Opinion:
						Luchtime Lamentations By staff writer, Breanna Amerson
	Along with the many other changes the students of South Hills are getting used to this year, our lunch schedule has been revised. Instead of having two 45 minute lunches, with the first reserved for freshmen and the second for all other classes, we have now been inconvenienced with a more complicated and much less accommodating schedule. Rather than allotting students 45 minutes to eat, our time has beeen cut to only 30 minutes, and a third lunch has been added for sophomores, making 3rd lunch for juniors and seniors only. This addition was considered necessary to prevent the problem with congestion in the cafeteria, as well as to ensure that all underclassmen remain on campus for lunch on a daily basis.      Because of our overabundance of freshmen and sophomores compared to the amount of upperclassmen who eat on campus, the first and second lunches are quite crowded, and when the new 30 minute time slot meets the somewhat lenghty lines of the cafeteria, many of our 9th and 10th graders are not even able to finish their food! Upperclassmen, who have a choice between rushing off-campus, scrambling to order their food and eat, attempting to get to class on time, or staying on campus, subject themsleves to the same lunchtime problem freshmen and sophomores face on a daily basis, as well as robbing themselves of a privilege which has not only been granted in previous years, but one I think is deserved by the students and faculty at South Hills High School as much as at any other high school in this district.      The new luch schedule is not only inconvenient, it can be a great class disrupter. Between walking to and from the parking lot and driving to a restaurant and back, juniors and seniors, on a good day, are left with around twenty minutes to eat, and because of the time restraint, many teachers have admitted to seeing a great rise in the amount of tardy students returning from lunch this year. Althought it is each student's responsiblity to be to class on time, the increase in after-lunch tardies that I have observed causes me to question the source of the problem. We do not have enough time to eat comfortably, and while it may help to solve the problem of sophomores sneaking off campus to eat, it exacerbates problems with our lunch schedule in more ways than it helps them.