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November: The Winter season
has fallen upon , us, undoubtedly
the longest semi) * n Erie has in it's
repetoire. God usually makes
each November an unsnowy one;
not in Erie. A couple of cen
timeters usually blankets the
Erie soil in November. It is not a
snow that lasts long. The snow is
a warning of the impending visit
of horrible snows of the near
future.
December: By the time
December Ist rolls around on the
calender, Erie has been "blessed
with" two feet of snow. The week
of Christmas is one of expecting a
white colored holiday, but on
Christmas Eve (it seems like it
happens every year) a 50 degree
rain storm plummets the ac
cumulation and melts every
square inch. The snow will soon
be back and just like the previous
two months you have no choice
but to:
FROLIC IN THE SNOW
79-80
by Joe Englert
Once, back in 1973, a parent (or
somebody like that) inquired of
his college attending son, "Son,
what do you do in the winter at
Behrend?"
"Well dad," his son earnestly
answered,. "We ski, ,sledride,
have snowball fights and fall
down a lot. That is what we do."
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still get into the snow, the more
the better in most students' min
ds. Here is a preview of what the
winter brings. Skiing - It used to
be a sport that just little guys
with names like Jean Claude and
Pierre would participate in. The
only time one would see skiing
was on ABC with Jim McKay. A
bunch of little foreigners would
jump out of a little gate and
proceed to beat the hell out of
these skinny sticks connected by
paper or jump off a ramp
stupidly located in the middle of a
mountain in the Alps. In the cor
ner of your TV set some numbers
with Timex next to them would
spin out seconds to a roaring
background of loud, cheering
Swedes with nothing better to do
on a Saturday afternoon. Sud
denly skiing became as big as
tennis was in the early seventies.
(Didn't your fat Aunt Martha
look disgusting in those tight,
white tennis shorts?) It seems
that skiing has become somewhat
of a fever atßehrend. Skiing is a
sport for the -fashionable. When
else, except while skiing can you
wear a bright yellow down vest
with white ski pants, bright blue
boots and lime green gloves? It
seems as if everybody tries to top
everyone else in equipment. At
least you can look impressive
when you take a spill with Yves
St. Laurent designed sun glasses,
a Pierre Cardin cowboy hat and
ski vest ($159.99 at Macy's) with
Olin skis flying high up into the
chilly air. Sledriding: (or the
more impressive term
"tabogganing".) Almost the
same thing as skiing except you
lay on your stomach or sit down
while you go down a hill, only to
trudge back up it to do the same
thing all over again. Sledriding
(unlike skiing) is a very inex
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pensive sport. One can have fun
flying down a hillside on an old in
nertube or a tray that you happen
to "find" laying around. If worse
comes to worse you can just slide
down on your stomach
(bellysliding is fun while your
doing it, but it's not too much fun
fixing up the welts the day after).
Sledriding is also a high , risk
sport. There is a rash on arm and
leg injuries during the winter
because of it. In the winter, limbs
break like tiny twigs when
meeting_ a bothersome tree or
bush. Concussions also can occur
when a head meets a hill at 90
mph. Probably the best thing
about sledding is that its free and
it gives you an excuse to snuggle
up to that fox on those clamped
taboggans or innertubes.
Snowballing: Ah, the- timeless
snowball battles! What a better
way to work off the tension then
to konk a rival in the noggin after
blowing that important quiz or
test. There is such great satisfac
tion in hearing a resounding splat
when you connect solidly on an
opponent in battle. Also, you can
brush up on your accuracy and
fastball by making that bitchy,
stuck-up girl, who thinks fun is
"immature", a target and plant a
- bullseye on her no good behind.
Faullingdown: Falling down is a
problem at Behrend in the win
ter. Many times great political
conversations have been in
terrupted by one of the con
versers making an interesting
point while hitting the freezing
ground. Many an outstanding
student and BWOC's and BMOC's
(Big man-or women on campus)
have lost their dignity after firing
off ten or twenty four letter words
following a disgraceful slipping
and falling. I advise that when af
ter you've fallen, do one of two
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things, Laugh or pretend you are
seriously injured. If you laugh at
least you will be joining in with
the people laughing_ at you, not
with you. Another good trick is to
act like you might not be able to
walk again. When falling, to in
sure nobody will laught at you,
writh in pain and agony. If you're
convincing enough, someone
might even carry you to your
next class. Other things to do:
There are many other things to._
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do in the winter besides the things
listed above. Ice skating and
hockey (boxing on ice if you are
unfamiliar with the game) are
two of the biggest favorities.
Also, there are ramors that
people drink alcoholic beverages
in the winter. (To stay warm I'm
told). This remains to be seen,
but one thing is for sure, winter at
Behrend is oa good, chilling time
in the snow!
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