| Show Points West Passes Away M I 0 d Jc c r 1 1 TT T Miracle Follows Fo II j rc s sr I 1 know this will be hard for all of you to take but after only seven yea years s of faithful service the campus 1 newspaper Points West has passed s- s f. f away Now nobody I I m mean an nobody noody was more shocked by this tragic turn of events th than n us this years year's newspaper staff I 1 mean we had just seen it the day before looking healthy robust practically lly in the prime of its life an and now suddenly its it's gone sigh But hey I guess I 1 should tell you the whole story and start from the beginning Okay Good here ere we go 1 for first The beginning me was my day on the news staff I 1 was in the theoffice office working on an article Points West Vest was sitting at its desk sipping on ona ona a Perrie and reading a Time magazine It idolized the magazine I 1 I left the room for a couple of minutes just a couple of stupid minutes Im I'm telling you I was walking back bac when I heard these I coughing gasping noises coming comings s from the offices then a loud as something hit the floor I rushed inside and found Points West crumpled up on the floor Dead Swell I 1 thought to myself with m my luck Im I'm gonna get blamed for forth th this IS As it turned out nobody got mad at i me The coroners coroner's report blamed the death on natural causes Apparently when this college stopped being a 4 Tech Tech school the papers paper's time on earth also ran out Or Ot course those 1 at disgusting Cuban cigars ut ait it always sll smoked k ed didn't help much either But still it was somehow poetic that i- i th the Tech and its paper should pass together into the sunset like that even if none of it rhymes After several days of mourning followed by a couple days of afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon and evening we started to plan its funeral We finally decided on cremation as as' as the best possible way to The Inside Story w j by S. 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P Van VanHorn Horn say good You got the gasoline I 1 asked my assistant Yeah but I forgot the darn matches she replied and went to fetch them Afterwards it was my friend Joey's idea to scatter the ashes all over the campus so that in a sense it would always be with us Unfortunately and much t to our amazement the custodian didn't see it in quite the same light and ended up chasing us off the quad with a dust mop Well I 1 huffed indignantly some people have no respect for the dead Yeah agreed Joey as he tried to brush off what was left of Points West from his hands no respect at all After the incident with the dust mop we all decided we needed to get geton geton geton on with our lives and put Points West's death behind us but an aura of gloom soon fell over the office It just wasn't the same without it Jerry our advisor walked walked in and noticed all the long races faces Come on you guys he said cheer up well we'll find another newspaper 7 fi o 4 v J i Departures r. r J. i 10 Points West e If rl t f i V 1 h j I 1 Arrivals I Y i I.- I. 1 i 1 2 t i f f Not like Points West sniffed Melinda our Publication VP V.P. Well We l never find anything to replace oP of PW Yeah I 1 agreed sadly It was one of a kind Jerry tried to argue Aw Well We'll find another newspaper you'll see I 1 promise But we didn't believe him The memory of Points West lingered on in our souls and nothing anyone said could comfort us We were really bummed out And what about our obligation to the college The first day of class would arrive and every where in every hallway the stark images of empty news stands would send a chilling message throughout the and the result I was afraid would not be pretty I toyed with the idea of leaving town W We need needed d something to happen s 's something r m that w would make everything right again What we needed was a miracle Just th then n there was a knock on the door Go 9 away I I yelled There was a pause then another knock I decided I Id I'd d better answer it this time When I got to the door no noone noone noone one was there I to myself and was about to close the door when I spotted something on the ground It was a small bundle wrapped in a blanket I picked it up The top of the blanket fell away and suddenly I was staring face to type face with a brand new baby newspaper It was a bald little thing with hardly any newsprint and the whitest tiniest pages I had ever seen There was a note pinned to the blanket It read pad Please take care of our baby We love it but have just lost our home and dont don't have the money or reporters to take care of it properly Please give it ita ita a home and a name The Signed South High News Wow A Brand new new newspaper I faltered for a moment wondering if I Iwas Iwas Iwas was ready to take on such a big responsibility I looked down at it It Continued on page rive five Points West miracle cont i. i looked back and br broke ke into a huge grin My doubts melted away right there I walked into the office with it never guess what I just found I announced Linda our pur copy copyeditor copyeditor copyeditor editor looked up It wouldn't happen to be a brand new baby newspaper recently orphaned from South High she said How did know I asked her lter you amazed amazed PI P- P I read the first draft she said shrugging her shoulders The rest of the staff crowded around excitedly its name someone asked I dont don't know I replied It didn't come with a name I guess well we'll have to to think of f. f one f for forit r rt 1 it t No No interjected Melinda thought thought- th thoughtfully f fully Since its it's the whole colleges college's pap paper r I think we should give everyone a chance to name it We Well We'll hold a contest a Name the Newspaper Newspaper News News- pa paper r Contest Great I said What will we off offer eras as a prize Our undying gratitude she said We all just gave her hera a blank look ook t. t l I j r A picture in the paper she asked sheepishly We didn't comment Okay okay fifty bucks We nodded our heads vigorously We had ourselves a contest and soon hopefully a name |
