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New dual enrollment courses approved for next yearChristine NelsonAssistasu editor

Juniors will be offereddual enrollment classes nextfall. enabling them La receivecol lege credi t while st ill inhigh school. Juniors whowish to t ak e the dual enroll-ment classes must have anoverall average of3.0 or bet-ter for the previous year andthe approval of their Engl ishteacher and counselor.

Currently there aredualenrollment classes for En-glish IV and Economics. Be-ginning in the fal l, dual en-rollment U.S. History andGovernment wil l be added tothe curriculum. ABlinnCol-lege instructor will bebrought over to teach thedual enrollment classes.

''"Thisisasking the [cur-rent] tenth graders to be

ready next year to take acollege class," said counse-lor Dr.Mary Catherine Har-ris. 'The demands will bemuch higher than they areaccustomed to."

Students who lake andpass dual enroll men!classes receive automaticcredit for college. The dualenrollment classes will havethe same 6.0 grading scaleas AP classes. Dual enroll-ment courses have IIdiffer-em curriculum than (he APclasses and do not requireth e student to pass a lest inorder to receive the collegecredi t; rather. the s tudentreceives credit for passingthe dual enrol lment class ..Harris says. some advancepreparation is necessary.

"It 's Important for stu-dents to know where theyare going to college," said

Harris. ''They need tocheckif the credit. will transfer totheir choice of college."There arc several ad-vantages for students whotake dual en rollmentclasses. Taking dual enroll-ment classes in high schoolwil l make the student's col-lege tui tion cheaper whenthey attend college."These classes gel stu-dents past the 'flunk outclasses ." said principalMike Cargill . "They alsogive students a self-esteemboost by reassuring themthat they can handle collegeclasses."

Ln order for any studentto take the dual. enrollmentclasses, they must pass theTASP test or be exempt fromlaking i t.based on TAASscores. The student is re-sponsible for paying the

JROTC cadets Courtney Jones and Vanessa Gonzales par ticipate inBH S Pride Day , sponsored by Student Council . p ho to b y S an dy F ar ri s

class tuition and purchasingtile textbook required for theclass. 'There arc some schol-arships available for stu-dents thai wil l be given onan as-needed basis.

The dualenrollmentclasses are designed to al-low students to have the ad -vantage of receiving collegecredit while still in highschool and to help students

be successful in college."A college level course

or an AP cia s is not thecourse 10 take if you're notserious about doing thework," Harris said.

Studentsrate pizzataste

The nutrltlonservices departmentrecently held a pizzataste test to deter-mine student prefer-ences. Results will beused in planningmenu cho ices for nextyear, according toBISD Child NutritionServices AlleeRichter. photo by KeithHudacko

No pass, no classImm edia te SAC for stude nts ca ugh t w an de rin gConstance JohnsonSWff writer

S tu de nt s c au gh t in the hallw ay w ithout a passwill be immediately escorted La SAC. This new policyis being enforced b ec au se s ch oo l officials w ant toput an end La students wandering the hallways.

"U you don', have a pas!' , then irs cons idered atruancy. ,.said assistant SAC advisor John Ramirez."A student could also serve extra days in SAC de-pending on the student's principal."

For students who steal and forge passes. seri -ous consequences wil l be a result of this offense.Principal Mike Cargill said that stealing and forgingpasses is a serious offense.

"The consequences depend on the student'spast record and the extent of the violation," saidCargill. "Every case h :. different. and the disciplineshould be calculated to change this behavior."

Accord ing to Cargi II.recei ving a D-hall for be-ing in the hal lway without a pass seems loa s implefor an offense of not having a pass since it's consid-ered skipping.

' 'The purpose of pun- "All we wantishing students by send-ing them to SAC for thisviolation is to keep stu-dents from skipping classand get them out of thehalls," Cargill said.

Students can avoidthis problem by followingthe school rules. Alwayshave a pass with ateacher's signature wheninthe hallway and do not forge signatures on passes.

"All we want is for students to be in class ontime and stay there," Cargill said.

is for stu-dents to bein class ontime andstay there."PrincipalMike Cargill


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Nw_ Security in park ing lo ts to increase('(') Elisa Valadez lot of enlhusia ID.otaff writer Cia ed campus means closed campus , open campug The instal lat ion of gale in the sophomore parking lot mean open campus. But now we have neither," said c -

is the first step in eventually closing in the parking lots, op teacher Nina Wright, adding that the gates will helpr-'"according to principal Mike Cargill. secure the campus. Another teacher described their opin-d The mainpurpose of the gates i s tocontrol who comes ion of the gates as "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah."~ a n d goes on the campus. On the t he r h a nd some students complained of the

"[The gates wil lJ pr tee tyour car from theft r vanda l- disadvantages of having the gale .< irn, and k~p people wh arc not student here from com- "It' dumb. Just becau e orne [students] are 'sippinging onto campu ," Cargill aid. doesn't mean everyone is skipping," aid junior Heather

When e gates b come operat ional , a monitor wil l be Ruiz, I. rput in c harge of controlling access to the parking tor. Studen who have block classes, co-op, and intern-

Most s tudents agree that the the parking lot si tuat ion ships requiring them to [eave campus wil l be given specialis chaoti c. wi th uncontrol led acces all day long. Vandal - pa ses that al lows them to leave at the ir designated limes.im and theft are no . trangcrs to the parking 101.. Cargill aid he is unsure of lhe exact timeline for full

Predictably, teachers greeted news of Lhegale with a implern marion of the parking lot procedure.

