area of houses and search them. If any person was found with any kind of weapon, the person and their family would be taken away and their house would be burnt down.

Even though violence did occur, as is expected with any occupational force, the underlying feeling gained from the Iraqi occupation seemed to be corruption. Besides the corruption stated earlier, a black market was run by Iraqis in which one Kuwaiti dinar would trade for seven Iraqi dinars (even though the official exchange rate wasl:I).

Thus, after collecting thousands of Kuwaiti dinars, the Iraqi soldiers traded it in the black market and greatly profitted.

Another example of corruption within the Iraqi infrastructure dealt with the official

papers. If anyone drove or walked around Kuwait, they were expected to have papers for themselves and their vehicles. However, because of the widespread theft of cars, most of them needed official papers, which the Iraqi soldiers gladly provided, for a price. In fact, almost everything was available to the civilians, as long as they had the money to pay for it.

However, after a few months in occupied Kuwait, my dad and many others decided that it was time to leave. In order to do so, they had to register their car and get new license plates in a city in northern Iraq. After waiting for 24 hours in the line, and spreading a Uttle money around, they managed to get a license. Then, they had to drive to the Iraqi-Turkish border, where they ended up waiting for seven days in the desert sun. During these seven days, the Iraqi soldiers came upon them like scavengers, taking or buying (at severely deflated prices) any electronic goods that they had.

In fact, some Iraqi soldiers promised to take people through the border if they were given certain goods, but after receiving ihe goods, they simply left the people where they were and walked on to Uieir next victim.

Finally, after waiting in the miles-long line, most of the people managed to pay their way out of Iraq, and were on their way home.

However, life in Kuwait went on as usual, with corruption and violence being everyday norms of life, and not until Kuwait's liberation did the civilians see any aspect of a normal life return to them.

A retrospective lopK at Southfest '91 Join tlie Soutliwords Newsmobile on a journey thirougii tlie day

Photos by Josh andYaz

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In the fun spirit of Southfest, we at Southwards have developed a new game called "Spot the Newsmobile." There is a Southwards Newsmobile hidden in each of these photos. Your job is to find them. If you find all five, you will receive a free lifetime subscription to the July issue of Southwards. Happy hunting!

An open thank-you Now that (lie excitement, entertainineni, and educational opponunity ol Sojitlifest '91 have luroed into photographs and nioino' ncs, it is appropriate to rctlect lor just a moment.

The Maine South school nMunuiniiy ha-; once again displayed its uniqueness to IIK' community at large. Beginning with our custodial staff who literally put the <lay u ^ gether, through the parents arul faculty ai^F s«ff who organized and supported i he day, to the students who {uirticipated so uillmgb and so well, we did a great job!

Timeandagain our guest comphment the school on the graciousness ol our .student body. This year we were especially pleased with those students who enjoved the Acme

Alex & His Amazing Dobermans — Alex Rothacker

Hypnotism — Dr. Morton Ford

V(^cals performance on Tuesday night; with lho.se students in Ms. Lasko's Foods class who prepared refreshments for the presenters; with llic students who volunteered to help our dis*led visitors from St. Matthew's Home; and ^yiih the couple hundred individuals who pa"eiitly endured the finjd hour waiting for Dave Quiz's presenunion. These individuals and aii ^ M t e r students who availed themselves of ll^^Peat educational opportunity thai was ^^»uthfesf '91 arc to be commended. . Hojvfully, our annual Southfest activities •^^''11 remind each of us of the excitement that can be ours when wc surround ourselves with S^-'nerous, informed people who are AvilUng lo -'^harc their expertise to educate others.

The Southfest Committee

Snakes — Jim Nesci

Morning Assembly— Kent Wehman Band

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MS Wins State in Constitution On the weekend of February 22-24, eighteen Advanced Placement students won the Illinois State Bicentennial Competition on the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The students, led by teacher Patton Feichter, will now travel to the National Bicentennial Competition in our nation's capital from April 26-30.

The Illinois contest, held in Springfield, was a complete success. With six groups of three students representing Maine South, each threesome was required to cooperatively answer a question about the U.S. Constitution.

No big deal, you say? Well, a time IimTt

four minutes was a requirement.

The questions were provided to each team ahead of time, so answers could be memorized. Then, follow-up inquiries were answered by members who cited specific sections of the Constitution, or by quoting literature related to government.

Late-night group study sessions, as well as time-consuming individual research and study were an essential part of the victory.

Hence, each team of three was prepared in full.

