OC HIGH: Student News & Views : Yeah, We Moved

OK, we weren’t here Thursday where you’re used to finding us. But you knew in your heart we’d be back, didn’t you? Hey, Friday’s a great day, too.

Around and About

Some items from campus newspapers:

* To help keep the campus clean, Villa Park High School is considering an “Adopt-a-Campus” plan, similar to the Adopt-a-Freeway program. Under the plan, student groups would adopt mapped sections of the campus and keep those zones maintained.

* Voice modulation is a thing of the past at Brea Olinda High School, according to the Wildcat, the student newspaper. Students were apparently becoming a bit overzealous in the use of the voice annotation part of computers in the library, venting frustrations after a hard day by using the high-tech computers as a karaoke device. That feature on the computers has been eliminated.

* April Fools’ Day has come and gone, but a few pranks printed in Smoke Signals, the student newspaper at Anaheim Hills’ Canyon High School, caught our eye--and raised an eyebrow. The paper asked “What’s the funniest joke you ever played on anyone?”

Said one student: “I hid my sister’s car and told her that it was in the impound, completely totaled.” (And she hasn’t loaned it to you since, right?)

Said another: “I made an omelet with dog food inside and gave it to my sister, brother and mother.” (Yuck. We hope he ‘fessed up before they took a bite.)

“I turned my father in to the IRS for tax evasion.” (You call that a joke?)

And the last: “I set up a pregnancy test in my sister’s bathroom that I had rigged to read positive.” (We’re sure she’s still laughing.)

Wearing Thin

Should students be required to wear uniforms to school? The questions has received much media attention recently, and the Shamrock paper at Kennedy High School in La Palma asked its readers for their opinions.

Students interviewed were against the idea. “I don’t think it would work out. Too many people want to dress their own way,” said one student.

“I really don’t see the point, because people are going to get mad because they can’t wear their own clothes,” said another.

Finally, “It’s the student’s choice if they want to wear them, but I don’t want to wear them.”