Newspapers / North Carolina School of … / Oct. 10, 1995, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
OCT. 10,1995 PAGES Sewer truck voices concerns John Smith StajfVJriter If you walk to Revco and keep going towards Duke, you’ll come across a rather strange looking truck parked in someone’s front yard. Strange looking because 1) it is a sewer truck, not normally found in peoples’ front yards, and 2) it has a lot of pretty weird stuff painted on it. I noticed this truck a lot over the course of last year, unsure what to make of it. Finally, a friend and I decided to get to the bottom of the mystery and walked over to talk with the owner, who turned out to be Mr. Bill Dunn. He was sitting behind his desk talking on the phone when we walked into his office, and I didn’t think that he would have time to say much to us. I was wrong, however, because as soon as we asked him about that sewer truck he really let it fly. At first we couldn’t even tell exactly what the guy was saying because he was so hyper about the whole subject, but before long we got the story together. It goes some thing like this: Bill was married semi-happily up until 1980, when his wife decided to get a divorce. According to him and his lawyer, it was totally her own fault. However, the judge didn’t see it that way, and she won millions of dollars of real estate from Bill. She then proceeded to go into business with her lawyer using those millions. Rather upset by all this. Bill decided to advertise his newly found disdain for the American legal sys tem in about the most bizzare way imaginable. He bought a 1976 black Cadillac hearse and the sewer tmck and decorated them with the themes “Justice is Dead” and “The System needs Cleaning/Flush the Muck.” He even drove the hearse around for a few years, just to emphasize his point. After reading Bill’s story, one could determine one of two things about him: that he is a radical revo lutionary who has exposed the court system as the great flaw in our soci ety, or that he is just one crazy dude r nWimfF OP6N A '" pHOWftTY TJ STAT€0 ' " Mr. Bill Dunn painted this hearse in 1980 to protest his divorce settlement. Will Hayes Of World Peace and Strawberry Ice Cream Doroth^e Alsentzer Staff Writer To sit in the bleak concrete con fines of Hunt is amusing. I find myself gazing at the sinking sun and wondering how many years will pass before that hot mass will re solve to engulf the hateful home we call Earth. I want to save my off spring of such weighty thoughts. Unfortunately, the earth’s being con sumed by the nucleus of our solar system is the least of humankind’s problems as we progress into the twenty- first century. The most pressing of the diffi culties that our generation faces is more likely the lack of unity be tween the peoples of this planet. National Public Radio is never at a loss for news about a couple of war ring ethnic groups. Take, for in stance, the war in Bosnia. Four years is four years too long. All I am saying is give peace a chance. This significantly overused and un employed statement would be so nice if anyone would bother to pay it a small amount of attention. What is even more disturb ing is the lack of unity here in the United States. We are fabled to be the greatest nation on the planet, yet violence and hatred plague our cit ies. Why? Look how our society raises its children. For example, we students at NCSSM run from reality and iso late ourselves from diversity in our microsphere of intelligence. Vari ous authorities attempt to persuade our innocence to think that "we are the world" by sharing with us the observation that the ice cream here comes brown, white, and mixed. What about strawberry? What about IQ levels? Those vary as much (or more) as the choice of milk shakes at a Burger King drive- through. Are we unwilling to ques tion such homogeneity? A voice in my ribcage tells me that everything is, in fact, not all right- and probably never will be. We no longer have laws that obstruct harmony and happy togetherness, yet such forms of euphoria are ex tremely rare, if not nonexistent. I recall my first best friend—a wonderful young African- American girl. We shared the highlights of our innocence oblivious to the world of resent and prejudice which sur rounded us. Sadly enough, reality tracked us down and played its tricks of de ception on our youth—she moved away and we drifted apart. Stories such as this one are a part of society that will not disappear soon unless we stop forming clans of acquain tances who are all simply clones of ourselves encased in different shells. Strawberry ice cream is an acquired taste. who has carried things a tad bit too far. Many people might opt for the latter choice, but there is at least a grain of truth in what Bill Dunn is trying to say. I, for one, believe that the courts are pretty screwed up as ' it stands today. I have no idea how to fix them, and if I did I wouldn’t bore you with the details, but it just seems to me that there has to be a better way. Well, I guess I’ve said what needs to be said, so I’ll just leave it at that with a hearty farewell. If you ever have a little free time, by the way, drop by Bill Dunn’s house for a minute and have a look at his sewer truck. You might find it to be an enlightening experience. And don’t forget to ask about his ex-wife. LOOK WHO'S Talking Compiled by Joey Tucker What do you(,thih1i^ of Student Life 101/ . ■. 2 oflj bf!l02? I can’t wait to do the exact same thing I did last year. It will give me an even better edge in the com petitive world market for diverse, efficient world leaders. —Sean Kennedy, senior A ll we did in our time management | session was complain about teachers and homework. —Cheri Borries, junior loov^-.ti bii; . . ?}nvbu; . ' I t [Student Life 102] was a good idea, but it's mostly a review of Student Life 101. —Yancy Ragin, senior The Stentorian Editoi>in-Chief: Daniel Davenport Opinionss Editors: Jody Smith, Joey Tticker Entertainment Editors: Jennifer Powell, Vinay Shastry Features Editors: Katie Miltich, Manali Patel News Editors: Monica Dev, Anne Fawcett, Rajesh Swaminathan Sports Editors: Kenny McGee, Rajeev Pandarinath Layout Editors: David Bediz, Theo Luebke, Smita Trivedi Photography Editors: Carolyn Chu, Frances Wall Advertising Manager: Donald Gaye Adviser: Elizabeth Moose Sponsor: Dr. Joan Barber Staff Writers: Doroth^e Alsentzer, Brad Cooper, Maryellen Corbett, Sarah Hagevik, Cammie Hawley, Mike Hess, Karen Master, Alton Patrick, Amy OliverJohn Smith, Una Spencer, Adam Tarleton, Sara Vance, Bebhinn Walsh, Amy White, Debbie Won Photographers: Fang Cai, Manoj Viswanathan, Steven Stewart
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 10, 1995, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75