The only thing stopping the eighteen students from attending the national contest is

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the need to raise $ 12,000 to fund the trip. Mr. Feichter is hoping that local businesses, as well as individual contributions will allow the students to participate in this remarkable opportunity.

Preparations for the upcoming Washington contest have already begun, as the group has scheduled further group study sessions.

Hopefully, Maine South will be able to raise the money to make the trip to D.C., and come home with a national title. No matter what the outcome is, however, the school and community have truly seen "Hawk Pride" in action.

A Cartoon Commentary

by Carolyn Chandler I was watching cartoons the other day (actually, my dog was watching them, so I couldn't change the channel) when I realized that no other high-school student would watch cartoons—that's why I can never understand why they show the commercial for De Vry Institute of Technology during Tiny Toons.

Anyways, the rest of the commercials all advertized baby dolls that do realistic things.

such as "Baby Uh-OK," which wets its diapers and gets diaper rash, or "Baby-Oopsy," which crawls across the floor and cries when it falls.

Now, if these so-called "realistic" baby dolls can sell, a really realistic doll should rake in big bucks, right?

So let's create a doll like "Baby Bowel Movement" or "Baby Flu." We could get into the psychological aspect of motherhood and have "Baby Attitude" or "Baby Kleptoma-

niac' Lets face it...the kids playing with these dolls are the parents of tomorrow. We need to train them to bring up kids the right way!

None of the these cute dolls like "Baby Spit-Up." Instead, let's have "Baby From Hell!"

We could also bring in the boys' toys. G.I. Joe commercials feature such role models as Rip-'Em Ralph and his dog. Guts. If we join the realistic baby dolls with commando action figures, we could get some really interesting

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Maine South officials have recently announced Students of the Month for the month of February. They are: Mathematics : Leticia Cardenas, Laura Hanson, Thomas Hoff, Steve Johnson, Peter Nelson, Joe Pintz, Tony Ranft, Scott Schwemin, Colleen Thon, Dorothy Waniak, Rebecca Whamond, Kevin Wietzema Driver Education : Vanessa Miller, Brant Palmquist, Georgia Vlachogiannis, Jenny Kostolansky Social Science : John Aylward, Elizabeth Carlson, Christen Coomer, Julie Dwoinen, Joel Gregie, Annemarie Hoffman, Mike Szwed, Kelly Ingebrigtsen English : Dave Arent, Brian Brunei, Dana Dymek, Karl Flener, Jeremy Ichen, Jenny Johnson, Stephanie Poulos, Kathy Kougias, Sue Maca, Eric Manzi, Deanna Panek, JiU Schroeder, Rich Sroka, Dave Young Foreign Language : Nicole Berg, Amy Berka, Deborah Chan, Maria Chiapetta, Oksana Dudycz, Jim Lin, Eric Williams

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Science : Kimberly Biala, Davey Cook, Ross Crampton, Matt Hatchigan, Susan Kerber, Anita Bringas, Natalie Boitchouk, Lynn Lutzer, Neil Potter, Stephanie Poulos, Jennifer Smith, Debora Stuebe, John Scott Wade Physical Education : Colleen Brennan, Jordan Amos, Rebecca Marinau, Joon Han Kim, Brian Lazzaro, Caroline Hodur, Bobby Brunet, Trisha Melendy, Michael Palac Health : Yasmine Kiss, Jean Bax Home Economics : Shannon Hominick, Sara Black, Carlos Galeano, Brian Brunet Business : Todd Ofenloch, Tera Siwicki, Maureen Nugent, Mike Louizos, Jim Pellegrini, Noreen Poyner, Edward J. Kaleta III, Bill Jackson Broadcasting/Drama : Steve Rifkind, Louis Manousos, Sue Swanson Art: Matt Whalen, Jennifer Ulz, Colleen Brennan, Mamie Pesola Music : Chris Sosnowski, Krystyna Lenart Industrial Education : Jonathon Burgis, James Legowski, Corey Simons

Southwards Southvonis is the stud«nt-produc«d newspaper of Matne South High School, Park Ridge, 1 L.I.eUcrs to the editor should be delivered to room V-130 or given to a member of the editorial staff bcl"w; Souihvords reserves the right to edit iettcrs cdiv taining obscene or libeious material.

Editor-in-Chief. .News editor Associate News editor Commentary editors

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Coach Tilley inducted into IHall of Fame Mr. Jack Tilley has recendy been inducted into the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame, joining the 17 other elite coaches who presently hold Hall of Fame status. The recognition does not only perfectly signify his coaching ability and expertise in this, his last year of coaching, but also his true love for the game of soccer. With such a prestigious honor given to the Maine South coach. Coach Tilley certainly has honored the Hawks equally as much, if not more. His conInbutions began long before his recognition as a Hall of Fame coach.

