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Page 2 The Clarion Tuesday, February 17,198i 1 I Paradise Enforced (with apologies to Milton- and other great Puritans) Invocation: 0 sweet, Earthly Muse! grant to me the sense That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert external Providence And justify the ways of men to God. I f man’s forced obedience, and this race Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal fate Brought them to these mountains, and all their woe. With gain of Eden, when one greater man Commanded, strap’d them to the blissful seat. Woe to the inhabitants of Brevard! Dean, now first inflamed with rage, came up The Savior, ere th’ redeemer, of all. To wreck on wicked, frail students, the loss Of that free choice that God had been erring In giving them. How conscience wakes despair That slumbered! Wakes the bitter memory Of what we were, he is, and we are to be. Of worse deeds, worse sufferings must ensue! II The verdurous wall of Paradise up sprung; Where our generous Dean gave prospect large Of vegetable souls; And next to Life, Death, the Tree of Innocence, grew fast by- Semblance of good, bought dear by banishing ill; Hence strait conjunction with the sex forbid! Thus spake the arch-dean proudly, then cried: “0 goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce. And evil turn to good; how wonderful That which, by proclamation, first brought forth This light of Dullness.” We shall hence go ’round Greatly in lack of thought, and have our fill Of virtue, saved by the subjected plan! Ill Great are thy virtues, doubtless, noble fruit, Of Innocence, Ignorance of good and evil; But Eden is no Eden, thus enforced. Yet, reaching for the fruit, he plucked, we ate,- Forcefully were engorged without restraint! Then, looking back, all the evil world beheld. There Sodom, ’til late our most happy seat. Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful rules thronged and fiery threats. Some natural tears we dropped, but wiped them soon. Paradise is here before us, here no choice Of place of rest, and the Dean our guide. We, heads in hands, with shuffled steps and slow, Through Paradise, take our charter’d path. T. Merritt Letter As strange as it may seem, to the ad ministration, some of us warm blooded heterosexuals like to visit the opposite sex without the threat of being expelled. It’s true that the rules which existed before were inadequate, but now the rules have changed from one extreme to another. The rules were received with mixed feelings, at best; while some students wouldn’t sign the form, others did with misgivings. Get ting kicked out of school is pretty serious, but it comes under the heading of ridiculous when it’s because you were visiting a friend. The present system was established so that the students could run the rules instead of blatantly undermining them, as was done under the old system. How can this possibly work if the students don’t want to enforce these rules? The ad ministration believes that if a student can’t live under these rules he should go home anyway. The administration says that they want the best for everybody. Talk about contradicting yourself. They are hardly looking out for the interests of those who don’t like to abide by this system. They have the potential of taking far more than we could receive. Perhaps writing this is a lost cause, but it attempts to find justice. Mike Callahan flDMlNISTRflncaJ
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