Teachers oppose military testing

By Melissa Casagrande
Some members of the faculty are
opposed to the military coming on
campus to administer the ASV AB
test.
The Armed Services Vocational
Aptitude Battery was given to jun-
iors on Tues., Mar. 4 during the first
four periods of the morning.
Coordinating the test, which has
no charge, was counselor Mike
Abdoll ahzadeh .
He said that Amador is similar to
many high schools in California that
use the military test to meet the state
Department of Education's require-
ment to offer career counseling to
students.
" School time should not be used
to take the ASV AB," said teacher
Mike N asiatka. "It should be gi ven
outside of school like the SAT or
other voluntary tests.
"Mr. Mike (Abdollahzadeh) and
Mr. Garcia (principal) use the ratio-
nale that the military is doing us a
favor by giving the ASV AB. 1 dis-
agree.
"Their motives are purely self-
ish, and our kids are the victims. If
a kid wants to join the military, they
should go to the recruiter's office.
We should quit using Amador as a
recruitment station," concluded
Nasiatka.
Responding to the charge that the
ASVAB test is an on-campus recruit-
ing device for the military, Army
Sgt. David Stratton ofLodi said, "We
have to be aggressive in recruiting.
It's our job.
"The ASV AB is used to help re-
cruit students, yet it isn't our main
device. The test benefits the coun-
selors . The students are also given
the positive aspects of the ASV AB
which show what they are good at. If
students are not interested in the mili-
tary, we don't pressure them," con-
cluded Stratton.
"The school wants the stats; the
mi litary wants the recruitment; and
the students are a good vehicle for
anyone," said teacher Stan Redkey .
"1 feel the ASV AB is a good in-
strument to assess students' aptitude
in the area of academics and thei r
reI ations to vocational careers," said
Abdollazadeh.
"1 have some reservation about
allowing the military access to all
our students," said teacher Lew
Robinson . "However, in this case,
the Counseling Department sees
much benefit to the free ASVAB test.
An administrative decision was
make, and I think all the fuss over
this issue is 'much ado over noth-
ing.'
"The military of the 1990's is
certainly not going after every high
school student."
"Great test," said teacher Loren
Lukens. "If you don't like it, don't
take it."
"It is a free service offered by the
military," said teacher Bob Tieslau.
"I think we should take advantage of
it.
"Actually at the rate the mil itary
is being cut, it probably will not be
offered in a year or two."
"ASVAB is an outstanding test
for 90 percent of the students," said
Garcia. "The test is a credible way
to determine the ability and interest
of students. I think there is some
risk that the Armed Services use
ASVAB as a recruiting tool, but they
also have access to SAT scores."
Coming
Events
Sat., Mar. 20
Track to Calaveras, 9 a.m.
Baseball here with EI Dorado,
p.m.
Mon., Mar. 22
Love 's Labor's Lost, Scholarship
Preview,6 p.m., $3.
Tue., Mar. 23
Tennis here with Bret Harte, 3:30
p.m.
Wed., Mar. 24
Baseball and softball here with Bret
Harte, 3:30 p.m.
Track at Del Oro, 3:30 p.m.
Thurs., Mar 25
. Love ' s IJabor's Lost, 7:30 p.m., $4.
I
Fri.,
End quarter, Minimum Day.
Tennis with Argonaut , 3:30
p.m. I
BasebaU and softball here with
Calaveras, !3 :30 p.m.
I
Love 's Labor's LOSI , 7:30 p.m. , $5.
Wed., Mar. 31
Baseball and Softball at Linden,
3:30 p.m.
Thurs " April 1
Tennis here with Calaveras, 3:30
p.m.
Track a.t" Sonora, 3:3Q p.m:
- , ,.I.
Fri., April 2
Baseball and Softball here with
Summerville, 3:30 p.m.
Sat., April 3
Baseball Alumni Game here , I p.m.
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Cirri,cione accepted for summer program
By Eric Holland
Carina Cirricione was accepted to students accepted.
a summer college program in com- "It's really excellent to be ac- .',
munications at Washington and Lee, cepted because it's a very competi-
in Lexington, Virginia, July 4-28. tive program," said the junior, who
She will be working on campus in is planning to go into sports broad-
radio and TV production as one of 18 casting in college.
