‘WHAT’S GOIN’ ON’: You don’t have to...

‘WHAT’S GOIN’ ON’: You don’t have to be a baby boomer to have strong feelings about the ‘60s. At St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, there’s a new high school history course called “Surviving the ‘60s.” Students are taught about the civil rights and anti-war movements and counterculture lifestyles. . . . Says teacher Walt Linaweaver: “There were concerns we would start some kind of a [cultural] revolution again.” But the course is objective, he stresses, and the students “actually enjoy studying history now.”

COP FOR A DAY: Want to know what it’s like to walk in a police officer’s shoes? When the Garden Grove police host an open house Thursday night at the Community Meeting Center, they’ll hand you a laser gun and put you into a video with a simulated street scene used in police training, called FATS--firearms training system. . . . Says spokeswoman Cindy Nagamatsu: “Bottom line, you learn that a police officer often has a split-second to make a life-and-death decision.”

TV ART: Mark Bennett of Los Angeles is known for his dozens of blueprints based on TV homes--the “Beverly Hillbillies” mansion, the “Addams Family” house, the Cleaver home in “Leave It to Beaver.” So art students at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana wondered where they were when he spoke to them Monday. . . . Instead, he brought some of his other, more humorous works. But it was the blueprints that fascinated students, so he talked about them: “I lived inside the tube. Reality is what you see in television, not what’s going on in the real world.”

HE REALLY MEANT IT: After his team won the Super Bowl Sunday, Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith got a hefty bonus for being the latest to say “I’m going to Disneyland.” But do the jocks in that “What’s next?” spot really go to Disneyland? . . . Less than 24 hours later, Smith, his mother and his goddaughter were leading the parade at the Anaheim amusement park, then tumbling at the new Toy Story fun house. “He was a big hit,” says a spokesman. “He loved it.”