October 14, 1970
Cosmic Column
by Maurice
ARIES: Bad month for partici
pating in activities involving fris
bees and incantations of Hare Krish
na. Look for a change in your love
of rudabagus around the fourteenth,
nineteenth, and twenty-fourth.
TAURUS: Good time to start a ban
the bra riot at a bridal shower. Try
to be more acetic in the future.
GEMINI: You’ll find a disgusting
delight in the misfortune of a close
relative. Don’t allow this to upset
your bathing habits.
CANCER: Women’s Lib will dis
cover an advocate close to you who
is a spy for male chauvinists. Be
sure of your feelings toward her.
LEO: Don’t be disappointed if
friends find your constant monopoly
playing a bore. Remember, the.
Boardwalk wasn’t built in a day.
VIRGO: Place no faith in barbers
who believe Spiro Agnew is presi
dent and Adolf Hitler is really How
ard Hughes. Especially if his as
cendent is Mars.
LIBRA: Diabolical plots develop
around the fifteenth.. Don’t be of
fended if your favorite cartoon char
acter becomes involved with the
SCORPIO: Your sexual prowess
will be stifled if you continue to
divulge the secrets of the Tibetian
Book of the Dead to uninitiated
members of the YMCA.
SAGGITARIUS: Observations by
friends find your integrity in ques
tion because of your cheating in sol
itaire. Be more careful on the thir
tieth.
CAPRICORN: Remember a friendly
unicorn during the first half of the
moon. Remain warm toward fascist
jellybeans.
AQUARIUS: Wine in old Ripple
bottles should not interfere with the
zest you have for the Pillsbury
Doughboy. Pay close attention to
movie titles.
PISCES: Try to be more active in
egg-rolling contests, especially with
friends who love Chinese food. Don’t
be mislead by synthetic fabrics.
Student Affairs Office Twyla Brown lends students a hand.
THE CAPITOLIST
Ecology, You Can Buy It At
The Supermarket
What you choose at the store reflects are among the worst offenders. Re
your concern for the quality of our turnaoie bottles are still our best
environment. buy, they are cheaper and can be re-
Phosphate Detergents used.
The increasing quantity of phosphor- So: Buy soft drinks and beer in re
ous entering our waterways stimu- turnable bottles,
lates excess algae growth. When Ask your dairy company to use re
large amounts of algae decay, oxygen turnable bottles,
necessary for acquatie life is deplet- Write to companies (ie. Reynolds
ed. Pollution results. In a study and Kaiser Aluminum) commend
by the Federal Water Quality Ad- ing recycling projects,
ministration, WISK, TREND and Over-Packaging
DIAPER-PURE had substantially The consumer pays twice for over
the lowest phosphate content out of packaging: in the cost of the pro
-23 major presoaks, laundry and auto- duct and in trash disposal. The
matic dishwasher detergents. Bureau of Solid Waste Management
So: Use WISK, TREND, or DIAPER statistics show that 46% of munici-
PURE for laundry, or pal Solid Waste is paper and card-
Use Soap powder and Washing board. ,• ,
Soda. So: Buy simply-packaged items, not
Use much less dishwasher deter- items in multiple containers or wrap
gent. ped in several layers of paper.
Write detergent companies to Pesticides
print analysis of contents on boxes Unwise use of pesticides can destroy
and to eliminate phosphates. our environment and threaten man’s
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) containers health. The Rachel Carson Trust
The Bureau of Solid Waste Manage- for the Living Environment recom
ment Director, Mr. Richard Vaughan mends:
says “When packaging containers Use sprays and dusts only when
manufactured of PVC are burned, absolutely necessary.
corrosive gases are formed capable Use mulches, cultivation, diversity
of severely damaging air cleaning in planting and manures in garden
devices in incinerators. In addition, ink
if excessive quantities are emitted Never Use:
from the incinerators, damage to Dieldrin
plants and buildings may result.” Endrin
PVC is a serious pollutant. Aldrin
So: Avoid products in clear, non-rig- Toxaphene
id, glass-like containers. Some pro- Heptachlor
ducts which frequently are packaged
in PVC are:
Shampoos
Hand lotions
Mouthwashes
Cooking oils
Hair tonics
Some alcoholic beverages
Buy these products only in glass con
tainers.
Write companies protesting the use
of PVC.
Returnable Bottles
Our nation is facing a garbage and
litter crisis. Throw-away containers
DDT
Chlordane
Lindane
Mercury-
Lead
Arsenic
Suggested for specific, careful use—
Read fine print on label.
Household insects: Dri-Die, Drione
diatomaceous earth.
Household and garden insects: py
rethrum, rotenone (poisonous to
fish), ryania, sabadilla (poisonous
to bees).
Fungi, rusts, rots, viruses and
some insects: Bordeaux mixture
(hydrated lime and copper-sul
phate), copper-lime mixtures, sul
phur, and sulphur-lime mixtures.
Rats: Warfarin (keep secure from
other animals).
Never pour pesticides down drains
or into streams or lakes.
Poet’s Corner
by Michael Rix
A man and a woman united into one
. : • juvu wm
created me,
Deep was that love that made me
and the two before,
Their love brought forth two more
And after that no more were bore.
As we grew up we grew apart,
Between us the world; among us
nothing.
Now that we are grown we never
had known
That love was something more than
a word.
The house was not a home,
The brothers were not brothers
And the sister was too young to
know
About the hassle of her home.
A house made up of seven bored me,
Shallow was that love that destroyed