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Seahawk ViewpoiflU Letter to the editor Bush could be anyone's drinking buddy "Excellence Through Truth and Dedication" since 1948 Editor-in-Chief - Andrew Bader Managing Editor - Liana Pesci Advertising Director - Kelly Rhine News Editor ■ Kiara Jones Sports Editor - Matthew Blood. Lifestyles Editor - LinnieSarah Helpern Chief Photographer - Nolan Dean Distribution Manager - Christine Huels Adviser - Kevin Knight Student Media Coordinator - Bill DiNome Contributing Staff Assistant News Editor: Barbara Twigg Assistant Sports Editor: Jason Jutovsky Assistant Lifestyles Editor. Brad Holland Assistant Photo Editor: Dan Hacker Production: Whitney Bishop. Caitlin Lambome. Julia Pol Isaac Graphic Design: Rhonda Aldridge Distribution: Josh Aronson Copy Editor. 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The Seahawk is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press. Individual staff memtsers are affiliated with the Society of Professional Journalists. The Seahawk utilizes the Tribune Media Service for portions of content. The Seahawk is hosted on the Internet by College Publisher, Inc. All content in printed and electronk; editions are (c) 2004, the Seahawk Newspaper. On the Web: ht^://ww!«.lheseahavyk43^ Polls indicate that many regard G.W. Bush as a “strong leader.” Comparison with other “strong” Presidents (Washington, Lincoln, TR, FDR, Truman, JFK, and Reagan) shows that many were in combat and JFK used fam ily connections to get a combat assignment; war was a last resort won with foresight, policy flexibility (flip flops) and sensitive intelligence; while none were scientists, each aggressively promoted scientific research; none prostituted a tragedy like 9/11 for per sonal political gain; all were uplifting and none governed with terror alerts and negativ ity; wars were associated with job growth and abundant American made goods; none toler ated public mocking of the Purple Heart; and none permitted an aide to compare Americans to a 10-year-old child. Brad Holland Assistant Lifestyles Editor Okay, so your Grandma gave you a guitar last Christmas and you’ve been learning how to play. You’ve got a few chords down and you want to make the next logical step: a band. Never fear, for I am here to guide you down the road to fame and fortune. First off, disregard all those silly rumors you’ve heard about talent being important. Instead of learning how to play more stuff, take the stuff that you already know and play it in a bunch of different ways. Congratulations; those are songs. It’s okay if they sound exactly alike. After you have some music laid down, practice bitching. Grab a pen and write down your bitchings, things like “there’s nothing to do,” “my girlfriend left me,” etc. After you have a few songs, to find a few guys or gals to play them with. Again, don’t search for talent; strive to find “the look.” Blank eyes that stare into nothingness are sure signs of a winner. After you have two or three more band members, you all need to go shopping together. This ensures that you don’t buy any clothes that are too unique. Above all, think TIGHT. Black should be the number one color option, but navy blue will suffice if the store isn’t properly stocked. Remember, you’re not in Poison, so less is more. Hairstyling is key. Your hair needs to be messy, but it takes a lot of work; you can’t just wet it and sleep on it. Once it’s disheveled enough, dye it black. Don’t worry if every band member's is black. This is “mystique.” Figure pi^ .a name. It inust be no more than Bush is certainly an affable fellow who could be anyone’s drinking buddy. But the local watering hole graduate is question able presidential material. His myopic mili tary policies are giving us another bloody Vietnam, he has failed to provide well-pay- ing jobs and affordable health care, and he continues to spend our money like a drunken liberal. Despite many intelligence warnings, Bush-Cheney did not protect America on 9/11, and many current security programs are dangerously under-funded. Since we have no proof of foiled attacks, we cannot assume that they are protecting us well now, and there are reasons to suspect that more than the treasury is running on empty. Dr. Kathleen Dietrich Stockbridge, Mass. 3 words and the first word must be “Tlje.” 1 don’t care if you were going to call your band Merciless Slaughter, change it to The Merciless Slaughterers. Type up a bio to send to local venues, magazines, and college newspapers. Place heavy emphasis on your amazing live show. Also, reiterate that you guys are stripped down, no gimmicks. Never mind the fact that you haven’t played a single show yet, no one can tell from a press release, dummy. After you score a few gigs, you may want to record a demo. If you’re really lucky, a record label A&R guy may have seen you play and thought that you were the next big thing. The label will probably want you to record an LP right away. That’s great, but immediately fol lowing the release of said LP, break up. Pay no attention to the fact that you were only a band for less than a year; later on, people are guar anteed to look back and call you geniuses. If you still want to play music, start another band immediately following the breakup. Everyone loves bands that form from other bands. You get bonus points if you can get all but one of the old band’s members in the new band. This will be easy because there is almost always at least one guy that gets on everybody’s nerves. (It’s usually the drummer). After this point you don’t_ need my help anymore; just repeat as desired! Take it easy on the sex and drugs, but never let up on the rock n’ roll. Lastly, if anyone ever accuses you of being unoriginal or watered-down, just shrug and say, “Hey bro, 1 don’t care. 1 just want to play music.” Critics are jerks, anyway. Seahawk Staff Opinion 'f We've got I spirit? Let's* hear it UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, Appalachian ECU... No, this isn’t a rundown of Norii Carolina educational institutions or school! with great (not to mention popular) foolM teams. They are any one of thousands of school sweatshirts seerK wandering aroual UNCW on a given day. It’s an understate ment to say that the aforementioned schools wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a rival college’s spirit gear. According to one student, a visitor foual wearing a UNCW shirt at ECU’s first footbal game of the year was mercilessly pummeled A little over the top (and criminal) - but ift school spirit to say the least. So why is it so acceptable for a Wilmington student to attend class in a Duke baseball hat? Because we have no school spirit, that's why! Granted, compared to other NC cam puses, UNCW is a fairly young school. Wt don’t have hundreds of years of prestige and alumni to back our name. Yet, most agree one thing is missing from the good ol’ Dub tliai these other colleges thrive on,. .football! Yes, football, the sport that has brouglf many a college campus together for decads over cheap beer and even cheaper seals Without a football team, many UNCW stu dents start filtering away on the weekends to attend other school’s games. Sadly, then are various unproven reasons that lead maii) to believe UNCW will never have a team of its own. This leaves one to wonder, what can w do? Funny you should ask! Support the teams we do have! UNCW’s basketball team always offers an awesome game. And the intramunl football teams alone are worth the walk ic the field. (Hell, Seahawk Sports dedicates ai entire page to intramural sports.) So, save $70, buy a UNC-Wilmingtfl sweatshirt and head out to an intramun! game. Raise those spirit fingers high and I* true to your school. If you don’t do it, will? Featured every week, the Seahawk Sl4 Opinion unsigned editorial represents majority opinion of the editorial board. So you wanna be a rock star?
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