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By DJ Patrick
When the fall of the year comes around, most high school seniors are considering what col- lege!I they want to apply to. Some of us already know where we want to go while others are
not sure. Some of us worry about "getting in" and others just don't care because they know they're gonna get in somewhere sooner or later.
Here at V.E.S. there are several candidates who will app- ly to UNC otherwise knuwn as Chapel Hill or Paradise. Among us are Jim Blount, Stuart
Mercer, Cam Evans, and of course myself, D.J. Patrick. ·
We don't know whether we will get in but the interesting thing is the attitudes we have
developed and steps we have taken to deal with the situation. When I sit here and think
about Cam Evans, the one thing that pops into my mind is that he
already thinks he's in.
Sure enough. But I tell you
this, if they deny him, he will just buy the Undergraduate Admis- sions Department and force
them to let him in. God only knows what's gonna happen when he gets there. He might have to buy a cell in the Chapel Hill Police Department so they
won't have to hear him say how much of a "dump" the place is.
Cam has also told people heap- plied to Yale. Couldn't you just see him on the crew team with a
cigarette in his mouth and an all girl bodyguard staff?
Second, I think about Stuart Mercer. He's got one thing on his side - that is his father went to UNC and became a doctor. Already the Undergraduate Ad-
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that won't look great on his ap- plication! Jim is the first one to have his application completed
and now everyones in a race for the mail box. I bet that when Jim applies, the Undergraduate Ad- missions Department will let him in so he can stop figuring out ways to get in!
Last and probably least, there's me. I don't know what my chances are but my friends say
I'm in. Now that my mother filled out my application in pen instead of pencil, that may really damage
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Dear Betty:
Well, now that I am pretty
much settled in Lynchburg, Vir- ginia and at school, I'll tell you
about some of the differences I've noticed from New Jersey. First, the weather is so much warmer. It's October and it's still eighty degrees or hotter. By now
you're wearing heavy sweaters. People at school say I have a strong northern accent. When I don't understand what someone has said, I'll ask him to repeat it.
If I still don't understand, then I fake it. Everything I say sounds different to them, especially the way I say my sister's name, Tara.
I say her name stressing the first
syllable, T a'ra. A t school people
say Tea-ra or Tar-ah. Everyone
says I say it wrong. I claim they
say it wrong, since I've been say-
ing it that way for sixteen years!
rat.
Though there are many dif- ferences, I really like it in Va.
Write you again soon.
Sincerely, Tracey
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A Potential Tar Heel
· my chancest My father went to UNC for 7 years, inother 4 and mission Department knows him - sister 2. The numbers seem to get smaller as our family gets
the term tennis shoe• to refer to shoes that are worn for all sports.
Last year I went to an all girl• Catholic school. Now I attend a school which has only three senior girls. There are twenty- seven girls in the entire school. I'm the only girl in most of my classes. Sometimes when I go to class a little early there will be
some male students engaged in a racy conversation. They will con- tinue it until someone in the group reminds them that they are now in mixed company.
Another difference is since I lived very close to New York Ci- ty I wasn't familiar with wild animals. When my sister and I moved into our new house we confused the deer roaming in our
back yara ana our dog, a golden
retriever. I also called a gopher a
on a first name basis and I bet
that illDr. Mercer lost his job, he ~ould asily set one up in Chapel
Third, there's Jim Blount. He doesn't know where he's gonna go. For the past two years we've heard of more colleges Jim is go- ing to apply to than all·of the
senior class put together. Have youeverheardofShawUniversi- ty or W arsaw University? Neither had I, but one he has got
on his side at UNC is that his father was dismissed. Tell me
. younger. Right now I see myself · as D.J.O. ·
But I'll have to look at the bright side of things. Maybe I could stick a $10,000 cheek in with my application or even go out with the President's daugh- ter or something. I don't know but we'll have to wait until De- cember until we find out about early decision. If anybody should
happen to think of some devious trick we could use as blackmale,
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we are open for suggestions.
Also in the north the word sneaker refers to shoes that are used to play sports. There are different types of sneakers, such as basketball, aerobics and ten- nis. I've noticed that people use
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