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8 October 2004 the >loBdDaae ncssm I the stentorian My first day here and I've got to shower at 2.00 am...And...Kyiie was talking about ghosts. Isn't this place an old hospital or something? But...there's no such thing...right? What was /that? ■"Hey! Did your'^^ roomie faint? Is) she okay? / jfeah. She'll be just fine 'as soon as they move er out of my room^.. The Two Week Rule: A Junior Perspective Calvin Young I moved into NCSSM on the 15th of August to be greeted by a crowd of guys who I would be living with for the next year. I hung out with them for the first few days, but before the first week ended, it was quite clear that a few of them had already taken a fancy to a few of the girls at the school. They stopped hanging out with the rest of us guys and started spending one-on-one time with their girls. They seemed sure that they are in love. What is this? Is it just me or is this sickening? While the infamous Two Week rule was elearly established at NCSSM to give the seniors an opportu nity to check out the junior girls. It is quite irritating to see two individuals who have known each other for less than 120 hours holding hands. Already there are students on this campus who are playing, that game where, as soon as that special someone comes back from being “Away,” they stare dreamily at their monitor trying to decide whether or not to IM them or to wait and see if that special someone IM them instead. It seems logical that one would want to spend the first two weeks of school trying to meet as many people as they can, not trying to hook up with that girl that they sat behind during the math placement test at Welcome Day who they’ve been dreaming about for the past three months, or that guy that ate breakfast with them on the first day of school when they had no other friends. Relationships will come; why is everyone rush ing them? Juniors have two years to get to know each other and even the seniors have the entire rest of the year to develop good relationships with the special someone that they sat behind at the math placement test over a year ago...that special someone that they had made numerous futile attempts to try to for all of junior year, but is now in half of the same classes as them. It’s a bit disturbing to see students getting together so quickly. What happens when they break up? They will have no other fiiends because they had spent all of their time with their girlfnend or boyftiend whom they now hate with a fiery passion. NCSSM is a residential school that occupies an area of no more than a city block; chances are, you will end up spending quite a lot of time with that individual whom you have grown so fond of Don’t push it lest either a) they will start thinking you are stalking them or b) you will end up isolating yourself fi-om the rest of your hall mates. Everyone should just let their hormones chill a little. continued from front page on a more personal level facil itates the teaching process; having spoken to his students outside of class, he feels that during class he is speaking to them, not at them. “It is important to know the stu dents personally, to think of them as people as well as stu dents. One of my former col leagues always used to say, T don’t teach math; I teach stu dents.” With all the changes that have transpired since 1980, Dr. Miller feels it is imperative that the needs of the students are kept in mind. As a teacher, he does not feel that he can declare the changes to be “good” or “bad,” nor does he feel he is in the position to do so. “We are in the midst of a sea of changes; I only hope all of them will work out,” he says. Regardless of changes made, whether the school is improv ing amenities or expanding the student body, our opinions are what truly matter. “The end product,” Dr. Miller assured me, “is not that of the teachers and administrators. It is that of the student.” Crossword Puzzle Steve Jones 0 £ stentorian the north Carolina school of science & mathematics 1219 broad street, durham, nc 27705 http://www.ncssm.edu/stentorian Editors-in-Chief: Kristoph Kleiner and Ying Liu Advisor: Steve Jones News & Features Editors: Lucie Guo and Derek Paylor Layout Editors: Melissa Myotte and Agata Pelka Op-Ed Editor: Aneesh Kulkami and Jonathan Smith Photography Editors: Caroline Saul Website Editor: Aneesh Kulkami Sports Editor: Javier Deluca-Westrate Staff Writers: Caroline Saul, Jasmine Rowe, Connie Chu, Lance Harden, Tamzin Mitchell, Robert Davis, Joshua Hall, Calvin Young, Sara Wise, Agata Pelka, Mary Blaine, Annu Kashyap, Yolanda Fair, Dan Applegate, Kevin Chen, Yajing Gao, Dean Fox, Jessica Gibson, Phillip Golladay, Chris McLain, Nick Cook, and Jeff Tang Photographers: May Liu, Yan Yan, Katie Tygielski, Dan Applegate, Vanna Sombatsaphay ACROSS: 1.. "Like that will ever happen!" 5. Week-ending abbr. 9. Barack , 2004 Democratic Convention speaker 14. Japanese soup 15. "It's !" ("I'll pay!") 16. Irritated 17. Prefix with sphere 18. Go separate ways 19. January, in Juarez 20. NCSSM's social life policy 23. Crash site? 24. Naval VIP 25. Place to go when you're weary of K NCSSM 32. Picked 33. Soothing balm 34. "Method and " (Fox sitcom) 35. Blue (Kasparov opponent) 36. Out on (at risk) 38. Bankroll 39. Hockey great Bobby 40. In a frenzy 41. "The Family" author Kelley 42. Most impor- tant foreign language phrase at NCSSM 46. Big Ten sch. 47. Fabled overconfident 62. Loafer, for one 63. Christmas drinks DOWN: 1. "Amo, amas, ' 2. Darth Vader, for one 3. "Woe !" 1 2 3 • 14 17 20 lie 8 10 11 12 ri9 artist 22. Grill offering 25. Met production? 26. Wombs 27. 17-syllable verse 28. Freddy Krueger's street 29. Kind of force 30. 13 ■z 26 32 35 39 42 27 28 |30 Q1 ■■Be 37 |43 44 45 48. The preferred moves at the first NCSSM dance 55. lazuli (shade of blue) 56. Oxygenation site 57. Genuine, to Ginuwine? 58. Put on a pedestal 59. Curtain-raising time 60. Where the Hawks once played 61. Word on a door in an elementary school ("Alas!") 4. Tiptoer's bane 5. Refill, as a tank 6. Bother incessantly 7. 1950s Hungarian leader Nagy 8. Throw a party for 9. Like some books, perhaps 10. Deaden, as with cold 11. Sarah Hughes' leap 12. Bebe watcher 13. Brouhaha 21. "American Gothic" 44. Japanese religion 45. "Mona Lisa Smile" actress Gyllenhaal 48. Curbside shout 49. Practice pugilism 50. RLA and PEC, e.g. 51. "Parting is sweet sorrow" (Juliet) 52. Marlin's son 53. "West Side Story" faction 54. Byron et al. 55. Stocking stuffer?
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