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HELPS BABY DIEGO

by Dale Bowyer

Derek Mifflin, President of the U.N.B.C. Creative
Writing Club, is in the process of organizing what he describes as
“an event.” - His plan is to hold a night of poetry and short story
readings to raise money for the Baby Diego fund. There is no date as
of yet for the reading, but Derek is aspiring for late November.
Because the Creative Writing Club is small, he is hoping to
coordinate with the Writers Bloc and the U.N.B.C. Radio Station’s
Open Stage as well. It is his hope that the night will be fun and
entertaining for everyone, and great way to raise money for a
worthwhile cause. When asked why the club decided to give the
money to charity rather than keep it for. their club’s use, Derek
replied, “What do we need money for?” Their expenses are small;
all they really want is a regular place to meet.

Derek is not impressed with the hassle booking a
regular room requires. “It’s kind of ridiculous,” Derek explained.
Without a regular meeting place the club encounters other problems.
For example, finding a way to advertise their meetings is next to
impossible, as there is no way to tell where the meeting will take
place ahead of schedule. For now the club has sequestered room 7-
105 as their meeting place, but this changes when the class is in use.
If you are interested in Creative Writing or want to attend a meeting
and find out more about the club, meetings are held every week in
room 7-105, alternating between Mondays at 1:30 pm and Thursdays
at 6pm. The next meeting ison [Thyrsday, 24 November 1994, You
can contact Derek at 564-1405 for more information. NY

-bar.

by Stephanie Willett

Tt was
Melissa's. nineteenth birthday.
To celebrate Dawn took her and
some other friends to an empty
‘Dawn didn't drink, but
wanted to dance. She convinced
Antonio to dance with her, and
they were having a good time,
when Nirvana’s Heart Shaped
Box came on. Being a couple
of wieners, the two decided it
would be fun to mosh. Needless
to say, moshing with only four
people in the pit really didn't
work. Antonio and Dawn hit
heads and she went flying,
landed right on her knee and
ended up tearing the cartilage.
Antonio helped her to the table,
where Dawn sat, embarrassed as
hell. The worse was not yet

over.

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Sunday and ..
‘the bar. Once outside, Dawn

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“Demolition Man”
decided to pick a fight with the
guys Dawn was with. Not
wanting to be part of a brawl,
Dawn grabbed her stuff and left

tried to walk down the stairs,
but her knee gave out and she
fell, swore-in pain, and scared
away some guys in a Camaro
who were going to help.

The loser who tried to
pick the fight came out and told
Dawn to go back into the bar.
She said no and told him that he
was disgusting. | Demolition
Man tells her to shut her fucking
mouth. Dawn went on to tell
him that it is sad that people
can't even ‘have fun without
getting picked on. The thug got

mad and threatened to shoot .

Dawn. At this point Dawn
started to get worried. Finally
her friends came out of the bar
and they helped her to the car.

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From there Dawn and_ her
friends went to the emergency
room and then eventually home.
When Dawn made it home she
had to wake her parents up to
tell them her story. She got in
shit for being at a bar underage
(she was only 18 at the time).
She had to miss work and had to .
tell her bosses what happened.
Dawn went to a rock concert
with a splint .and crutches,
feeling and looking like a total

~ idiot.

Dawn moved to go to University
and had a hell of a time
unpacking and registering for
classes because of her crutches.
She had to live with her families
constant teasing about "the bar-
room brawl" and also had to
put up with the nick name
"Hoppy". %

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