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PAGE TWO THE CLARION march 8, 1963 Wits Of West Let's Talk About . . SEX! . . By JOYCE WEST Witty West has about witted out, but . . . Thanks, Dean Ro'berxs, for ev erything: the corny jokes in class; the undivided attention given to each of us “dopes” here; the sincere interest you have in life and the remarkable way you present that devotion to us, your enraptured audience (even though we are a captive one); your sense of humor and appreciation of a good joke, ev en if it is on you; and last, but not most minute, your power of “pulling the right strings”— the strings that moved Brevard’s fans from here to the tourney games last month — even those of us without “C” averages. We’re all appreciation. Too bad, though — too bad, I mean, that you didn’t pull the right strings to let Brevard bring home that net (the winner’s net, that is). Bless your little tourney - going heart. WATER, WATER everywhere, that is, except in the water foun tain in the library. Another of Life’s Ironies — you can hard ly get to the library without swimming and then you oan’t get a drink of water when you get there ... oh well, what next? DL BLA Wid. ow Noted to be the most popu- lair place on campus recently: the infirmary. What’s wrong ev erybody? (Cough, choke, whee ze) Funniest Thing: the most ov er - used expression lately. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” (Shelley just wasn’t thinking of Brevard when he wrote that.” The answer is “Yes.” We not only have the Eternal Triangle on this campus, we have tetrahedrons, octagons, hexagons ... “A thing of beau ty is a joy forever,” and so is a sneeze. Dean Roberts teUs uis; please take it easy on that cough syrup, some of your stud ents need it. Dean Roberts also declares the whooping crane is not extinct, thanks to “Tex” Rarig. 0. K., boys, let’s admit the truth — who thought the sprink ler system in Taylor was just a hallway shower?? The Black Widow Knows: that many, many members of us went home and other places this weekend, most ly other places; the MSF invad^ ed Lake Jimaluska; second-floor By A. GEENE (Dedicated to Sigmund Freud, of course) It has been brought to my at tention that there is a most vi tal topic — one which inevit ably concerns each person most profoundly during his or her lifetime — a topic which inspires volumes of books, hundreds of discussions, a lot of marriages, a lot of divorces, etc., etc. You get the idea. The thing that is so alarming is the fact that, in the search for news of any shape, form, or description on this campus, our staff has some how neglected a subject which is always news — SEX. That’s right! It’s a big three- letter word. It’s big because it gets attention, makes millions for Italian actresses, keeps psy chologists baffled, and encour ages the sale of Jantzen swim suits. There it is, that word SEX. There’s just no getting around it. Why, then, do we whisper about it? Discuss it behind clos ed doors? Worry about its pres ence or absence? For example, this is a typical introduction of that censored topic: A person enters the room wearing the determined expres sion of the Grim Reaper and surveys his audience. Silence. A few trivial matters are men tioned. More silence. Then he takes a deep breath and courage ously announces, “My subject for tonight will be (long pause) SEX!” The audience, of course, gasps in horror. A few faint. This is a prime example of a malady which exists today: Pseudosexaphobia. (Which means, everybody wants to know, buit noibody has the nerve to ask). And this, my friends, is a problem. Have you ever noticed that everybody knows? That nobody says? Do you real ize that many experts who scream about being frank and objective are only Class “A” bull-shooters? That is exactly why I felt in spired to write a really direct article on this subject — some day when I have the time and the paper has the space, that is —^It is my calling to do away with dictionary terms, lengthy but meaningless explanations, and shadowy concepts surround ing SEX. We must be down-to- earth and factual. Please do not be shocked. It’s really an old subject. So let’s face the issue. It’s hard to tolerate people who just ramble about that word SEX and never really say any thing! e r N I M The Monkey Who Was Afraid To Hang By His Tail Lost - - - Sportsmanship girls gloat about their volley ball game with basement girls. The Clarion Staff PRESS EBITOR Joyce West BUSINESS MANAGER — Gflbboot ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Ted Lee SPORTS EDITORS Freddie McMahsn, Jim Ferguson CARTOONIST Jerry Lathan PHOTOGRAPHER Gil Coao ASSISTANT IN PHOTOGRAPHY Sam Snyder STAFF WRITERS — Lorraine Martin, Martha Curto, Cheryl Greene, Jerry Shore, Ann Green ,,E] It’s interesting to sit on the sidelines at a game and watch not only the participants in that game, but the people who are watching them. The funny thing about it is that you notice that the guys who use the biggest curse words — the loudest and longest — are_those who have never participated in varsity com petition. It’s amazing how much “know how” they have about the rules of the game, the way the game should be played, and what’s wrong with the way its being done. With some of the