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APRIL 5, 2007 - Page 6 FEATURES Still reeling and healing Kenny Ditto '06, support services clerk for the college's post office, recently visited New Orleans to pho- rtograph the devastation and the restoration of cities wiped out by Hurricane Katrina. "Much of the outlying areas still remain in shambles as a result of flood damage following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita," Ditto noted. He shot these photos while tour- ing the Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish. A teddy bear and an American flag sit atop a pile of Many homes, like this one in the Ninth Ward, were pushed by flood- An abandoned storefront in a shopping center in flood-damaged belongings. waters as 11 result of the levee breaks. Chalmette, LA. The brightly-colored "X" decal indicates that the structure is scheduled for "Involuntary Demolition:· Sometimes parting is sweet sorrow clothes. Jeans with no where Kane, a senior, knows what - unless of course one whole CORI SIMPSON to put their wallets, pants with it's like to favor only a couple RE-USE!" FEATURES EDITOR pant leg is missing, or a In general, students warn of holes everywhere besides in pairs of pants, tending to wear sweater has shrunk. up to a being deceived by a high- Clothes live a tough life. the shins and t-shirts with no the same pants everyday for a belly shirt. Pass the decent priced department store's They get sweated in, tom up, armpits are only a few items few years, only giving them items on to a mission store. ideas of "vintage" clothes. spilled on, stretched out, bat- found in their collections. up when he finds a suitable Rasmussen, a junior, They are a mere mockery tered and abused in every Darkow, a junior, has had a replacement. But it's tricky to explained that the process of compared to the genuine satis- possible way. pair of Old Navy boot-cut keep clothes around for years hanging on to old clothes is, faction of breaking-in your In a sense, a good pair of jeans since her sophomore when you're faced with "an experiment in recycling own clothes at a far less jeans is like a best friend. They year of high school and drunken nights, fence scaling clothing, and avoiding buying expensive price. are there for you any day of Rasmussen, a pair of pants and mischief. Your clothes are new clothes." Based on his personal expe- the week, at all hours of the from grade six. Kudos to still bound to end up in any shape "I say never throw the riences, Ned claimed confi- night. You walk all over them being able to fit into them, by but mint condition. clothes out until their despica- dently that" clothes are meant _sometimes i(they're too long the way. But really, why hang "I have a pair of shorts from bly calculated short life span to be worn and ripped; it's - but they're forgiving. They on to them for so long? high school I stapled patches is completely spent and they more fun that way." simply fray or rip, wait in a "They are the perfect light onto the holes in the back, are no more than dirty hamper to be washed, color and they have been worked fine until one of the and are ready to be worn washed so many times I could staples bent out a little and I again. probably wear them to bed," sat on it," explained Ned. "But Maybe that's why people Darkow said. most of my clothes end up have such bonds with their During the early stages of getting held together by safety clothes and wear them ripping, she would give them pins and patches with punk ragged. Like an old piece of to her mom-mom to patch, but bands on them so they can candy you find in your book recently it seems any amount look super cool." bag that's discolored, mis- of patching only delays the McDaniel College students shapen, and might even be inevitable. seem to share one belief when growing a little mold, you "I was wearing spandex it comes to finally parting simply can't let your favorite underneath them so my with their old clothes - wear clothes go. underwear wouldn't be show- them as long as publicly Rachael Darkow, Ned Kane, ing, but with the warm weath- appropriate (or maybe even and Connor Rasmussen are er coming, it's getting a little longer, if you have spandex) advocates of broken-in toasty for that," she said. and don't ever just trash them