TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1971
THE DECREE
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WILL THOMSON
We were really going to do it.
I mean, really, honest to God,
gonna do it! I don’t know why
we were going to do it, nor am
I sure why we aren’t going to
do it. Anyway we, the G.D.I.’s,
or Independents, or Sooners,
of Yahoos, or Whateveritis-
weare took our own little vote
concerning the matter of a re
presentative for the Homecom
ing court. Well, if the sopho
more class can elect a repre
sentative on fifty votes, why
can’t we elect on four votes?
It was a close battle. As a
matter of fact it took all of
about three minutes to decide,
which is a longtime for us since
we usually don’t even decide
what we’re doing until we’ve
done it. So anyway we voted.
And there was a winner: Your
friend and mine, George Her
bert McNeal Roper! Trum
pets blare; women swoon at the
thought of his voluptuous xe-
nomorphic body; dogs gagathis
wisdom. Yes, that superman
of the Wesleyan community, that
number one knee-walking co-
mode-huggin’ Doctor Roper-
stein was our choice. And a
rightful one, too. He is cute,
isn’t he?
But as you all will see when
we vote for Homecomingqueen,
Roper won’t be on the ballot.
There are lots of reasons. It
costs five dollars to enter a can
didate and all the G,D,I.’s In
dependents, etc,, etc,, are four
centuries behind on our non
existent dues. And Brucie,
using all that he has learned
from some of his theatre fri
ends, hurt me to the quickwhen
he found out Roper was run
ning and said, “Don’t you take
anything seriously around
here?” (God forbid). There
were a few other reasons, like
threats of bodily harm, Roper
getting obscene phone calls
from North and Nash, getting
asked for dates , , ,
It would have been beauti
ful ,,, I can see it now . , .
The frats’ sweethearts come
out, the class choices, the clubs
and then , , . the announcer
(yours truly) flips to his last
card and says , , , “And our
last candidate, ladies and gen
tlemen, representing the Wes
leyan College Sooner Club, a
sophomore history major from
Petersburg, Virginia, weighing
in at 141 pounds, number ele
ven in your program, number
one in our hearts, the man with
the plan — G, McN, Roper,”
I can just see him walking
out to mid-court with some de
liciously proportioned, tender
young kitten from Saint M’s or
somewhere. What a grin! I
can just visualize the crowd
reaction. Either giant cheers
of jubiliance and chants like
“We want Rope,” or a tremen
dous amount of barfing in the
upper bleachers.
But he won’t be out there,
fans, the pressure was too
great, I don’t know why we
aren’t going to run him, per
haps the money, perhaps Bru-
Ten Candidates
(Continued From Page 1)
Georgia Thompson, a fresh
man biology major will repre
sent the freshman class. She
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, E. R. Thompson of Union
Level, Va. Nancy Tonkens
is the choice of Compass Club,
She Is a senior history major
and the daughter of Mr, and
Mrs, James M. Tonkens of Bal
timore, Md. Alpha Delta Chi
Fraternity has selected Cindy
Trimm, a sophomore Elemen
tary Education major, as their
candidate. Cindy is the dau
ghter of Mr, and Mrs, Milton
Tfimm of Emporia, Va, Di
ane Williams, the daughter of
Mr, and Mrs, L, N. Williams
of Courtland, Va,, is a junior
Elementary Education major.
She will represent the junior
class.
Dear Chief . . .
((Continued From Page- 2)
solutely disgraceful. It seems
that with the large amount of
money that I am spending to be
able to stay here the least that
this school can do for me is
to provide me with a clean place
to live.
Respectfully,
Terry Everett
Dear Chief:
On behalf of the Circle Kclub
I would like to express our ap
preciation to the faculty for
their generosity with the Cir
cle K food drive. They in
deed helped to make it a suc
cess.
Thank you,
Ed Tripp
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cie’s cutting comment, or Roper
getting butterflies, and all that
trash. Of course, you can al
ways write in and circle on Wed
nesday , , ,
He won’t be there because of
the money, because of Brucie,
and because the guy’s chicken.
But most of all, I suppose,
because we were afraid he would
win.
Now that Thanksgiving break
is over we have a couple of
things to look forward to be
fore our next escape. Home
coming, with all its thrills and
excitement (can Coach Chan-
cey’s avengers win us another
or will it be excommunication
for the Bishops?) and the equal
ly traumatic FINAL EXAMS,
the only other thing as sure as
death and taxes. Thanksgiving
break was just short enough to
keep us from forgetting our
troubles, and for many it was a
prayer for deliverance Instead
of a day of giving thanks, I
found myself working harder
during break than I have work
ed all semester.
Now we all are back, stuff
ed to the brim with Thanksgiving
turkey, duck in wine sauce,
dressing, cranberry sauce, po
tatoes and all the good old
home cooking we dreamed of for
weeks, back to face the greasy
scrambled eggs Jn the cafe
teria and count the days until
Christmas break. Back to face
the final grades, the gruelling
exams and wonder what we went
home to give thanks for. Back
again to wonder if we’ll all live
to see Christmas,
That’s life though, and at least
we are all alive to see this col
lege again and at least we all
had somewhere to go, some
where we could smile and laugh
and stuff our stomachs. At
least there is a future In this,
somewhere or noone would
have returned at all.
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for the position of Homecoming Queen.
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