Johnson and Evans named Buffalo Best
By Justin Allen
Student Council recently gave
Buffalo Best citizenship recognition
to seniors Jason Johnson and Monica
Evans.
Johnson was rewarded for his work
as sports editor of the Broadcast and
as announcer for the boys' basket-
ball games.
Johnson said, "I really enjoyed
announcing for the team. It helped
pump up the guys and added a little
extra to the fan participation."
Evans was recognized for her
commitment to drama and softball.
"I would just like to thank all of the
people along the way who helped me
get to where I am today," said Evans,
who has won numerous acting awards
and plays center field for the softball
team.
Band to play at Sacramento State Festival
By Seth Humbert
The band is going to compete in
the Golden Empire Music Festival
on Sat., April 3 at Sacramento State
University .
Last year the band did not attend
the festi val.
"The band is almost twice as large
greatly improved," said King, who is
in his first year back with the band.
Other performances coming up
this year include the Spring Concert,
on Sat., April 6; the lone Homecom-
ing Parade, on Sun., May 2; the Me-
morial Day ceremony, on Mon., May
31; and the Italian Picnic Parade, on
as last year, and the students are Sun., June 6.
Acting awards set for next Friday
By Christy Hicks mances are Thursday and Friday at
After the closing performance of 7:30 p.m.
Advanced Drama's Love's Labor's The costume design is by parent
Lost next Friday, the best actor/ .; Jane Hayden, while senior Bobby
actress awards will be presented.
Invited to present the awards are
last year ' s winners, Zoey Abbott and
Joe Svec. Judging the event will be
graduates of drama.
The scholarship preview is Mon-
day at 6 p.m. The two regular perfor-
Pingree of Advanced Art and Marcie
Canale of Beginning Art completed
the set.
"The costumes and set are going
to be exceptional this year," said
Drama Club president Courtney
Oneto.
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Closed Campus Closing
Amador has become a
"closed campus" within a
closed campus.
The original closure of
. campus by the administra-
tion in the fall of '89 was
because students allegedly
did not have enough time to
safely drive to and from Jack-
son for lunch.
At the time there was sub-
stantial student resistance to
the closing of the campus.
Now, however, students are
no longer as concerned with
having open campus, but
some are worried with the
shrinking size of the cam-
pus. The campus is large but
what is open for students is
getting small because the ad-
ministration is not able to
provide enough supervision
throughout the campus.
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Presently three lawns, the ;
cafeteria and the gym are
open to s tuden ts during
lunch. Closed to students
are the front steps, parking
lots, the far front lawn, the
athletic fields as well as A
and B-buildings.
The problem areas, with
smoking, such as the front
steps, could be supervised
with parent volunteers to
help watch students.
The athletic fields
shouldn't be open for obvi-
ous reasons yet the far front
lawn could be used for sport
activities with supervision.
The parking lots should be
kept restricted to keep van-
dalism from occurring.
Be position written by
Editor Jessica Wright
Fri., Mar. 19, 1993, Page 3
The
Question:
What's your song dedication?
(Compiled by Amy 10 Schofield and Dani Southard)
, J
CRYSTAL HARRIS (jr.): [ where over the Rainbow to Jessica CARRIE SULLIVAN (sopt:.):
Scream. You Scream, We All Scream Wright. Nothing Else Matters to Brad Dodd.
for Ice Cream to Laura Smith and
Yava Peabody. SHAWN DORRAUGH (sr.): I
Want To Hold Your Hand to Brandi. KELLEY BUSSER (fr.): Light
TACY ONETO Ur.): Saving For- My Fire to Larry Hansen.
ever for You to my sweetheart, Dan. ANDREA ALLEN (fr.): That's
What Friends Are For to my best
BARBARA HENNINGSEN friend, Ramona Salerno.
DAVID ESTRADA (soph.):
Tears in Heaven to Laurie Bennion.
