The first day of school, you walk in and see all these signs about new clubs or programs offered at BHS. When Justin Hildebrandt decided to start a club/program called Happy Liver club, he thought it would help people to avoid the peer pressure of drinking. Nevertheless, when you look at some of the members that wear the shirts, you still see them out on the weekends drinking or doing other things. If you don’t plan to stay true to the club, then don’t join it.

There was a massive amount of people that joined Happy Liver club at the beginning of the year, and the leaders knew there were going to be failures. Some of the members are young and most of the time young students go astray and fall into peer pressure. In addition, some of the members are older and have bad habits with no discipline. Some of the students want to join just to say they are part of something, get shirts, and get free lunch!

If you choose to join a group like Happy Liver club, don’t do it just to make people think you have a “happy liver,” do it because you really are healthy. If you are joining Happy Liver club or the NOT program, do you really think they are working to help you stay away from drugs and tobacco?

“No, because there are some people who are in Happy Liver and drink and if they are in the program I think they should be dedicated to it or just not be in it!” commented sophomore Malaree Jacobsen.

Senior Justin Hildebrandt added, “Yes, I think it is helping, little by little, they are giving some positive motivation.”

In other words, some people think its not working, and others think it is slowly, but surely effective!

Something else new, would be the NOT program to help stop smoking and/or chewing. I think it will help some people, but not all of them. Some want the help; some just want an excuse to get free stuff, free lunch, and to go on the trip at the end of the year.

Mr. Arntt commented, “Sometimes they join because their friends join, not because they believe in the organization.”

“It’s the students themselves that have the greatest impact on the decision to stick with it or not,” he added.

People were asked how the effectiveness of these new programs be improved, most of the comments were the same. They think that there should be more rules, the meetings should be more serious and the members should be involved more.

Do you really think that these programs will help in the end? What do you think could help improve? Maybe take random urinary tests or something that could tell whether or not you are doing drugs or drinking alcohol. That’s a little extreme! But why not, if you want people to be true to the program?