COMMUNITY
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April 30, 2018
Way Back When
Jeremy spoke loud for awareness to the classroom. That’s when he saw Delle lying in a pool of blood Mia Estrada and the teacher standing against mestrada@ the wall crying and shaking. Some foghornnews.com students were holding her so she wouldn’t fall. This struck the lives of many across the country, with Pearl Jam’s In 1991, Jeremy Wade Delle Eddie Vedder even dedicating a committed suicide in front of his song to Delle. English class. “Jeremy spoke in class today,” The Richardson High School Vedder sings in Pearl Jam’s famous sophomore, from an inner suburb song “Jeremy.” of Dallas, was killed after When reading the he fired a bullet into his newspaper, Vedder bemouth at around 9:45 a.m. came aware of the inDelle arrived late to cident and wanted to school and his second-pecreate a song discussing riod English teacher, the passing and it inFay Barnett, told him to cluded some details of a go to the office and get kid Vedder knew in midan attendance slip. He dle school. returned with a gun inAccording to a Billstead. According to The Delle committed board interview with Dallas Morning News, the suicide at a Dal- Vedder, he said he knew shooting occurred before las-area school in a kid in seventh grade his teacher and the 30 1991. who came into a classstudents in the classroom room with a gun and could react. shot a fish tank. Vedder One of the students, Brian Jack- had got into a fight with the stuson, was working his combination dent about a year before and in at his locker when he heard a loud the song he details “we unleashed bang that he said sounded like a a lion.” book slamming a desk. The spokesman sergeant on the "I thought they were doing a case, Ray Pennington, said Delle play or something," Jackson said. left a suicide letter with a friend; "But then I heard a scream and a however, investigators could not blond girl came running out of the disclose its contents. Further inforclassroom and she was crying." mation was reported when PenWhen he saw the girl running he nington said Delle’s attendance was frightened but curiously went was sporadic and the principal had
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Pearl Jam wins three awards during the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. Their song "Jeremy," inspired by Jeremy Wade Delle, was released in 1992 in their debut album, "Ten." discussed the issue with Delle and his father. Police did not known the reason for the suicide. Lisa Moore, a student at the school, knew Delle from in-school suspension, The Daily Morning News reported. It was claimed that Moore and Delle would pass notes back and forth. "He and I would pass notes back and forth and he would talk about life and stuff," she said. Moore said he always wrote at
the end of a letter “write back,” but on the Monday before his passing he wrote “later days.” Some students never notice any signs from Delle. Sean Forrester remembered Delle as friendly. "He never looked like he had anything wrong with him. He always made a joke over everything," Forrester said. Delle was the son of Joseph R. Delle and Wanda Crane; he lived with his father. It was reported that
Delle and his father were in counseling together, but no further information was given. The shooting at the high school was the first known teen suicide in the school, though there had been about five teen suicides before in the town. Throughout the years, the song “Jeremy” has brought more awareness to Delle’s story and victims of suicide. In Texas from 2012-14, the rates of teen suicides were 11.92 per 100,000.
Faith
Rise and be kind to those all around ternational Version (NIV) Warren J. Maxwell wmaxwell@ foghornnews.com
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” — Galatians 6:9-10 New In-
Being a kind person is a tough task for many people, and when we finally get pushed to our limits it’s hard to just to turn the other cheek and let things go. God wants us to practice being kind stewards to others and using his word to be a blessing in others’ lives. Having a temper can be a huge problem whenever someone has wronged us and we tend to lash out in hostility when we are pushed to our limits. God tells us to act similar to
how he would act in order to carry out his will effectively. Life has a habit of getting the better of us and when this happens we tend to lose our caring nature and become bitter. We are told from a young age that if we do well to others then they will do well upon to us. However this is not how life works and we eventually learn that in the end no one owes us anything at all. Regardless, we still have an obligation to God to fulfill our Christian duty. Even when people do us
wrong we still need to treat them with respect and kindness. God gave his only begotten son to die for our sins on cavalry so that we could one day be forgiven. When you think about it, that’s a very large act of kindness that was shown to us, don’t you think? When we think about the ultimate sacrifice that was made for us then we tend to not put much thought into it. However, we should be thinking of how if God showed the ultimate act of
kindness to us then why can’t we show kindness to the very people that his only son died for. God even tells us that our good deeds will not go unnoticed before him, and that he will reward them in the end. When we act Christ-like and embody the holy spirit God is pleased with us. The core thing to understand is that God is just like a fleshand-blood parent to us. When we do good things and follow his word faithfully God rewards our behavior. (Artwork from Page 1)
the laughing Buddha painted to have a skeletal appearance with the Catholic Sacred Heart in the middle of its chest. The second sculpture, “Tchotchke: Baby with a Heart,” is a ceramic baby doll with the same skeletal design and heart. “I find found objects and then manipulate them,” Garza said. “I like the idea of taking something that already exists, such as something that someone got rid of, and giving it a new life.” Garza delved into this concept after seeing several stereotypical images and objects from different cultures sold in stores that she took as offensive. She would take the objects home and change them into skeletons as to not see their original appearance, or as she would say “tchotchke them up.” The point, according to Garza, is to show that we all have skeletons underneath our skin, signifying that we are all the same. She hopes her sculptures help in getting past the several stereotypical images, which in some cases, can even be racist. “I really enjoy her work and find it very interesting,” said studio art major Andrea Labrador. “The use of found objects and creating artwork from that rather than starting completely from scratch is something I would have never thought of.” Although Garza says her art isn’t completely Mexican, she says her sculptures are a good representation of what Texas is — an immense melting pot of cultures from far and wide. Cheech held an exhibit at the Art Museum of South Texas from January to April, “Los Tejanos: Chicano Art from the Collection of Cheech Marin,” featuring 39 works from 14 artists. The collection was said to depict the Chicano movement’s contribution to the art world. According to CBS News, Cheech is expected to open his own Mexican-American Art Museum in Riverside, California, the very first of its kind, allowing his vast collection to have a permanent home.