After becoming involved in soccer as a college ball player in 1947, Coach Tilley began coaching boys' varsity soccer in Illinois in 1969. He would coach the boys' varsity program for 16 seasons, amassing an incredible 145 wins. More recently, in the past 7 seasons. Coach Tilley has been the head of the girls' varsity soccer program at South, gathering an impressive 126 wins, while at the

same time, guiding the freshman boys' program. Now, in his eighth and last season with girls' soccer, Tilley hopes to make it his best season ever.

But Coach Tilley's success does not only show in the win column, but also in his tremendous performances in post-season play.

Coach Tilley has guided teams to the final eight in seven times, including three straight "unofficial" state championships in girls' soccer (girls' soccer was not made an official IHSA high school sport until 1988). Coach Tilley also led his team to 2nd place in the first official girls' state championship.

Finally, Coach Tilley accomplished what many called to be an impossible feat in girls' soccer - four full seasons without a loss and a total of 82 consecutive games without a loss.

Certainly, Mr. Jack Tilley has brought the Hawks many victories and accomplishments; but more importantly, he has brought Maine South an outstanding soccer tradition.

"He has shared his soccer experience and knowledge with his players to make all of us better. We are determined to make our last year as well as Mr. Tilley's last year a great success," stated senior Lauren Ofenloch, member of the girls' varsity soccer team.

Individual highligtits soften disappointing tracic losses Although the Hawks entered the Wheeling Relays with an unblemished and undefeated record in dual meets, they finished in a disappointing 5th place against some very tough competition.

Despite the outcome, there were several highlights, including senior Brad Scott's outstanding 13'6" vault that not only won the pole vault competition, but also was a statequalifying vault. Scott's efforts earned him

"athlete of the meet" In addition, the 3200 relay team of Jeff Senior Mike Szwed also performed im- Beaumont, Mike Palac, Pete Gayford, and pressively, placing 2nd in the long jump with Doug Beaumont, contributed with a 3rd place a 20'6" jump. Other top finishers included finish. Andy Gallios also ran well, finishing Brian Kufner (3rd in shot put), Pete Ward (3rd 1st in his qualifying heat. in high hurdles and 4th in low hurdles), Jeff After taking a break from competition next Beaumont (3rd in 800), Doug Beaumont (3rd week, the Hawks will next meet Elmwood in 400), Pete Gayford (4th in 1600), and Chris Park and Maine East to open their outdoor Scott (4th in vault). season at home on April 3.

Gymnasts continue improvement despite losses Maine South varsity gymnastics has, in recent years, suffered from a lack of depth.

This year has been no exception, but the Hawks have more than met the challenge.

This year's squad (1-3) is led by seniors Albert Tseng, Joe Witcraft, and Pat Capellani.

Juniors Karl Steinke, Chris Dynneson, Joe Pintz, Eric Fritch, Jeff Pasala, Dan Schacke, and sophomore Paul Kim comprise the rest of the team.

The Hawks opened their season with a 9581 loss to Highland Park. Several Hawks placed well in the meet, including Witcraft (2nd in floor), Tseng (2nd on pommel horse), and Steinke (2nd on rings and 2nd on high bar).

Although the Hawks improved, they fell to Elgin Larkin 111-87 in their second meet.

Outstanding performances were turned in by Tseng, who won both the pommel horse and parallel bars, and Steinke, who place 2nd on rings.

The Hawks' improvement continued as ihey battled cross-town rival Maine East in a 104-92 loss. Tseng again won the pommel

horse and placed 2nd on parallel bars. Other contributors included Dynneson (2nd on vault), Fritsch (1st on high bar), and Capellani (2nd on high bar).

The Hawks finally notched their first win of the season by defeating conference power-

aouse New Trier, 91.5-77.5. First place winners included Witcraft (floor and rings), Tseng (pommel horse and parallel bars), and Dynneson (vault). Steinke also contributed witli a 2nd place finish in both rings and high bar.

Sectional loss ends season After defeating Niles West 58-50 in the first round of sectional play, the Hawks (1512) ended their post-season basketball run with a 62-53 loss to Weber.

However, the Hawks did not give up to Weber without a fight, staying within three points with less than two minutes remaining.

But after a questionable foul and a missed shot, the Hawks season had suddenly ended.

