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Show A ttempt to Get News Results In a Hair-Raising Experience By Lorraine Chldester Unusual things happen in unusual places. Have you ever heard the saying, "When journalists can't find news, they make news"? This became evident last Friday in the journalism class when Daniel Bretzke, after a small amount of coaxing, conceded to let Merri McKinnon and Elaine Cozzens cut his hair. Before the tardy bell had a chance to ring, they were wetting and combing his hair, preparing for the hair-raising event. He was hastily guided over to the mirror table in the Home Ec. room (where the journalism class is held) where it would be more convenient to undertake the task. Daniel, a new student at Grand Co. High this year and an easy person to get along with, sat very calmly through the whole ordeal as Merri and Elaine began to chop his collar-length hair off. When asked thier motivation behind the act, Elaine replied, "Because "Be-cause he looked like a hippi." She said that his long hair hung over his eyes so he couldn't see and they wanted to make him look better and enable him to see better. Their first step was to cut 3-4 inches off his bangs, feathering them back away from his face. Supervision was coming from all angles to help them in their cutting skills. Margaret McClain seemed to have more influence than anyone else and before the hour was over, she had stepped in on the scene and they were supervising her. Daniel approved of this switch because Margaret had had a little more experience cutting her own hair, being taught by her father, who is a barber. Margaret did a little reshaping of Daniel's bangs and trimmed off the back a couple of inches, with Merri and Elaine cutting off a snip here and there. As most students wouldn't consent to letting amateurs experiment on their hair, it raised curiosity as to why Daniel would. Being asked this question, he answered that he was tired of them bugging him, calling him a hippi. At the end of the hour when the styling was finished and pictures taken, Daniel was asked how he liked his hair. He nodded his head with a somewhat faint approval and optimistically responded, "It's O.K." . With all this enthusiasm, maybe a new hair-styling class will be taught at Grand Co. High School next year. Finding enough news to fill the page wasn't enough for high school journalists. They decided to make their own, and put class membor Daniel Bretzke tnrough a hair-raising experience as a result. |