THE COUGAR CRY, MARCH 17, 1969, PAGE 3
SCENE AT WCC DURING RECENT SNOWFALL
Students
Account of “TRIP”
In last week's issue of The
Cougar Cry, you read the “of
ficial* account of the Humanities
212 trip to Washington, D.C.
Today, you will get a factual
student account ;of the trip. (Edi
tor’s note: This is in keeping
with our policy of truth before
bureaucracy.)
Last week I was a member
of the delegation from Wilkes
Community University that went
to Washington, D.C., on a cul
tural exchange tour.
With expert navigation and a
heavy foot, the long and tor
tuous trip from Wilkesboro
to Washington was made in seven
and one-half hours. This was
an astounding feat and nearly
a record considering that one
of the cars was a fully loaded.
Volkswagen that valiantly kept
up with General Motors finest
for the duration of the trip.
When we arrived at the ho
tel, at about 12;15 a.m., we were
promptly admonished by the
cleaning woman for tracking up
her clean floor. After this mo
ment of unpleasantness, we were
then received with pomp and
ceremony fit for a king. (We
were given our keys and “al
lowed* to carry our own baggage
up to our rooms.)
Upon finding the rooms, we
were immediately dissatisfied
with the accommodations and
proceeded to redecorate the
room. We felt that the hotel
and the staff would appreciate
our generosity in giving them
a “taste of the South.* We be
gan with just general horseplay
which soon graduated into a full-
fledged pillow fight. One mem
ber of the redecorating staff
was wounded in action. It
seems that this character had
decided to put his soul in a
“stoned housing* for the dura
tion of the trip. While climbing
a wall to adjust the position
of the drapes, he fell and se
verely injured his right knee.
(You’ve never seen blood that
thinl) However, with the help
of a Band-Aid and a good healthy
snort of “pain-killer,* he was
as good as new.
On the second day of the trip,
we visited the National Gallery
of Art. They only had 30,000
works of art, and it was just
like being at home. Except for
one thing; the hall of the Ad
ministration Building would have
to be 63 miles long. Several
members of our entourage were
sufficiently fatigued from the
night of driving and redecorating
that they actually required wheel
chairs (obtainable on loan at the
front entrance of the Gallery)
for the long tour we took. One
member of the faculty discovered
that she had actually sprained
her wrist during the tour. This
resulted from faking cerebral
palsy for four straight hours
so people would think she ac
tually needed the wheel-chair.
Well, we managed to survive
the Gallery and get back to the
hotel.
That night, it was decided that
we would go to a movie. The
cartoon was much better than
the feature. We people of Wilkes
learned that it is just as easy
to get “burned* at a three-dollar
movie as a seventy-five cent
one. During the trip to and from
the movie, we were simply as
tounded by the wit and wisdom
of the Washington cab drivers.
After returning to the hotel,
we again redecorated the room,
this time in a bright red, till
dawn.
On the third day, the group,
in keeping with the high ideals
of the trip, visited other sights
of Washington. We first went
to the Smithsonian Institution.
Next on the s^enda was the Wash
ington Monument. Since we did
not believe that the monument
actually had 898 steps, we walked
up it. And, the astounding fact
we discovered is that it actually
has 897 or 899 steps, depending
on how you count them. Not 898
at all! We also went to the Mu
seum of History and Technology,
the Freer Gallery of Art, and the
Areospace Building.
Later that day, in another at
tempt to absorb the culture of
Washington, some of the group
went to a Swedish “skin-flick.»
It was titled “Inga,* and is fea
tured in the March issue of
Playboy. The Playboy uncoverage
Students Pre-
Register at WCC
Students at Wilkes Community
College are presently in the pro
cess of pre-registering for the
Spring Quarter. Any person in
terested in enrolling for a class
for this next session is advised
to contact the Office of Stu
dent Personnel, telephone 667-
7136, in Wilkesboro.
Registration for the Spring
Quarter will be completed
Thursday, March 20, at the Ad
ministrative Office Building ac
cording to Mr. John V. Idol,
Dean of Student Personnel. Of
fices will be open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. for regular students,
from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for night
students. Students may enroll in
three divisions of the College-
College Transfer, Technical, or
Vocational.
Classes for the Spring Quarter
will begin Monday, March 24,
and the quarter ends June 6,
1969.
Graduation exercises are
scheduled for Saturday, June 7,
at 10:30 a.m. at the Wilkes Cen
tral Gymtorium.
was much better than the movie,
but it still proved stimulating
for the morale of the staff.
On the fourth day, we left the
hotel and took with us our
Northern souvenirs; soap, to
wels, etc. We also left them
souvenirs of the South—a free
decorating job on their rooms.
We made our way hastily home
from the land of politics, graft,
and corruption; to the land of
bliss, hominy, and grits.
It was truly a cultural exchange
Wilkes Antique
Fair
The Wilkes Community Col
lege Circle K Club is now sell
ing tickets to the Wilkes An
tiques Fair, which will be held
at the National Guard Armory
in North Wilkesboro on Fri
day, Saturday, and Sunday, March
28,29,30.
The Wilkes Antiques Fair,
sponsored by the North Wilkes
boro Kiwanis Club, is for the
benefit of underprivileged chil
dren in Wilkes County and for
historic restoration.
Price of the tickets is $1.50
each. They may be obtained from
any Circle K member or from
John Idol, the WCC Circle K
Club sponsor.
They Really Are
Two little girls were playing
and one pretended that shewant-
ed to rent the other's playhouse.
“Have you any parents?"
asked the owner of the play
house.
“Yes, two,” was the reply.
“I’m sorry,” said the tiny
landlady, “but I never rent to
children with parents. They’re
so noisy and destructive.”
The Bare Facts
A young woman took a job as
a governess, then suddenly left
it.
Asked why she resigned, she
said; “Had to. Backward child,
forward father.”
trip—We learned what high
prices are, and they learned
what a mistake it was to keep
a Southern group in a Yankee
hotel.