~~CI)~i Pie throwin fundralser funIOn Tuesday April 1 the

Speech Club held a fundraiser,in which staf f members let stu-dents throw pies at them. Stu-dents paid $1 for two pies andgot to throw them at the teacheror administrator of their choice.The club raised $150.

~ Speechteacher J.W. Lee

Assistantprincipal ReneBailey

~ Student Nathanthrows a

KendraKomar pins newNational Honor Society member LarissaJones while others waillheir turn to be pinned. New inducteeswere announced Mar. 31.photo by Ryan Moss

AROUND THE CAMPUSU 1L D istric t w in ners toadvan ce to reg io na lsIn the UIL Distri 1 acad mic meet

held atA&M Con olidated Mar. 29 . sev-eral student placed wel l enough to ad-vance to the regional competition April12 at Baylor University.

Winners included:~D Debate and lnfonnati ve Speak-

ing: 'Chrts Kochevar-I t place (ad-vances to Regional ) ; Pro e Readingand Per uasive Speaking: StevenKochevar-l st place (advances toRegionals); Poetry Reading: TamaraGreen-3rd Place; Poetry Reading andInformative Speaking: TatianaRostovtseva-5th Place; Pro e Read-ing: teven Bracken-3rd Place; Spell-ing & Vocabulary: Rebecca Ingram-3rd place (advances to Regionals); Edi-torial Writing: Sheilah Behrens- 2ndplace (advances to Regionals); Chris-tine Nelsou-srh place; New Writ ing:heilah Behrens-Ist pia e (advanceto RegionaJs); Feature Writing: SheilahBehrens-4th place, hristineNelson-Stb place, ConstanceJohnson-6th place; Journalism Team-2nd place; Science Team - SecondPlace; Computer Science: Colby,Bond-5th place, Brandon Abegglen-6th place; Computer Science team - 2ndplace; Comput~t kpplicarions: Colby.I. r , IBond-4th place; Amanda)~Williamson-5th place, BrandonAbegglen-6th place.

V ICA s kills c on te st Iy ie lds w inne rsThe production team of Steven

Bracken and Drew Bizzell placed sec-ond in video production at the District7 Skills VICA competiton, MichaelJohnson and Mark Brown who re-ceived third place, and MatthewKelling and Gabriel Zamago placedfuwili. rCos etology competed in Beaumont

on Feb 2l at the Taylor Career Center.Jackie Isaiz won third place in mani-curing for District 7 competition.Rosanna Contreras and CrystalTucker competed in hair kill and wereamong 23 contestants in the district

W ater Po lo beg insspring seasonSpring Water Polo Season has be-

gun. The Vikings had a scrimmageagainst A &MCon olidated on inearlyFebruary. The Bryan boy. lost to ConsolIIto 9. Top scorer for Bryan wereNathan Belford, Mark Van and NickLee.The boy crimmaged for a totalof six quarters. The girls al 0 scrim-maged f O f th e same amount? tiyle andto k a victory for the Vilqq The finalcore was 18- 9. April Hart SabrinaY'barbo and Hannah Karkoska ledt he game, with additional scoring by DruMurphy, Amber Pittman and FlerBeckman. The Vikings will be travel-ing to Carroll in early April for a week-end tournament,


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~_-"_ EA~U.RES 3- .. .creativitySheilah BehrensEditor

stick figure drawings.To start off, you take

your 3xS index cards, cutthem in half with scissors,and put them in the middleof the table. The first timeyou play, you wi l l need todraw yourself some

cards. This pro-canu f k e

There isa game that hasbecome popular over theyears but that is still notwidely known about andplayed. 1000 Blank WhileCards isa game in whichone's imaginfion i s t f ie l im i t,

The 1000 Blank WhiteCard Game was conceivedby Nathan McQuillen ofMadison, Wisconsinand became morewidely known when itwas brought to theinternet. ~

Best plJyedwith a group offriends. allyou need isapackage ofwhite 3x 5 indexcards and pens, pencils ,markers or any other writingutensils.

The cardscan be l inedbut blank ones usually workbetter as tbey provide nolines 10 stifle the creativityalone's mind.

The main goal of thegame is 10 get as manypoints as possible thoughmost play it just to have agood time and show off Ih_:ir

you need to have a decentamount of cards to startplaying.

After cutting your in-dex cards in half, pass thcsame number of blank cards10 each player ..Fivecardsper person is a g ood num-ber to start out with forpeople who have not playedthe game before.

