On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, over 20 of our fellow students will be undergoing the rite-of-passage known as the DWE. To help them through this difficult period, we list some suggested actions to take: * If a person is taking the DWE in an office next to yours, make sure you turn up the volume on your boom box so he can be inspired by the latest heavy metal music. Similarly, if you want to chat with a friend, hold your conversation out in the hallway outside the office of a DWE-taker. * If you know a DWE-taker, call her at home around 1 am to ask her how the previous day's questions were and if she's been getting enough sleep before each session. * When you run into one of them in the stairwells, DWE packet in hand, going to or from his office, make sure to stop him and chat about UNC's victory over Temple and what our chances for the national championship are. * When you see a sign on a door saying "Taking DWE. Go away or you die!" make sure to knock on her door to offer your support. Better yet, call her on the phone. Let the phone ring 10 or 15 times. We thank you for your support. And to the DWE-takers: good luck. Ron "Can you operate it, Spock?" "Well, Jim, this computer was designed and constructed 300 million years ago by a totally alien race of methane-breathing, squidlike beings who built it using technologies unknown to us and used it for purposes we cannot conceive of and then mysteriously vanished, leaving no shred of documentation as to its operation. It may take a few moments." - Mr. Spock, computer genius and current DWE record-holder (94% overall right)