(sr.): He [s Able to all the people
who know. JON SCOTT (fr.): [t's So Hard VICTORIA QUEIROLO Ur.):
to Say Good-by to Yesterday to Never Canna Get It to ClaYl:On
YA VA PEABODY (jr.): Partner Kellie Treadwell. Buchanan.
to Melissa Bunfill. She's a great
friend. FABIO COSTA (jr.): The Rain MOLLY GRAHAM-WIDBY
Song to Tatiana. (jr.): f'll Always Love You to Jason
DOUG EDWARDS Ur.): An- Zysman.
other One Bites The Dust to Owen
O'Neill. CHRISTIE BANE (sr.): Take LYSSA VILLARREAL (jr.):
JOSH HILL (fr.): Cause I'm a
Blonde to Marcie Canale.
DUSTIN GIMBEL (fr.): Some-
This Job and Shove [t to Mr. Turner . Girls Night Out to Shelly and Vic.
ALAN WADGE (sr.): Special AMY DENNING (soph.): Tears ;
Secret Song [nside to Molly and in Heaven to a special person be-
Yana. cause friendship means a lot to me.
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By Jelin Morin
Seniors who plan to attend acom-
munity college in the fall and have
yet to apply need to see counselor
Mike about apply-
ing to the college of their choice:
Abdollahzadeh urges undecided
seniors to place their applications
Page 4, Fri., Mar. 19, 1993
prior to the specified deadline.
Also, seniors need to plan to take
col lege placement testes) for the col-
lege of their choice. Although every
college has a different placementtest,
it is not uncommon for colleges to
accept the results from other college
tests.
With the increase of tuition at all
college levels, especially in the U.C.
and C.S.U. systems, the number of
students in community colleges is
expected to rise, according to the
counselor.
y (Q)1Ul
I have one quick question
pertaining to this week's Fnork
File.
Is Pat Tiquet referring to him-
self in that paragraph which
discusses an unnamed person
having no sense of humor, no
friends , and no life? Ironically, I
believe he received a letter like
that containing much of the same
material .
Enough of Pat. He is already
mentioned too much in his own
column.
Amador's academic decathlon
team traveled down to UOP last
weekend to compete in the state
division . The team placed an
honorable 34 out of 46. Sr. Marcus
Settlage hardly left his room.
Soph. Amy Denning, who lost
her keys last Friday, ended up
finding them. However, after '
staying out until 4 a.m. on Satur-
day night ... er , Sunday morning,
she will not be needing her car
keys until Mr. Turner decides to
dres s s!y'lishly - or, in other
words, never .
bUJlch of Amador kids
went to Sacramento on Saturday
night to catch the Festival of
Animation. Upon their arrival they
were informed that the show was
sold out so they instead moshed in
the elevator and made a road trip
for the Amazon Dance Club.
When they got to the Amazon,
they were informed that they could
not be let in because they were too
late. Sr. Josh Willert said, "I don't
dance. All I want to do is use the
tinkle room." But instead of using
a discarded, empty bottle like some
infamous rooters' bus riders, he
just waited until he got to
Denny's. What
correct guy. '
.",
Mr. Nasiatka's room has been
vandalized for the last few days.
Some nice students brought Naz
some keen trading cards a couple
of weeks ago. In fact, he had quite
a plethora: Elvis cards, 90210
cards, 'and even a few McJordan
McBasketball McTrading McCards
from, you guessed it, McDonalds.
Well, now all of the cards (except
for Melisssa Casagrande ... uh, I
mean Kelly Taylor) have been
stolen and a ransom note has been
left in their place. I think now is
the time for Ms. Pinotti to prove
herself by regaining the cards
before any violent outbreaks occur.
There was a fire in a breezeway
trash can last week. I am sti II
unsure of who started it. One
source said it was a couple of girls
trying to extinguish a lit cigarette.
But I have also heard that it was
one of those wannabe-Seattle-
grunge-rocker-freshmen dudes. I
would like to suggest as a punish-
ment, one full week, seven periods
a day of sitting through Capt. Bob
"You're a plebe - do a push-up"
Tieslau's mathematics courses.
Those hoodlums would certainly
learn a lesson from hearing Bob
tell of cosines, tennis strokes and
the world's most boring, go-
nowhere Navy stories.
This week's NERD OF THE
HERD is jr. Jenny Edmonds .
