The casual reader might think that there is little exciting about flickering lights until considering the addition of the last flicker when the lights do not come back on in an appreciable amount of time coupled with several hundred students in a relatively small space. The latter parameter in particular tends to add an exciting dimension to an otherwise boring Saturday. The yells and boisterous behavior began almost immediately when the last flicker failed to return light to the entire UAM campus leaving a blackout that initially lasted roughly an hour and, after a brief respite, went out again to remain out for the rest of the night.

Photograph by Lee Hassler

Injustices - Duplicate of sign posted in breezeway of Maxwell Hall warning language majors not to dare perform their craft on Maxwell's watch.

   In the end, the lights came back on to stay the next morning, leaving the early morning riser alone with his or her thoughts to scan the minimal damage inflicted by the onslaught of Hurricane Rita. In fact, it seems that, other than a few small branches, the brunt of the hurricane seemed to focus on the bulletin boards of Maxwell Hall and the new student apartments. This destruction to the innocent bulletin boards lends the astute observer to wonder if the wrath Rita imparted on UAM was in response to the poorly phrased decree threatening dire judicial consequences for any English or Journalism major who may be inclined to commit the egregious crime of conjugating verb tenses in the breezeway of Maxwell after 10 p.m.

   Apparently only Lady Rita will take this question with her as she continues her onslaught north.

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