From a teenager's point of

view, Fayetteville is extremely boring. Only a few

activities are available for teenagers here. Movies,

Dixieland, bowling and billiards are just about it. As a

teenager, I know from experience that these activities

get boring after awhile.

The grounds on which [club

co-owner Myron] Moorehead is charged are ungrounded and

are aimed at removing the club from our "quiet"

town. The video of the couple dancing on the floor is no

reason to call the club a "dry orgy." If the

couple in the video were not at the club, they would very

likely be engaged in their activity somewhere else.

As for "imitating

sexual activity," that is the style of dancing of

today. No longer do kids dance like "Saturday Night

Fever" or "Grease." Today's dancing is

more spontaneous and going with the flow than with set

moves. Part of adolescence is the flow of hormones and

when dancing and hormones can take over. Look at it this

way, they could actually be engaging in intercourse

rather than dancing and imitating it. Which would you

rather your child do?

Parents are too obsessed

with providing only good influences for their children

that they overlook the need for the bad influences. They

give everything the did not have during their childhood

but often forget to give what they did have. How many

adults did not engage in these types of activities as

teenagers? Not many.

As for the people saying

the club disturbs the peace in the area of town, I can

not think of many homes located near the club. There are

a florist, two gas stations, Jordan Sales and Salvage, an

old town hall, and a church located around the club. If

most of these places are open and are being bothered at

the time of night that the club is open, that is not the

club's fault. The gas stations receive extra business and

it is extremely odd for a florist to be open at 8pm.

What is going on is the

usual stereotyping of my generation. Adults do not look

at the good ones but concentrate on the few rotten eggs.

Therefore, all teenagers must suffer for another's

mistakes. It is the same with driving laws but that is

another letter in itself.

The city and parents need

to realize that they cannot change the way teenagers

behave. The simple removal will not change anything. The

kids will just move to another location to do their

partying.

If this continues,

Fayetteville will provide more proof for its

teenager-unfriendly reputation. All us teens ask for is a

place where we can hang out, have fun, party a little,

and not be bothered by adults who don't like what we are

doing. Why can we not have a place like that?

Derek Rader

[email protected]

Fayetteville