By NIVEEN KATTAN
Managing Editor
New parking spots were assigned to Smith students last semester to try to get control over the chaos students had been greeted with each morning.
Before the new policy was put in place, parking at BLS was on a first-come-first-serve basis.
The administration chose the new policy of assigning parking spaces for several reasons. First, the policy is designed to control the amount of people who are parking in the school�s parking lot without school- assigned tags. After the assigment of spots, several students who had been getting away with parking without paying the fee bought the required tags. The second reason is to be able to distinguish between seniors and underclassmen. This helps the administration determine who should be going off campus for lunch. Currently, only seniors are allowed to go off campus for lunch, but administrators had noticed that many underclassmen were routinely leaving Smith at lunchtime.The third purpose for assigning parking spaces was to give seniors easy access to the school. Of course, 12th-graders are granted several privileges because of seniority.
The division of spaces was based on spots closest to the main building being given to the approximately 100 seniors with parking tags. The next section was assigned to 25 underclassmen who go off campus during the day to Weaver and the rest to those underclassmen who drive to school. The special area in front of the auditorium was set aside for students whose spots may be occupied whenever they go off campus and then return later.
Al Munns, the assistant principal in charge of parking, urges students to park in their designated areas. If someone is in your spot, give Mr. Munns a description of the car in your spot, the licence�s tag and parking tag numbers. Do not park in the next available space or your car may be towed.
Towing began to be enforced at the end of February.
�Any time you get to something new, it takes an adjustment period,� Munns said.
Munns urges patience with the new system and urges students to prominently display their parking tags.
The Teaneck, N.J., Terpsichoreans performed before the Smith student body Feb. 17 as part of the school�s celebration of black history month.
The all-female troupe performed both classical and modern dances. Despite a faulty sound system, the performance dazzled the audience with their graceful, intricate and energetic routines.
The Teaneck group is led by Greensboro native Cheryl Miller-Porter, a Dudley alumnus. Miller-Porter is the co-founder of the organization.
The third annual Parents Night Out at Smith, held march 20, was a huge success. Parents heard Principal Barry Williams and Assistant Principal Melissa Harrelson discuss school improvement.. The primary topic was the increased emphasis on end-of-course and standardized test scores. BLS�s average SAT score, after reaching a high of 880 in 1994, has steadied the last two years at 850.
The school should significant improvement in scores on the English II EOC writing test and the U.S. History EOC test last year. All science EOC test scores should modest gains, too., as did Algebra I.
Students whose parents attended the meeting received extra credit in their classes.
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