Tfr'! A LS f\N 0 I R iB ii L A TION
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by L. S. B.
We Upperclassmen are attempting to restrain our ridiculing remarks this
year directed towards you Freshmen. This, unknown to you, is a difficult ^
task. We, too, were once in your position, but somehow we cannot help
feeling that we always knew what we werci^doing. ^ could not be fooled.
Take for example the recent episode which NEVER would have occurred prior
to this year. A fire drill was announced over the girls* dormitory P.A.
system by a noticeably masculine voice. Panic ensued. Freshmen girls were
seen rioting down the stairs of West and Virginia dorms swathed in shorty
pajamas, London fogs, and rollers. But luck was with them this particular
night, for there was no Liberal Arts Forum in West Parlor. (Of course it
would have been equally am.using, we might add, had the upperclassmen girls
rcraained snickering in their rooms until smoke began pouring under the doors.)
Then there is the case of the freshman girl who is completely taken in by
a sweet-talking football player who claims to be a senior and a chemistry
ma:or. (How impressive!) She goes to the first home game and, upon reading
-he program, finds that her idol is merely a freshman with a deceptive smile
ana a creative imagination.
The boy beginning college life suffers also in making the adjustment.
whose new room-mate enters and straight-faced states
a, he hopes you don't mind if he keeps a few knick-knacks around the room.
Later he finds this collection to include a portable bar designed to seat
five ana fit inconspicuously in any Christian college dormitory room, nine
years f=;aitions of Time, Wa_ll Street Journal, and True Confessions, a shoe
box full of Cracker Jack prizes, a trunk full of banned Campus Crier issues,
ova ..etter collections dating back to his third grade days, and a Chatty ■■
Cathy doll complete with wardrobe.
Of course a freshman boy's worst moment might be when he accidentally but
carelessly places a bone-crushing step on an upperclassmen girl's foot
during one of the daily lunch stampedes. Later he finds that he must .■
approach this same girl because she possesses the last salable math book
on campuso
With great perseverence and fortitude one can overcome these traumatic
experiences in the road of life. The world will not come to an end
just because in your first few days of classes you confidently seated your
self in v/hat you assumed to be the freshmen English class and upon the
ominous entry of Professor Elder realized that it was a suicidal advanced
history course. (The mere thought of which strikes terror into the hearts
of fresMien and upperclassmen alike.)
Of cour'je, you, O bewildered, blundering freshmen, plunge onward, adjusting
day by day until final examination. Then you, too, find yourself one of
UG — a bewi3.dered, blundering upperclassman.
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MOVIE SCHEDULE FOR FALL SEMESTER
10/15/65 THE SECOND TXME AROUND (color & CinemaScope)
10/23/6S SUNDAY IN NEW YORK (color)
11/6/66 THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (color)
11/13/66
THE WORLD OF SUSIE WONG (color)