Well, another holiday season has passed
and it is time to go back to the fun of 7:45
classes, lengthy - and obscure textbooks, surprise
quizes, and tardy - teachers. But, more than that,
winter term is the-time of year when we can look
back upon the preceding months and different and
things to come in 1968.
But, things haven't changed. Just because
it's a new term doesn't mean that your car is
Poof! going to start or that school is beQoming
easier. The average student, despite this fore
warning, still hopes for the best when his alarm
goes off at 6:15 (which, by the way, he set the
night before so that .he, would have enough time).
But who is going to rise at 6:15 when he looks
out the window and sees: two more feet of snow
than the night before; very little because his
window is almost completely frosted; -nothing at
all because he is not fully awake. So after
his first glimpse of the world, and being too
sleepy to try to fight it, our hero does the next
best thing. He pulls the covers over - his face
and goes back to sleep until 7:00 or so. By
this time -it is -too late . to - thiLik about anything,
so he trudges into the bathroom-- to shave-. Wherr
he looks in the - mirror, it dawns on him (actually,
it hits him like a ton of bricks) that he has
ten minutes to transform him from Dudley Deadhead
into Sammy Suave.
So five minutes and seven bandages later,
the now semi-awake Mr. Suave stumbles into the
closet, remembers that he hasn't yet turned on
the light, and goes back to turn it on; it is
at this precise instant that he finds his little
brother's long-lost roller skate. At 7:1.0, the
student is almost ready to give up and go back
to dreamland, but this hope that things will im
prove spurs him on. So he picks himself up off
the floor, falls over the roller skate again,
sidesteps the skate this time, and resumes the
task of getting dressed. By 7:20 the last hair
is in place (Score doesn't hold too good.) and
Mr. Never-Give-Up is at last ready to face the
world.
By the time he has wiped the snow off his
car, gotten it started, and packed his books and
lunchbox (with a picture of Bambi on it) into
the auto, he has allowed himself twelve minutes
to make the trip and averaging 40 m.p.h. he
can do it. A little adventure has been added
to the journey: the streets have been covered
with a light coat of snow followed by a solid
sheet of ice. But by this time our typical
student has "dreamed the Impossible Dream",
and nothing can stop him. Traversing the
streets of the bulging metropolis (that's what
the Chamber of Commerce calls Erie--its citizens
have called it a "nice place to live, but I
wouldn't want to visit there") at 65m.p.h.
and sometimes going faster sideways than front
wards, our hero arrives in the building two
minutes before the class is scheduled to begin
(Bambi lunchbox and all) and he prepares for
the day's lesson. So he waits for a few min
utes, and then he finds out that the class has
.beervcancelled. So our friend takes his lunch
box with him and he sits on the bench in front
of the 0.8. just munching on his Graham crackers
and peanut butter; he has since become a statue,
JACKSON' S JARGON
a memorial to the dedicated Behrend student,
whoever and wherever he may be.
It has been reported that the new
vending area lounge is being abused by the
students who eat there. The problem results
from the fact that the students are too
inconsiderate - to clean up after themselves,
and - many studeut don'trealize that ash trays
are used for ashes and cigarette-butts.
Students are responsible for disposing of
their own waste paper -- Let's see if we
the student body can't handle this small
task.
The Behrend Campus yearbook sales
were held during the Winter - Term - registration
.and will continue. The cost of the 1968
yearbook is $4.00 and can be ordered from
anybody on the yearbook staff or from Mr.
Patterson. Buy your yearbook now!
Editor of Icarus, Eileen Bowden has
announced that articles of prose, poetry and
short stories will still be accepted. There
will be a meeting in South Cottage, common
hour on Tuesday for all interested students.
This week. eleven students on campus
were chosen to be listed in the 67-68 edition
of Who's Who's in American Junior Colleges.
Students were selected on the basis of contri
butions in the feilds of leadership, scholar
ship and citizenship.
Freshmen members of the SGA nominated
various students for the honor, and the list
was sent to the Who's Who's Staff who then
made the final decision.
The students selected for this honor
•were Marcie Barton, Bill Benko, Ron Batchelor,
continued
GUESS WHO.
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YEARBOOK SALES
NEWS FROM ICARUS
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