Ca rto on s On lin e: Homes ta r Runner.com.them all. One of th e features on the site iStrong Bad E-mai l .This is a series of short cartoons in

The Internet today is fi lled with thou- which Strong Bad answers his E-mail . ususands of web sites containing information ally insult ing the person who sent it in hion nearly every subject one could poss ibly reply.ever think about But . there 's one Site that Strong Bad also has two brothers,tands OUI as truly unique. Strong Mad and Strong Sad. As the names

H om es ta r R un ne ne om f ea tu res se ve ra l su gg est, S tro ng Mad is a n a ng ry b ig fellowartoons in which the-characters are a bit ~ Strong Sad is depressed and normally

the wal l . Cha ra c te rs s uc h asStrong Bad. suicidal and masochistic.iI'hePoopsmith, and Bubs make regular a~ Another member of Strong Bad's en-arances on the site. rourage is The Cheat. The Cheat is a fuzzThe star of the site. of course, is little yellow critter with black spots slightl 'omestar Runner himself. Though. he has resembling a Pikachu t!lat has been runo arms a n d a speech itnpairment that through a blender. , 1r (u nd s a bi t l i ke a ' fi ve -ye il t -o l d ho ldi ng his !A ll ie r c r ac t~ rs !\ ,~ cJ ud e T he King 0ose, his overall naivete ensures hilarity. Town. Coach Z. M~an. and the rarelStrong Bad is a mean-spirited charac- ~een Homsar. Each of them has their 0

er who constantly runs around wearing little quirk.boxing gloves and what appears to be Ii So. ifyour inthemood for someihing ~exican wresl1ing costume. little weird uy Homesrar Runner.com. JustStrong Bad is arguabIYc..th_e_fu_n_n_ics_t_o_f_be_ n r n e d th--'-'--lltour side rna sI!_li~t.~_

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Everyone takes thecards, grabs a handful ofcrayons, markers, or anyother writing utensil andstarts to draw pictures,phrases, si tuat ions, or anyother random thing ontotheir cards.

Each card then has aninstru~tion on it. One cangi ve at-carda p o in r value thatcan range from negative1000 all the way to poslti ve1 00 0 i nc lu di ng z er o points.

You don't always haveto assign points to a card,however. An example of aCard without points wouldbe "Bach p layer mustdiscard theirhighestpo in tval u e

such as "Ashadowy figurecomes along andsteals everyone'spoints and givesthem all to Bob."Whether Bob is an ac-tual person playing orsome made up personmakes no difference.It is important L a re-

nomembcr that a rtistic skills do positive score wins the much time on creating new0not matter as long as the game. cards to play with. Nidea o flhe card is made c lear. After the game is over After a couple of games

After everyone fin- all players sit around and a pre tty good sized d ec k w i ll r--'"ishes creating their have been createdcards, the cards arc ,---------.....,.;:-:---:l;--......-.:--..,;-----, and therefore allow ~shuffled together for more and more ~wi th blank.cards. For players to be able to < Gexample, if you have play._four people play ing Keep in mind how- and give each per- everthat blank cardsson five cards then should be shuffledyou would shuffle '"-------..........;.-...;._--...........;five b la nk w h it e cards inwi thtbe created cards. Blankcards shuffled into the deckserve as another outlet ofcreativity for anyone whodraws the card.After thecards are allshuffled together theya re s et in t he m i ddl eof the players.Each player takesturns drawingcards until theyhave drawnthe desiredcards.On c eagain"fthere arepeople

playing then eachplayer draws five cards.

Irablank card isdrawnthen it is lime to createan-other card while other play-ers ar e taking their turns.

Pick one person tostartand that person then de-cides to discard one cardonto any person's stackwhich affects just that per-son or it can be decided todiscard the card into themiddle of the table into aseparate stack from thedraw stack. Cards played inthe separate stack in them id dl e o r the table willaf-feet all the players.Arter discarding thecard the playerlhen drawsa c ard from the draw stackan a it isth(il Mx [ player's'turn.' ,

This process continuesuntil all cards have beendrawn and played. Then thepoints are added up andwhoever has the highest

turn all the cards face upandgo through and LOSS anycards which players don'tfind fun or creative enoughand keep the cp:rcLshat theywant.

T hi s is d on e so that thenext time the game isplayedthere is already a startingdeck to play with and play-ers do not nave to spend as

~u :J(/)i~ing out all unwanted cards 0

also al lows fora more cre-Zativeand fun deck.

Though not widelyknown, 1000 Blank WhiteCards isa game that literallyhas no end to it nor the cre-ativity and fun that comesfrom it

into the deck everygame so that more creativecards ca n be made. Toss-

Ideas for Card Creatingand Game PlayUse a va rie ty of uten sils to crea te ca rds.T hin gs s uc h a s glue, construction paper, mark-e rs, c ra yons , map pendls, g lit te r, fo il, p a p erb a gs , a n d t is su e p a pe r m a ke fo r d iffe re n t a n dmo re c re a tiv e c a rd s t ha t will g iv e y ou r d ec k o fc a rds i t' s own pe rsona li ty .L im itin g yourse lf to the size of the ca rd is~meth ing to be a vo id ed . C om e u p w ith v ari-o us size d ca rd s a nd e ve n u se diffe re nt col-o re el i n de x c ard s fo r d iffe re n t ty pe s o f c ar ds .P la y b lin dly . H ave n o on e lo ok a t w ha t the irca rd s sa y a n d th en ra n domly p la ce th e ca rd sd ow n on differen t p l'a ye rs sta cks. A fte r a llc ard s a re la id d ow n , h av e e ve ryo ne flip o ve ra l. 1h e ir c a rd s t o de te rm in e wh o w in s .E l a bo ra te d ir e ct ions such as " Go to th e kitchena nd look for a ba na na , if o n e is fo un d , +100p ain ts , jf n o ne a re fo un d, -1000 p o in t s . . A ddle ng th to th e g am e w hic h w ill g iv e o th er p la y-e 's a ch an ce to fill i r1 t l1e ir b la nk ca rds du ri ngo the r p la ye r'S tur ns .P la y for who ca n ge t the worst cards, th ebest cards, or th e most cards. T he p oin tsde te rm in e t he w in n e r, b u t v a rio u s o th e r t hin g sc ou ld p oss ib ly g iv e a p la y er mo re points,


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OPINIONS fEDITORIALS ep ara te B lu e, S ilver o nc e a gain

When the Silver campus was built the idea wa supposed I bethat it would create a bigger campus at Bryan High school.

