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“DU' c

o ... do you have a
minute?” stuttered the
timid looking junior girl
“Sure, but you'll have
to talk while I walk to
class. I’ve already been
late three times this week
and it’s only Thursday," said
the sophomore boy in the
faded Levis.
I might as well get it over
with she kept telling herself
"I was just curious, would
you like to go to Criss Cross
with me?” she said in one
breath.
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“What?” he asked not quite
understanding her.
“Would you like to go to
/ Criss Cross with me?” she
V repeated more slowly this
/
time.
/ v and she thought he would say
I n '
His eyes lit up for a second
/_
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/ < ' yes, but he said he had been
waiting for a good friend of
v
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■5* his to ask him. She turned
slowly, hanging her head in
In rejection, when he said, ..
and that particular friend is
you!”
"I could just kill ..."
How did Criss Cross actual­
ly originate? “I don't really
know when it started and I've
been here for 16 years. I guess
it’s just a tradition that breaks
the tradition of the guy asking
the girl,” said Principal Lon
Bemth.
How do girls go about
asking males to Criss Cross?
“She called me up," said
sophomore Brian Diesing
Senior Roger Linn said "She
just said would you like to go
to Criss Cross."
Senior Dale Kistaitis
summarized it reflecting.
2)ancing with him­
self” is freshman Girls are more open now
24/criss cross Mark Walford. Watch There are other times when
out Billy Idol I they ask guys ]0ts 0f stuff."