22 - Friday, March 5, 1993 - North Shore News

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Dave, 17, is in’ Grade
Carson Graham secondary school.
His interests include model

railroading and he hopes to go to
film school.

IT TOOK me a long time to
decide to do it. For quite
some time I’ve been pon-
dering the idea of getting a
serious haircut. ;

I'm obsessed with my hair, |
wash.it every day, always brush it,
and run my hands through it. The
thought of chopping off the.
length, which [’d been working to
grow for some years, kind of
scared me, ;

I did finally . decide, after
numerous nights without sleep, to
go through with it.

I went into the shop, with beads
of. sweat rolling duwn my cheeks, -
and.got the back and sides under-

~cut. | looked at the big clumps of
hair on the floor and all 1 could
think was ‘‘My hair!”’

When I finally got the courage
to look into the mirror, 1 was’ ac-
tually impressed with the result.
Many people didn’t even notice
I’d had it done. I still don’t know
what drove me to do it.

What makes people so concern-
ed with their hair? Is it really that
important? -

8.B., 17: ‘I-thought hair was
just ‘there to keep your head
warm.” :

Hair is hair and nothing more.
{t doesn’t always determine your
personality like some people
belicve, and it certainly doesa’t
enhance o1 take away from it in

‘any. way. The way we style our
hair does, to an ‘extent. determine

ship in Environmental
Sciences on Monday, Feb. 8.
McGill University in Montreal.

12 at

WEST VANCOUVER student Cassandra Robertson (shown
with Gov. Gen. Ray Hnatyshyn) is one of 14 university stu-
dents who received the Governor General's Canada Sciolar-
Engineering and Environmental

YEENS AND adults alike often seem obsessed with their hair. Carson Graham student Dave Graham
contemplated the importance of hairstyle recently while he had his locks lopped by Brenda Mc-

“Carvilis..,

how people judge us, though.
Many hairstyles create stereotypes.
_For example, if a guy has long
hair people tend to stereotype him
as a rocker, even if he’s into rap,
and vice versa.

K.W., 17: “Usually people who
size you up for the length of your
hair aren’t really worth getting to
know anyway.”’

Have you ever noticed how
Strict the military and the police
force are with regard to hair? 1
inean, what’s the big deal with
having. your hair the way you
want it?

Sure, to be effective as a pillar
of society, a police officer must
look respectable. But does the
length of someone’s hair really
make them less respectable?

If Premier Mike Harcourt were
to grow out his hair (something I
bet he’d love to do), would his
job be any less important? He'd
still be the same guy he was be-
fore, just with a different look.

She is currentiy studying at

RECENTLY ANNOUNCED cuts to
education budgets mean North Shore
school bourds will have to reduce the

number of teachers and special programs
they have. Do you think you are being
short-changed? Do you think schools have
more special programs than they need?

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Last week we asked if young
offenders should be punished
as harshly as adults, and if
their names should be made
public.

t definitely think they
should get rid of the Young
Offenders Act. It sounds like
a pretty pood idea to keep the
kids’ names out of the paper
when’ they commil a crime
because they are kids, but
kids ore slacking off. They
should abolish it. There is no
reason why two 10-year-olds

_need to kill a little innocent
boy; there is no reason why
somebody needs to be stabb-
ed 15 times in the back. Kids
are killing. themselyes and
each other. J say publish their
names, to hell with the Young
Offenders Act.

Young offenders’ names
should be published because
most kids who commit crimes
do it to be cool and maybe
we should wake them up to
realize that it’s not cool, Ut
would, msybe, embarass
them’ a hit if. their names
where published. The Young
QOffenders Act is a huge ‘joke.
It needs to be changed if we
want to curb the violence
because a jot of it is being
done by the teens, knowing
that the Young Offenders Act
is a really big joke.

Photo Jason Malone

I don’t. think it’s fair to
society. If teenagers are will-
ing to commit a crime, they

We have an obsession with hair
and how it looks. With all the
products you can buy in the stores

came up with a rather lengthy
one. Here are just a few of the
ideas that I came up with: a

and all the different types of hair- beehive, ducktail, brush cut, should be punished as long as
cuts, it’s almost impossible not to dreadlocks, crew cut, afro, it’s a fair punishment.
find something that suits you. — mohawk, undercut, skinhead,

short and fong (short on top and
long down the back like Bon
Jovi’s hair in 1985), box cut, a
perm, curled, in a ponytail, bow!
cut, or spiked.

And that’s just a few of them.

So if you have any thoughts
rolling around under that mop on
top about getting something done
with it, it may just be a rather
hair-raising experience to go out
and get it cut.

Some people spend hours get-
ting ready to go out, and half of
that time may be devoted com-
pletely to their hair. The perfect
image seems to be what most are
concerned with. People try to
cover up for their hair if it doesn’t
look fantastic. Quite often, I’ve
heard, ‘I’m’ having a bad hair
day," and [ can-sympathize.

Guys go through hair implants
or girls get extensions to make
their hair longer, but is it really
necessary?

1 started making a list of the
different types of hair styles and

These have just been a few
thoughts I took off the top of my
head.

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THINK: OF 1T
AS YOUR RE-
TURNING MY

THINK OF IT AS
My RETURNING
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AFTER ALL, YOU LENT
ME A PENCIL YESTERDAY!

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AND. I HAVEN'T SEEN AY
KID BROTHER SINCE THE
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY.

T THINK THERES AN
ALIEN BEING IN Ay
CLOSET...

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