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Show V YfeeTkExsMGtiaejr 7 The news page K On The Mot rmrr.rmrfrn standard net nrrwrrrrr?r: 2 written by and for WeberDavis teens Lakeside Review r ri t ; txslandard.net Phone: 625-421- Godzilla breaks out the big guns By SCOTT STEPHENS TX correspondent and boys teens Illustration by CHANTRY DEWEESERX correspondent of all ages. Welcome to the movie event of the century -- Codzilla. ! Welcome to n, yhere TNT is our middle name and napalm our claim to fame. And the contestants: In this comer, wearing red trunks, we have skyscrapers, Ubd cabs and tourists - The Island of Manhattan. And in this comer, wearing tjie green trunks, that lovable nuclear-powere- d pack of scales, teeth and a whole lot of rage - Godzilla. What do you do when an unknown thing attacks a fishing boat, killing all the crew except for a senile old man ifiumbling nothing but what seems to be the word Godzilla? Thats easy. You bring in Nick The worm guy 'fatopoulos (played by Matthew Broderick), of course. Nick is the romantic scientist who has been stuck on f remote island with nothing but very ljrge worms that glow in the dark and a cool beater of a Volkswagen. Of course, the government rushes in with their new friend, samples are taken. Mid the bad news just keeps coming. The thing is heading for Manhattan. I Like always, theres the attempted and cue the government cover-up- , wannabe reporter. The reporter just happens to be Mr. Worms old flame, Maria Pitillo (Audrey Timmonds). Then the beast attacks, and out come the guns hooray for massive artillery. Add some extras from Jurassic Park" and you have the basic plot. Godzilla is an OK film about a lizard with a super kung-f- u grip and a taste for fish that takes out its aggression on Manhattan. Of course, nothing original can be used in movies, so a new head is put on a raptors body from Jurassic Park to create the beast. But because we can forgive the movie-makea lot of things are blown up. Also, something out of the ordinary for a monster film happens here. It seems the monster isnt too monstcrish - at ohe point, Godzilla almost shows compassion for Master of the Worms, until the army makes him mad again. This film is by far much superior to the original Godzilla movies, but you might be better off renting one of those. Scott Stephens, a sophomore at Nort bridge High School, enjoys playing - rs basketball and mountain biking. TX. CHAT ; Meet the mystery moderator in TX.s online chat session, 8 p.m. each Wednesday on StandardNET at www.stan-dard.ne- t. Whether the moderator shows up or not, its your open hour to chat vith your friends and fellow TX. readers. ; Jobs -- Next weeks topic: Summer taken advantage Are you willing to be of? Tho Dottoni 0C3G . Almonds are members of the peach family. OOR COPY AX ! "Aw. i i I think for high schools, theyre (uniforms)., pretty pointless. DeAnn Mason, sophomore, Lay ton High School I hate them, and nobodys going to wear, f them. The students would just bum the uniforms , Scott Fuller, junior, Davis High School , , anyways. Uniforms are stupid! We better not have to wear them. Jeanette Croft, junior, Layton High-School I think for schools that have gangs in them,; uniforms would be OK. Ben Anderson, sophoI more, Fremont High School Uniforms dont let you express yourself. Ev- - , eryone looks the same and they make you look stu- -, pid. Crystal Gutenberger, sophomore, Layton ; High School We have a problem in society for sure, but it.-; making kids wear uniforms is not going to solve Darlene Flukinger, sophomore, Layton High ; School Uniforms would be better for the students, ' and it would help the students concentrate more on, , their school work rather than trying to fit in..; Brooke Duncan, 8th grader. Sunset Junior High, School I feel that school uniforms are a complete waste of time, no matter what the kids think. Their -opinion doesnt matter. If the school wants to do uniforms, they will. Robert Porter, sophomore, 5 Layton High School It would help the students. When everyone I dresses the same, it doesnt cause as .much conflict' between groups and individuality. Steve Lundi, senior, Northridge High School I dont really care about uniforms. I really likfe ' ' the khaki pants and the colors we chose. I dont mind if we have to wear them or not. Meagan , Buttner, 8th grader, North Layton Junior High When we went to uniforms (at my high school in Florida), everything changed. Discipline went , way up. Kids that are poor may feel like they have to act up to get attention. But with uniforms, every-- ; 1 one looked the same, so people didnt act up as much. It changed the way people acted. It changed their attitudes. Tammy Sanchez, junior, Clearfield High School I think its a good idea as far as you can no longer discriminate by clothing. People can just buy one uniform; they dont have to buy a whole ward-- . robe. I dont think it will solve the problem of people forming gangs. They'll still find ways to separate themselves. Aaron Read, junior, Clearfield High School I think in one way theyre cool cause they might get rid of groups. But in another way they take away individuality because some people use clothes to express themselves. Becky Steel, senior, Clearfield High School 'X I think theyre good cause then theres not as, much immodest clothes and cliques. Denim pants, would be fine.;, shorts or skirts with school As far as how the students would react, I think half would be upset and half wouldnt care. April;.; ' Zaugg, senior, Clearfield High School it would I think its a good idea just cause ; eliminate the hicks and the skaters and the preppies' and all the dilTerent groups. I think the reputation of the school would go up because the students would look better. Heather Recp, senior, Clear- - ' field High School ; I think it would be a bad idea. It would take; away your freedom to express yourself by the way, you dress. It would put a restriction on what I have to wear and I wouldnt like that at all. Prcstoh' ' Lords, senior, Clearfield High School ' Uniforms, schmuniforms. If 1 have to wear uniforms. Ill start going to school naked." Marie- Van Uitcrt, junior, Bonneville High School I dont really like them. The way I feel is, its' 5 like taking away a persons individuality. I express clothes. Crystal UnverzagtX myself through my . Txplode-o-visio- 