know-it-all knowledge that some fans possess, they’ll probably either be sign ed up next year to play for Penn State or be elected Coach of the Year for the ACC. A team is made of average guys who take the same chemistry or history tests that everybody else does, who eat in the same cafeteria, who play ping pong with the same beat-up paddles, who brush their teeth with a brush and Colgate (probably), and who get tired and sleelpy just like anybody else. A team has members who like to date and probably ‘Make out just as much as any guy, who can eat as many hamburgers as any All-American boy, and who prob- ^bly gets just as mad at th^ referees as any fan does Training in sportsmanship (an old-fashioned term as tar as most people are concerned) has taught them to keep their remarks to themselves. Surely, sometimes they look like they’re going to knock a referee down, but they usually don’t. So why should a fan whose interest in the game is usu ally just a 'passing fancy (it probably means no more to him than a couple of dollars) lose his temper and resort to profanity and “Boos,” when the players remam calm? A winner needs a lot of support, but a'' losing team needs more. Fans should have one specific 'pur pose in mind — to support the team. If a team has a losing streak or a few bad breaks, it doesn’t need the scorn of the fans to remind it of it s loss. Besides, those guys that lost are the same ones that will win the next time. Now spectators have certain privileges—s'pecif- ically those of free thought and speech, and the right to voice those thoughts wherever they please. But please, Brevardians, let’s be good winners, if that means anything to any^body anymore! J. W". How About Some ACTION! It is time for some action! What has been hold ing up the activities in the social organizations on campus. Is the height of the activities only two dances a year and an initiation? What about the picnics, hayrides, sock ho'ps and parties? Was this merely propaganda to influence students to ioin the clubs at the beginning of the year? We have the students and facilities here at Bre- vard to live up to the social ambitions of each indi- vidual. Why not take advantage of our opportuni- ties and begin scheduling social events in order to eliminate idle and dull weekends? The Delphian Society has taken the first step in fX coVfoVSh ,. the students to encourage more activi- the clubs and let them know that we need and want a better social life. I challenge the officers of these organizations to pr^ent a valid excuse for the dormant conditions the clubs have observed for the past six months T L By STEPHENS CLARK Then as now, most of the monkeys lived in the jungle. They hung by their tails in the trees and played all day and were generally happy. Then one day, a certain monkey, who was smarter than the rest, said to himself, “What would happen if my tail should break? Why I should fall!” And that is how it all started. The smarter monkey climbed down the tree and stood on the ground. “Hey,” he yelled at the other monkeys, “what would happen if your tail broke?” All the monkeys looked at each oth er and then they looked back at the smarter one. “Why we would fall,” they said. The smarter monkey nodded his head wisely a few times and walked away, and all the other monk eys climbed down and follow ed him. Never again did any of the monkeys hang by their tails. Many years later all the monk eys were down by the river. They were crossing ithe river on an old tree which had fall en across the water. As the monkeys were crossing, a cer tain monkey who was smarter than the rest, said to himself, “What if I should lose my bal ance? Why I should faU in the water!” So as soon as the smart er monkey was safe on the bank he said to the others, “What would happen if you lost your balance?” The rest of the monk eys looked to each other and then at the simarter one. “Why we would fall in the water!” So the monkeys never again cross ed the river. So it went, year after year, with one of the smarter monk eys finding some danger in Ufe and warning the others. After a long time aU the monkeys just sat in front of their caves and did nothing, and were gen erally unhappy. The«, oMo -iMie of tile younger monkeys climbed a tree and hung by his taU. “Get down,” his mother said. ‘T)on’t you know that your ta^il might break and you would fall?” The little monkey looked at his moth er, who was smarter than he, and then said to himself, “Some day, when I grow up I’ll hang by my tail.” But he never did. Messer Promoted Mr. C. A. Butterworfch, Jr., Business Manager of Brevard College, acknowledges the fol lowing changes and assignments in personnel effective as of March 1, 1963: Mr. Marshall Messer has been promoted to the position of Manager of the college store, which includes the prime re sponsibility for the mail ser vice. Mrs. Laverne T. McCall was promoted to the college store as assistant, with the prime re sponsibility for the soda foun tain and sundry items sales. Mrs. Irma Monteith will handle all requisitians for text books by faculty members un til further notice. Mir. Clarence A. Goldsmith has been promoted to the posi tion of supeirisor of house keeping. \
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