Interesting People – Freshmen Edition

RAENNEN DICKSON – MARKETING

CT I love your outfit. Can we take a picture?

RD Sure. (to CH and AK) Can you all hold this stuff?

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CHARITY HAYES – CLINICAL LAB SCIENCE

ALEXIS KNOWLIN – CRIMINAL JUSTICE

CH Oh! You all taking pictures?

RD Wait ,wait, my hair was in my mouth. (strikes pose)

CT We’re writing an article for your award-winning school newspaper. Would you like to tell us about your …

AK Well, uh, we kinda got to start walking … not even to be rude but, like, if we don’t get to the club at a certain time we’re not gonna get in free.

CT I understand perfectly.

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JOHN DEGARAFF – UNDECLARED

DANIEL RUSSELL – CINEMA

MAX FRIEDERSDORF – UNDECLARED

DAVID CHUNG – MUSIC EDUCATION

CT What’s college like? Thrilling thus far?

JD There was an earthquake.

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MIKE FOLMAR – UNDECIDED

MF (appears from nowhere) I’m not even joking, I was floating around on a tube sleeping, and the next thing I know everyone is like, “Get out of the pool!” … for some odd reason … and like, I felt the shakin’, and I was like, something is wrong.

CT I’m curious what that feels like underwater.

MF It feels like it’s shaking. I’m not even joking. Literally, we were sleeping in the pool when it happened, like, no s—.  Like I was on the pool in the whirlpool, and I was sleeping … yeah, on the tube. I haven’t slept in like… nah, I haven’t slept.

CT What do you think of Richmond? Have you met any homeless people yet?

DC Oh yeah, I love hanging out with gutterpunks.

CT Note:

gutterpunk [‘guht-er-puhngk], n.

1. a homeless or transient individual who displays a variety of specific physical traits and characteristics that often, but not always, are associated with the punk subculture. Attributes may include unkept dreadlocks, nose rings, Mohawk hairstyles, low quality tattoos or army-style clothing. Gutterpunks are generally characterized as being voluntarily unemployed, their unkempt appearance, smell and lifestyle making them unsuitable for most forms of mainstream employment.

(definition courtesy of Wikipedia.org)

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VICTORIA FROBERG – ART FOUNDATION

CT We’re all about Interesting People. Have you met any Interesting People?

VF We went to this AFO meeting thing, and there was this one girl, and she came up to us, and she was holding a guitar and she was just like, “This is Becky, and I take her everywhere.” She was just like, walking around and singing to people.

CT Note:

ARE YOU BECKY’S OWNER? IF SO, WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU.

SPECTRUM@COMMONWEALTHTIMES.ORG

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AYAN SHELTON – PUBLIC RELATIONS

CHINYERE ONYIRIMBA – CHEMISTRY

CT Is college everything you ever dreamed and more?

AS I’ve seen so many different kinds of people, like hipster people, or like, crazy black people and, like, when I’m home, it’s just all black people, all the time. It’s so diverse here, people like wearing septum rings and smoking cigarettes and being cool as hell, or … people with little circle glasses like you.

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LAUREN COLIE – ART FOUNDATION

JEZ TOWNER – ART FOUNDATION

CT A lot of our readers are probably dying to know what the honors dorms are like. Is it exquisite?

LC It’s pretty boring and quiet.

JT Everyone’s kind of hyped before you get here, but then you get here, and everyone’s kind of like, “What do we do now?”

LC The school activites are really stupid.

CT Maybe you’ve come across some strange and unusual persons then.

JT Well, we thought you were, at first.

CT Has anything else particularly interesting happened to you? Or particularly lame.

LC Our dorm’s really boring, but earlier tonight we spiced it up. We made a Twister board out of paper and markers.

JT It was weird … it was like a 30-minute party, and then everybody left. But it was nice because it wasn’t quiet anymore.

LC We took the initiative and brought popsicles … dragged some people out of their little holes.

CT Honors students sound like a pretty reserved bunch.

JT Its just so quiet; you don’t want to venture out.

LC It takes a lot of balls to leave your door open.