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edrooms  Offer  Privacy  For


                                     Homework,  Hang ing  Out

                                                       by Andra Snyder

                                Bedrooms  were  much                        said.
                         more than a place to sleep.  They  "/ spend a lot     "When I'm home alone, I'm
                         were a place to be alone, think, or   of time in my   always in  my  room. If I'm ever
                         just hang out with friends.    room, /like         around my  parents, we just end
                                "I spend  a lot of time in                  up fighting," junior  Jenny Rinker
                         my room, whether  I'm watching  having a place     said.
                         TV, li stening  to  music  or doing   to  be alone."   No tall the time students spent
                         my homework," junior  Mandy                        in  th eir  rooms  was  a  time  for
                         Neff  said.                  --sophomore Nicole    bein g  alone.  It was  fun  talking
                                Other th an just having a   Venuto          and hangin g out  with  fri ends  in
                         place  to be alone, bedrooms served                bedrooms,  too.
                         another purpose:  to get away from family.     According to most, bedrooms were an
                                "My parents are home all the time, so   important part  of a teenager's life. They needed
                         I spend a lot of time in  my room.  I like havin g   to  have a  pl ace of their own and  a  time to be
                         a place to be alone," sophomore  Nicole Venuto   away from others.  1

























                                    Sophomore  Ashley
                                   Mackintosh takes some
                                          time to  do  her
                                        homework on  her
                                   computer in  her room . It
                                   was nice having a place
                                      to do her homework
                                      with  no distractions.
                                      photo by  Stephanie
                                                Rowe
                                      Senior  Stephanie
                                      Rowe  decorated her
                                       room  to  reflect her
                                    personality.  She  liked
                                     all  the pictures on  her
                                      walls because they
                                      make her room  a lot
                                     less boring. photo  by
                                        Stephanie Rowe
                                                                                                       W.£a        do you like

                                                                                                        or dislike about
                                                         J IM MORRISON                                  your bedroom?
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