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I went to a country club with my parents and
• decided to break the formal dress code by
wearing jeans and a band shirt. I hate being told
what to do.
--freshman Judd Gemar

Sometimes I wake up at 7:50 and go to school
• in the same clothes I've been in all week. I do
this because of laziness.
--senior Grant Lovelace

Acting in general, being someone _different than
• me, is how I go crazy. One time, we acted out a
play about how I was mad about a guy who was not
acting nice to me. I was supposed to slap him , to be
mean and mad at him. At the end , I forgave him.
--sophomore Jodie Heitmann

_ _._..-•-.. Suspended in the air
..Jt!J 1111 on the Apollo Launch in
the Lake of the Ozarks
are senior Jenni Gentry
and Westside student
April Brizendine. Taking
gravity-defying risks
was one way students
expressed their desire
to GIVE formality &
TAKE lightheartedness.

:razily on the floor, thus lightening the to a conventional gathering.

nood of the event. In fact, many were apt to GIVE

"At first, the adults laughed," formality & TAKE lightheartedness.

~einke said. "They got into it after a Sometimes, when the mood of an event

ittle bit, and everyone started doing it. became too sedate, students had to take

['hey all had fun; it was pretty cool." matters into their own hands. In order

Since teens generally wanted to be to loosen up the atmosphere, they had to

~xhuberant and carefree, Reinke was not take the initiative to do something dif-

he only student to add a bit of silliness ferent. r Give Formality & Take Lightheartedness 1