JANUARY 24, 1975
A Blast;
A mushroom; a flash of heat;
A momentary star cracks
the arctic ice
Releasing the beast
near-dead
for 300 million years
To swim the seas once more
to search for a mate
Whose bones are stone
(schoolchildren view them
past stainless railings)
to search
Those submarine canyons;
the spawning grounds of
old New York
en route he is seen
and human nations rise
like surf to surging fear:
the Reptile!
The reptile is loose!
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Their bombs, torpedoes, warheads 41 ii *
are armed *
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Their rifles are gorged *
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with exploding shells
Their mouths are pushed full
with expanding lies;
Readied,
They await him at the bay
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and wait without fruition
Their bullets limp and impotent
as upstream, *
* *
the giant body floats ashore
is discovered by a ragged boy
while exploring the dumps
for coins and bits of glass
Their impotence now verbalised
by unshot shells
by swallowed lies and guns *
drooping lower still until they drop
and they take up axes
to dismember the oil-covered carcass
to bury the acid-eaten eyes; ***
Dying birds pecking at poisoned flesh.
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Married Student
Group Sessions
to be formed
The Counseling Center will be offering a Human
Development Growth Group series of weekly sessions for
married students and their spouses beginning Wednesday
evening, February 12, 1975 and lasting throughout the
Winter Term. The sessions will begin at 7:30 p.m. and last
until 9:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening in the Counseling
Center, W-117.
Enrollment in these sessions will be limited. If you and
your spouse are interested in participating, please clip out
the form below and return it to the Counseling Center
during the day from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00
until 5:00 p.m. before February 5, 1975. Participants will be
selected on a first-come, first serve basis, so you are
encouraged to get your form in early and to arrange for a
pre-group interview with the Counseling Center Staff. All
inquiries will be held strictly confidential.
rMarried Students Group Application Form 1
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I Name of Student I
'Name of Spouse
Local Address
!Phone
number [and hours you can be
'contacted]
(for Ray Harryhausen)
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--- P. R.J. Smith
C.C. READER
Pills and Driving
Are Dangerous Mix
Last year more than 55,700
Americans lost their lives in
traffic accidents.
This is a reversal of a
downward trend in traffic
deaths reported in 1970 and
1971. In 1971, the traffic fa
tality toll was 54,000.
In its annual compilation
of street and highway statis
tics, The Travelers Insurance
Companies has noted a new
problem—the mixing of drugs
and alcohol. These drugs are
not in the marijuana to
heroin range, but the cold
pills, bromides and tranquil
izers, a spokesman said.
A person can be taking
such drugs for several ail
ments and acquired from a
number of sources. The cu
mulative effect of the medi
cation when a cocktail or two
are added is greater than
would be anticipated from
any of the drugs taken singly,
the spokesman added.
Iron
Dr. Paul Saltman of the
University of California re
cently put in a plug for more
old fashioned iron pots and
pans in the kitchen.
Noting that fifteen to
twenty per cent of the Amer
ican population now suffers
from some form of iron de
ficiency, Saltman says iron
pots and pans once provided
most Americans with as
much as half their supply of
iron.
New aluminum and non
stick surfaces are great for
cooking but they give out
no iron, he notes. Thus many
today suffer from anemia,
which means reduced resist
ance to infection, partly be
they miss the iron once de
rived from food prepared in
good old iron pots and pans.
FREREMEEE
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Sorry the Keggar was cancelled. Hope you weren't too
disappointed. But believe me the beer will keep! The date
of the next keggar will be announced in the near future.
The XGl's bowling team has gotten underway and
sign-ups for the basketball team are still open.
The frat's winter term service project will be a visit to the
drug detoxification unit at the Coatesville V.A. Hospital.
The committee handling this project has tentatively chosen
late February as a time for this visit. The committee is
looking for a couple of girls who play guitar and sing. So,
girls, if your talents lie in guitar and singing - and if you
would like to get in on a community service project, stop in
at the XGI lounge or drop a note in my SGAmailbox.
Vets--look for a Veterans' Newsletter in the near future. It
will be coming out of Larry Rohrbach's Veterans Coordin
ator office. It will be taken care of by his work-study people
and is to be a source of Vet's information.
The XGI "Ski Week-end" is still "on" from Jan. 31 to Feb.
2, 1975. It will be at Elk Mountain, Union Dale, Pa. Stop in
the lounge, the sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board along
with info on the trip.
Also, the frat Dinner Dance will be at the Yellow
Breeches Motor Inn on Feb. 15, 1975. This has already been
mentioned in the Reporter, but is necessary to repeat
because the $lO deposit must be in by Jan. 28!! Again, the
sign-up sheet is in the lounge along with info about the
Dinner Dance.
"Stop in the lounge" has been mentioned in the Reporter
often, including today. We would like to see more frat
people stop in - lots of info on that bulletin board!!
XGI Reporter
Jom Jensen
REFLECTIONS
This is only for your eyes and mine. Maybe along with our
visual reflections there will be a mental insight. An insight to
whole living should appear shimmering before us as from
nowhere but we knowledge, by understanding that it comes
from within us--our souls.
We must first speak of very simple things--that it is right for
human being to live, that our freedom is the very nature of our
existence, that whatever stands against our freedom must be
set aside, be it in the social norms, rituals, superstitions, or
limitations in any form : The only true laws are those that lead to
the freedom of our minds and the oneness of our souls. Once
this freedom has conceived, we are the special and gifted and
divine, above all others. Aren't all others as special and gifted,
and divine, you ask? Yes, and no more than you, no more than
I. The only difference, the only one, is that they don't
understand what they really are and haven't as yet begun to
practise it.
We must love all in loves totalness but of course we don't
love hatred and evil. Or do we? We have to practise and see the
real human, the good in each one of them, and then help them
see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. We need to
keep finding ourselves, a little more each day, that real,
unlimited human being. He is our instructor. We need to
understand Him and practice Him.
First we must understand that our whole being is an unlimited
idea of freedom. An image of all we ever whish to become, not
in this world, but those we go on to, and that our bodies are
nothing more than thought itself. Our next world is not Heaven
at all for there is no such place. Heaven is being perfrect. We
will begin to touch Heaven in the moment that we touch perfect
humanness. Perfections doesn't have limits but perfect
humanness is being there and first we must find ourselves.
[ed.note:the following essay was found in the C.C. Reader
mailbox, we wish to thank the writer for contributing to our
paper and hope we will receive more communications from
Mayor Exxon.]
Itiwzotitipiti
BY MAYOR RICHARD MILMOUSE EXXON
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