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april 2001
Dave Matthews is out, or is he?
^MiLY Warren
Music. You hear it
everywhere: on the radio, in
restaurants, elevators, cars,
and dorm rooms. But what are
students at NCSSM listening
to these days? Just for kicks, I
decided to find out.
The type of music
you listen to can say a lot
about what kind of person you
are, your ideals, hopes, fears,
and personality. Or, maybe it
doesn’t. I don’t really know,
but it is interesting to see how
other people feel about their
music. Maybe hearing about
what other people like will
inspire you to try a new band
Staff Editorial
The end of the school
year is always exciting. What
with classes ending, summer
approaching, and people leav
ing, everything around Science
and Math starts to get more and
more hectic and chaotic. And
in years past, some of this chaos
has been expressed in actions
by certain students which jeop
ardize the futures that they have
worked so hard at NCSSM to
achieve.
It is seldom the case
that the last few weeks at Sci
ence and Math aren’t accompa
nied by either expulsions,
emergancy suspensions, or just
general student hijinx. The ad
ministration realizes that stu
dents are only reacting to their
natural impulse to party after
working so hard to get through
the year, but it would be impos
sible for the rules to become
somehow less enforced just be
cause it’s the end of the year.
But remember, you aren’t al
lowed to drink alcohol during
the rest of the school year, so
don’t expect that it’s any diffemt
now. In fact, your chance of be
or buy/bum a new CD.
I started on my
musical quest by traveling
around the school and asking
people what was in their CD
player. On the hall of fourteen
girls where I live (2C!!) the
answers were as follows.
“Cat Stevens; the B-
sides (a local band); Cranber
ries - To the Faithful Departed;
Dave Matthews - Everyday;
Ben Harper; Widespread
■ Panic; a rap mix cd; the
soundtrack to Requiem For a
Dream; K95.5 - T just leave it
on all day;’ Shaggy - Angel;
Stevie Wonder; Matchbox 20;
and T don’t have a cd
player.’’’
Tonya, the SLI likes
“Terence Trent Darby (a
rocker like Lenny Kravitz),
Jimmy Hendrix, Jill Scott, and
Erika Badu.”
Most people enjoy
music, but some are obsessed.
Senior Amy Westervelt
religiously trades Phish shows
with people across the
country. She currently has
over 20 shows recorded.
“The only way I leam
about some bands is when
they play with Phish,” said
Amy.
During my travels
around the campus, I found
that everyone gets down to
their own thing. However, the
most common answers were
Dave Matthews and ‘rap’
(Nobody was very specific
about a group, but if I had to
pick one artist. I’d probably go
with Shaggy). I guess the
Punk Rawk club was wrong,
Dave Matthews isn’t out yet.
For those of you with
some extra cash or who want
to try something new, there are
a whole slew of band perform
ing in the area before gradua
tion. Plus there is always
good music at local clubs like
the Duke Coffeehouse or the
Cats Cradle. Go check it out.
“Everyone should go
to see Dave,” said senior
Ashley Rankin, who is a huge
Don’t screw
ing booted from the school af
ter something like that at the end
of the year could even be higher
because the administration
doesn’t have time to deal with a
drawn-out trial or suspension.
The options for punishment at
the end of the year are so lim
ited that expulsions sometimes
occur. So don’t expect that just
because it’s the end of the year
you can’t be dealt with in an
even more harsh manner.
The temptation is there.
Not only are people’s classes
ending and there being less
work to occupy students’ time
but also there is the seasonal
release from winter. People are
excited about leaving school
and summer and sometimes this
excitement gets mixed up with
bad judgement. There are al
ways less risky ways to outlet
your happiness at having com
pleted the year. Since school
here is so hard, it is almost like
we are entitled to celebrate when
the year is over, but unfortu
nately it is still necessary to
maintain the rules which have
governed the rules of student
life during the other 3 quarters
of school. Although we work
hard the philosophy shouldn’t
be that we play hard too. It’s
not a nice prospect, but imag
ine being a senior, having
worked two full years at Science
and Math and because of one
stupid move on the night before
graduation, you’re not allowed
to walk the stage and your par
ents and brother and sister
aren’t able to see you accom
plish the last step of that jour
ney that began when you
applied to NCSSM.
While some of the moti
vation for acting against one’s
better judgement might come
students themselves, there are
also many instances in which
the SLI’s become complicit
when they begin to be more lax
in their enforcing of the normal
rules. Especially in cases where
the SLI is leaving the following
year or simply doesn’t care
about getting in trouble with his
or her employers. Just because
a SLI turns a blind eye to your
mischief doesn’t mean every
SLI will comply or another stu-
. dent won’t turn you in. It’s not
as though through the non-in
tervention of an SLI do you
somehow get a license to break
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the school’s rules: that just
doesn’t work.
Some students believe
that there’s some kind of scien
tific law that states, if the vol
ume of rule-breaking is great
enough, for some reason no one
can be punished. In fact, the
opposite is true. When there is
a large group of people that
choose to break the rules, or
simply a group of people that
see an opportunity in a certain
event to take advantage of the
system, it can lead to not only
those students that choose to
particiate getting in trouble but
also those people that were sim
ply guilty by being in close prox
imity to the crimes. An excellent
example of this situation was
mock graduation last year. Stu
dents last year felt that since
there was a significant portion
of the students breaking the
rules that no one would get in
trouble. As they later found
out, this was not the case and
several students faced trials for
events related to mock gradua
tion. While this year’s mock
graduation was relatively un
eventful, members of the 2000
class chose to go out with a
fan.
April 21-Wide
spread Panic
April 26-29 Merlefest
(If you like bluegrass music,
this is a great show)
April 28/29 - Dave
Matthews Band
June 13 - The
Backstreet Boys w/ Shaggy
Based on my extremely
accurate and thorough
research, it seems that
everyone basically likes his or
her own thing. I have con
cluded that music is music.
As long as it fulfills that one
requirement, you’ll probably
find someone, somewhere
listening to it.
bang and many students had to
face extensive trials just because
they had participated in the gen
eral rule-breaking of the event.
Finally, when you
choose to break the rules that
you have abided by all year you
are taking your future into your
own hands. One reason why it
is especially dangerous to start
breaking rules now is that, be
sides the fact that the adminis
tration only has a limited
selection of punishments this
late in the year, the SLI’s and
• other members of the staff are
on the look-out for bad behav
ior because it is customary to
wards the end of school.
Another thing to consider is
that if you haven’t been engag
ing in risky behavior you might
want to hold off simply because
you’re not very good at it. If
you haven’t walked off campus
after dark, gotten drunk in a
dorm room, or snuck out after
curfew, now might not be the
best time to practice. You’re
more likely to get caught, more
likely to get kicked out, and
most importantly more likely to
let yourself down after all this
hard work.
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