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Epidelllic


                                                                                         Spreads


                                                                                         Unexpectedly









                                                                                                  -Wendi  Hansen-

                                                                                               There  was  no  doubt  that  as  the  year
                                                                                        wound down  that  "senioritis"  had  struck  the
                                                                                        halls  and  classrooms.
                                                                                               The definition of senioritis was  so
                                                                                        abstract  that  not  many  people  could  clearly  say
                                                                                        what  it  truly  meant.  Senior Shelby Wother-
                                                                                        spoon said,  "It was  an  aching  feeling  down
                                                                                        deep  in  the  joints  of all  seniors  caused  by  the
                                                                                        feeling  that  school  would  never  end!"
                                                                                               Senior  Kate  Koch  had  another  defini -
                                                                                        tion:  "Senioritis  is  the  technical  term  for  stress;
                                                                                        it  affects  seniors  approximately five  months
                                                                                        before  graduation , and  causes  them  to  act  crazy,
                                                                                        be  lazy ,  and  be  easily  angered
                                                                                               "I think  it  struck  when  I didn't want to
                                                                                        do  my  homework anymore because I  found
                                                                                        better  thing s to  do,"  said  Senior Steve  Simpson.
                                                                                        The  weather proved  this  point  over and  over
                                                                                        again.
                                                                                               "As  soon  as  the  temperature  got  above
                                                                                        40 and  the  shorts  were  out,  r  got senioritis ,"  said
                                                                                        Wotherspoon.  As  spring  got  closer  and  closer,
                                                                                        it  got  harder  and  harder  to  stay  in  school.
                                                                                               A  senior  year  tended  to  be  extremely
                                                                                        stressful  right  down  to  the  end.  Senior  MicheUe
                                                                                        Browning said,  "It was  stressful  because we
                                                                                        had  other things  we'd  rather be  doing than
                                                                                        studying  .. .like  partying!"
                                                                                               Senior  Jeff LaGrone summed  it  up  by
                                                                                        saying,  "Senioritis  is  the  father  of procrastina-
                                                                                        tion  because  you  do  not  want  to  do  anything  but
                                                                                        have  fun."




      Stephanie  Williams   Alison Winter    Nicole Wyant        Michaek Zoucha
      Carrie  Willis      Bret  Wittke       Christopher Y ordt   Sherri  Zucker
      Jon  Wil son        Tonya  Woodmancy   Jason  Young        Pete  Andreski
      Jerry  Wilwerding   John  Wonman       Angela Zikas        Eva  Borras
      Juli e  Wil werding   Shelby  Wotherspoon   Matthew Zimmerman   Reed  Hastings
      Christopher Winkler   Timothy  Wright   Amy  Zorad         Lorna  Spam









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