Rumor has it ...
The music school is opening a Half Price Books!
Just go and take a look at the room known as Fred White 100 (not to be confused with the former radio station HOT 100, that was also WILD 100, and is now fizzled out as Jack FM, but don't get us started on that). If you are not familiar with FW100...its at the end of the hall (there is only one hall, so its not hard to find). Its the end with the classroom. For first timers, I recommend staying close to the wall when you enter, because some have reported the vertigo effect from the colored tile to be a little bit overwhelming at first. Look past the desks to the file cabinets. I think this is where they are collecting books for the store. I'm guessing it is Half Price books, because it looks just like the counter where you get ripped off/sell your books to the store. Might as well go to the Campus Bookstore if you want to get ripped off!!

Do we really NEED a Half Price Books on campus? I guess its not up to me. But then again, not much is.

Fred White wants to know...
Where are the picture boards for the last few events in the music department? Chorale's England/Scotland trip? The Magic Flute? Fiddler on the Roof? We have lots of lovely decorations from the past glory days of DBU musicals and operas...let us keep on with this tradition.

Fred White also has noticed that FBC Dallas' watercolor picture in the FWB has been recently replaced by a similar one of Park Cities Baptist Church. Fred wonders if this has anything to do with political connections? Or could it be (because it resides in the 'music building' that this is a comment on the music of these two church bodies? Just something to ponder...

Why do practice rooms smell bad? Can anyone answer this? Do we need to have a community air freshener can that lives in that little shelf area in the lockers? Hmm...sounds like a plan.

Music Major Cookout Postponed...again
Anyone remember last year? We kept putting off the cookout (Daddy Burgers) until...well...this year I guess. Maybe this year will be last year's cookout..and next year will be this year's? This cookout is currently scheduled for Sept. 17 (that's a Friday, for you calendar-less people out there). We will wait and see if it really occurs. Honestly, I can say that it is quite the event worth waiting for.

Also Rumored:
The music school has some kind of investment/deal with the makers of mechanical pencils. Perhaps it is a deal similar to the agreement with Dr. Pepper that only DP will be sold on campus, and no Coke products. (of course, in Texas we say "coke" for all drinks that fizz...so maybe at DBU we should say "dr. pepper", since there IS no coke?)

Here's how it works: The majority of pencil use occurs in theory/analysis classes. When people are purchasing pencils, they know that they have to have a sharpener with a standard #2 pencil, or they need to get a mechanical pencil. Most theory oriented classes meet in the FW100, and early in the day. FW100 has one pencil sharpener, but somehow it ends up behind the Half Price Bookstore counter (file cabinets). Now, this might be conducive of students electing to purchase mechanical pencils. No want wants to show up to choir with a dull pencil (would require them walking in front of everyone and sharpening their pencil, which often causes the body to shake almost as if they were dancing, and everyone knows Baptists don't dance), and since their theory class earlier in the day had them using a mechanical pencil, they might as well just use the same one. So, by the law of necessity, music students purchase more mechanical pencils than standard ones.*

*this theory has not been really tested, maybe it will in the future.

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