At the start of the game, the Hawks raced out to a 13-11 lead in the fu-st quarter. The second quarter proved to be deadly for the Hawks, as they were outscored handily and trailed 32-22 at halftime. The Hawks were also hurt from the foul line, where they con-

verted on only 13 of 22 free throw attempts, while Weber made good on 23 of 29 attempts.

Roy Johnson led the Hawks' offense with 17 points, while Buehl Hudson and Bill Schmitz added 10 points each. Sean Collins also contributed with 9 points.

Against Niles West, the Hawks had some problems in the first half, but managed to take a 30-27 halftime lead. After extending the lead to 46-37 in the third quarter, the Hawks dominated the rest of the game for the victory.

Hudson (16 points), Dan Lanno (12 points), and Schmitz (10 points) turned in impressive performances against the Indians.

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Runners seize day, after day, after day The girls' track team has put motion into their motto, "Carpe Diem"(Sieze the Day).

And victory has been the reward.

At their first away meet, the Hawks were up against Maine East and Niles West. The J V squad won easily with a score of 61 to 33 and 31 point totals for Niles West and Maine East respectively. Junior Varsity Athlete of the meet, freshman Angela Grippo, contributed greatly with a first place in both the 50 yard dash and the 200 meter dash.

On the Varsity level, however, the opponent proved to be a little tougher. Pointwise, Maine South and Niles West were racing neck and neck towards the end of the meet. Sophomore Katy Michal was thrown into the 1600m just minutes before the race began in order to rack up some points for South. Because of this and her performance in the 2 mile relay and the 800m, she was named Varsity Athlete of the Meet. But the two teams were still close in the scoring and it all came down to the last race, the mile relay. Composed of runners, Sue Pawlick, Margie Wasiak, Mary Michal, and Susan Crawford, the team shot to a fantastic first place finish. The team did seize the day, no to mention a victory over Niles West and Maine East.

Back home on February 26, the girls met up with Maine West and Notre Dame (school for girls). The Varsity team had no trouble winning with 81 points versus Maine West's 45 and Notre Dame's 16 point totals. Fresh-

man Andrea Armour was the Athlete of the Meet on this level for her leg of the 2 mile relay and her 2nd place finish in the mile with a time of 6:06.0 minutes.

At the same meet, the J V team tied for first with Maine West. Freshman and J V Athlete of the Meet, Jenny Utz, hurdled to a first place finish in both the 50 yard high hurdles and the 50 yard low hurdles.

The coed Wheeling Invite came next, senior Mary Michal comments, "Next to Sectionals, I think this is our stiffest competiton."

The coaches responded by sending the best of the best to Wheeling on March 1. Consequently, the girls' track team turned in some nice performances.

Maine South placed in the following events: 4 lap relay, 4th,(Brighid Brown, Sue Pawlick, Margie Wasiak, Liz Kuehn); 2 mile relay, 4th, (Sue Crawford, Andrea Armour, Katy Michal, Mary Michal); mile relay, 4th, (Sue Pawlik, Sara Corder, Susan Crawford, Mary Michal); 1600m, 5th, (Mary Michal); 800m, 6th, (Susan Crawford); and Sara Wanat tied for fifth in the high jump.

The highest place getter was Stacy Sasso who captured a third place in shot with a per- second improvement on her best time. sonal best and new indoor record of 35'6.5".

The girls and boys scores combined to The most notable achievement was made push Maine South into fifth place overall,

by Athlete of the Meet Mary Michal who not which-the competition taken into accountonly anchored both the 2 mile and mile relay wasn't too bad. As expected, the team is right teams, but placed fifth in the mile with an 18 on track.

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Mon.3125 Tue. 3/26 Wed. 3/27 Oak Park V—10:00 (DH)

Softball looks to veterans to lead When players and coaching staff look ahead to the 1991 softball season familiar faces are seen once again.

The Varsity squad, coached by Don Kerr, has eight players returning this season. Six starters reluming from last season include: junior, Anne Zoellner, at third base; senior, Jennie Smith, catching for her fourth year on Varsity; senior, Kim Wiederer, pitching; senior, Emmy Pasier, at first base; senior, Laura Potter, at second base; senior, Margaret Zimmermann, in centerfield; and seniors, Julie Morell and Liz Eicker, playing the outfield. These players, along with seven new members advancing from the Junior Varsity level coached by Mike Deines, look forward to the thirty games scheduled ahead of them.

With hard work, the team is determined to equal or improve last year's standings of conference and Regional champions.