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December 00 news page 3 So you want to be a @*$#ing mountain climber? Dan PlERGALLINl Some of you might re member the recent article by Alistair Anagnostou about Abercrombie and other cloth ing brands that have shirts “with logos that shout out “I’m a #$@%*&ing mountain climber that en gages in life threatening but exhilarating sports”. Well, now you can be a #$@%*&ing mountain climber here at NCSSM. Sort of Although the closest mountains are a good two and half hours away, NCSSM has the next best thing: its own climb ing wall. In 1999, a group of stu dents built the wall for Special Projects Week in the PEC wres tling room. While a climbing wall is not a mountain, the principle is still the same: you climb until you reach the top. The climbing wall is more than just a your or Safety is an im^nant aspect of climoing dinary wall, it has other pur poses as well. Besides just us ing it to climb, you can also use it to get a good athletic workout and its also a good place to just hang out at. You might wonder what it takes to get to climb the wall at NCSSM. As each wall adminis trator will tell you, it takes 15 minutes (at most) to get certi fied, than you can come back and climb as much as you like. The certifi cation pro- c e s s requires that a student learn how to tie the cor rect knot (a double fig ure eight), put on a har ness, and be able to belay another climber (us- the Dm- mands). Stu dents can get certified by any of the three wall administrators: Tommy Miller, Anna Grant, or Alistair Anagnostou. The wall is able to handle up to three climbers at a time. Each of these climbers climbs on a particular section of the wall. On each of these sections, there are holds for the climber to use for their hands and feet. Some of these holds are organized into courses, so that anyone from the beginner to the most ad vanced are challenged while climbing the wall. And since the jtolds are removable, the climb ing wall can always be changed to make different and more chal lenging courses. When you go to the climbing wall, you won’t be alone. There are over 65 eerti- fied climbers for the climbing wall. However, they don’t climb all at once. There are usually six or less people at the wall every night, meaning that if you want to climb, you’ll have plenty of time to do so each night. And even if you don’t climb, you can always come hang out on the gym mats in the wrestling room and just watch and socialize, as many people do. And the climb ing wall is open from 6:30-7:45 PM Monday-Thursday every week, so come by one day and give climbing a shot. Even if you don’t like it, you can still right fully wear your shirt that says “I’m a #$@%*&ing mountain climber”. iLOOK OUT! CATALOG & NAME BRAND OUTLET Labels you love, prices that let you indulge. US E A/twn Street Sa8*lSB2«>33«(44 Mdt CHAPS, NtutaKaoo 706 Ninth Street taU>HAM2S6-7g62 Gettin’ jiggy with Mrs. Link April Pridgen Many of you have seen Marilyn Link around the Biol ogy floor teaching students the wonders of dissecting cats. However, Anatomy and Human Physiology are not the only classes Mrs. Link teaches. Ev ery Thursday night, she straps on her gold dancing shoes and spends the evening instructing more than fifty beginning and advanced ballroom dancers. when she decided that head- stands were not for her. Ten years after getting married, Mrs. Link finally convinced her hus band to take dance lessons. Now, the couple has been danc ing off and on for thirty years. The ballroom dancing seminar now taught by the Links at Science and Math began as an evening activity for Special Projects Week (which has now turned into Mini-Term) in the mid- 1980s. The kids who took many types of cued ballroom dances including waltz, tango, cha-cha, two-step, and jive. The dances are usually cued over the music by a cuer so that the dancers know exactly what steps to do. “Beeause it is cued over the music, people who aren’t strong dancers can do more complex dances,” said Mrs. Link. Many students admit that the advantages of taking ballroom dancing are much greater than learning a few more dance moves. Dancing is a great way to meet people and relieve stress. “This is my second semester (of ballroom dancing) and I absolutely love it. It re minds me that this school is about more than just academ ics. It helps us develop as people,” said Senior Kiki Murphey. Mrs. Link also agrees that the seminar is very helpful to some students. There are times when a student who is having difficulty in his classes will take the seminar as a stress reliever, and his grades will actually im prove. Once, a student with co ordination difficulties joined the class and stuck with it for a whole year. Other students en- •. ■ j ,jr.ovl joyed the tango so much that they composed one of their own for Latin America class. One student even went so far as to drop out of Case Western, for a year to pursue professional round dancing. (However, Mrs. Link assures us that this is not her goal in teaching the semi nar.) Yet, whatever the reason, ballroom dancing usually pro vides students with p sense of accomplishment. Mrs. Link says it is always great when students finally catch on to a hard dance. “There’s a spontaneous burst of applause. Nobody ever does that at a lab practical!” she said. Mrs. Link began to culti vate an interest in ballroom dancing as a teenager when her parents began taking her and a group of friends to folk dances in Maryland. Those special memories helped her make the transition from gymnastics to ballroom dancing in college. ancing Jor many years this class enjoyed it so much that they requested a seminar. Seminars have been taught off and on ever since according to student interest. Last year, the Links offered ballroom dancing as a “stress reliever activity” and it became a seminar class once again by popular demand. Mrs. Link’s students learn D stentorian north Carolina school of science and mathematics 1219 broad street durham, nc 27705 Editors-in-Chief: Will Gameau and Katie Watlington Adviser: John Woodmansee Departments: News Editor: Shaina Schmeltzle Writers: Igor Gorodzky, Michael Mueller, Joanne Lee Features Editor: April Pridgen Writers: Brent Lyon, Brett Stewart, Dan Piergallini, Kitty Fromson Sports Editor: Jon-Michael Dougherty Writers: Amit Aravapalli, D.J. Dore Opinions Editor: Emily Warren Writers: David Prater, Katye Blackwell, Corey Hadley Backpage Editor: Theresa Anasti Layout Editor: Amit Aravapalli Staff: Ravi Agarwal, Laura Fieselman,Annafrancesca Fuchs, Jamie Shin Photograhy Editor: Ashley Rankin Staff: Freddie Lee, Jack Cheng, Jamie Shin Columnist: Alistair Anagnostou http://iluvatar.ncssm.edu/stentorian
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