776-495- 1 What you say -- Jp00- Ladies 4 Thursday, May28,1998 f.r, i . www http -- WMDliWDTn) AGAINST UNIFORMS FOR UNIFORMS By TANNA BARRY By MATT! HOWARD TX. correspondent into your average school. Come on, I you. After youve deposited all of the metal objects onto the tray and gotten your take a look daily around. Chances are you wont be able to tell if this particular school employs uniforms or not. At the high school I went to, it seemed to be pretty much everyones goal to look and dress precisely like ore another. So why do people get in such an uproar about having uniforms in school? Id buy the individuality argument if people seemed to want to be individuals in the first place. Heck, I think uniforms are a great idea. Slap the letters CK on the put a Tommy Hilfiger sign on the pants, and nobody would even know they were wearing uniforms; it would be school as usual. . I guess some of the people would be wondering where the undesirables were able to obtain such garments, but eventually everyone would be accepted and social problems would disappear forever. After a time, crime would disappear, doughnut prices would be lower than ever, and the threat to humanity of road rage would be eliminated. 1 promise. Walk pat-dow- n, ever-prese- nt IX correspondent is nobody else in the : There like you. Everything you is a part of your distinct personality, including the way you dress. People choose clothes that represent the kind of person they are and what they , feel like. Even though clothes arent the most important or profound form of expression, it is still a form that should not be limited. By looking at a persons attire, you can see a part of his or her personality that comes through. By limiting what a person can wear, you limit part of what that person is. What a person wears should be a personal decision, not something that a committee decides. Who should have the right to force a student body to look like clones of each other? Many people argue that forcing students to wear uniforms will eliminate problems with gang activity, unfair competition and cause people to feel equal. However, clothing doesnt cause the problems, so how can it solve them? A uniform isnt going to magically solve all the problems. Lets venture into the real world for a moment. Problems start with people, so thats where the solution needs to start. Limiting what people can -- 5 See WHAT YOU SAY1Q See AGA1NST10 See FORIO ; Along with the job mostly comes humiliation By SARAH THOMPSON TX correspondent karents all over "the country are telling their teenagers to get a job. You want a car? Get a job! This one statement is so redundant to teenage ears, they can recite it just as well as . . , well, when I was your age." Those teenagers who do get the jobs and the car and the new jeans that match the car also get the hell. That hell" that many go through isnt having to work every weekend or cleaning out vats of grease. The ridicule a teenager can face at an everyday job is enough to make the FOR SALE sign on the car look pretty good right about now. Now before you all shake your heads in disbelief and cause major neck injuries, look at the whole picture. Adults often come home from a hard day of work complaining of the and the exhaustion, the broken water cooler that usually preserves their voice for their second job - yelling at the kids about all the horrible blunders real life brings. Little do they know that the tiny attention span, yet unsurpassable amount of energy, in a teenager can also get run down from the job. It isn't caused by the malfunctioning water cooler, because teenagers have to drink their own slave sweat for refreshment on the job. It is caused by and customers the bosses, that doubt the capacity of the teenage working brain. Jenny Langmann, a senior at Roy High, says she knows about the torment that can occur under the wrath bosses. Last summer of power-hungr- y she had the opportunity to pack up, hop in a silver bullet camper and cruise to Colorado to work on a reservoir, handing out passes to boaters using the dam. Sitting in the kiosk wasn't bad, but it slowly got worse, she says. They wouldnt let us use the phone in the main office for anything. Even emergencies were out of the question. So if the hypothetical deadly to the jugular were to occur, a paper-cu- t long drive would await Langmann to the nearest phone - six miles away. It wasn't because we would call long distance or talk forever, they were just rude. They used it all the time and had no problem; even those who weren't bosses used it. It was just a power trip, j nr sdifuK mOm . I V"1; ' r--- - ' V c t i $ said Langmann. The problem isnt necessarily taking away privileges, but overall treatment. One local female teen says she had a dilTerent problem. I was constantly referred to as kid. In front of I was always customers or kid, she said. I felt like it was an adult atmosphere and I was doing adult work. So what if I was 7. 1 wasn't picking my nose or anything." There are teenagers who do pick their nose and do get the job. They might find it a thrill to use the incompetent teenager role to their advantage. More power to them, but 1 stop ruining it for the adolescents who want a good job. Nobody wants to excel at flipping burgers, but a 1 can show the employer that he or she is here for a long time, regardless of the treatment received. , ; Constructive criticism" is a key term for the '90s, and although polite '' 1 rudeness is helpful, it isn't always ,' needed from an employer. If a worker cant use an appliance '' because he or she isn't 17 yet, telling the I big silver that worker not to touch handle because they arc a baby and the sound might make them need a new ; ' J diaper isnt the right approach to take. Adults sometimes forget this in the everyday bustle of running a business. Employers need to be fair to all workers even if the worker is a dumb ; blond that doesnt know anything. They hired the worker and took on the responsibility of being a fair boss. Teenagers may be young and naive, . v but they can soak in gossip like quilted . toilet paper. . So before bosses refer to a 1 as a w aste of space, keep in mind that they might know some of the ,, boss secrets. J Sarah Thompson, a senior at Rity High School, likes to swim, read and hang out with her friends. She's also a snow hoarder, j t. J |