November 20, 1970
A Dead Tile
Tells No T,ales
by Lee Nell
Dr. Desmond Morris, in The Naked
Ape explains in detail how the human
animal came to perform his excretory
functions in private. Dogs, cats,
cows, birds, and a variety of other
animals have no scruples about
where, how, or with whom they in
troduce into the world that mis-de
fined substance, i.e.-shit. With us,
however, it is a different story. We
eat together, play and work together,
and even shower together. The slo
gan “Save water, shower with a
friend” has become popular in recent
times. Can you imagine a button
saying “Show your love. Take a
dump together” ? Or “Take a friend
to the john”? (Excuse me, Walter
Jennings!)
This all proves that the friendly,
local head is really not so friendly.
This is especially true of the public
lavatory where there are no bits of
memorabilia to remind us of home,
mother, or apple pie. In short, using
the lav on campus can be a very lone
ly experience. I was depressed even
more during my first shot at the john
in the main building when I found no
clever, or even unclever scratching on
the walls.
In my travels, it has been some
what of a comfort to come into a
strange, tiled lavatory, plunk down
on the cold seat and read the follow
ing words, “He who writes upon these
walls, rolls his shit in little balls, He
who reads these words of wit, eats
these little balls of shit.” That little
slogan has appeared in 95% of the
public heads which I’ve seen. But
here at Capitol, not even that can be
found.
I’m really getting desperate. At
the point where even the four-letter
words would look good. A finger, a
peace sign. . . anything! I’m all for
respecting the custodians and help
ing them out, but I’ll bet even they
appreciate an occasional “Mary 944-
5249: bring a six>-pack”. I mean,
they’ve got to know what’s going on,
too. And who can forget the immor
tal “Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro
Agnew Wristwatch”, or the ribald
“Caesar wears silk pants,” which was
reportedly found scrawled on the wall
of the Collesium. But at Capitol Cam
pus we continue to regard the walls
as a partition rather than a slate to
be filled with literature, culture, and
obscenity.
Maybe since we are here for only
two years, no one really gets to open
up. That’s all the more reason for
grafitti. Communicate! We pass
each other in the halls and we don’t
speak. We attend functions, though
only a few, and we don’t speak. We
eat together, and don’t speak. Even
the high-school dropout with his
“FOCK” on the wall is trying to com
municate in some way. So please, do
your part. Next time you are in the
john feeling lonely, start communi
cating. Flush thoroughly, but leave
something for the next guy.
THE CAPITOLIST
THE EL ED DEPARTMENT
A Case Ot Irrational Assinine Fables
There has been a lot of fables going
around about how the Elementary
Education curriculum is so easy.
Let’s look at the real picture and see
how it really is.
The juniors in the El. Ed. curricu
lum are required to take a Basic
Preparation course four times a week
for three hours and fifteen minutes
a day plus the other two required
courses. Whether the other two
courses be Social Studies, Mathemat
ics, Science or Health and Safety it
turns out to be a long day. But oh
that’s not all. The curriculum has
been divided into four groups with
Group I being the lucky ones. Be
sides the three course load they were
'assigned a night course on Monday
and Tuesday evenings,' That means
that the people in Group I have
classes from 8:30 in the morning un
til 8:30 in the evening. Oh! what
fun. For those a little lackadaisical
in math it turns out to be a twelve
hour school day. Also during the
course of each of the three terms the
junior El. Ed. majors are required to
go into the Harrisburg elementary
schools for fifteen consecutive school
days to make case studies on pupils
there. Not only are the El. Ed.
majors required to observe the
children but in a number of cases
called upon without volunteering, to
run the class of twenty-five little
you-know-whats either because of
the absence of the regular teacher in
the classroom or by mere luck.
Last year the El. Ed. department
didn’t have any kind of a Basic Pre
paration course and instead of hav-
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last year’s juniors had to go into
Harrisburg just on Wednesdays
throughout the whole term. Both the
juniors and seniors have been placed
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same classes, at the same time, in the
same room, with the same teacher,
during the same ten-week term for
the same three terms in the same
year. I’ve heard about “getting it to
gether” but this is ridiculous!
Because Capitol Campus is a new
school a lot of improvements must
come about in all the curriculums.
El. Ed. is no exception. According to
Linda Chisick, an El. Ed. senior, a
good course to be offered is a meth
ods course on visual aids and where
to get materials for the classroom
which is a headache for most novice
teachers.
El. Ed. is no breeze. It takes ded
ication, perseverance, and a head
strong will to know what you’d like
to do in life. In the hands of an ele
mentary teacher lies the hope for a
future. In the elementary grades
children discover new languages,
math, science, social studies and mu
sic but most of all the children will
hopefully discover themselves and in
turn other human beings and the
world. What a hell of a job for a
teacher and the people who help us
prepare for this feat. It’s a lot of
work and a lot of time but it is all
worth it when you realize that you’re
preparing a ‘new born babe’ for the
old cruel world.
Now is that an easy job to pre
pare for. . . hell no!
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