While all of us are still suffering
through school, waiting for some-
thing more exciting to happen than
having Bill Parker once again
summoned to the office, Jenny is
sitting on a beach in Mexico with a
Corona in one hand and a guy
named Juan in the other. I'm
jealous of everything in that last
sentence except luan. You can
keep him, Jenny.
Fri., Mar. 19, 1993, Page 5
Welcome to another week of
brain-denaturing, intellectually
enlightening, alcoholism curing,
alternate reality crushing Fnork- -
the File that keeps you informed
about the true nature of the Uni-
verse, the alignment of the stars,
politics, the economy, and your
thoughts, in case you don't know
what to think about these issues.
If you've been at home, with
nothing to do, and no life, with
mid-year third-quarter blues, no
sense of humor, no homework, and
no telephone, fe-reading the YDS
because you like classical medi a-
typical distortion , then you ' re
probably dead and it' s too late for
you. So you might as well stop
reading because what I'm about to
say wo n' t do you any good.
But, if you meet any of the
above requirements , then you
probably have, at some point,
watched television. If you've
watched television, then you have
probably, inescapably see n the
news . And, if you've watched the
news, then you have probably
heard about how bad our economy
is -- the base closures, the federal
deficit. So, if we want to see
something different on television,
we're going to have to do some-
thing about this problem.
"How does this affect me?" You
may ask - if you're one of those
Page 6, Fri. Mar. 19, 1993
people that are ahead of them-
selves.
"So?" you'll say if your life is
just too complicated to care about
such matters.
"Huh?" you'll say if you hang
around down at the corner in the
morning smoke screen.
To help out with the debt, I
would like to be the first to pro-
pose that we, the students at the
high school of Amador, hold a
bake sale. All the profits could go
to our Commander-in-Chief to help
him rid us of this debt problem.
I know what you're thinking:
"Bake sale? We won't make
enough money to even dent the
debt."
But wait! Before you intoler-
antly reject this brilliantly
brainstormed masterpiece, consider
this. If we sell one mini-loaf of
banana-nut bread for a $1, at a rate
of one per minute, we, Amador
High School , could eradicate the
national debt , making it one of
those boring economic disasters
that our children will have to study
in a history class. That 's $60 an
hour, or $86,400 a day for
48,611,111 years. We can do that,
if Congress agrees not to buy any
more $600 screwdrivers for the
military.
But that gives me another
cap it al idea.
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As a way to pay for all the
ingredients for those banana-nut
breads and pumpernickel bagels,
we should have our ag shop build
tools for our government. We' ll
even give them a price break -
only $500 per item.
Wow! This is a deal that Will-
iam Jefferson can't refuse! We' ll
have that $4.2 trillion paid off in
no time .
As all of you know though, we
need a gimmick to help our bake
sale along.
Maybe we could string one-inch
cables over the quad and have
Jason Johnson and Romel Chand
do a flying trapeze act. Or, maybe
we could invite Ms. Beach and
Yogi to do cat tricks, whatever
they may be.
People would flock in from
every nook and cranny of the
woodworks to see this. We'd be
bigger than the county fair.
Think of it. Those of you that
follow the dogma of the politically
correct will hail me for this. We
will be doing something to make
ourselves feel good about our-
selves - something that's totally
insignificant, senseless, and stupid.
It's like being a democrat. It's total
mumpsimus . I'm sure this would
go down in the hall of records right
next to Watergate, Woodstock, and
the Iran-Contra "scandal."
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By Tylicerr mll1tlhl
Nine best buttons:
9. Smith Power.
8. Kiss me, I'm Irish.
7. Where am I?
6. What a long, strange trip it's
been, and I'm not even a deadhead!
5. I'm a retired drama president.
4. What's goin' on, kids?
3. These rolls aren't for sale .
2. That's enough looking at
these things, Bub.
1. Belly Button!
Seven best reasons to get
dressed up:
7. A Philosophy Club meeting.
6. A drama play.
5. Labor.



C\V'o
4. April Fools' Day.
3. Nikki's A Day.
2. Mud Bowl.
I. A Tupperware party.
Top five things to do to prove
that you're a freshman:
5. Dress up like the opposite sex
and attend a sorry dance.