The result was a segregated school where primar ily ninth andtenth grades would h av e th ei r c ore cl asse s o n th e S ilv er c am pu s a ndeleventh and twelfth grades would mainly have class on the Blue earnpus, This is how it went Ior the first three years,

This year the campu ses were desegregated and for the first t ime inthree years all high .chool grade levels" ere attending various classesin the same hallways.

While we recognize that by having al l grade levels walk in thehallways ogethcr uni fies the enti re campus, Ihis simply is not SI)IllC-thing (hat works well,

The maturity level difference between a 14-yc:ar-old and an I H -year-old differ greatly. The difference is so much th at p uttin g a ll th estudents together CL lU loCS u hectic environment for not only the stu-denbo but teachers and MatTas well.

When the campuses were xti l] segregated the Blue campus wascalm am i nO I very crowded. Thi s worked well for juniors and seniorswho were now able to take higher level classes ~ hich required a c a lme r ,quieter environment in order for fi better leurning area to concemrutci n. Th e S il ve r campus w as where the freshmen and sophomores prima-nly were atand this worked well for them. Having the majority of theirc ia . ses in the . arne hallway helped lessen the sIres . on finding one 'sway around.

Now instead of just the Silver campus hcing where lower c1as~-men resided. the entire Blue and Silver campu is til led with the crazyand chaotic sounds 01 conflicting students.

The students nrc not the only ones Ihn! Feel this w a y . Manyteachers had tobe relocated from rooms on Blue campus that they hadfor years. Now 011 the Silver campus they have rooms where theymust Leach upper level classes which arc surrounded on all sides byU1I: noise and bothersome behavior of students in other classe . IL hasbeen noticed that teachers are unhappy with their new environment inwhich they have to teach.

Whi le we real ize thai a change wi ll no t be made rigbt away, webelieve that consideration should be made for Utefuture )lears inrelo-cating classes. This will allow for happier student und teachers, thusproviding better learning.

-Norseman Editorial Board

t i e 0BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL

3401 . 29TH, BRY ) TX 77802Volume 31, o. 6

Editorheilah Behren

StaffRcbckkah Hernandez, b ':' eithHudacko, C nstance Johnson,

esiree K lso, hristine elson, Lorena Rangel, RobertRatk , ,Lisa Valadez, J n Vick

The Nors eman i s a pub li ca ti on p roduced by the Advanced Jou rnali sm Newspa -per Product ion class III Bryan High School. The opinions expressed are thoseof the author and do not represent the o pnion of' the faculty, staff or adrnin-i trator of Bryan High Sch ool. Leuer 10 the editor are welcome and may bedelivered 10 Rm, 6160 or the Blue Campus.

Member-UIL Inter choiastic League Pres enference (ILP )Winner of the ILP ward o r Di tingu.ished Merit 199899. 1999-

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Split op in ions about Presiden t B ushprotect freedom all around the tremely weak. He ran on the plat-world. form that he would improve con-

The war on terror has been ditions here at home and, so far,another major success of lit is ad -ministration. While ther i tillmuch more to do b fore organiza-l ion like Al-Queda, Harnas, andHczhallah are completely di .01 cd, they are 00 longer n a r a sm uch of a threat as they were be -f O J c American involvement. Bu hha s d nc and continues t dowhat he can to cut off funding tothese organizations and thwarttheir cff Its LO obtain weapon ofmass de truction,

President Bush shows Lhatheis not afraid LO take the unpopularroute to realizing a g oal. He i notso much worried about the opin-io n of th e p ublic a he is interestedin making deei ion that w uldbest erve the publ ic. On that n te,Iwould like to discuss what Iecasa major faul t in our pre idem.

Hi. domestic policy is ex-

Class discussions arc the bestway for a student to better com-prehend the lesson being taught.

I They allow the teacher Laputthe material into a ante t whichis ea ier for a student to rela te andunderstand.

Th y are also a go d way lorstud nt to use their argurnenta-

Does being a f riend neeessar- he is cheating with. Would youi ly mean you have to 10.e friends? tell now?

W ha t Your fir t thought wouldwould you probably be that this is none ofdo if you my business and not my place towere ina say anything. But this feeling ati t u a ri0n the b uom of y our stomach a heswhere one when you see your fr iend, and youof your begin to think. amIeally her friendf r iell d by nol telling her?b yfr iend n the other band. you canwa cheat= rtqll your friend of this silmtl fdning? Of, which will take the weight off ofc 0 u r s e your back, but will it help? The

you'd tell her, right? But the girlfriend can believe you andituation gets a Lit tlemore compl i- leave the boyfriend . Sbe can alsocared if you are fiends with the believe you and not leave him, rb yfriend, a well a the person she can n t believe you at all .

