CLASS HITS SNAG ON `PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999' PROM PLAN.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer The last class of the millennium at Simi Valley High School Simi Valley High School is a secondary school located in Simi Valley, California which was established in 1920 as the first high school in the valley. It nestles in the Santa Susana Mountains and is adjacent to the San Fernando Valley, part of the city and county of Ventura. wants to ``party like it's 1999'' at the senior prom For the formal end-of-school-year dance, see . Senior Prom is a still-classified U.S. Air Force program to develop a stealth unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle (and possibly as a cruise missile), designed to be launched from a DC-130, B-52, or B-1. , but administrators might not let them. Senior members of the high school leadership class, who are elected representatives of the associated student body, had unanimously voted in February to select the line from the song by Prince as this year's prom theme. They said ``1999'' has been the unofficial un·of·fi·cial adj. Of or being a drug that is not listed in the United States Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary. theme song all year. But students said they've met with administrators who are concerned about connotations of the word ``party.'' ``I don't understand their logic,'' said Jessica Self, a senior in the leadership class. ``Words change. `Party' to them 20 years ago may have meant drugs and sex, but to us it means going out with your friends, dancing and having a good time. That's what prom's really about and not what they're taking it as.'' Students said they received word at a meeting Tuesday that the principal has rejected the theme for the May 1 prom. Principal Dennis Rast RAST radioallergosorbent test. RAST abbr. radioallergosorbent test RAST, n.pr See test, modified radioallergosorbent. RAST radioallergosorbent test. did not return telephone calls for comment Tuesday. But his secretary said he told her he had not yet made a decision on the theme and was surprised to hear that students believed he had. Still, Jessica said she and others will be circulating cir·cu·late v. cir·cu·lat·ed, cir·cu·lat·ing, cir·cu·lates v.intr. 1. To move in or flow through a circle or circuit: blood circulating through the body. 2. a petition today to protest the principal's objection A formal attestation or declaration of disapproval concerning a specific point of law or procedure during the course of a trial; a statement indicating disagreement with a judge's ruling. to the theme. She said she anticipates gathering 100 to 200 signatures from students, as well as their parents. |
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