Page Eight - Highacres Collegian, December 8, 1974
LAS VEGAS NITE
The annual Las Vegas Nite
was recently held in the High. ,
acres Commons on November 8.
During this long awaited and
Well-loved evening of enjoy*
sent, the normally meek and
mild Commons was miraculously
transformed into a rollicking
and rowdy gambling casiono,
reminiscent of those in the
real Las Vegas. The "Club
Highaores" was equipped with
all those little extras that
make Las Vegas what it is now,
such as lovely cowgirls, eali,2
lers at wheels, and desert
cactus. At the "Club High
acres" anything can happen--
and did.
Who ever expected to
see Professor Sheavel acting
like a big-time hustler op
erating a wheel? Who ever
expected Dr. David to fre
quent the bar with the free
beer? Who ever expected a
lot of the things that hap
pened at this year's Las
Vegas Nits?
This year a band graced
the casino as the callers and
cowgirls went about their
jobs of making a breaking the
big winners. The band con
tained one member of the High
acres faculty--our own Profes
sor McKim:try on the saxo
phone.
The wheels spun abd the
dice rolled all night, until
suddenly, from out of nowhere,
three masked and armed bandits
entered the casino and cried,
"Hands up, everybody! Don't
Physics is fun.-so is gambling
anybody move!" These foul
criminals then proceeded to
handcuff the members of out
unmatched security force to
gether; one of these unr.
scroupulous criminals even
vent so far as to attack Mrs,
David, and cry out, "if any
body moves, she gets it!"
Later, the bandits re
moved their concealing masks
and revealed themselves as
Dr. Frankel, Dr. Covert, and
Mr. Methot, Who then proceed
ed to join in the festivities.
Hopefully, the lost all of
their stolen loot right back
to the bank, for I noticed
that they were betting rather
heavily.
Root beer, pretzels, and
potato chips were served in
order to give the gamblers
by Donna Marie Bayer
Dr. David!
strength to keep winning (and
losing) far into the night.
Another very interest
ing event oocured this year
at Las Vegas Nite. This year,
instead of a horse race to top
off the evening, we were priv
eleged with a "cowgirl race"
instead. It seems that the
horse racing film did not resell
the campus in - time for the fes
tivities, However, the cow
girl race sufficed quite nice
ly and was probably more excit
ing than a real horse race
would have been (especially to
the gentlemen in the casino.)
All in all, this year's
Las Vegas Rite was one of the
most suooessfdl ever, and amp.
one who missed it had better
make plans right now to attend
next year's.