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stentorian
vol. XXIX
the north Carolina school of science and mathematics 1219 broad street, durham nc 27705
http://www.ncssm.edu/stentorian
September 2002
Students protest Dole at Duke
Out of the
Bubble
Emily Currin
Hopefully everyone's
gotten into the swing of things
by now. It's about time that I
got the word out to all the jun
iors that there is a time to
work and a time to play. Call
a friend, talk to your parents,
beg those loving SLIs - what
ever it takes to break out of
the bubble!
Music
10/6: Dashboard
Confessionals at The Ritz,
Raleigh
10/8: Edwin McCain at Cat's
Cradle, Carrboro
10/10: Jump Little Children at
Lincoln Theatre
10/11: Nelly & the St.
Lunatics at Alltel Pavilion,
kaleigh
10/12: Hobex at The Pour
House, Raleigh
10/12: Aerosmith at Alltel
Pavilion
Movies Out This Month
Sweet Home Alabama (Reese
Witherspoon)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
(Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu)
City By the Sea (Robert De
Niro)
The Tuxedo (Jackie Chan)
Arts
10/2: Les Miserables at BTI
Center-Raleigh Memorial
Auditorium
10/6: FestiFall Street Fair on
Franklin St.
Dating
Enough with seeing your
"crush" at 1-Vis and happy
half; like I tell all my friends,
some times you've just got to
bust a move. Get some
courage and ask someone out!
Corny dating ideas for those
who have guts:
-Throw your very own tea
party for two! Gossip like
pals and do the "get to know
you thing."
-PLAY Twister.
-Go people-watching!
By Angela Kilby
F ew of the several hun
dred Duke students
streaming out of Duke's
auditorium after Elizabeth
Dole's speech realized that
most of the dozen or so pro
testers greeting them with had
arrived on a short, white
school bus.
On August 29, 2002,
these Science and Math stu
dents arrived outside of
Duke’s Page auditorium to
protest Elizabeth Dole's
speech, part of a campaign to
elect her as Jesse Helms'
replacement in the U. S.
Senate as a representative
■ from North Carolina.
Among the dissenters.
signs were held that criticized
Dole's stands, from "Bikers
against Dole" (she rode onto
the stage on a motorcycle) to
messages decrying her stands
on abortion, education, and
the military. They also handed
out fliers with information on
her platform as compared to
those-of the other candidates.
They were not allowed to
Heather Carroll
NCSSM students hold signs protesting Elizabeth Dole’s campaign.
Responses to 9/11
Bryan Butler
A year has passed since
the September 11th
attacks, but we still
hear daily about our war on
terrorism, rebuilding the
World Trade Center, and,
occasionally, the public's
reactions to these events.
Although not emphasized in
the news, there is wide diver
sity in thought about the
attacks and related issues.
Daniel Quinn, author of
Ishmael. after being asked
numerous times for his
thoughts on 9/11, responded
in a letter on his web site.
"We want to see an end to ter
rorism - on that we're agreed,"
he begins. "Our leaders
are...posing as knights in
shining armor. ...The good
we can bring about is to aban
don this pose and to stand res
olutely on the truth, which is
that we can't pretend to bear
no responsibility for the
spread of terrorism and to
have earned none of the
hatred that drives it."
Quinn explains further:
"I'm not in the least condon
ing terrorism. I'm just reject
ing as useless the fiction that
we are immaculate saints
while our enemies are Satanic
monsters." When asked what
to do about the situation,
Quinn makes it clear that we
should not "...rage out into the
world with our hands full of
bombs to wreak vengeance on
the tools of Satan," if we want
to have even a guise of being
sensible, truth-minded peo
ple.
Susan Sontag, often
called a high-art intellectual.
wrote her reaction to great
furor in the September 24,
2001 edition of The New
Yorker. She immediately
calls the commentary givon to
the public "self-righteous
drivel" and "outright decep
tions."
Sontag deeply resents the
naming of the attacks as
"cowardly"; this does not
make sense to her, as the
attackers were "willing to die
themselves in order to kill
others." She wants us to
acknowledge that the attacks
were "undertaken as a conse
quence of specific American
alliances and actions," and
asks how many are aware of
our ongoing bombing of Iraq.
The center of Sontag's
bitterness is presented in one
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http://www.elizabethdole.org
actually attend the speech as
they were not Duke students.
Paul Smith, the organizer
of the Science and Math
brigade to the Dole speech,
said of the speech/demonstra-
tion/Dole in general,
"Nothing could be more
indicative of the depth of her
campaign than this speech.
She's running entirely on fluff
and image, ignoring the issues
that matter to North Carolina,
and leaving any voices of
decency out in the rain."
The speech itselfconsist-
ed of Dole's stances on the
current issues she thought
were plaguing America.
She lauded the military's
performance in the "War on
Terrorism" and gave her sup
port for increased spending
for the American troops, with
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Accepting
the “Greater
Challenge”
Jane Chun
L ast year at convocation
NCSSM students
received pens' with the
inscription, "Accept the
Greater Challenge." This
year, many seniors may have
been puzzled - or perhaps
even disappointed - with the
piece of paper, rolled up with
a neat ribbon, they received
instead.
But the words printed on
that sheet of paper . were
incomparably more signifi
cant than a ball point pen. The
Ethical Awareness Group of
2001-2002 worked rigorously
to develop the "Declaration of
Character." This included
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