Falmouth Enterprise, Tuesday, October 16, 1962, Page 9

About Senior Privileges

Letter To Class of '63

Since the beginning of our formal education, we students have eagerly anticipated the arrival of our senior year in high school. Then at last we should achieve our due recognition, some respect for the 11 years of earnest endeavor and tedious studying, all directed to our one goal - senior year and graduation. Now that we have reached our long fought for goal, we have been sadly awakened. Such honor and respect I never saw! Thousands of little sophomores tear by us, swarm all over the school, trampling seniors with their vicious herds. We seniors never haze the little tykes, as seniors do in many other schools; yet they cut ahead of us in lunch lines, worm themselves into senior seats at assemblies, and force us, after a hard day at school with all our extra activities, to stand on the buses, where we are bounced from wall to wall, with our books sliding across the floors and our papers flying out the windows.

Now we're not asking to be bowed down to, like the superior beings we are. We, the senior students, just ask for a little recognition, a few simple privileges, such as the guarantee of seats at games, assemblies and on the buses. We also ask for the right to walk from class to class unheckled and uncrushed in the corridors, to be first In ticket and lunch lines, free use of the mirrors in the girls' room and mainly the right for honor senior students to take their cars to school. This would be a real time saver, since many students must spend an hour traveling on the late bus getting home at 4:30. With senior play rehearsals at 7, this doesn't leave much time for studies. How can we possible keep our marks up and still volunteer for the many extra activities and responsibilities of seniors?

Are these favors and privileges really too much to ask for? We, the seniors, are the students who contribute most to the school in sports and extra activities. We are most liable for the reputation and name of our school, and in all fairness I think we act for the most part responsible in these duties. Can anyone possibly deny our just requests for honor and respect of station if we continue to do our part?

Seniors unite! Join together. "United we stand, divided we fall." Be rational. Start with the small; work to the big. Get your student council representatives moving. What is the council for if not to help carry out the wishes of the students? In a sense the school is a government with the student council as your representatives in Congress. Don't complain among yourselves; act. If you want these just and fair rights, ask for them. You'll be surprised in the fairness of your classmates and superiors. Seniors, I say again, Unite! Act!