that has not come about .The Homeland Security De-partment was, in theory. pro-

roundly beneficial 10 the Arneri-can public. H wever, ince i ts ere-arion, illegal immigration ha in-creased and the mind of Amer i-cans don't exactly eem La be atea e due to i ts ex istence. How canwe be protected if the governmentcan't even properly police our bor-ders? People don' Irealize just howeasy it is for terrorist to lip oatAmerican soil by way of our bor-ders with Canada and Mexico,Idon' L kn w what the futureholds. All or this could all just bepart of Bush's strategy, but Ieri-ou.ly doubt it, Thing could getbetter or, they could geLworse. AllI know i that Ihi administrationneeds to rethink h w they handlethings at horne,

Have you ever b cn in clasinvolved in a great di ell ion,when some-nc blurts OuIa totally map-

S tu de nts c au se many o f th e c la ss d is ru ptio n p ro blemstcrrupt the discu . i on is probably live skill without getting into aone who doe not know what is scuffle \ hieh would most likelygoing on inthe clas [0begin with lead to trouble.and h uld have ju I lay d in Another thing that 1 truly di whatever "la-la land" they were like is when a tudent thinks theyin, know more than teachers about

F riendship sometim es means making hard cho icesAre you really helping out or

making it worse? Will your friendtil l talk to you after you accusedthe love of her life ofcheating? Ormaybe she wiJItill talk. toyou butbecause she stayed wi th the boy-friend you don', feel comfortabletalking to her becau e it feels asthough you tried 10 ruin their rela-tionship,

Also. if he fl y w i t h himwould you tell her a eCoIidtime ifyou saw something else or wouldyou leave it alone? After a ll , thefar L time you told her it d id noth-ing but hurt you.

So, i it really worth telling afriend of a cheating boyfriend?

the rules , or when students can 'thelp but d i: cuss a problem with ateacher in the middle of class.Ihink [hat cia di cussionsare a g way for tea hers to gelto know their . tudent , and that ifthey are private they should bekept that way.

Anyone \ h kn ws mc willtel l you that 1 am a trong up-

porter ofPresidentBush. How-ever, this ionly partiallytrue. Thetruth i that Iam some-w h at to rn inmy support.a none hand, Ilove hi for-

eign policy. 0mailer what all ofthese liberals and disillusionedpeacenick want La make them-solve think, t 'h Bush admini tra-t io n i s handling the Iraq situationprecisely the way it should behandled.

I thiu.k B u h realizes that be -ing the most powerful nation onearth, America is ligated to dowhat itcan to combat tyranny and

Robert RatkeStaff w riter

p r o p r ia tecomment?

Forthose of youwho have notbeen throughthi . it is veryannoying.The per on

who was insensit ive ell ugh to in-

Lorena R an g e lStaff writer

. ;elisa ValadezStaff writer


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EDITOR ALs5Seniors deserve their parking spaces Weekends for fun , not w orkWhen Iwas a sophomore and

first got my driver's l icen e.Iwasa litt le di s-appointedthat we hadto park wayOUl in themiddle ofnowhere,ut Iwasokay wnlh itbecause Iknew that asSOOn as IChristine NelsonAssistant editor was a sc-nior.I would be able to park close

to the ch 01 . Well. apparently notince all the.juniors must thinkthey have earned the r ight , a yearearlier, to park in the SENIORpots.

Last year. as a junior, 1parkedwhere Iwa suppo ed to, so Idon't unde tand why the juniorthis year can't wait two months 1park in the senior spots.

The authorities at this schoolare being so supportive of thiparking problem by threatening Lalow the tudents' cars parked inthe wrong I , b ut they never ac-

tually tow them.By not carrying through with

the punishment of parking in anillegal parking space, they are al-lowing the juniors (and even se-niors who are forced Lapark inteacher's spaces becau e there aren more senior paces avai lable)t continue [0park where theyplease. lfthe authoritic in charge0(' parking would actually tow thecars parked in th e WiOUg spots.then the senior would park intheenior space (where we wouldlike topark now).Iemember. igning a studentparking contract at the beginningof this year that slated that any-one who does no t park in their des-ignated spot would be responsiblef r paying the towing fees be-cau c as a result of breaking therule. your car would be Iwed. Ionly iaw patrols in the parking 10Lchecking for illegal parking oncethis entire year. And when theyfound one, a ll they did wa put anorange warning ticker on the car'wind w .

Well, there' no point in warn-ing tudents to move their car to

their des ignated spaces if theywon't actually do anything tosolve the problem. The s tudentswho received warnings were ableto simply ignore that warning andcarry on parking the way they hadpre iously parked.

Now. pc pie have laid me thatI should arrive early if 1 want tget a parking space in t he . c n io rlot . Since l don' t have a f ir st pe-riod, Iw uld rather not come toschool at 8:30 ju t to gel a en i rparking space. I houldn'i have toget here early in order LO be ableto park in the enior lot. Duringthe first semester, there was noproblem with me ge tting here a t9: J 5 and parking in th e senior 10l.o why is there a problem now?My guess i , the junior thoughtthat ju t because they only haveone sernc tel ' len unti l they arc asenior, t.hey should gel [0park inthe senior space aso ften as theylike.

WelL sorry juniors, you haveto wail two months. Next year, fecifree LOenj y blocked periods andenior parking. Until then. park inyour own parking pace .

