Show 2— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday September 20 1987 ‘Peers Helping Peers’ at Mountain Crest High The peer watchdog group at Mountain Crest is the Lettermen’s Club — made up of athletes and academics Student officer Don Christopherson also a senior says the studentbody wants to run the school and orove that “we can govern ourselves So this year the Peers Helping Peers was implemented and the By Carol MacPherson staff writer It's all about building school pride lay the studentbody officers at Mountain Crest High School who developed a watchdog program of sorts called "Peers Helping Peers" While it sounds like one of the many counseling programs instituted at a lot of schools the program could be called: Peers helping peers to stay out of trouble such as keeping them from getting rowdy during assemblies and not destroying things group decided first to police assemblies and free teachers from the job Members of the Lettermen's Club patrol looking for violators — those “We are just doing things we can do to make the school great The more the more you govern yourselves pride you have" says studentbody officer Lance Clark a senior or yelling football player is "A pretty intimidating to freshmen" Chriitopherson says He adds however ’’They’re not physicsl with who might be talking throwing things 230-pou- principal1 The program seems to be working say the students Several assemblies imcuding separate class meetings for each grade level have been held and policed by the club members "The students respond to other students The assemblies went well" Clark says And the mood has spread to the halls he says That is vandalism such as kicking in lockers and breaking things appears to have declined this year the students say The Lettermen’s Club also offers its services during lunch and in between classes Pride and tradition are the goals the student officers say The theme for theyear is: Rise with Pride and Unity The message is simple - If the (UPI) newly created spirit committee “We want to get everybody involved not just jocks" Clark says “We’re trying to break down toe cliques and have one school" They ssy Mountain Crest “wasn't seen as legitimate at first" But the academics and everything else have reached a level of excellence and the school is they say in the student reflected is “It “We are Christopherson says body" the new kid on the block but we’re here to stay The Mustangs are pretty awesome well-round- mirror “Pride in the school is what we set out to accomplish" Christopheson says “And it's already happening" The students say it's hard to build Nuclear agreement historic WASHINGTON traditions at such a new school But what they are trying to do to create such traditions is to net all students involved and excited about the scbooL One such way to do this is through a they say: There is no pride in destroying your school But beyond pride there is a material incentive that helps this program work Clark says the school agreed to set up a $2000 “vandalism fund which comes out of the school budget If vandalism does occur he says the money to fix or replace the damaged property comes from there If the money is not used however the students get to use it for a party at the end of the school year Everyone is aware of this the students say and the only thing gone wrong so far has been a broken anyone If they catch somebody doing something they take Urn to the Africa S Continued from page 1 will be able to elect their own leaders -representatives to sit down with the govern- ment and discuss a new constitution That’s a major event And you don’t hear anything about it” complained the He also said that the majority of South those who live in Africa’s 26 million blacks the autonomous “homelands" — have control over their own destiny It is only the 8 to 12 million urban blacks who are not allowed to vote Liebenberg said While the advisory National Council would determine a process that would involve blacks st “the highest level" of government and frame a new constitution Liebenberg said he’d be surprised to see a “one-ma- n provision To completely turn the country over to its blade majority would be a mistake at this time he said rhetorically asking “Who says they are ready for it?” White South Africans are understandably afraid a sudden reallocation of power would plunge South Africa into poverty and corruption similar to that which resulted black-rule- d Africa when the colonists pulled out according to the Afrikaner As far as the government's numerous emergency measures Liebenberg said they are essential to keep the peace Violence has gone down since curbs have been put on the press he said because many riots were staged just for the benefit of the press “The foreign journalists would sit around in their posh hotels waiting for the 11 o'clock riot" ne said As for charges of children being held in detention “these are kids that murdered people that necklaced them” liebenberg said referring to the practice of putting a gasoline-fille- d tire around someone's neck and igniting it “Not a single society I know of will allow children to km people’7 He quoted figures stating there are between 20000 and 26000 juveniles being detained in California alone compared to 1800 in South Africa at the peak of the unrest “Nobody’s complaining about California" he said “That’s what is making us so mad” Liebenberg pointed to the United States’ rocky and recent evolution toward civil rights and said “All we ask is that you let it happen for us the same way You don’t erase 300 years of history with the stroke of a pen” Sanctions only impede the process he said “Do you cure the disease by wiling the vice-cons- ul - US-Sovi- et intentions to eliminate intermediate-rang- e nuclear weapons are followed by an actual treaty it would be the first time in recent history that there would be a mutual voluntary reduction of weapons between two adversaries It would result in the destruction of about 2000 warheads — 1575 on the Soviet side in eastern Europe and 343 on the American side — and about 1000 missiles on both sides But in the six years that the two sides have been talking about eliminating the total of 2000 warheads on their intermediate-rang- e