Gonzales Martyred Last Week
Gave Up His Evening for the Students

Some students gripe about the dress code, but some do something about it. After the new dress code rules posted on the 19th, Harold Gonzales, a student at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, became one of the latter.

"There isn't much he could have done except start at the grassroots level," Gonzales' lawyer commented. "My client fears that admin will continue its gradual dismantling of Everything That Makes Life Bearable. He had to do something."

And something is just what he did. Immediately following the announcement of the rules, Gonzales scanned the parchment, scrawled a quick FA, and posted it on the lab screens. Discovering this, the students discussed the dress code with one another, and reached the inevitable conclusion that it sucked.

These events follow the Admin insurrection, where staff used black paint to obscure the FA marks in stairwells and dorm walls . Gonzales had seen the censure of our GSSM heritage and the effects it had on the students.

Unfortunately, R.E.S.L.I.F.E. enforcer troops arrived on the scene shortly after, and after nearly an hour of deliberation, a staff meeting, some walks to Wiggins and a phone discussion with Mrs. Bunn, they concluded that the wallpaper was alterable and could indeed be taken down. Meanwhile, Gonzales returned to the scene of his display to find R.L. goons waiting to bring him in.

"I thought they stopped using the rack during the Inquisition," says student Patrick Bristow.

In any case, after extensive interrogation (and they had to ask him how to take it off, too) they ended Harold's evening with the standard treatment, an 8 o'clock writeup. If only more students fought for the cause of freedom, we would not need our best freedom fighters to perish in the line of fire.

I'm Corey Flintoff, and this is All Things Considered.