_TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, BG

Wednesday,‘ October 16, 1968 ff

NEW TRAFFIC ISLAND at Lakelse and 4 Eby outside Muntcipal
Hall will help eliminate a road hazard for motorists entering

and leaving town.

George
English

I have beenpraising and making
excuses for teenagers, for about
five weeks. I hoped to get some
sort of a rise out of people, but
people don’t seem to care parti-
cularly about it,

So, with the same alm in mind,
I will now saya few words against
teenagers. If this doesn't work,
1 shall, perhaps, resign from
humanity, and write you a weekly
column on the dreary domesti-
citles of our mundane Life,

T speak, here from the point
of view of a human being —not
as a teenager, or as an adult,
but as a human belng — pre-
sumably without age.

Among the cherubie faces the
teachers see every day of the
week, there may exist one, or
maybe two, with a perfectly flaw-
less character .. . perfectly hom
ourable intentions, There may be
one or maybe two who are actually
there for a purpose. If one is
partial to those cherubie faces,
one may not see the Little sprouts,
on either side ¢ of ‘a forehead,
These’ -are beginnings, of
horns! t=.

Teenagers are the most‘eel-
fish beings of theface of the earth,
They arethe most headstrong, the
most stubborn and belligerent,
and two-faced creatures alive.

They demand rights over and
above those granted to an adult,
then turn around and scream,
“Minorl’? in the face of justice,
They ask for the responsibilities
, of an adult, then turn around and

; prove that they are the least
_ capable of peopletoassumethese

i ‘ responsibilities. . They ery for

i a freer school system, then turn
‘ Around and abuse the one they've
‘ Bol

The society set up in our high
‘ schools, is probably far worse
‘than any set up by the adult
: world. The cliques .., the class
systems .. . the demand for com
“formity, all of which they are
fighting with every bit of power
they have got are the strongest
_Boints of their own society,
- To elaborate further: The -stu-
‘dents in this town have set up
‘for themselves, an impenetrable
class system. There are, as in
all socteties, three classes,
These are 1) Upper class —the

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rich, ‘*A’"-level students, chil-
dren of businessmen, doctors
and lawyers. 2) Middle class —
the proletariat, “‘C-B’*-level stu-
dents, children of laborers, mill-
workers, ete. 3) Low class —
the poor, “E-C’’-level students,
children of broken homes,
aleohol, and welfare. cages,
Marks in school are not themain
cause of class placement, but
rather family background. Occa-
sionally, persons from lower
classes may mingle with those
from the upper crust, or vice-
versa, but this is rarely the
case,

The cliques, or crowds, are a
more specialized form of class
distinction. There are probably
countless crowds and cross-
crowds in the school alone, (A
cross - crowd is one particular
student, or even a group of
students, who. associate with
members of a particular group
which does not mix with the one
with which these students usually
mix with. In simpler English,
this' is' saying, that. some’ ids
hang around with other kids who
don't particularly get along), The
structure of these crowds, Is
quite simple. There ia a leader,
Usually a-boy, and occasionally
two of them, who make both the
suggestions, and the decisions,
There are usually five or -six
other boys, and their girlfriends
involved, Thesegroupsgoplaces

just generally be together.

Each crowd sets up its own
strict litile roster of rules, and
expects that it’s members live up
to these.rules,. There are often

hundreds of them, usually divided

into groups according to impor-
tance, One of the highest values
is to respect the privacy of the,
most prominent figures in the
group. Those persons of lower
position are rarely granted this
privilege,

Conformity is probably the
highest ‘of rules in any of these
cliques, To be a member of
one of these groups, one.must do
preciaely as the rest of them do,
There {3 to room for Indivi-
Guslty. taere is a fantastic
amount o! mpo neeplaced upon
the ability to ‘ eon
else,

Conformity —the dirty word
among mass gatherings of
students In the centres of the
world —{s a god among the few,
or the small groups,

There are very few kids who
wilt actually sacrifice anything
for anybody,
times when a kid will go-out of
his way to do something for
Someone, but {f he fs crossed in

way to inconvenience them, If

da way to retard lta on
coming,

Teenagers are also the laziest
People on earth as well. They

formation. -on' anything;

yeas) ny.

don from, unless itis detrimental

to their cha

Hing with thelr ‘particular crowd.
‘Kids: are-eruel. |

stems from thelr Jazinegs, and
selfishness, oo.

5 cap,

together, do things together, and

be like someone

Sure, there are]

any way, he will go out of his| -

something is to happen in his|. .
group, you can be sure ‘he will |’

will- give tothing unless they can.
personally benefit from it.: They | ‘| - §
are. extremely ‘slow to give ine}: |
possibly:|
for. fear ‘of being labelled. ax.”
. something unmentionalble, : They |.
are slow to-respond for thesame |".
“They: are the hardest |" -
‘people in the’ world to get ‘adreac=|°

racter, or thelrstands| .

‘There is no|.'
‘doubt about that.’ This brotably |}... |

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The rate at which drivers li-
cences are being suspended Js
increasing rapidly as the Motor
Vehicle Branch steps up its. ef=-
forts to keep unfit drivers off
‘the road,

Attorney - General Leslie R.
Peterson said that the number
of suspensions in 1947 was al-
most double that of the previous
year —5,611 compared with
2,823.

In the first eight months of this
year, 4,546 Ieences were sus-
pended compared with3,741 inthe
comparable period of 1967. _

Peterson said the Superinten-
dent of Motor Vehicles has been
agsisted greatly by a ‘points
system’ that has been developed
for rating motorists, He will be
helped, too, by a new driving law
to he tested in the Greater Vica
toria area beginning October 1.

The new driving law will sub-
Stitute violation reports for traf-
fic fines for driving offenses

in 1966,

disputed and heard by the magt-
strate in the courts, -will go
directiy to the Superintendent of
Motor Vehicles, :

The Superintendent, -using a!"
sophisticated computer syatem, ||

will tally violation reports and
then take appropriate action when

a motorist has accumulated suf-

ficient ‘points’. This actlon may

be a warning, a licence susper-

sion, or referral to a defensive
driving course,

“I today’s affluent society, a
small fine has not proven a de«
terrem: to bad driving,’ the At.
torney-General sald,

Statistics show there were49,-|_

750 auto accidents in B.C, ih
1967, an- increase from 44,187
To the end of June ‘this
year, a total 24,015 motor vehicle
accidents was reported, against
20,535 in the same perlod Inat
year.

Motor vehicle deaths reached
559 in 1967, up from 520 in1966,

Points system weeds out. ‘drivers

These violation reports, unless.

A total as tied enthopzovince’a
highways to the. end of June'this
year, a substantial Increasefrom
in ‘the first six, months of

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