nuclear forces they have added an estimated 6000 warheads — 3000 for each side — to their weapons that strategic forces the long-ranare the heart and the muscle of the super-pow- one-vot- e" ge er arsenals The INF elimination if it happens will only touch about 4 percent of the nuclear weapons on both sides and the nuclear material and the u vice-cons- uL guidance mechanisms will probably be recycled for use in other weapons according to US official The missiles themselves will be scrapped and their rocket fuel will be burned something that the Soviets say is a tricky operation that will require five years American officials are not convinced it u that tricky and think it can done in three years The SALT I treaty put a cap on US and Soviet strategic arms and both Maes immediately built up to the permitted ceiling SALT 2 in 1979 was a more complex version of the same kind of limit and both sides also built up to the permitted limit In both cases the treaties prevented a runaway arms race but did not result in the actual reduction of any weapons Putting aside treaties forced tor the victors on the vanquished — such as the Versailles treaty after World War I — there has never been a mutual voluntary agreement between two powers to actually reduce or destroy usable weapons There have been treaties that appeared to do that such as the treaty the ended the Washington naval conference in 1922 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes who dominated that conference described the result as “the greatest step forward in history to establish the reign of peace" The treaty established a ratio between the major warships of the great naval powers Pete SchroppHereld Journal South African Vice-Cons- ul Chris Liebenberg Navy wants to develop new ‘laser’ submarines - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Navy’s top submariner wants to develop new classes of submarines that use laser and satellite technology to shoot down enemy aircraft and bombard enemy shores “In a world of satellite and precision munitions there is a real premium ' on having a ’stealthy’ platform” that can't be seen by the enemy laid Vice Adm Bruce DeMars iut-veillan- ce Index Adopt a pet 26 Letters to the Editor Official meetings 14 34 29 28 30 5 Bookmobile Business Classified ads Crossword Happenings 28 Herald Journal USPS 741 7000 W R Paul Publisher Published every eveninq MoncMy thru Friday and Sunday morning bv Caihe Valley Publishing Co 75 West Vd North Logan Utah §4371 P 0 Box 4H7 Telephone 757 7171 SiHond class poslagi paid in Logan Utah Ml MUER Audit Bureau of Circulation UmtiKi Priss International NE A News Service SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Month Carrier One Year Carrier One Yi-a- r Mail S60 00 S7S 00 Subscribers not receiving delivery ot their Herald Journal please phone 7M 7i? before 7 pm weefc nights or a m Sundays OFFICE HOURS: 8 00 a m to S00 pm weekdays 8:30 a m to 17 30p m Saturdays POSTMASTER : Address changes to The Herald Journal 75 West 3rd North Logan Utah 8437 the deputy chief of naval operations warfare for submarine Stealthy a Pentagon buzzword refers to the Air Force’s secret Stealth bomber which is being designed with non-metall- ic materials that cannot be detected by radar ’’A submarine is automatically a stealthy plat- I have a hell of a platform that’s essentially in form Pope Continued from Once launched the missiles targets and only need a relathe House measure DeMars said he would like to use to conceivably could be radar-guide-d tively simple command to surface shoot by satellite money to build experimental even or “some guy prototypes for possible new warships But DeMars said satellites classes of submarines aimed at sitting on a hill in Europe rhe laser beams instead of using specific missions such as shore said radio waves now hold promise bombardment and Submarines are difficult to of solving this communications “We’re sort of exploring that with when sub- problem and providing subcommunicate now but our thoughts are not merged Only very long radio merged submarines with suffifully developed" DeMars said waves can penetrate the ocean cient target information and The advantage an antiand the amount of intelligence to hit mobile land aircraft missile submarine depths information that can be trans- target such as tank formations could provide US military mitted is limited ana aircraft planners is that it could locate a insubmarines Missile have “The (communications) pro’’weapons platform" right in nuclear missiles vided by satellite could be tercontinental "Soviet's the backysrd" very of all work and cannot with computers already pro- important to submarines in the Kurpose to a mere instru- without the Soviet’s being to hit specific enemy future" DeMars said grammed ment of production that the aware of it visible and can strike land to 400 miles away” targets DeMars said in an interview with United Press International The House 1988 defense authorization bill includes $100 million for the study of submarine technology beyond the new Seawolf SSN-2-1 class of attack submarines being developed for delivery in 1994 If the Senate goes along with 300 Eerson anti-aircra- ft is to be valued for what is rather than for what he or she owns" the pope said pagel “sn unforgettable memory of a Earlier 50000 people country that God has richly gathered along a parade blessed from the beginning until route to welcome the Polish-bor- n now” pontiff to the Polish Earlier the pontiff celebrated enclave of Hamtramck within mass for sn estimated 95000 Detroit Once again the crowd people including Bush in the was disappointing — as many Silverdome ss 300000 people had been Iu the heart of the nation’s expected automobile industry his homily Detroit Tigers manager focused on the “dignity ana Anderson who got up Sparky rights of workers" before dawn to see John Paul in “Central to the church's Hamtramck a teaching is the conviction that sportsman's view provided of the papacy people are more important than “He is the heavyweight" things that work is ’for man and not man 'for work' that the Anderson said after touching person is both the subject sod the hand of the pope £? 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