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January 27, 2005
Letter to the Editor
Seahawk Staff Opinion
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Show me the money?
We are honest, we are caring, we are mod
est, we are giving, not receiving, wonderful
people. We are trustworthy university going
students who will make an impression on this
world and always be proud of who we are, and
of the road we traveled to be that person.
We are not concerned with little green men.
We do not fall asleep to the TV, we fall asleep
after marking our place in our favorite Von-
negut novel. We are not unhealthy, unread,
uninformed, uninspired, unqualified, unreal
istic, unquestioning, unreasonable youth. We
like ourselves, and we like our school, and we
support our school in everything it does, and
every decision it makes. We go to ballgames
to support our team, and we do not go for the
spectacle. We talk about the game during half
time, we care more about the Seahawks than
the free t-shirts, and we cheer for our team.
What we do not do, is cheer when one of
our aforementioned honest, caring, etcetera
Sarah Dawn Hart
Staff Writer
Everyone has one. In my group of friends,
we call them our “Noel.” I coined the term,
because yes; 1 just didn’t seem to shut up about
him (in my real life or in print,) the one that
stole my heart away: my Noel, my first love.
First loves. They are a topic of endless dis
cussion. Why? Because they never seem to go
away. No matter how hard 1 tried, I could not
make the thoughts of him disappear. The truth
is you can never be first-love-free.
First loves are true loves, ones you give
your full heart to, mostly because you don’t
know any better. The first time anyone falls
in love, it is with total and complete abandon.
The idea that your heart can be broken is the
furthest thing from your mind, so you toss
away logic and give it everything you have.
The problem is that once that relationship
ends, there is nothing left for you. A part of me
will always belong to my first love, whether I
want it to or not. He was such a huge part of
my life for so long that I cannot simply rid
myself of him, no matter how much time has
elapsed.
The truth is... that kind of reckless love
can never last, and is usually far more alive
on one side of the relationship. I will always
remember a quote from one of the less popular
Show me self-respect
student body members enters an inflatable
room to grab dollar bills given by a local bank
ing chain. We do not approve of this, and we
look at this and say, “This is what is wrong
with our country.” And we write letters to the
editor showing our disbelief, shock, and dis
gust at the uncharacteristic display of greed at
half court in Trask Colliseum.
This is what we are.
And what we are not is a faculty/student
government that would allow a child of no
more than 11 years of age to enter the above
mentioned inflatable room to grab dollar
bills.
I say to my fellow UNCW student, “They’re
teaching that kid right, don’t you think?”
“Sure are,” he says... and we exit the build
ing.
Justin Edge
Junior
Woody Allen films that said “The only love
that lasts in unrequited love.” Nothing could
be truer. The love that we eventually discover
was far more important to us is the love that
we can never detach ourselves from. With
time, we eventually realize that a love that
intense rarely lasts, the memories become
glossed over, and the reality (that we were the
true fu-e in the relationship) becomes even
hazier.
This does not mean that I never think
about him, because memories last a lifetime.
I know that I loved him truly, and dearly, and
no matter how long I think that 1 could have
been in love with him, the truth is, I am not in
love anymore. I am in love with a memory that
never existed. I am, however, allowed to love
the “him” I thought 1 knew and the memories
that we made.
He was my first love, my Romeo in the
tragic way, but you move on; he moves on;
because life goes on.
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Welcome! But you
can't live here
Uppers off-campus? No, this is not a new
drug prevention program implemented by
UNC-Wilmington. It is, however, a new pol
icy that will be taking effect next semester,
when upperclassmen will no longer be able
to reside on-campus in order to make room
for a new freshmen class that considerably
exceeds those of previous years.
So with whom do our institution’s respon
sibilities lay? Definitely not with its upper
classmen. While a handful of returning
sophomores will be able to take advantage
of the 18 percent of on-campus housing that
is not allocated to new freshmen, juniors and
seniors will have no other choice but to seek
other living quarters. As for transfer stu
dents? The message is likewise: “Welcome to
UNC-Wilmington, but you can’t live here.”
Brad Reid from the Department of
Housing and Residence Life explained that
freshmen need on-campus housing more
than upperclassmen. While this may be true,
the question for Jvtr. Reid and UNCW offi
cials who support this new plan is, “Why is
UNCW accepting more students than they
can handle in the first place?”
Maybe the answer to this question has
something to do with the extra money that
UNCW will collect from a hike in student
body numbers.
So, who will benefit from this new plan?
Definitely not the returning students who
have earned their keep through good aca
demic standing, but will be denied the ben
efits of on-campus housing.
The Department of Housing and Residence
Life announced that returning students with
“unique circumstances” will be considered
for on-campus housing on a case to case
basis.
So what constitutes a student with a
“unique circumstance”?
Could it be a student who may not be
able to afford the difference in cost between
on campus and off campus housing? Is it a
student whose parents feel uneasy about their
daughter/son living off-campus? Or could it
just be a student who highly values on-cam-
pus housing as an invaluable aspect of their
educational experience? If so, it seems as if
the Department of Housing and Residence
Life will have a lot of unique circumstances
to review, case by case.
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