VOL. N No. 4
The XGl's
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by Fred Prouser
Take a cold, dark Saturday
night; a band, plenty of beer
and a horde of party-starved
Capitol Campus students and
what you have is the first XGI
keggar of the school year.
A keggar is part of the
college experience. It is an
excuse to get drunk, high or
both, depending on your in
clination. The sign at the door
listed admission prices.
Couples got in cheaper, but the
majority of the crowd, both
male and female, went stag.
There was music provided
by "Mad Hatter", a rather
motley looking group with a
lead singer emulating Elton
John. They were very tolerant
towards the end of the evening
when two inebriated souls
joined them on the platform for
part of a set.
Other bits of assorted
madness occurred throughout
the evening such as dancing on
tables, the breaking of a
window and the standard booze
raffle. The lucky winners in
this raffle, upon receiving their
bottle of cold duck or whiskey,
are urged to chug their newly
won prize by the assembled
drunken horde. The winners
usually oblige, although a few
do refuse.
Tables were provided to sit
and sip as many did that night.
No estimate of the amount of
beer consumed Saturday night
was available at this writing.
For those who liked to eat
while they drank, peanuts were
provided at each table. The
only trouble was that they were
still in their shells and as the
evening wore on, coordination
became a problem for many
would be peanut eaters.
The keggar was a success by
all means. Its purpose, a good
time for all and hangovers for
many, will come again at the
next Saturday night beer blast
out in the sticks. Just one
suggestion, label the white
fence for the next keggar.
Thanks.
More pictures, another story
on page 7
Halloween
by Jim Bollinger
Thursday, October 31 is
Halloween. Halloween is
widely known for its witches,
ghosts and other assorted
spookies which occupy the
minds of men (and women) at
this time of year.
This being the case, we on
the Reader staff endeavored to
bring to you, our readers, an
authoritative word on the
meaning of Halloween. With
that in mind, we arranged an
interview with a leading
authority of the Occult Arts &
Sciences, Dr. Victor B. Acula,
professor of Sociology at the
University of Transylvania,
Romania, who was visiting this
country on a sabbatical.
Prof. Acula began our in
terview by telling of the origins
of Halloween. Surprisingly,
this custom had its beginnings
not in the dark wooded
mountains of Eastern Europe,
but instead, originated in the
British isles. It started out as a
Celtic festival COM
memmorating the end of
summer. Its first connection
with things- that- go- bump. in
the- night was merely with
divination rights and the belief
that this was the time of year
that the souls of the dead
returned home.
As time went on, the
supernatural significance
increased as the tribes soon
started using the festival as the
time of the year to placate the
evil in nature during the time
before the darkest season of
the year. Soon, it became
common practice on
Halloween to invoke the help of
the devil to get a mate. Several
practices developed that were
supposed to help a young
person ascertain who their
husbands and wives would be.
In Ireland, the custom had
much more serious import. It
was celebrated only once every
three years, but then it lasted
for two weeks and involved
sacrifices to gods and taxes for
any fires left burning on that
day.
In later ages, many of the
once-revered Halloween
practices became games for
children, and it became a time
for mischief. Mischief-making
C. C. READER
The assembled drunken horde at XGI Keggar
The aftermath: stale beer and peanut shells
as a Halloween celebration
became extremely popular
near the end of the last cen
tury, when overturned
outhouses and broken windows
were common Halloween
pr ti
pointed out
that the "civilizing" of
America probably accounts for
the toning-down of Halloween
tricks. It is his personal opinion
that the Halloween "treat"
evolved as a real alternative to
actual destructive mischief,
which some enterprising young
imp came up• with somewhere
along the line. The custom
gained rapidly in popularity
and soon became common
Genesis
practice.
Acula traces the super
natural significance of
Halloween to its very early
beginnings and its tenuous
relationship with the dead. He
hypothesizes that Satanists
soon picked up Halloween as
an ideal time to celebrate the
devil, being the eve of the
Christian All-Saints Day, when
the ancient holy men were
honored.
The peasantry of those days
frightened easily, and
Halloween in the Middle Ages
became a time when evil and
dead spirits walked the earth
searching for men to possess
and destroy. "Of course", the
Doctor concluded "those days
are long gone, and the people of
today know better than to
believe in childish super
stition".
With that, Dr. Acula said his
good-byes, flapped his leathery
wings and was off to his next
destination.
Photo by Gibboney
OCTOBER 25, 1974
SGA
Financial
Woes
by Doug Gibboney
Capitol Campus student
organizations face curtailed
programs if a Student
Government Association
request for an additif:rial $3,000
of University funds is not
granted.
The SGA hoped to receive the
additional funds in February to
ease the strain of unusually
tight budgets among some of
the student groups. That
request may not be granted
due to increased campus
energy costs, according to SGA
President Mike McAllister.
The campus is being forced
to switch from gas heat to
more expensive oil heat.
Despite conservation
measures, the change may
cost three times the old rate
with the increase being paid
for by funds that could have
gone to the student
organizations.
Director of Student Affairs
James South said that "while
these organizations have high
priority...if it com(-:, down to
keeping warm or funding these
groups, we'll keep warm."
A controversial University
regulation banning food sales
and raffles could add to the
organizations' money
problems. The regulation,
which has been suspended
pending review by University
President Oswald, means bake
sales, like those sponsored last
year by the Black Student
Union, and raffles, like those of
Beta Chi, would be outlawed.
A prime cause of this year's
tight budget is the lack of an
encumbrance fund to pay off
debts from the previous year.
With the prospect of no new
funds coming in, SGA
Treasurer Jay Wren says there
is a strong likelihood that
"what is budgeted is what each
organization will get,"
One group that will have
difficulty staying within that
budget is the C.C. Reader. The
newspaper has been allocated
$3,000 - a drop of $l,OOO from
the previous year - to print
twice as many issues as last
year. Business manager Ken
Hession hopes to make up
some of the deficit with ad
vertisine revenue.
The situation for all student
groups was summed up by Jay
Wren: "No way are we going to
go bankrupt but we might be
hurting for cash."
ATTENTION ALL
STUDENTS!
Do you have an interest in
your school? If your answer
is yes, then this is for you.
By offering 2 or 3 hours of
your time each week, you
could be a justice of student
court. We drastically need
JUNIORS and SENIORS
who reside in the dorms or
Meade Heights. If in
terested, please submit your
name to the SGA President,
Vice-President, or the
Student Affairs Office (W
-103)
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by P.R.J. Smith