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                                          •     Students' Return Brings
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                                          •  New Excitentent to Year
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                                                               Lara Johannsen!Jennifer David
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                                                    The first day of school, Aug. 16, signified for many the beginning of the end.
   Back  to  school  means  back to  the books.  Senior Ryan
   Coleman stashes hi s new books in hi s locker until later when   For seniors, that sunny August Monday morning meant they would no longer have
   he  can  take them home to cover them.  (Alex Herr)   another first day of school. "It was a day I didn't want to miss because I knew I would always
                                             remember my last first day of school," said Senior  Patti Domanski.  Aug. 16  was also the
                                             beginning  of their last year in  high school, where they would have senior superiority, and this
                                             was the last time they would have to face coming back to  school after an eventful summer.
                                                    Freshmen, on  the other hand, had a totally different approach to that day.  That
                                             Monday afternoon marked the beginning  of their high school career. High school had finally
                                             arrived; they  were no  longer little kids.  However, there was  a  slight   pro b I  em.
                                             When they got to high school, they were little kids.  High school was   no longer a
                                             dream but a reality.  "It's bigger and better than middle school,"   said  one
                                             freshman.  On that point sophomores, jun-   iors and           s e n i or s
                                             tended to agree.
                                                    "Being a  sophomore was  cool  be-                      cause you
                                             could drive to  school and  around,  but  you                 couldn't park
                                             in the lot," said Sophomore  Erin Huffman. "Park-            ing in  the lot"
                                             was the sophomore cause for eternity. A new group of        sophomores
                                             picked up  the  torch.  Every year the  sophomore                com-
                                             plaint was the same, "Why can't we park in the                      lot?
                                             We go to school here too," or something                                  •
                                          •  along those lines.  Only  this  year,  the
                                             complaint was even bigger since sopho-
                                             mores could no  longer park in  the lot
                                             between Amoco and Quik  Pik.
                                                  Juniors who carried the "park-
                                             ing in the lot" torch last year were now
                                             against having sophomores park in
                                             the  lot.  "There wasn't even enough
                                             parking for juniors and seniors.  Why
                                             should sophomores be able to park in
                                             the  lot?" said Junior Olivia Brown.
                                             This new class of juniors began to  pre-
                                             pare themselves for college and surviv-
                                             ing in  the world.  ACT, PSAT, and SAT
                                             tests became a part of a junior' s curricu-
                                             lum. "It seems like there are too many things
                                             and not enough time to  do them," said Junior
                                             Feelhaver.
                                                    Although Aug  16  was a  new beginning ,                students
                                          •  found themselves once again in  the role of their prede-   cessors.  Fresh-
                                             men were new and  inexperienced, sophomores were the complainers about parking, and
                                             juniors were upperclassmen at last looking forward to seniorhood. Seniors acted superior, and
                                             looked forward toward college where they would be the freshmen all over  again!e















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