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even mention 511
quality time.
We readily
admit advisement is not the most
rewarding or pleasant part of being
a professor. ("Um, Professor
Generic? Um, like, I don't know
what classes to take? Could you
plan out my entire life for me?")
However, no matter how boring
and passe this activity is for
professors, advisement has a very
real impact on students. With a
simple miscalculation, due to a
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South Carolina
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they would stop.
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three white teen- ^
agers were arrested
in connection
with the vandal
ism and attempted
arson of a black church near
Chapin. Police report the intruders
removed flowers from
tombstones, pushed tombstones
over and broke into the
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cnurcn, scattering uowers arouna
the chapel, The State newspaper
said. The teens were arrested and
set free on about $10,000 bail.
The teens were arrested on burglary
and vandalism charges.
The cost of the damage was
about $800, police said.
Some might say this isn't a
big amount, that $800 in damage
is a lot better than no church
at all. Some may say who cares.
Some may say that insurance will
cover the cost.
It's too bad people may say
this because $800 is an amount
with an amazing impact on the
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against the evil destroying the
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faith to fight against those who
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they hold sacred.
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I saw two musical legends in 72
hours.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to
experience both Bob Dvlan and Prince
this week. Sitting in the presence of
the "Purple One," I couldn't help but
compare the experience of the two
shows. Maybe I shouldn't compare.
But Fm an English major, and our lives
are based on comparing and contrasting.
Dylan and Prince grew to initial
popularity in different time periods.
Bob was a pioneer of songwriting,
telling it like it is to my parents' generation.
I consider Prince a pioneer to
my own generation, a paver of a different
sort. The difference is that while
Bob performs with a"no-frills" image,
Prince comes with all image ? it's the
messenger, not the message, that provides
such a stark opposition.
I first listened to Prince when I
was very young. I grew up listening to
him, Madonna and Michael Jackson.
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This past weekend I decided to go
through some of my old belongings,
specifically pictures, cards and letters
? all the little momentos I've collected
since eighth grade.
I also came across my diary.
The one precious treasure that most
every girl (and maybe a handful of
guys) keeps. I had not written in it
since my junior year in high school. So
that rainy Sunday, I read it. Cover to
cover.
Needless to say, I was shocked.
No, there was not any Laura Palmer
startling diary material. I guess it was
the way I interpreted my life back then
that really grabbed my attention. Many
of us have forgotten how our minds
worked during those years. Let me refresh
your memory.
Most of us were pretty naive when
it came to relating to the opposite
sex back then. Remember that great
guy with the really cute smile who
smoked pot, drank Red Dog, skipped
class every other day, had a tattoo and
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At 8-years-old, I hadn't the remotest
clue there was any other kind of music.
I would learn of other music and
problems of the world later. Fd be awakened
from childhood-obviousness in
due time.
I went with my Woodstock-goingturned-banker
dad to see Teter, Paul
and Mary" (performers of Dylan's
"Blowin' In the Wind"). But when I got
home, I headed straight to my pink,
plastic tape player and got down to
"Purple Rain."
Decked out in purple glam, Prince
was not writing against a war in another
country. He does symbolize the
excess of the 1980s, the silliness of "lef s
go crazy," and cultural change for
America. It's the standard argument
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Every person and generation looks for
something to cling to, a cause. Our parents
emerged in a time of war. We grew
up in a time of Crystal Pepsi and Max
Hedroom.
Dylan, like a wake-up call of struggle
and change, would come along farther
in my musical evolution. And I
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could not spell, but was still your soul
mate? Some of you might be saying,
hey, this reminds me of the guy I'm
dating now. But, others are probably
happy to have matured.
I also think we had a tendency to
be flighty with our emotions. One day
could be a really cool day and the next
day could really suck. I used to rate
my days in my diary from A to F. An
A constituted as awesome. An F constituted
as... well, you can guess. No
side by side entries had the same letter
grade.
The funny thing was how the
smallest thing could make my day/week
go great or go sour. That first week I
got my learner's permit, every day was
an A day. Nothing could go wrong.
Or so I thought. Life suddenly
took a tragic course. I reversed my 1986
Chevrolet Cavalier station wagon into
the school parking lot fence. And to
top it off, I got a perm. A bad one. All
in a course of a really (highlight/underline)
F week. Woe was me.
I look at those entries and laugh.
If those were the types of problem I
had, then I had it pretty easy.
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I first listened.
"Why does that man sound so funny,"
I asked Dad during Dylan's line
in "We Are the World." "A lot of drugs,
honey," was his joking response. He
would later explain he was really a talented
man, if not in singing, then in
his prolific songwriting.
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hear him sing his songs. It was as simple
as that. I nodded all through "Tangled
Up In Blue," listening to lyrics
that show not a day of age.
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kind of timelessness in books. We
talked about how slang changes, but
themes continue. It makes a master
and binds such different writers in universality,
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a corny purchaser of the myth of McDonald's
America, but I think timelessness
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For the most part, we all did back
then. Most of us were not bombarded
with heavy problems. The biggest challenge
we could have faced was deciding
whether to work at MceeDee's or
Winn-Dixie during the summer.
Now that we are in college, we have
more complex issues to deal with. Getting
into law or medical school, finding
a place to live, or supporting a family,
even.
I also think that after entering
college, we each have created our own
individual style. Most of us tended to
follow the status quo in high school.
After all, we did not want to be labeled
as social misfits, right? We dressed the
same, in Gap, Limited and Structure.
We participated in the same activities
? football games, student council and
honor society.
And what happened to the misfits?
Well, there was one girl who transferred
to my school from Texas the
middle of my sophomore year. A really
sweet person, but she dressed differently.
She used dark lipstick, wore
black clothes, dyed her hair black. The
vampire look, we called it. Instantly,
she was dubbed a "ho."
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with hype. I bet Dylan purists are turn- !
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on the same page. I'm not saying !
one is better than the other, regardless
if one cares for "Hierhwav 61" or
"Sign of the Times." At a closer look \
it's easy to see how these artists share ^
similarities.
Both experiment with different
, kinds of music ?rock, blues and R&B. j
Both affect the generations that made
, them famous.
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is that both attracted members of several
generations and backgrounds. I - *
i was amazed at the diversity at each
show.
How naive I was to think that it *
was only people of my age that would ?
go to see Prince. The same goes for the woman
that turned to me before Dy- '
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"songs being written before I was born." *
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Such people are not a strange ;
sight in college. There are so many dif- ;
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ets, actors, fraternity brothers and ! *
computer wizards. It's hard to find two people
exactly alike.
So, I guess college has taught us gfe
a big lesson. We are who we are. And ^
we should feel comfortable with that. ;
But, there is one thing I miss *
about being in high school. I miss having
high hopes and lofty dreams.
The first page in my diary was '
about my goals for the future. I want- ;
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have goals. But, they're a little bit more ; ;
grounded.
Going back to my diary has
opened up my eyes. It has made me
see who I was and who I am now. I
think it's high time I start writing in
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