Show S v 0 w 0 N F Bit O 0 Stuff By Craig and Sara Staff Writers Rock and Roll Roofing Rooting Sara took a break from writing this week so I Craig could recount my adventures at South City Campus This is my first fust quarter attending located in the old South High School The old building is full of character and charm chann and I was excited excited excited ed to be attending classes in the same place where several of my grandparents went to high school The first fast two weeks were nice and uneventful Parking was OK Staff friendly Atmosphere serene Halls endless 1 The e only things the halls need are mirrors at each end to create an even better illusion of eternity The peace and serenity came to an abrupt stop during the third week of school I drove around campus searching for that perfect parking spot I heard a deafening scraping noise and just knew that Id I'd hit some some- thing As I sat in my old beautiful car steeling myself to get out and have a alook alook alook look the scraping sound happened again It came from the roof of the main building A worker was systematically systematically systematically system system- dumping debris bout out of a wheelbarrow and down a large plastic plastic plastic plas plas- tic tube secured to the top of the three story edifice As the debris landed in the dumpster dump- dump ster below a giant flume of dust went airborne and sat suspended in the breeze The filled dust-filled wind blew my way Gagging I rubbed my debris filled eyes Why now I thought Why not repair the roof in the summer when there arent aren't as many students around The roofing project was little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than a nuisance right up until Thursday of last week I arrived early to review my class notes and sat inthe in inthe inthe the hall I pulled my book and folder out of my purple and began to read Soon the sound of sawing and grinding filled my ears I felt I Iwas Iwas Iwas was sitting in a dentist chair having numerous root canals performed all at once The reverberating grinding grating and scraping set my teeth on edge like ten thousand fingernails running down a chalkboard It stopped hallelujah Next came the pounding Directly above me what sounded like a sledge sledgehammer sledgehammer sledgehammer hammer was thundering away I started started started start start- ed to fear for my safety when I looked up and saw the suspended ceiling tiles quaking with the impact of rubble nibble from above The pounding abruptly stopped and I heard a chorus of Uh Vh and then muttering from several of the workmen Im I'm sorry I cant can't say what happened next because I got the hell away from there My professor excused class early the next day because he couldn't holler loudly enough to compete with the clamor raised by the roofing pro pro- As I left the third floor I saw anold an anold anold old lighted sign next to the EXIT sign that read Area of Refuge I couldn't help but disagree Meanwhile back at Redwood I noticed another long plastic tube this one suspended from the BB building Although I haven't been inside the BB building yet this quarter I know exactly what they are going through Update Last week we wrote about the Eerie Hieroglyphics X's and O's Os drawn on many of the tiles in the SI building at Redwood Well we looked closely at the floor and noticed that in the very center of each of those circles were little itty bitty pock marks The pock marks were not visible however unless you were literally on your hands and knees looking for them The solution to the pock mark problem Rip the tiles up and replace them which the school did The result a sporadic checkerboard effect between the contrasting lighter shade new white tiles and the older darker white tiles that can be seen from a distance Send your fan mail or comments to at Redwood campus |