High Life A WEEKLY FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

“The future I would like to see” is the theme of the Los Angeles Times/Dodgers’ essay contest, which is open to high school seniors in Southern California.

Nine winners will be selected and on June 3, winning essays will be published in a special Times section saluting student achievers. Entries--500 words or less--will be judged on content, originality, organization and quality of writing.

Each winner will receive an Emerson computer and monitor, a Dodger jacket, Centennial yearbook, 100th anniversary videotape and pin, and dinner for two at the Stadium Club at the Dodgers-Montreal game on May 16. The first 1,500 entries that include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with their essays will automatically receive two free tickets to the baseball game May 16.

Entry forms, which can be found in The Times, must be attached to each essay and all entries must be postmarked no later than April 15.

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

--W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)