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COLTON REVIEW
By Amber McKinney
Editor
An example of an award winning poem from 2007-2008 Colton Review:
City of Ghosts
The houses are built sideways, the wrong way,
in the City of Ghosts.
The white drapes in the windows move with the sea breezes,
caught only because the houses are turned narrow-ways.
Black wrought iron gates and crumbling brick walls
Divide the piazzas and the overgrown gardens from the cobblestone streets.
The wrong-way houses are haunted
in the City of Ghosts.
The ghosts that walk their creaking wooden halls
Are sorrowful mothers, and haughty aristocrats.
And boys who shouldn’t have gone hunting that day.
The streets and the market in the City of Ghosts are haunted too.
But nobody tells the stories about their ghosts.
They aren’t quaint and full of moonlight.
Their terror isn’t the kind that fades when the dawn creeps
Into the hotel windows, past the heavy, industrial curtains.
Their horrors are in the daylight, the reality of the past.
You can’t see these ghosts the way you see
The ghosts in the wrong-way houses.
You can feel them though in the press of bodies in the market place.
You can hear them in the yells, the noise, the bargaining and buying.
You can see them in the face of the basket-maker
Who sits at the edge of the market and sells the same wares
That her grandmother and her grandmother’s mother sold.
The City of Ghosts is a city on its side.
Hiding its past, the blood of thousands.
The screams, the pain, the hatred.
By turning the other way, the wrong-way wall, frontward.
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CORNY, Continued from Page 3
glove-covered hands that were illu
minated by black lights.
The activities began vi'ith the tradi
tional events of com-shucking and
apple-bobbing and progressed on lo
skits, hog callin’, tall tale, and then
class songs. As usual, all of the per
formances were very well prepared
and entertaining to watch. Some of
the highlights ofthe evening include
seeing the freshmen finally “experi
ence it,” watching the sophomores
drive a golf cart around the island,
an extremely creative dance with
flashlights by the junior class, and
the elaborate costumes and props of
the seniors.
Because each event is judged sepa
rately, there is a winner for each
Hioni Counesy MoikM/i CoHego Anhites
category and also an overall winner.
The majority of awards went in or
der, with seniors getting first place
and freshmen getting fourth. How
ever, some events, like the spectacu
lar skit performance by the juniors,
were able to upset this trend. At
the end of the night Meredith Rec
reation Association announced the
class of 2009 as the winner of this
year’s Comhuskin’. Not everybody
agrees with the outcome, as in any
competitive event, but all classes
did a stellar job and deserve praise
for their hard work and dedication
to this Meredith tradition. ■
NIGHT, Continued from Page 7
And even as contentious as this
long, drawn out election process has
been, we have still successfully had
a change in regime without violence
and revolution. And shouldn’t that
be reason enough to be proud? A
peaceful, democratic transition of
power.
I have supported Obama since
way back on that bright, cold Febru
ary day in Springfield, Illinois when
he announced lhat he was running,
and really before lhat, when his name
was merely being lloated around as
a candidate. 1 always felt a sense of
hope when Obama spoke. He talked
about the America 1 believe in. The
America where we all work together
to be stronger and better (no Kanye
pun intended there), the UNITED
states of America. I supported this
man because he saw the America I
saw in my mind.
President Bush’s vision of Ameri
ca and my vision never matched. But
there was never a moment where 1
refused to call him my President. He
was our leader, and our “decider,”
and he got lhat position through the
same means as Obama.
Do you have to agree with every
thing Obama does? Nope, because
heavens knows I never agreed with
everything Bush did. Also, please
do not paint all democrats with a
broad bush. I did my research and
1 believe in Obama. 1 also did my
research on the other candidates on
the ballot, and I voted for several re
publicans. I don’t really like straight
party ticket voting.
Another note: we voted. And by
we, I mean the Facebook genera
tion. The youth vote. We followed
through. We voted. Even if you vot
ed for John McCain, you still cared
enough to vote. That’s historic too.
We truly helped make this change
happen. We helped make history.
That’s pretty cool, don’t you think?
The chal lenges facing our country
are great, and they would be just as
great if McCain had been elected. If
there was ever for us a time to stand
together, it’s now. I can feel hope in
this nation, and in that spirit, I hope
all of you do too. ■