Severely handicapped class arrives - The Lowell

Planning for the ^-
^£ ideal vacation
Rv .Indrcw Le«
All year lonjj you've toiled: *trog-
Kttoa vilh page-long trigonometric
ideate tcs; trying ,o da:iphcr the
C fa/ Gau/iy and iu even symbol,
metaphor, and allusion, learning U
579 cegjugationi for the verb drc.
Then suddcriy you're faced witfi a
vacation completely devoid of
horacwoik, testi, or oral reports.
What happens now?
Fs of
summer vacation ire a withdrawal
period — • time 10 jet the cramps out
of your wrung hand ar*J urn trending
roore time watdting \tuimi Vtce
taaead of worko* °ul AP Chemistry
problem*.
Some stu&iui CM'I handle the
stock of uijiatrncni. These are the
poor souls *h» find themselves in
lumnur seK-/* *jr progrwm. hie
tho*e at Me--/ x Kwrda.1 High.
After nine *:-*ifh< months of
tchool»ork. these innocent minds
h»ve become u> tw IUAI ih.it they feel
they enjoy learning integral calculus
and can tec no other way ui which
to Tpcnl thrir traotionv
Similar i« ihcw "homework
junkie*'* are thine Uw*n as "burnnttts."
Thc%c are '*udcnti who
undergo a renuxkahlc truitlooiuiMn
in the third week, uf June. suddenly
cspning their latent abilities for
M.
Extreme cave* of -chuol burwut
WKCtiltt* rcMilr in I»WIR »unimer
trip* 'or the victim. These arc the
\tudcntt who rnuvt force themselves
to stay as far front Lowell as pnssi-
We, even if it raews tal*ng measures
. K» dmtically narrifaie ** v*citing rich
relative* in a cruvaw in Switzerland,
•ununning in the south nf France u*
taking a Caribbean cruise to Jamaica.
Upon returning u> K!»OI the symptoms
of these cunrnc cases arc ckaily
visible: a rcnu-Lablc suman. a
dtitina avcruon to fug and overran
kkics, and « mftimct j habu of wearing
Eur.ocjn "HaiJ Rock Cafe"
tdiitu.
"I spect a week in Mancillci."
•aid one \ictim of extreme burnout.
"Next. 1 «pcnt t few day* in Paris,
then off to Bonn. Venice. Madrid,
and Uwidoo. It w» fun, but ii don
ge> ;uvt s tad nvKonoui aPer hat ing
seen thoc placet for the pa%t fo. r
wmmen."
Olher* have an obio\ive/computu%r
need to work during the summer,
and find job* ranging frut.i
h*Mpi:al intcrmhipi to intcnutiona!
eipiotuge. U'ntle oihen enjo> the
-oinand fre^h air cf July, thne compuUtvc
worker* toil for urtolj
r-olahc^ at a substitute for Khoo).
Strangely cnoujh, thew vtudents
nuke up a targe pcfcenUfc »f the
gniur> that can itford tit drive a
Mcrcedcs-Beru or 3MW to *.hnol
ejeh day the following Sc[r blinds a/ter momingi
of wabng up with that fi'Olvn.pud Study Camp H»* tdrj of lummer
fu.i includctaMnailU.iciw'ombiiutio.'i oi work, travel
and play.
PanicipA.km in a wmtncr pn^ram. Mich i\ camp,
school, or individual stud>, received the wvtmd hiphot
retponve. a\ MMIK. uvlentv juu can't kh.k the stutl>tng
habit!
"! can't wait for suinmer whun! — it is going lo be
so nr^ch fun- .especially *icct the uimmer whoul i«
shone) non a rcpjl« vchutJ day!'' cithimo) vopfovnor;
Maikus Ixong.
and ]uni«H\ whn hive not yrt taken
luvJtMm will jump tf the tfjuinunuy to t.ilc
It can make>utf tuner,
Eating disorders
J srumng medical
problem today Thty
ahiirt as man)* as one in
200 Americans.
Beth male* and
femalts suffer from >"
anonraanenoa-^
7.V LOHTII. Imt 3. I9S6. tof "
the cr. "hanging around" came in
tavi pbce. Still Mtme imistal thil most people .T^ke big
plans during one half the summer and spcrho plans to spend
his summer hour* determining the value of pi to the 600th
decimal plxrc.
alhlctestuchKs'
men. wrigKiiften and
inmuusts nz ptone.
AM vnr itif ma! ds and
iiancer