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Two large posters that hang on the door to Troy Thomas's office will soon be
replaced by a mailbox.
Flea Markets, from page 2
to go and it's a good way to spend time
together. It gets to be a habit"
Of the buying experience at flea
markets, Bradley said, "It’s real emotional.
I once bought this really ugly, bad clock.
I loved it when I bought it, but I hated it
when I got home. Later, I gave it as a
Christmas present."
One reason people may like flea
markets is that every aisle is memory
lane.
Remember that Snoopy lunchbox from
elementary school? If it was yellow,
metal, and said, "Have Lunch with
Snoopy," it's worth $23 today.
Or those Ben Franklin eyeglasses that
Captain Kirk pawned in Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home? A similar pair goes
for around $l5.
That Girl Scout mess kit from your
wonder years? $12.50 now.
Outsmarting the college bookstore is
always a good reason too , so it's worth
investigating The Book Worm at Silver
Spring in Mechanicsburg (one of the
largest used book dealers around). Balzac,
Franklin, Hardy, Fielding, Milton,
Shelley, Shaw, Twain, Wharton and
countless others are all only $1 each.
Searching for the perfect gift?
The tables overflow with treasures:
baseball cards, comic books, teacups, tee
shirts, cassettes, cookie cutters.
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For the movie buff: An 8"x 11"
picture of Marlon Brando as Napoleon~s4.
For the computer nut: Program disks
on anything from graphics to geneology,
plus games galore~s2.so to $B.
For the workshop wizard: 67 hand
planers in graduated sizes-all prices.
For the maestro: Sheet music for
Dolly Connolly's Big Hit "When You
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-$l.
Of course, there's lots of regular
everyday stuff too. A hot pot for 50
cents. A toaster-oven for $7. Picture
frames, baby furniture, pots and pans,
baskets, jewelry, glassware.
Some brand-new, some well-seasoned.
Almost all still usable, almost all a lot
less money than in so-called discount
stores.
Dick and Betty Howe, flea market
patrons who now have their own booth at
Haar's in Dillsburg, liken flea markets to
old-time town marketplaces.
"You see things here that you don't see
other places, and it's a nice way to meet
people and have fun," Betty says. "It's a
bargain."
What if your particular bargain isn't a
$5 78 RPM recording of Pope Pius XII
saying mass in Italian in the Sistine
Chapel? Or a hand tooled leather bowling
ball bag for $35? As one woman said,
shrugging, "There's always the funnel
cakes."
Doors, from page 3
as he said that there was not enough room
in the humanities suite for such a mail
system.
Saying that he did not want to be
judged as a trouble maker, Thomas said he
could live with Mahar's decision. But he
added in a somewhat joking manner, "We
lost the battle without even having a
fight."
And just how do other departments in
the building handle their interoffice mail? .
It seems that the possibilities are
endless, as we found varying results.
Take, for instance, education, from
which Mahar said the idea was taken in the
first place. The door mailbox system,
according to secretaries, works very well
and cuts down on wasted time. Faculty
members are allowed to keep their offices
locked and secretaries don't have to worry
about running back and fourth to unlock
locked doors when delivering messages or
mail.
Faculty members don't seem to mind
this system, as well.
"Often at times they are convenient
when students need to turn things in," said
Bill A. Henk, associate professor of
education and reading.
"It's a better system than having
messages getting lost on the desk and you
still have room to express yourself," he
said, pointing to the education propaganda
on his door.
There are of course the steadfast
disciples of Thomas who say the door
mailbox system is a nuisance and faculty
members should have to pick up their own
mail.
In the mathematics/science department.
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faculty members pick up their own mail
from a centralized interoffice mailbox
system.
Frank J. Swetz, professor of math
ematics and education, said he could sym
pathize with disgruntled faculty members
in the humanities division and called the
door mailbox system a "psychological
thing."
"Students feel a few steps closer to
personal knowledge," Swetz said. "We
have so few ways to express our
creativity. Leave us our doors."
And, by the way, one of the reasons
given by secretaries in the mathematics
science department for this type of system
concerned how the lights are hooked up.
Things in behavioral science don't get
much better. They also operate with the
door mailbox system, but for another
reason. Secretaries here say the reason is
purely for "cosmetic purposes."
Apparently when the department was
remodeled three years ago, maintenance
told faculty and staff not to put up posters,
announcements or anything that would
require physically mauling the door surface
with nasty nails or thumb tacks.
The questions in the humanities
department now seem to be:
Will there be a massive mailbox
mutiny by faculty members once the
boxes are officially installed?
Will Mahar step down in shame as
department head and later take a job with
the U.S. postal service?
Will Troy Thomas live with Mahar's
decision and resort to putting up western
civilization greeting cards just in time for
Christmas?
These questions should be answered in
the remaining weeks of the semester.