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The weekend isa t ime when students should be able to relax. All 0week , students work hard. Have we not earned a two-day recovery N

period without any homework? r-"'r think il would he great if teachers cuuldlind a way to assign us the homework thai they ~are going to give us on the weekend during the ~week. That way, our weekends would be free for ~useful act ivit ies. The student' s mind needs t ime ~to unwind. It needs time for relaxation and lime for th e things that we have learned to s in k i n.

T he information cannot sink in if you ar e 3 ic ramm in g e ve n more in d uring the weekends. ~

Jon Vick Another thing is that we have plenty 0Assistant editor things to do on weekends be ides homework, We ~

need time for things l ike doing work around the 0house, going to social functions . catching up on much-needed sleep, Zhanging out with fr iend ,going towork, and much more.

Ho w are We supposed to d all of the things we need til do 0weekends if we have seven ass ignments from 'even different classperiods du e on Monday?

It is not like two free days is that much time to take care of al l theresponsibilities. The point is tha; weekends should be a time for restThey should be worry free and giving us weekend homework d oc s n othelp.I' m not going to complain about research papers and other majorassignments which mostly have to be worked on during the weekends.bu t save the pointless busy work for during the week.

I know some will argue that having homework on the weekendgives you more time to do it, bur these people do nor have fun. 1. for:one, like to go out on the weekends. Weekends are a time fOT partiesand barbecues. They are not for reading and wriling.;.. .__ ......J

B etter u nderstan din g o f 'G oth ic ' is n eeded amo ng stu den tsI am continually disgusted with people that repeatedly

assume they know what i tmeans to be"Gothic" or "punk"when in actua lity they have no realidea of the word at all .

To be part of uch lifestyles andcultures is not to everyday make re-peated efforts (0proclaim that one isGothic or punk.It issimply somethingthat you are or you are not

1realize that there are con ciousdecisions to look and act a certainway, but itdoc not make you Gothicor punk becau e you make effort s todress that way. Iti simply a lifestyle,nothing more, nothing less.

First. the Gothic culture has nothing to do with HotTopic. Hot Topic i s as much of a Gothic store as the Gapright across from it, The clothing they ell i s [10 differentfrom what is in any other (are.Seriou Iy, it i ju t pieces of cloth that have been sewedtogether in order~t~provide a certain amount of skin cover-age. Just because you buy clothes from there does notmean you are"1Ulomatica~y defined as being Gothic. IWearing safety pins thropgb various parts of YOUll body

is not GOUllC. It is more than stupid to put a safety pinthrough your cars and kin as obviously that i nOli thepurpose of them.Covering one's face and neck with white and black

makeup i not Gothic. A perfect example of this would be

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Halloween. I remember cooling toschool tosec the major-ity of the "gothic" crowd decked out in white face makeupand black eyeliner u ed to fi11nlips and draw curved tearsd wn cheeks amd anarchist Igns on forehead .Not only is wearing uch makeup not Gothic, but only

wearing it on Halloween iseven more ofa pathetic attempt.It does not end with drawing on faces, eithe r. Using

white out , permanent markers, and other utcn il to makevarious satanic, anarchist, and otherwise meaningles sym-bols onto hands, backpacks, clothing, walls, and any otherfree urface is not Gothic.It makes one look no better than a four year old that

took crayons and scribbled all over a coffee table. Lookinglike a wall of graffitti isnot Gothic.Worshipping the devil does not make you Gothic any-

more than someone who worships Allah, God or Zeus.Anarchy is not Gothic.Religious beliefs have no basis in what define ome-

one and therefore carrying around a notebook of "spells"and "magic' does not mean that JOu are anywhere nearbeing Gothic.The idea that Gothic people are depressed, morbid, and

possibly evert violent is also a common mistake, 1have yetto meet someone who i actually Gothic who is alwaysdepressed, thinking about death and i violent They areu ually quire the oppo ite and take offense (0the idea thatthey be any of the above.Then there are the "punk" people that one can see

around.

Ever since such pop mu icidol asAvrial Lavigne. Blink182, and Good Charlotte, there has been an increase in theamount r people een trying lObe punk.There eem to be a general idea tha t the more one t ri es

tobe punk, the more punk they arc, and I am sorry to saybut this is a very sad way of thinking.Just because you search th e internet f rantical ly for a

band shirt of some underground band in nowhere, USAdoes not mean you are punk. Buttons proclaiming "Skaterbois are hot ." do not make you punk. Avrial Lavigne isnotpunk. Safety pins through your clothe , backpacks andskin are not punk. Listening to a band that you found onKazaa whose name is "Punk rock band" does not make youpunk. Doing any or all of the above does not make youpunk.Recently a friend came to . chool with safety pins re-

placing the buttons on hi shirt, nol because he w tryingto be punk bur because the shirt imply had 10 t the major.ilYof it s but tons. Late r during the day I heard a girl askanother one of her chick friends 'if he had seen my friendand-his safety pirrbutrons. The other girl then proclaimedthat as a matter' of fact she had seen the shirt and wasplanning on going home and taking the buttons out of hershirt so that he could be "punk cute" also. Delightful.This ismy final plea: ifyou have any desire to be Gothic

orpunk and your f irst thought is"Hey, I 'l l st ick a afety pinthrough my bead and dye my ha ir black" then do me andeveryone else a favor and ... . don't,


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Lady Vikings carry with themwhenever they step on the g11lSseems tohave had lit tle effect thusfa r this ca on.

