"83 Ways to Trash Your School!!"

   This is from something that's vaguely related to "Yippies" <not YUPPIES as
   talked about in bulletin 4..> and "The Blacklisted News", whatever that is.
   Here we go...

   Liberate your life!  Smash you school!  The public schools are slowly
   killing every kid in them, stifling their creativity and individuality
   and making them into non-persons. If you are a victim of this, one of
   the things you can do it fight back!
   This chapter is not written for people who are not yet sure whether
   school is good or bad. It is written for students that realize the way
   that compulsory education and grades destroy the natural curiosity so
   many children feel... Who realize how the tracking system keeps the
   poor people and minorities in our society on the bottom while keeping
   the rich and powerful on the top... Who realize the danger of teaching
   complete obedience to authority and who are fed up with the racism and
   sexism in schools. It is written for students who have "gone through
   channels" trying to correct these problems and who are tired of help-
   lessly waiting while the schools destroy more and more minds each day.
   It is written for young people who realize that because they are trapped
   in school they don't have a chance to learn what they need to know to
   create a free and good life.
   Before trying any of the ideas in here, you should think about the effect
   they will have in view of the situation in your particular area. Not all
   of them will be effective at all times in all areas. If you think of
   other ideas, please send them to us so we can print them in future edi-
   tions...

   What you can do...

   1. Get a syringe (minus the needle) or similar device. Fill both tubes
      with epoxy glue and a little rubbing alcohol. You now have about
      half an hour to fill locks, door jams, etc., before glue hardens.
      If you can't get the epoxy glue and syringe, a tube of airplane
      cement can also be used although it is not permanent.

   2. An alternative use for the syringe is to pretend to shoot up while
      a teacher is watching. If they speak to you, tell them you have to
      do it because school is so horrible.

   3. Call the school and leave the phone off the hook. The way some (but
      not all) phone systems work, this will tie up their phone for as long
      as yours is off the hook.

   4. Protest U.S. aid to reactionary regimes abroad by defoliating plants
      around the school or by digging a bomb crater on the front lawn.
      When the ecology freaks complain, ask them where they were when the
      U.S. was doing the same thing in Indochina.

   5. Draw or paste something "obscene" on pull-down wall maps or movie
      screens.

   6. Get some of the punch cards that your school uses for taking attend-
      ance. Punch new holes in them either with a keypunch machine or a
      screwdriver. Then switch the cards with others wherever they are
      stored. If you can figure out the code the cards are punched by, this
      has even more possibilities. You can often be just as effective without
      actually repunching the cards by redistributing them a few days after
      you collect them (particularly when they're used for attendance).
      * Warning to all NFA students - Item #6 DOES NOT apply to you..

   7. Start an infomation service to let new students voice their opinions
      and warnings about the teachers and administrators before enrollment
      day.

   8. Bad food? Have a good ol' fashioned food fight!!!

   9. In gym classes or in hallways between classes, have massive searches
      for "lost" contact lenses telling people not to walk through the hall
      or "you might step on it".

  10. If your school still has a dress code, protest it, having everyone do
      something disruptive that does not violate the code. For exmalple, dye
      your hair green with food coloring.

  11. Free all the animals in the biology classroom.

  12. Write a "consumer report" on the "education" you've been consuming.
      Distribute it to parents at school functions.

  13. Periodically have students go to the office to have some rumor conf-
      irmed or denied.

  14. Perform citizen's arrest of administrators for destroying the minds
      of youths, then telephone the police to come and take the criminals
      into custody. (This would be an excellent guerilla theatre action.)

  15. Rip off dishes and silverware from the cafeteria, towels from the
      gym, stencils and paper from the duplicating room, layout equipment
      from the art and drafting departments, tools from the wood shop, and
      light bulbs from the sockets. Give them to a needy movement group.

  16. During lunch, turn on and light all the gas jets in the science labs.

  17. Demand to see your school records on file. (Everyone can see them.)

  18. You can make a very effective fuse by inserting a non-fil