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Stephanie Williams
Issue date: 9/29/06 Section: Point of View
When the lights go down, they come out of the shadows.
Gathering in corners and lurking near doorways, they wait for you.
While you are lying in bed asleep, they break the silence with a noise to let you know that you are not alone.
They are in there with you, hiding, waiting and making their way through your belongings.
They travel in packs, swarming the campus, terrorizing students and taking over a new dorm every week.
And you may be their next victim.
The police department nor ULM president James Cofer, Sr., can save you from the crickets taking over the campus here at ULM.
It doesn't matter where you go around campus, crickets are everywhere.
They are in the Wig, at the stadium, on the walls and probably nesting in your dorm room as we speak.
Next week they may even be for lunch at Schulze.
Every night I see some poor college student fall victim to a group of swarming crickets forming what seems to be a black cloud around the doorways of both the dorms and apartment buildings.
And if you haven't been harassed outside your living areas, I'm sure you sleep restlessly at night inside your room or apartment, no matter what floor you are on.
It disturbs me how many students are deprived of sleep each night from these little black nightmares.
Sure, they don't bite, but the noise they make while you are trying to sleep, study or watch T.V. is piercing to the ears.
But don't waste your time trying to look for them.
Attempting to find where the noise is coming from and where they are hiding will only draw you closer to insanity.
It's sad to say that we are losing the battle to the crickets every day.
"I swear they are everywhere," said pre-pharmacy freshman Brittany Naccari. "No matter where I go or where I turn, there are crickets everywhere. It's insane because, just when you think you've gotten rid of a few, ten more pop up in your room."
It seems as if the only strategy to beating the cricket takeover on campus is staying inside and waiting for the colder weather to come.
Or better yet, in a Swiftian gesture, maybe we should be like the French and cover them in chocolate and eat them as a delicacy in the cafeteria.
Do you think Starbucks would be interested in making a cricket cocoa frappuccino?
I sure hope so.
It may be our only hope.
So close the windows, lock your doors and keep your pesticide under your pillow because, sooner or later, the crickets will find you.
Can you hear them coming?
Gathering in corners and lurking near doorways, they wait for you.
While you are lying in bed asleep, they break the silence with a noise to let you know that you are not alone.
They are in there with you, hiding, waiting and making their way through your belongings.
They travel in packs, swarming the campus, terrorizing students and taking over a new dorm every week.
And you may be their next victim.
The police department nor ULM president James Cofer, Sr., can save you from the crickets taking over the campus here at ULM.
It doesn't matter where you go around campus, crickets are everywhere.
They are in the Wig, at the stadium, on the walls and probably nesting in your dorm room as we speak.
Next week they may even be for lunch at Schulze.
Every night I see some poor college student fall victim to a group of swarming crickets forming what seems to be a black cloud around the doorways of both the dorms and apartment buildings.
And if you haven't been harassed outside your living areas, I'm sure you sleep restlessly at night inside your room or apartment, no matter what floor you are on.
It disturbs me how many students are deprived of sleep each night from these little black nightmares.
Sure, they don't bite, but the noise they make while you are trying to sleep, study or watch T.V. is piercing to the ears.
But don't waste your time trying to look for them.
Attempting to find where the noise is coming from and where they are hiding will only draw you closer to insanity.
It's sad to say that we are losing the battle to the crickets every day.
"I swear they are everywhere," said pre-pharmacy freshman Brittany Naccari. "No matter where I go or where I turn, there are crickets everywhere. It's insane because, just when you think you've gotten rid of a few, ten more pop up in your room."
It seems as if the only strategy to beating the cricket takeover on campus is staying inside and waiting for the colder weather to come.
Or better yet, in a Swiftian gesture, maybe we should be like the French and cover them in chocolate and eat them as a delicacy in the cafeteria.
Do you think Starbucks would be interested in making a cricket cocoa frappuccino?
I sure hope so.
It may be our only hope.
So close the windows, lock your doors and keep your pesticide under your pillow because, sooner or later, the crickets will find you.
Can you hear them coming?
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Terri
Terri
posted 10/01/06 @ 3:23 PM CST
I feel your pain. Many years ago (26 to be exact) I was a student at the time of a ULM (NLU)cricket plague. This one was so bad, a girl was even hit by a car while trying to escape a "cricket attack. (Continued…)
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