The Collegiate
MAKY KAY McKOW.N
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Excerpt Form Reames & Price’s
Notes On Canterbury Tales
... Explication of line 3 to
better clarify that Geoffery
Chaucer’s outlook on life, as
expressed is Canterbury Tales,
is not as deeply involved as
many feel.
Master Chaucer found the
style of life he was leading
necessitated his undertaking the
Pilgrimmage, thus Chaucer
came into direct contact with the
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drudgeries of the long march to
Canterbury. After his own
pilgrimmage, Chaucer sought to
lighten the load for his fellow
“pilgrimmage goers” by setting
up a well-guarded secret
distillery that existed in branch
officers along the route. The fact
that “ole” Geoffery liked to
sample the fruits of his labor
accounts for his style of writing
when he recorded the interviews
with those he met as they passed
his home office on the main
artery to Canterbury.
The line that reads “and
bathed every veyne in swich
licour” was Chaucer’s code that
was carved into placards
suspended above hollow stumps
or tree trunks along the road
side. This code meant that a
person could leave the
equivalent of one dollar and
after a brief walk return to find a
gallon of “swich licour”
Chaucer's Choice.
or
Streetcar Fighting In Bolvia
‘Where Are You Now Che?”
Ban The Babies
The population of the United States is something over
210 million. If a miracle occurs and the air or water
pollution does not wipe the people off the face of the
earth, then over population could really be disasterous.
For each successive generation of Americans to
replenish itself, a birth rate of 2.1 children per woman
must be maintained. However, with the immigration
problem USA experiences, the rate per woman must be
somewhat lower than 2.1. In 1967 the birth rate was 2.9
children per woman. This fact may seem encouraging,
but one then has to consider that for Z.P.G. (Zero
Population Growth) to occur, the level of 2.1 has to be
maintained for seventy years.
What has to be done to achieve this magic Z.P.G. or
even a slightly negative growth? Naturally, people
should not have so many children. Now, omitting this
author’s personal opinion in hopes of stimulating
response, a few suggestions from the Z.P.G. people
should be mentioned.
A tax could be placed on all children born after the
second child the family produces. A1 alternative that
would have the same effect would be to abolish any tax
relief for any child past the second one per family.
Birth control drugs and devices should be made
easier to obtain and easier to use. The public should be
well informed as to their use. Of course, the Catholic
Church opposes such advice, but this is a moral decision
everyone should make for themselves.
Some Z.P.G. advocate the sterilization of the female
after the birth of the second child. Some people suggest
the same procedure could be applied to the male after
the conception and birth of his second child.
Still more violent people feel that more than two
babies produced should be a crime punishable by death
for both parents. The logic goes that a new, probably
hard life should be exchanged for the life of the parents.
The crime of an obviously unwanted life should be
punished be an equally unwanted death.
Is this realistic? Is it immoral? Is it inhuman? It may
be any of these, but these possibilities will be faced by
every parent in the ’70’s and the ’80’s. The time is at
hand when people must make a decision voluntarily or
not.
Briggs Petway
“And what is good, Phaedrus
And what is not good —
Need we ask anyone to tell
us these things?”
So I look out my front door as
I’ve done a thousand times
before and watch the river flow.
Nothing much to do, nothing that
I really want to do. A car pulls up
and stops in front of the house.
It’s strange! I don’t know them,
why have they stopped? They’re
two freaks, long hairs or
something like that. Their car
has a flat tire. It’s kind of funny.
Suppose I should go out and help
them but watching them is
funnier. You see they are high
and neither one of them is able to
function in the matter that is
required to manipulate the
mechanical procedure of
operating a jack. But they don't
care for at this moment nothing
matters. Both of them stare
down at the now completely
deflated tire for several seconds.
Then one of them, the tall one,
says, “Big deal, who cares?”.
And with that remark being
completed, they both get back
into their vehicle and drive off.
Excellent, I thought, Camus
was right—“True debauchery is
liberating because it creates no
obligations”. In many respects it
is almost complete freedom.
And in many ways complete
freedom is usually something
that most people tend to shy
away from. It’s not that the
freedom isn’t there, it’s just that
many people are afraid to reach
out and grab it. And I’ve always
wondered why that’s the way it
is. Because really the only thing
you have to do in this world is
die. For you see, we all are bom
with a terminal disease. But
other than that, we can do
anything we want. We may have
to accept the responsibility for
our actions but still the choice to
make the decision is ours and
ours alone. I guess by now
they’ve probably ruined their
tire, their rim but they made
their decision. They acted where
many of us would have
hesitated. So they ruined their
tire, that’s their problem. At
least they were not afraid to act.
C. WHITNEY ALDRIDGE
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
How are the seeds of
revolution spawned?
1. When the social conditions
in a country become so un
bearable for the majority of the
people that they are no longer
able to cope with day to day
living and
2. When the government in
power fails to offer any sign of
alliviation of the masses suf
fering.
Well, for the first time in
almost four decades this country
may be faced with just such a
crisis. Dissatisfaction with our
now frail government has vastly
outgrown the ghetto riotors and
draft card burners of the sixties
and is now reaching into the very
heart of America — the working
middle class.
With a hard winter predicted
for 1974, Americans are finding
this country in the worst shape
it’s been in since the great
depression of the thirties.
Heating oil rationing has
already become a reality for the
upcoming months and you can
be sure gasoline won’t be any
easier to get either. This
economic strangulation, a new
form of warfare being waged
against us by our cold war
enemies, may prove to be more
effective in defeating our
already shattered system then
ever imagined. Now oil is one
thing, but food is another. This
has been a tragic year for the
midwest’s farming industry with
summer droughts and early
frosts claiming much of this
year’s supply of vital grains.
Now when the workers of this
country begin to feel the bite
from these ever increasing
problems, they will turn to the
government expecting a quick
solution. If in turn, the govern
ment continues to handle these
situations with the gross inef
ficiency which has become the
rule rather the exception in this
steadily floundering bureaucra
cy, the course of action will be
come clearer and clearer for the
rapdily growing impoverished
middle class. Especially when
people used to comfortable
affluency begin to feel the pangs
of hunger within their own
family unit. More and more
people will look with disgust
upon the super rich who not only
hold the workers of this nation in
an economic vise-grip, but also
have bought their way into the
government institutions which
the silent majority in the past
held so dearly, bringing their
traditions of graft and corrup
tion into the very framework of
American government. The
middle class who once truly
believed they did have a voice in
our government are beginning to
realize just how blind they’ve
really been.
When the government no
longer performs in the true
interest of the people, it is time
to make a change. The
American system was a great
experiment in democracy but
now has become dated, with its
beauty and inner wisdom sold
down the river by the greed and
power of big businesses. The
mandates of law and order has
become but a tool of the
government used to tighten its
grip of power over the people.
A country is not truly free until it
trandscends the need for law and
order building its foundation
instead upon a higher level of
individual dignity, placing the
value of human life far beyond
the value of materialistic
wealth. Until the time comes
when our government abandons
its selfish drive for power and
domination, working instead for
the universal good of all
humanity, revolution will be
inevitable.
Sincerely yours,
John Stout
Dear Editor,
On behalf of my family and
myself I would like to take this
means to express our heart felt
thanks for the many offers of
help from members of the ad
ministrative staff. Dr. Wenger,
Miss Mildred, faculty and all the
dear students!
I would especially like to thank
the organizations, clubs,
fraternities, and sororities who
have so graciously and willingly
offered their aid in my time of
loss.
May the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all is
my prayer.
Your friend,
Tweetie
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