"You go out there expected todo a j ob, and you ju t get the jobdone. There really not that mu hpressure when you look at i t l ikethaI." Gorzicky said.

After 10 ing seven starters, The girls have a tough cam-from last year' team, the Viking paign thi year in the new districthave shown the state they had just 13-5A, with unfamiliar foes,includ-much talent on the ench a ing rival A&M consolidated.

they did on the field last year. "There are some good teamsIn the season opener. pitcher in our di trier, and you can't un-

Lisa Gorzycki gave up only one derestimate anyone this time ofhit and struck out ten. The Belton [he year." Williamson said.game marked her fi fth no-hitter of The Viking softball team seemsthe season. very confident that their talent, ex-

The ever-present bul lseye the perience and teamwork wiJI carry

('(')ooNeith Hudacka them far intothe playoff again thiyear, possibly with another ulti-

mate payoff of repeating as thestate's softball champions.The eniors have stepped it

up once again for the Vikes, in theform of leadership and clutchplays. That iswhat the Williamsoni looking for from her girl th iyear.

"It takes a I t of talent and alittlebit of magic towin a state title.r ight now were ju t looking for!.hallittle bit o r magic." Williamsonsaid,

Ifthe Lad y Viking softball teamcontinues to perform as well asthey have, like the defending statechampion then the future looksvery bright for this talented groupof girls.

Track faces tough district competitionRebekkah HernandezStaff writer

The track team seem obl ivi -au La pain and miserable weatheras they t rain for the distr ict meeton pril9.

Their hard work th is seasonearned the boys fifth place and thegirl sixth in the February 22 Vi~king Relays.

Coach David Greeno saythat lap performers James Graff,Marcu John on, Steven Mackey,Stanley McMurray, Ja onMitchel l . Jesse Rodriguez, SyndricSteptoe and Donald W il li am s g iv ethe team agreat chance at d i tr ic t.ewly eligible athletes arc ure LO

b .1th team' performance awell

Lindsey Notrr :lan scores another run for the Lady VikS's as she beatsthe throw to home. The Vikings are in first place as ey near the endof the regular season. p ho to b y B il l Me ek s

Baseball swings for the fencesThe boys wil l need to be at Keith Hudacko

their best to overcome tough op- Staffwriterponents Copperas Cove andA&M Consolidated. The ome- The Bryan Vikings ba cballwh at i nt im i da ti ng 2002 ill triet team has a history of beginningchamps, Can 01, will ho [the up- seasons with high expectation,co~g meet. Con olidared aI a and ending 'with a mediocre per-placed econd in the Viking Re- formance , Thi year the Vikingslays. arc looking tochange all that,Girls' Coach Falecia Pier be- One thing idifferent from thelieves that her team's goals for teams of the past: each of the oth-each meet, ea on and year con- ers lacked enior leadership. Thetribute to their succe .This year Vikings tart seven oFnine seniors.they hope to Ip their 2002 di - Iter losing senior pitchertrict ranking of fourth. Eric Sillier lost year, the Vike were

With runners like Kristyle 10 k in g to fi ll the void hc lef t onCrawford. RenaeDiGuardi ,Tiffany the mound. They seem to haveGreeno and Sequoia White, their found the answer in juni rTravisgoals are able to be sky high. Welch,

DiGuardi, who ran a 46.39 for Coach Harry Francis belie csthe 300 meter hurdle to win dis- the ke y to succes on the field th is

t ri er l as t year, i ca. n w ill equal the uecc s ofworki ng to irn- the; r pitch ing taff.pr ve h er time in "Without good pitching, youseveral events can't win games in this district.and i aiming for That's all there is to it," rancisthe state cham- said.pia n s hip. The ikings have faced aWhile also \ on tough [est in district I3-5A thisdistrict i~ t002 year. Am ng the Viking foc. wjerewi th a longjump the Texas high school baseball ti-~ . I lof 1 7 -3 ,2 5 . .Last tan ,A&~ Consolidated Tigers.seaso n, she ran a rami liar foe for the Vikes.- I25.0 for the 200 The Viking haven't had anmeier dash, ca. y season by any means, but

still have confidence that Lhi. willbe the year it a ll come together.

"Thi team is hungry. prob-

taff writerThe Lady Viking oftball team

has picked up wh rc they left of flast ea on. AfLCT a 7-0 win overBelton April 1, th e Vikes' recordtood at 2-2, with a 6-0 district

record,

Th e team w ant to build ontheir e ar ly s uc ce ss and r emem l: le (bat it t akes to w in matches,'This w as by f ar o ur best

e ff or t o f th e year," said coachRandy Stewart.Girls golt take topin District 13-SA

The girl . go lf team won the13-5A district championshipJ\pril 2 in tournament play atCottonwood Creek Golf Course10Waco, Bryan shot a 765 aheadof second-place finishers A&MCon so li da te d I n the two-daytournament It wac; the thirdstraight district title for the girlsteam.Ashley Deather.e finishedcond with a score of 170. HolliHayes placed third. Deatherageand Hayes earned all-districthonors. Other team members areK yn dal J oh nso n. A bby H od ge san d Tanya Mercatoris.

The team will advance toegionals April 23-24,

ably the most spirited group ofkids r have ever worked with inthe past. They really want toprove their worth in this district,"Francis said.

