Conference back40::soapbox

    NEW YORK (Reuter) - Schoolchildren in small U.S. cities, suburbs and
    rural communities are twice as likely to carry weapons as students 
    living in large cities, a study published this week indicated. 

    In a report that belies the view that violence is an inner-city
    problem, the public opinion research firm Roper Starch Worldwide
    also found that violence among teen-agers was worst in the West,
    probably because of more gangs there than in the Northeast.  22%
    of students in the West knew someone who had died violently, compared 
    with 11% in the Northeast.

    The telephone survey of 502 children, mostly between the ages of 12 
    and 17, was comissioned by the television talk show `Rolanda', in 
    association with the Harvard School of Public Health.  An equal number
    of girls and boys were interviewed.
  

    > Schoolchildren in small U.S. cities, suburbs and
    > rural communities are twice as likely to carry weapons as students
    > living in large cities, a study published this week indicated.
    
    Do you carry a pocket knife?  Yes?  Oh my, add them to the total.
    
    The previous article is scare tactic, useless garbage.

    
    Actually, it's not hard to have a disaster or at least a useless
    waste of time doing Urban Planning.  The most successful cities
    in the world today are mostly not planned at all, except at the
    start of creating them.
    
      bb

    I took guns to school on occasion.  Sometimes we went wabbit hunting
    after school.  Couple times for show and tell.  Almost always carried a
    belt knife.
    
    Teachers carried paddles, too.  Big suckers, made out of walnut and
    other HARD woods.
    
    Man, it was violent, alright...

   Re: Note 101.5 by ODIXIE::CIAROCHI "One Less Dog"
   
�    Teachers carried paddles, too.  Big suckers, made out of walnut and
�    other HARD woods.

   My 7th grade math teacher's was wrapped in black electrical tape
   (hence the name Black Beauty) and had 2" diameter holes drilled down
   the length of it so as not to allow air resistance to deter it in its
   downward arc towards our bottoms.

The edges of the holes probably didn't do much to diminish the effect, either.

    Yeah, some of ours had holes.  Amazingly enough, many of these paddles
    were made by kids in shop and given to the teachers as gifts.
    
    Mrs. Ross, 8-G, my homeroom 8th grade teacher was the goddess of
    paddles.  She was about 6', 300+ pounds, and carried a sawed off paddle
    everywhere she went.  Claimed you could get more speed on a shorter
    paddle, and lord knows she had enough mass.
    
    Treated the home room like gold, but swore us to secrecy in the matter
    so as not to ruin her reputation.  She's have us out to her house on
    special occasions, and never missed one of our birthdays.  There would
    be a gift in our desk before class, and a card sent home.
    
    HOWEVER, when she cut loose, the object was either to get away fast, or
    make yourself as small and innocent-looking as possible.

>   My 7th grade math teacher's was wrapped in black electrical tape
>   (hence the name Black Beauty) and had 2" diameter holes drilled down
>   the length of it so as not to allow air resistance to deter it in its
>   downward arc towards our bottoms.

I left out the "'s" in the first line when I first read this.  Kinky.

Yes.

He's back, thank goodness.

:^)