4. Act like Eric Smith.
3. Be a dork. (This is the one
trat gives most freshmen away.)
2. Ride the bus.
I. Come to school wearing the
sign, "Don't spit. I can' t swim."
Top five dumbest ways to hide:
5. In a cardboard, cherry-apple
4. In a dark corner.
3. Under your covers.
2. Put freshman party signs
outside your house and you know
nobody will show up.
1. I don't know but ask Marcie
Canale.
Top five fads that will have
better nexflime:
5. Girls with hairy armpits.
4. White legs .
3. Global warming.
2. Tie-dye hair.
1. Matt Newton's grandma
sweaters.
Fri., Mar. 19, 1993, Page 7
III
Track has three do-uble winners
By Casey Holcomb In JV boys' competition sopho- The quartet placed second.
Sophomores Erin Leary and Ma- more Allen Wilson won the 70m high "We were very impressed with the
rin a Jacobs along with senior James hurdles, and freshman Josh Hawkins effort put out by the team at our first
Pabst were double winners last week won the 400m. meet," said coach Scott Hunkins.
on Wednesday at Del Campo in "Del Campo is a fast school. I am Yesterday the team was sched-
track's first meet of the year. looking forward to meeting them uled to host Hilmar and Modesto
Leary won the 200m (:29.0) and agai n when our team is in better Christian.
the 400m (:68.0) while Jacobs won shape," said Hawkins, who is also on Tomorrow track competes at the
the 100m low hurdles (:18.8) and the the JV boys' relay team with Kyle Calaveras Invitational.
100m sprint (:14.5). Pabst won the Metcalfe, Rick Young and Jon Next week Amador is at Del Oro
shot put (43 -4) and the 200m (:25.0). Slivick. on Wednesday.
In first game softball beats E1 Dorado
By Nathan Kawaguchi derosa 8-1. in the fifth inning clubbed a grand
In pre-league action the varsity The lone run against Ponderosa slam to help a five-run attack.
softball (1-2) won its season opener was scored on a home r un from Against Ponderosa the JV's lost
8-7 over El Dorado. Aimee Bergeron. 21-8 but Andrea Allen had five sto-
A late-inning RBI from Monica In JV action, the Buffaloes lost len bases.
Evans put the Herd on top. 12-7 to Oak Ridge, despite good This week Amador played at Delta
The varsity dropped its next' two . pitching by Annette Mott (3 IP, I R, on Tuesday and here against Ripon
games, to Oak Ridge 15-4 and Pon- 4 K's) and Kirsten Bechthold, who yesterday. '
Baseball drops two games last week
By Joe Le Bel Pitching against Oak Ridge were
In pre-season action last week, . Adam Forte, Josh Willert and Mike
baseball (0-3) lost 8-6 at Oak Ridge McKinney. Against Ponderosa, Matt
on Tuesday and 8-4 aga inst Ponde- Newton (3-2/3 IP, 6 H), Lance
rosa here on Friday.
The leading hitters against Oak
Ridge were Tyler Smith (1-2), Tighe
Hammam (1-2), Adam Forte (2-4)
and Mike McKinney (1-2).
Against Ponderosa, Jay Promisco
(2-3), Aaron Hayden (2-3, 2 RBI)
and Scott Bittner (2-3, 2 RBI) led the
Herd.
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Luke ns (3 IP, 6 H), and Jason Merril
(0.1 1, OH) were on the hill for the
Herd .
In JV action, The Buffs also feJ\
twice last week, 5-4 to Oak Ridge
and 17 -5 to Ponderosa.
Leading Amador against Oak
Ridge were Drew Dorris (1-2, I RBI)
and Phil Staples (1-3).
On the mound against the Trojans
were R. J. Brooks (3 IP), Drew Dorris
(2 IP) and Joe Le Bel (2 IP).
Against Ponderosa,
Peckinpaugh (2-4) and Phil
(1-3,3 RBI) led the Herd.
Ezra
Staple
Pitching for the Buffs against the
Bruins were Jim Gibbs (3 IP), R. J.
Brooks (3 IP) and John Graves (l
IP).
This week Amador traveled to
Del ta on Tuesday and ho ste d
Patterson yesterday.