Something that wil l help theVikings along their que\f:for a dis-trict playoff berth will be theirabundance of solid, all-around hit-ters. They don't have the extremelong ball hil-rers. butwhen aclutchdouble isneeded , theVikes havem u l t ip Iplayers whopas e s theabiUty 10com cthrough inthose situa-lions.

After awin overWaco Tue -day night, Welch improved to6-0on the mound thi s ason, Thekind orprpduction the Vikes needout fo him t win ball games,

Tile Viking improve to 13-6overall and 6-2 ineli trict play, put-ting them insole possesion of sec-ond place indi trict 13-5A. behindleague leader A&M Can 0 1 1 -dated.

"Withoutgoodpitching,you can'twin gamesin thisdistrict.That's allthere is toit."B a s e b a l lc o a c hHarryF r a n c i s


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War protestssweep th rough nationRebekkah HernandezStaff writer

In Pre ident Bush's re olute Ultimatum Speech, heassured the American people that' every measure ha beentaken La avoid war and every measure will be taken 0lwinit." Many beli eve tbat there hould not be a war to win inthe first place.

Peace demon trations erupted worldwide in themonth preceding the war. When bombs were launchedon I raq , protestors were no t discouraged from their ef-for ts for peace. "Day after" rall ies across the country re-suited in riots and hun~red of arrests. . ,

Sophomore Megan Stevener consider these protests10 be u eless,

"The war is already g ing 0 they should just give itup. It's not going to do any good," Stevener said.

In the '70s, universit ie were the center for demon-stration and protes ting. They st il l remain the predorni-nant leaders. While protests at TAMU have been few andfar between, tudents in Austin have par ticipated inmanyforms of war resistance.In Austin on March 19 the la teness of the attack onIraq was no t sufficient to deter a small group from as -sembling at the Capitol. The next day Austinites f loodedthe treets, causing traffic congestion in some part ofthe city. They waved signs like, "Hate is Overrated", "Oil=$1.55 pel ' gal lon; Lives= Priceless" , "No blood for oil",and "Peace is Patriotic."

III one i t-in on a bridge, pol ice used pepper spray Lacontrol the crowd and arrested around s e t for el i ruptingtraffic and'lJ embling without a permit. 1ll~

Tenth graders Drew Allmof and Ch~rlie Davis regardI 'destructive demonstrators as two-faced. '. ,"People that use violence to protest the war are hypo-crit ical," Allmon and Davi aid.

Studen arounl l the country added their support tothe m vernent with walk-out and silent prote ts.Manhauanville College basketba ll player Toni Smi thmowed her antagonism toward the war by turning her back

to the f lag as the national anthem isplayed at her games.Freshman pencer Jones believes those who oppose

the war should not show hostility toward American sol-diers.

"Even if 'prote, tors don't u pp on th e war, they shouldupport our troops ," Jones aid.The Grammys and Academy Awards proved tobe an

opportunity for people of all persuas ions to voice theiropinions.

At the February 23 Grammys, celebri ties s ignifi-cantly toned down their anti-war entirnents to mild re-marks for peace. Sheryl Crow.had a simple "No War"etched on bel ' guitar strap. Avri l Lavigne likewise hadthose words ewn into the inside of he r jacket

George Clooney, Julia Robert , Mat t Damon, Ma-donna, the Dixie Chicks, Samuel L. Jackson, KimBasinger, and Dave Mat thew are just a few of the starwho support the anti-war cause.The night of the 0 cars gave celebrit ie and L.A.protesters alike a chance to demon [rate in the potlight ,Over a thou and activi sts showed up at the Kodak The-ater on March 23. When cer tain individuals outstayedtheir welcome (as well as their rally permit curfew) theywere escorted to the police stat ion,

What exactly causes these people to step up andspeak out, even when faced with arrest?

Some prote ters object to bloodshed in generalwhile others oppo e this parti cular war. Many bel ievethat Iraq did not provide sufficient cau e for attack, andth e U.S. is being imperialistic and overly aggressive.

Oil contro i also cited as the m Live behindAmerica 's inv I ement. While most be I ve Sadaamshould be eliminated, they fear warfare wil l cause theiraqi people even more torment.

Protestors occasionally face abuse from those wbodo not agree with their methods.

Sophomore Lori Kendall voice the entiment ofmost who believe it helps the U.S. to hear all opinions.

"I think the people have a right [0protest becausewe all have free speech , .Kendall said.


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~------ ~~~ __ENTERTMNMENThe R ing brings fam ilie s together 8

Lorello RangelStaff writerMany people have heard of the movie recently released

titled The Ring. Bu t what you all may n 1know is thai thereianother m vie bythesame til le . T h e R in g that I am refer-ring to is ba ed on the novel by Daniello Steel. Thi moviehas been around for quite some lime now, but it is worththe time to watch, If you are in the mood for a good familydrama, this i a good movie to look into.The movie leLl the story of a young German woman

named Anona Van Gotthen. She i the daughter of a r ichGerman wh isan anti-Nazi . He tries toget hi family out ofGermany before Hitler take over, bU I is stopped by aG r-man soldier who shoots him. Ariana and ber brother a reseparated and loose track of each other. Gerheart, Ariana'sbrother, istaken toPari by his fiance and her father, whileAriana i forced to travel to Berl in with Jewi h refugeewith nothing but one ring [0 keep her connected 10 herfamily.

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