Get your priorities straight ALL RIGHT, fet’s stop what we’re doing. Drop the books. It’s time to set the record straight. What are you going to do after graduation (if you pass)? This remains a big question among most Grade 12 students. Hopefully, for the better half of us, we already have our priorities straight. Once you graduate from high school, most people either work for a bit and then go back to school (crazies), or take a year off and bum around Europe, if they’re rich, It is very important to get a high schoo! diploma and complete your final year with high marks. If you don't have Grade 12, good luck in the near future finding a job to support yourself. ‘Sometimes if you are in the right place at the right time, you can pick up a high-paying job, depending on what your interests are, but this rarely happens. While you are going to school, I think it’s important to gain expe- rience with a part-time job. Al- though a lot of parents would. rather have their kids concentrate on schooling, there is also the alternative -~ work experience. At Carson Graham, there are a tot of great courses and a lot of work experience programs. A rel- atively new course offered to stu- dents, such as myself, is Media Technology Career Preparation 12. This is a highly demanding course which involves journalism, video production, scriptwriting, and other sorts of neat-o stuff. _ At Carson, there are also many other work experience programs to get involved in. For ail you grease monkies, Carson has one of the best automotive/mechanics courses around. With some high- tech machinery, learning at Car- ~ son becomes interesting, yet fun. OMIGOSH! THERE'S KENNY SMITHSON, CAPTAIN OF THE BASEBALL TEAM! | WHEN MY DAD READS ME BEDTIME STORIES AT NIGHT... LOOK AT Him! WHAT A HUNK! HE 1S so CUTE! Sean is into skateboarding, snowboarding, and drawing. He is i7 years old, and is in Grade 12 at Carson Graham secondary school. And then there is the hairdress- ing program. You learn to cut, style, perm, bleach, dye, streak and other stuff so that you can be all that you want to be. Plus every morning you can come to school with style-y hair to impress all your friends. There is also chef training, carpentry, and business education. These courses are all excellent ex- perience because they send you out into the real workforce for 90 hours to become even closer to your goal, Courses like these increase your chances to get into Capilano Col- lege or BCIT. It may be a lot of work but it’s well worth it. So after graduation, | hope all my friends don’t end up in the gutter of society, because I know I won't. ME our! HE ALWAYS FALLS AGLEEP BEFORE HE FINIGHES THEM. He hn ee QO%Q0H, IF ONLY HE'D ASK IM JUST DYING FOR Hit TO ASK ME OUT! AS TECHNOLOGY improves, the graph- ic images in video games are becoming more realistic, and some say they are too violent or sexually explicit for the teens who play them. Should video games be tated, like movies? Do you think they are getting too violent? Do you think some should be kept away from kids? wEWe hate Nell Lucente © Alternative approaches STUDENTS AT the Sentine! Work Activity Programme alternative school recently held an cpen house to show how they take a different approach to learning. These teens are using computer tutoriats: (from right to left) Grade 9 students Alexandra Walsh, John Brainard, and 4 Sarah Soules, and Grade 10 student Caleb Wells. Video Co-op to the rescue New N. Shore program puts youth experience on tape FINALLY THERE is some- thing to do for all those en- thusiastic youths out there. It’s fun, creative and free. It’s Video Co-op! ®» By Allison G. Poirier < > ZAP! Contributor « Video co-op is a non-profit program that allows youths to ex- press themselves in an audio- visual format. SO YOU'RE HIDING BEHIND A TREE. GOOD STRATEGY. (Unsied Featvrn Sprocaln Oe IT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT FINALLY HAPPENED TO PIPP 1 LONGSTOCKING . 44 Youths will produce videos on such topics as gang violence, pollution and drugs. 99 Youths will produce videos on such topics as gang violence, pollution and drugs. Everybody involved will have the opportunity to write scripts, do the interview- ing, filming and editing. At the moment there are 10 to 15 people already working on such videos as Youth Violence, Heritage of Old Growth Forests, and Tradition Wetlands. Youths will gain work experi- ence, letters of reference, and 2 sense of usefulness. They would also have the opportunity to work with organizations like the Friends of Cypress Park and possibly pro- WANTED! Must be willing to have an active and fun summer. Whether you want to bea model or just have fun, meet new friends and build your self-confidence ... John Casablancas will bring out the best in you! FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL TODAY 688-0328 Located two blocks from the waterfront SkyTrain Terminal. fessionals like those at Shaw: Cable. The video co-op | is organized « and run by Darren Hawkinson, a - student at Capilano College, who wants to provide youths with a meaningful way of expressing | themselves. Most of the planning and* organizing would take place at his . house and the editing at the stu- io. This would occur outside school * time, on the weekends or: whenever anybody has any free time. Presently the co-op’s survival requires youth volunteers, volun- teers experienced in the video in- dustry, and donations to pay ex-. . penses. So come out and join the fun. For more information contact Hawkinson at 980-2245. A Grade 12 Sutherland second- ary school student, Allison, 17, is into photography, swimming, and travelling. She hopes to become a Journalist.