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Show pr , v if Teen Exam, in or "it On The Met The news page written by and for cmrEnmca http www standard net WeberDavis teens tx 625-421- - ' Lakeside Review t , v Thursday, standard net - Phone: 4 June 1 8, 1 998 776-495- 1 . , ! 3 Its back! Utah revives lively SNL 1 By LAUREN REIMAN By MATTI HOWARD TX correspondent TX. Saturday night, for one or another youre at home skipping the social scene for this week. - Youve been to the video store and left shaking your head at the monotony of it all, the phone lines are all tied up because of all the other computer geeks who are online, and the TV schedule is so dull you wonder why you don't just go to bed right now and save yourself the effort of channel Its t Live from New York, 5 TX. CHAT I ' I Meet the mystery moderator in TX.s online chat session, 8 pm. each Wednesday on StandardNLT at www.stan- dard net. It's your open hour to chat with your friends and fellow TX. rcad- crs. This weeks topic: Is going tanning a good thing? ' ' I The Bottom m , r, p The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. , r 1 P v J, big-budg- et 1 See hfDVIES4 Its summer since your favorite party and mine, the By UNDSAY LEININGER TX - yawn, roll over, go back to bed e maturation program: The average person needs eight to 10 hours of sleep. When that cliche was preached to me in every health class I ever took, the advice never sunk in. I always thought that Id go to bed when I was good and ready, and Id wake up when it was time for breakfast. Well, I'm not proud of this, but its been about six months now since Ive had a full eight hours of sleep, and from a fellow NOWA (Night Owl Workaholics Anonymous), let me tell you that there's more to the eight to 10 hours advice than random trivia. Have you ever noticed that when you lose sleep, you become ? That's because when you sleep, your brain stores the tilings you learned throughout the day into your memory. So, all those pop quizzes you blanked out on7 Probably a result of staying up to watch reruns of I Lqve Lucy. Sleep deprivation also causes you to lose alertness, focus, coordination, and sometimes even your positive attitude. Robert Sullivan, author of the article Like You, I Haven't Been Sleeping Well, published in a recent issue of Life, cites a Hams poll as reporting that 76 percent of us arc not in a good mood the next day if we didn't get enough sleep the night before. Yikcs' Just think. Instead of those sixth-grad- correspondent If it's two m the right now, and you're downing hot chocolate loaded with marshmallows or swallowing your third diet Coke, chances are its a good thing youre reading this. Actually, you should probably be in bed, but hey, that's what were here to talk about - your health. Its a strange thing about us teenagers, but our biological clocks all the time. We arc stay up until all hours of the night, going to work, driving around with fi lends, watching sports, doing homework, playing Candy land (Oops, howd that gel in there'), and we cant seem to wake lip in the morning until we absolutely have to. In fact, ask around. I would bet that if you asked your friends when they got to sleep last night, three out of four stayed up until 1 or later. Most of us are so used to living on such little sleep that we think going to or 12 is a good night. bed by Let's all run a quick reality check. Please, imagine the voice of a thundercloud descending upon you: THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Now I know that youve heard this short-circuiti- 1 1 1 absent-minded- CHANTRY DEWEESTTX oorreswxjem Why do you stay up later in summer? I don't sleep at night because I m out partying, says Angela Serrano, a recent graduate from Ben Lomond High School. The warmth of the air makes you want to sleep (during the day) The fact that you don't have something to do makes you want to go out and do something (at night) I go to movies or go out with my friends, says Becky Thompson, a senior at Clearfield High School in the fall the stars. Ed rather sleep duung the day and be awake during the night because I like to be by my sell and there aren't a lot of people around (at night), says Iclina Andersen, who will be a junior at I High School. I go out and play. This one night we sat out in the middle of the road and sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' in the middle of the night," says 1 izel Allen, a senior this fall at Weber High School. on walks to look at See SUMMER, 4 At night A I COPY - correspondent Well, surfing. Just then you hear the exclamation, Its Saturday Night! and you perk up just m time to see one of the funniest hours of television all w'cek. Only a month or so ago this wouldnt Jiave been possible. Utahns had been deprived of watching Saturday Night Jave until a new station, WB 30, decided to put it on the air at the end of jApril. The program had been pulled off the air in Utah several years ago by the Jv'BC affiliate in Salt Lake City, whose officials considered it too controversial T6r their audience. .j There is definitely still some debate surrounding the program. t I think its just too blunt of a portrayal of American life for conservatives in Utah to be able to handle it, says Nathan Painter, who will be a senior at Northndge High School in Jhe fall. Some of the content can be slightly questionable at times, but with its late slot and the advisory prior to pight-tim- e the show, the problem with children watching shouldnt be too much of an ssue as it was in the past. Besides, most Viewers realize that any debatable material is all in fun. r What's almost even more entertaining Is seeing friends the Monday after and icing able to laugh all over gain. Janelle Vann, who will be a senior at Northridge High, states, It keeps you laughing all night and way into the next week! Then you're anxious to tune m again and see what the latest bizarre Topics theyve come up with this time. If you find yourself suffering from the .weekend blahs or just cant find anything to do at 10 30 on a Saturday night, try tuning into Saturday Night Live and appreciating your new freedom. If you dont find it the least amusing, you can always assume you were too tired to understand deep humor. Lauren Reiman, ho h ill he a senior at Northrulge High Sihool, likes to write , poetry . Her fat onto authors are Date Barry and Stephen King, . the summer is here. Summer, of course, big movies. These days, theres no big movie without major monuments being destroyed. Can somebody please explain this to me? How many limes can we watch the same plot unfold and be entertained? In the past three years or so, weve seen threats from dinosaurs, aliens, volcanos, tornadoes, rocks from space, a giant lizard and more. The only think I'm glad about is that we havent been subjected to any new Pauly Shore movies. The thing is, THEY KEEP COMING. This whole summer were going to be assaulted by every threat imaginable. When will it end? I think the reason so many Hollywood companies are scrambling to make these movies is that despite the expense, they are extremely easy to make. It's not like they have to think of any new stones, its the same thing every time. Youve got two fonnulas for your standard disaster movie. The first one is the movie with the hero. You follow one character as he struggles to understand the problem and get it under WTaps, as well as form a romance with the attractive female scientist (yeah, right . . . how many female scientists have you seen that look like the ones in these flicks, hmmm?), and save the planet. The other route you can take is to meet about a hundred characters, learn the basics about them, and then watch them get rocks and lava and buildings thrown at them. T he idea here is to get you attached to , these characters so you root for them and feel for them. But it just seems like theres too dang many for , me to keep track of. I dont really care what happens to them, and to tell you the truth, I get kind of sick of their whining in between fantastic special effects shots. Either way you go, the scripts must be awfully easy to come by. I think Hollywood's got this big Mad-li- b Those little books senptbook. Remember Mad-libs- ? that tell a story with certain blanks left out that pretcen . boys would make up vulgar words for and snicker about in the back of the classroom? Here's how the basic disaster move Mad-li- b goes: (Insert name of hero here): Oh, for goodness sakes! There's a gigantic (monster or natural threat) smashing the city to bits and causing spectacular explosions and to crowd the streets in an efiort to i . Teens: Expect more mass destruction I go nt |