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STUDENT VOICE
by Vail Weller and
Nan Quatchak
Feature Editors
We decided to ask students
about their views on
homosexuality here at Behrend,
because Behrend represents a
part of society also. These are
the responses that we received:
Photos by
Mary Beth Zawistoski
Poetry Corner
Mistaken Trust
by Mark Malice
You are more important than the sun, yet
equally welcome or missed when not part
of my everyday.
You glow brighter and smell sweeter that
the fragrant fruit your strawberry hair
was named for. The linger of your scent
wherever you've been excites me.
Just knowing you is the best feelng I've
ever known and the expectation of your
touch unlocks emotions I never knew existed.
With you, insurance against hurting or
being hurt is not required. The ease with
which you make me happier than I've ever
been scares me with a fear I gladly welcome
for the rest of my life.
The inspirations you give me create unlimited
willingness and effort to be the best
I can in every way for you. You have made
it possible for me to believe that it is
better to love and risk losing than to
never love at all, for the hope of our
love alone has made my short life a newfound
success. My fear of losing you only increases
my appreciation of you every time you
are near. '
My only goal in life is to please you,
attainment of which will in turn make
me happier than any man alive. A rose
is but a mere symbol of all the beautiful
things you have realized in me.
Love may be blind, but my eyes follow
your every move. Your gaze and your smile
invade my strongest inhibitions and I
- tingle at the mere thought of them.
Simple words in writing or speech cannot
begin to express the hope you have given
me. Pride and happiness are finally mine,
a dream realized in a beautiful form.
Reading the above I see that I was unknowingly in
love with a mirage in the desert when I originally
wrote it, seeing only that which I wanted to and
ignoring the explicitely obvious.
What I did wrong is a question for which I still need
an answer...
Gene Edwards, 6th semester,
Biology—"It doesn't bother me.
They're people, their sexual
orientatiion happens to be dif
ferent but they're people just the
same. As long as they're not
walking around and hitting on
me. If I knew anyone, whether
male or female, I wouldn't avoid
them like the plague. I see
homosexuals as people."
"Let me check my mailbox.
Hey, I got a letter!'!.. .
Last year we were a couple
this year we're not together.
"It's a Hallmark."
Definitely an "I'm sorry" card.
I'll wait till I'm alone,
cause it might be hard-
Paul Otijasczyk, 4th semester,
Management—"l would say it
shouldn't be done out in the
open. If people are going to do
that, 1 think that they should do it
alone. I don't think that we have
too much of a problem with it.
I'm not really for it, I'm against it
in general, but if people are
going to do it, it shouldn't affect
the other people on campus."
Lynn Popovich, 4th semester,
Elementary Ed.—"l don't think
the idea of having homosexuals
on campus is a very good one,
but everyone has equal rights.
For them to live in the dorms
with other people around them
isn't fair. I'm opposed to it. I
don't believe in it."
I remember our first date.
Oh, she. was. asig ht to see;
Her tight red shirt
and those_faded blue jeans.
It was just a little party,
ten to twenty friends.
We talked till the wee hours
which came to a fantastic end
bring us 3 saviors
no!
consult the book
kill?
interpret it your own way!
2 friends on a suburban rooftop
the sirens tell us
its begun.
the radio tells us
to stay calm
the cars on the highway have already panicked
it happened.
not like i expected.
a dull red noiseless flash in the east;
then heat.
no 1 tells us what to do now.
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Mike Forbes, 4th semester,
Accounting—"l don't believe in
it, but I don't condemn anybody
for it, just don't try to impose it
on me."
.words from the east.
The Bth Duke of Tarmac
Kathy Harris, 2nd semester,
Liberal Arts—"l feel that being
a gay person is not a matter of
choice, that it is a matter of body
chemistry and genetics. I have
had gay friends and I feel that it
is a real shame that America is
so homophobic- I know Europe
isn't that way. Erie is rather con
servative, and I would hope that
a college campus would be a
place that would be a little more
liberal and kinder to people that
are different. I feel real sorry for
gay people in Erie. Given the
climate of the area, it's going to
take some real courageous gay
people to do much. I know that
they're here. I certainly think
that there should be some kind
of rules that would protect gay
people from being harassed."
After a few months the shit hit the fan
appLwe exchanged a few.words,-
"Ali good things must come to an-end."
It's true, but it hurts.
Well I'm alone now;
why are my hands trembling?
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Love,
"Mom and Dad...."
By Robert Eggleston
1 A FOR ALL SEASONS
4 FRESH-WATER FISH
S 'THE YOUNGER"
12 rouND IN NUCLEUS OF
13 ALTER OF "AH GOD!"
14 CORROSIVE
15 MOTOR OIL BRAND
16 FLOWER SMELLING BULL
18 WOODWIND INSTRUMENT
20 PHYSICAL PERSON
21 TO MISREPRESENT
23 EXAMPLE
25 PARADISE
26 TREAD
27 GENDER
30 PAST
31 IRRELIGIOUS
1 OPERATIONAL DEGREE
2 FORMICIDE
3 PASTRY
4 "HYMN TO THE PILLORY'
5 TO ONE SIDE
6 PULLMAN
7 REVEL t.O IN ACADEMIA
8 KIAK
9 PLATO
10 Philit.
11 MAN OUT
17 NORW. POET
19 GRAIN
21 DROP
22 MARGIN
23 CUBAN
24 ARAKS
26 FALSEHOOD
Collegian
ACROSS
32 IRON
33 SCOUT GROUP
34 LACKA' DAY
35 PIMPLE
36 VENISON
37 ESTIMATES
38 GK. GODDESS OMIT EARTH
40 DESERVE
41 DECLINED 1939 NOBEL
PRIZE (GER.)
44 ORRA
47 DRY
48 KEG
49 TOY
50 OWINGS
51 SCORCH
52 GK. NUMBER SEVEN
DOWN
27 ANNOTATE
28 CANAL
29 DRIVE-IN ("AMERICAN
GRAFFITI')
31 HYMN
35 FORBID
36 FEAT
37 YACHT
38 TEACHER
39 A CRAVAT
40 ICELANDIC LITERARY
WORK
41 BASE
42 REIECT
43 A BOOK OF THE BIBLE
45 PERIOD
46 ADM. DEGREE
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